Forrest for the Trees

Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler My rating: 4 of 5 stars Six months it took me to read this book. Six months. Not be...

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I, Claudius by Robert Graves My rating: 4 of 5 stars Why "I, Claudius"? It's a good question. I, Forrest, typically hate bi...

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  The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob My rating: 5 of 5 stars "When Marcel Schwob published The Book of Monelle in French in 1894,...

I believe the last bootleg vinyl I owned was a really crappy live recording of Metallica's "Creeping Death" I got back in 1986...