Quite a haul!
Aug. 7th, 2004 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojosmomFine haul at the Oak Park Library book sale. (It turns out they are on again tomorrow, at $5.00 a bag; I'm not going back, I swear.) Best finds: Essays on Japanese Art presented to Jack Hillier, and a French-English edition of LaFontaine, LaFontaine's Bawdy: Of Libertines, Louts, and Lechers, with illustrations by David Schorr, who went to high school with my sister! I found a lesser-known Wilkie Collins that I haven't read, Who Killed Zebedee? and a hardback reprint of The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table with the Arthur Rackham illustrations. And several other books as well. Now I must register them.
When I left, I noticed people coming into the parking garage with bags of produce, and flowers. It turns out there was a farmers' market going on across the street. So I stashed my books in the car and went over there. It was late-ish, so most of the food was picked over, but I got some flowers and some honey. It's quite a good-sized market, and is there every Saturday morning. Good to know about.
#84
Thieves in High Places, by Jim Hightower
Hightower takes on what he has dubbed the "Kleptocrats", who are stealing our country. Full of anger and details, but it could have used specific source references. The jacket flap says, "Fortunately for readers . . . he has no shortage of material and targets these days." I take issue with the word "fortunately".
The difficulty with books like this is that by throwing in everything, including the kitchen sink, they weary the reader, which is the opposite of the intention.
Nevertheless, one ought to read this book. There is much to learn. In my view, the most serious problem is the rise of media conglomerates and the related disappearance of in-depth, dispassionate reportage. Because of that, the rest is hidden from view.
When I left, I noticed people coming into the parking garage with bags of produce, and flowers. It turns out there was a farmers' market going on across the street. So I stashed my books in the car and went over there. It was late-ish, so most of the food was picked over, but I got some flowers and some honey. It's quite a good-sized market, and is there every Saturday morning. Good to know about.
#84
Thieves in High Places, by Jim Hightower
Hightower takes on what he has dubbed the "Kleptocrats", who are stealing our country. Full of anger and details, but it could have used specific source references. The jacket flap says, "Fortunately for readers . . . he has no shortage of material and targets these days." I take issue with the word "fortunately".
The difficulty with books like this is that by throwing in everything, including the kitchen sink, they weary the reader, which is the opposite of the intention.
Nevertheless, one ought to read this book. There is much to learn. In my view, the most serious problem is the rise of media conglomerates and the related disappearance of in-depth, dispassionate reportage. Because of that, the rest is hidden from view.
