Summer Reading, Maybe Some Late Spring Reading, 2007
9/6/2007 – 9:45 pm#1)Pete Dexter’s Paper Trails. A collection of newspaper columns by easily the best writer I have ever heard of writing for the Daily News. The guy is a master. The story about the guys who try to settle a bet about whether or not it is possible to throw a case of beer across Pine st is not to be missed.
#2)Licensed to Kill by Robert Pelton. Its kind of mind blowing how many mercs are in Iraq, and how rich the people that employ them are getting. Someone really needs to come up with a way to make it illegal to get rich off of war. Or at least recognizably, obviously shameful.
#3)The Unknown Tour De France. Lots of good stories. Stand out: the one where Greg Le Monde blows another US rider’s shot at winning the World Road Championships. nice.
#4)bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff. Great set up, a bunch of not so great twists, and then a most excellent ending.
Suggestions?