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A review by oohsarracuda
My Ideal Bookshelf by Thessaly La Force, Thomas Keller, Nancy Pearl, Miranda July, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman, Jonathan Lethem, Alice Waters, James Franco, Alex Ross, Patti Smith, David Chang, Maira Kalman, David Sedaris, Nico Muhly, Jennifer Egan, Thurston Moore, George Saunders, Rosanne Cash
2.0
Honestly, it was much more boring than any book about books should be. I found myself impatient for it to end.
Things:
- Even writing off-the-cuff about books, Stephenie Meyer is terrible.
- Thurston Moore makes me roll my eyes even when talking about books.
- Of course David Sedaris loves Dorothy Parker and Lorrie Moore and Fran Lebowitz. (So do I, though I am rapidly becoming less enchanted with Fran Lebowitz as time passes. She's crossed that line between wittily sharp and rigidly mean.)
- It would appear that Judd Apatow mostly, if not entirely, reads men. This is in no way surprising.
- Actually, most dudes in this book OVERWHELMINGLY read other dudes.
I rather wish there existed a book like this that featured a wide assortment of people, not just an seemingly endless roster of successful people in creative fields. I want to see the curated bookshelves of mail carriers, baristas, locksmiths, plumbers, the kid who works at Papa Murphy's, social workers, bus drivers, small-town librarians, hair stylists, fry cooks, the lingerie clerk at Macy's.
Things:
- Even writing off-the-cuff about books, Stephenie Meyer is terrible.
- Thurston Moore makes me roll my eyes even when talking about books.
- Of course David Sedaris loves Dorothy Parker and Lorrie Moore and Fran Lebowitz. (So do I, though I am rapidly becoming less enchanted with Fran Lebowitz as time passes. She's crossed that line between wittily sharp and rigidly mean.)
- It would appear that Judd Apatow mostly, if not entirely, reads men. This is in no way surprising.
- Actually, most dudes in this book OVERWHELMINGLY read other dudes.
I rather wish there existed a book like this that featured a wide assortment of people, not just an seemingly endless roster of successful people in creative fields. I want to see the curated bookshelves of mail carriers, baristas, locksmiths, plumbers, the kid who works at Papa Murphy's, social workers, bus drivers, small-town librarians, hair stylists, fry cooks, the lingerie clerk at Macy's.