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The Road
Review by Sam Adams, eMusic
McCarthy's bleakest, most harrowing and most intimate novel
In the ash-strewn world of a post-apocalyptic U.S., a father and son trudge their way towards the coast in Cormac McCarthy's bleak, ascetic novel. In the grip of permanent nuclear winter, the western U.S. has become like something out of Mad Max. Roving bands of scavengers patrol the few remaining roads, searching for victims to rob, rape and eventually eat. A...
The Martian Chronicles
Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic
Bradbury's sharply satirical tales About the colonizing of Mars still resonate
Yeah, yeah, we've got thousands of high-res pics of Mars these days, and not one of them shows any houses, canals or malt shops, but that doesn't scuff the shine on The Martian Chronicles. "My book was never intended as a factual report on a real place," Ray Bradbury says with a warm chuckle in the intro to the audio version of his classic 1...
Lord of the Flies
Review by Allison Block, eMusic
Golding's searing parable of man's inclination to evil remains relevant
In 1954, long before reality TV shows like Survivor had willing citizens swallowing arachnids for sport, novelist William Golding served up a harrowing scenario of modern society that remains chillingly relevant today. A quick refresher on the plot: in the midst of a nuclear war, a plane crashes on a deserted tropical island. The only survivors ar...
The Rest is Noise
Review by Scott Esposito, eMusic
The story of 20th-century classical music
The often-misunderstood world of 20th-century classical music is fortunate to have an advocate as capable as Alex Ross. A critic for The New Yorker, a devoted music blogger and a recent MacArthur Genius, Ross has taken the lead in popularizing contemporary classical without dumbing it down. The Rest Is Noise, his first book, is the rare layperson’s history that can also satisfy...
Bad Money
Review by Scott Esposito, eMusic
The trouble with America's finances
In the wake of America's economic meltdown, to call Kevin Philips' Bad Money prescient would be to insult the magnitude of what he has accomplished. The author of American Theocracy and American Dynasty, Philips is clearly no stranger to critiquing the powers that be in America, but rarely have his analyses been quite this accurate. In Bad Money, the former Republican strategist take...
Breathing
Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic
The wise, fuzzy Papa Smurf of New Age teaches you to stop thinking and start breathing
Breathing: Inhale. Exhale. Repeat. Right? Well, yes and no. Andrew Weil, the wise, fuzzy Papa Smurf of New Age, thinks you could be getting more out of your respiratory habits. For years he's been prescribing yoga-inspired breathing exercises in his private practice, with a variety of intended outcomes: increased vigor, accelerated h...
Classic Comedy
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Modern Gurus
Life? That's a given. Liberty? Kinda out of your hands. But, the pursuit of happiness — that burden is squarely on your shoulders. It's up to you to find a fulfilling, peaceful path to blaze. Which is not to say you're left entirely to your own devices. There are experts out there just itching to lead you out of your personal hell on Earth and into higher levels of peace and comfort.
Don't look at me. I'm no Virgi...
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Songs & Songwriters
Someone (no one can quite agree who) once said that talking about music is like dancing about architecture, but there's a whole shelf of books ready to prove them wrong. It may require some serious linguistic contortions to describe the sense of release that accompanies the resolution of a chord progression, or that strange change from major to minor, but the way it transforms our lives and our world is well within the...
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