Wow this guy sure can write. A few times here and there, I felt it was getting a little bit overtold or drawn out, but somehow even those parts are emWow this guy sure can write. A few times here and there, I felt it was getting a little bit overtold or drawn out, but somehow even those parts are eminently readable, and as a book editor, I'd have a hard time cutting any of it out.
After this Middlesaex and this, I'm in awe of this guy's ability to tell a story. maybe I would have been after The Virgin Suicides, too, but unfortunately I never got a chance to read it ... I had already seen the movie before I even knew there was a book, and long before I had ever heard of Jeffrey Eugenides....more
This was so great. I loved this. It took me 6 weeks to read because I only felt like reading it 10-15 pages at a time, but it was so fun to read, for This was so great. I loved this. It took me 6 weeks to read because I only felt like reading it 10-15 pages at a time, but it was so fun to read, for lots of reasons. One is that it starts in 1976 and goes right up to Andy's unexpected and sudden death in 1987, and of course those were probably the funnest 12 years of my life, so it's such a fun trip down memory lane ... just the various news events he mentions in passing in his entries, and the songs and bands and celebrities. And Manhattan was really different in 1976 than it is now, and it changed a lot from 1976 to 1987, and you can really feel that here, and remember how it used to be. And Andy's studio (and the offices of his magazine, Interview) were at 860 B'way, just right around the corner from my high school (16th St. bet. 5th and 6th), so the diary starts right off right in my old stomping grounds and while I was still stomping there. Also, the entries are really funny. There's almost no entry where you don't laugh at least once. He's funniest when describing his closest companions, like Bridget Berlin, Bianca Jagger, Halston, Steve Rubell, and a bunch of other people that he ran around with, a lot of whom worked for him in some way or another. ...more
Almost all of these are at least mildly interesting in some way, and it's pretty cool to read a primary source from 13th-century Japan.
Some were beauAlmost all of these are at least mildly interesting in some way, and it's pretty cool to read a primary source from 13th-century Japan.
Some were beautifully evocative and really made me homesick for the four seasons and/or Japan.
A few reminded me of "deep thoughts" by Jack Handey, like these two:
#149 ---- You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.
#223 ---- Tazu no Oidono had for his boyhood name Tazukimi. It is mistaken to suppose that he was given this name because he raised cranes. ...more
My father used to read this book to my brothers and me at bedtime. I'm pretty sure we went through the whole book at least twice, maybe three times.My father used to read this book to my brothers and me at bedtime. I'm pretty sure we went through the whole book at least twice, maybe three times....more
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