Correspondents' Choice: Book Links for July

This was shared in July, although I got to it only on the first of August. I've not been surfing much this month--too much offline time and purposeful, paid, rather than bloggy-and-surfy online time. Anyway, thanks to +AndriaPerry for sharing the link to (mutual Bubblews and Blogjob e-friend) nonersays.com, which reviews Ben Lyle Bedard's World Without Crows...a dystopian fiction with the horror element toned down. Zombies of various species are more likely to sit around quietly dying than to attack, etc.



Ecclesiastes 7:10 says, "Say not, 'What is the cause that the former days were better than these?' for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." Or, nostalgia for your own past is understandable, but young people should not have to pretend to believe that baby-boomers remember the 1970s as a time of peace and innocence. During the Vietnam War years? Per-lease. Jim Geraghty shares documentation:



Have we linked to this one yet?



Adult comedy (the sample that made me want to read it is a sort of over-the-top parody of adolescent depressive mood swings):



Blitzed (not yet available even on Amazon.co.uk) is to be a novelist's collection of old people's faltering memories from a period when documents were destroyed if they existed at all, but fiction writer Martin Ohler does promise a nonfiction historical study of how extensively Nazis used stimulant drugs. Not unlike some neighbors of mine, they apparently abhorred the more obviously addictive drugs, and despised addicts, while unaware that the "performance boosters" they used had addictive, destructive properties too. Ohler believes some popular drugs used in the Third Reich were the same chemicals we know as meth and Oxycodone. Nobody will ever know for sure, but Hitler did look like a meth-head...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/25/blitzed-norman-ohler-adolf-hitler-nazi-drug-abuse-interview

First as the e-mails were actually received, this book by Charles Silver...Note the support from Harvard Medical School, also the home of Joseph Glenmullen. Loma Linda and Johns Hopkins rule when it comes to actual surgery, but Harvard Medical School is in the same league and attracts world-class medical researchers. Thanks to Cato for sharing:



Regnery complained that, although it's nothing new for readers to complain that political memoirs are wordy and party-line, left-wingers are deliberately buying this book to post hate-filled reviews of it. "Nothing would make the Left crazier than" for conservatives to buy it and...Republican readers, I'm guessing that you have to use genre-specific rules for this one. I read all the memoirs of all the Clinton staff, back in the day, and a few of you may remember the FacTape where George Peters left in my wisecrack about "disinterested research, and until you've read a few cabinet secretaries' memoirs, you cannot imagine how un-interested some of it's been, too." Excellence in this type of book does not mean that it reads like a good novel or biography; it means that many words are put together, grammatically, to say either nothing new, or something quite different from what a hasty reader might guess. Assign stars accordingly.