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There is also something shocking about this book, though not in a titillating way. The intimate tone in which Wurtzel narrates sordid detail after humiliating incident after debasing sexual encounter is almost obscenely exhibitionistic, even for our culture of confession, especially since it serves no purpose other than alternately to bore us and make us squirm. Perhaps it's meant to be inspirational--Wurtzel did a lot of crazy stuff, but she pulled through and she's not ashamed--but instead it's pathetic. Most of us will have to swallow a lot of Prozac before we're able...
...class, Koerner gave a spectacular lecture about how he'd write about an altar-piece," Sommers recalls. "Instead of just, say, writing about an altarpiece, you could write about a detail in an altarpiece and then you could go from a part to a whole...
Berlin has a sure grasp of the ragtime era; his earlier Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History is an exemplary scholarly monograph on a complicated subject. The Joplin biography is equally formidable in its research. Combing census records, city directories and newspaper files across the Midwest, Berlin follows in detail Joplin's travels from his birthplace near Texarkana, Texas (his father Giles was a freed slave), through the bandstands and bordellos of the Mississippi to Tin Pan Alley, the budding popular-music scene in New York City. Berlin then recounts Joplin's syphilis-induced descent into madness, a deterioration that...
...they called this free-market capitalism? The average dollar had no more rights than a ruble, until it was liberated by a handful of visionaries in pinstripes. Nocera tells their heroics in detail, but here are some of the highlights...
...carry. The Cruncher, from Davidson, has a practical aim: it introduces kids to spreadsheets and accounting principles by asking them to figure out the full cost of activities such as planning a vacation or owning a pet. Microsoft's Dinosaurs brings the beasts back to life in gripping detail that includes the tyrannosaur's roar and its victim's howls. There's even a Software Toolworks program called Capitol Hill for congressional wannabes who yearn to vote and answer constituent mail...