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...loving you / The way I wanted to.” The “you” here seems clear. Kanye and his fiancée called the whole thing off last summer, and this is his “Sea Change.” That titular heartbreak inspired the wounded but flat “Heartless” and also “Paranoid,” where an insouciant-in-spite-of-it Kanye robo-raps over melted-butter synths and a soulful, multi-tracked hook. The loss that pervades “808s” also stems...
...Gist: In Marley & Me, John Grogan's hit bestseller about the titular golden Lab who taught him lessons about patience, loyalty, and commitment, the author essentially rewrote Old Yeller. Not so much in its plot or content, but rather in effect-it was a dog book that brought many a grown man to sad, secret tears. (Guys, better get those kleenex out again for this winter's film adaptation.) With The Longest Trip Home, Grogan offers another memoir, this one of his non-dog life: he recalls his childhood in suburban Detroit, growing up in a devout Catholic family...
...higlight of these shows, and it might be able to sustain them; maybe if the writers were more careful, they could make the protagonists seem less one-sided toward their demons.It’s painful to watch the shows I once loved die out. Now that the titular antiheroes of “Dexter” and “House” have shown their true colors and moved past their main conflicts, everything seems like a mind-numbing extended coda. But being the procrastinating student I am, I’ll probably make up excuses to keep...
...bestseller, “The World is Flat.” Unfortunately, the rest of the material also seems reused. Friedman’s fifth book attempts a rousing reveille to the Energy Climate Era, where global warming, world-wide middle class expansion, and population growth led to the titular characteristics: hot, flat, and crowded. The book tells a five-part story, à la Shakespeare, but it’s clear that the author neglected to borrow from the literary greats the necessary ingredients of creativity, sophistication, and substance. Reading the book means slogging through a wearing morass...
...back to its intellectual and social origins, which he identifies as the era of philosophical idealism that followed the industrial and mechanical innovations of the early 19th century. Throughout this historical investigation, Stoll weaves—or, rather, interjects—a stilted biography of John Adolphus Etzler, the titular “Mad Inventor” (who you’ve never heard of because he never invented anything that actually worked). Etzler’s life and energies were spent striving to harness the earth’s natural forces—wind, current, sun, rotation?...