Aug 20 2006
Subway Reads
Perhaps it was the unseasonably cool weather. Perhaps it was the luxury of a brain-dead August beginning. Perhaps, well, perhaps I just didn’t pay very close attention. Regardless, it was a slow book-week on the F train. Still, there were a few stand-outs. In no particular order I present the few, the proud, the Subway Reads:
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
by Erik Larson
Ham on Rye
by Charles Bukowski
How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
End of Story: A Novel of Suspense
by Peter Abrahams
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
One Response to “Subway Reads”
the larson book is crappy, overwrought and ramshackle. for more on chicago’s 1893 world’s fair, a better book is the novel “the white city,” though it veers from the historical record. best of all: the parts about the 1893 in the new pynchon novel.