My five-year old is nuts about Buzz, Zurg, Booster and the crew. He likes this book, but doesn't read it all that often. There is no storyline; the book just introduces the crew. My son already knew them all. Would have liked more of the very colorful minor villans. Still, my son wouldn't part with it.
Bruce Cumings is the most facsinating and talented and insightful writer on Korean history by such a wide margain that you have trouble coming up with a name for the number two spot. This is not a good thing. Cumings' books are hard to put down --except for the times they fly out of your hands across the room in rage. You can't ignore Cumings' books, but you can't always counterbalance and/or innoculate yourself to his intense anti-American, leftist bent --and his strange, sick affinity toward North Korea.
One of the things that Cumings in his writing has consistantly had wrong about Korea is the history of the hades-on-earth that was/is North Korea. For decades Cumings has been on a… Read more
For anyone who has yet to discover these extraordinary, sad. poignant, hilarious novels about the lives of middle class Americans in suburbia, I have this to say: I envy you.
These four novels, each written a different decade (50s, 60s, 70s, 80s) do more than capture the spirit of their era. They mark the changes in our neighborhoods, politics, entertainment and sports.
At the center is Harry Angstrom, a high school basketball star who never finds his niche in life. Harry is selfish, insensitive, yet also heart-breakingly sincere and a kind of protypical American romantic.
These books also are quite [nice] and have some of the best descriptions of sex I have read. And people have… Read more
