What’s the Opposite of Ad Hominem? The Book Guy Reviews Explorer Tim Severin
Tim Severin: The Greatest Explorer of the Modern Era Rather than confine myself to books, this week I’ve expanded the scope of review to include people. Because, as near as I can tell, I must have been living under a rock for the past few decades, because I’d never heard of Tim Severin until this past week when I stumbled upon some of his More...
The Book Guy: Must Read: War by Sebastian Junger
Two weeks ago I made it clear that I had some serious problems with supposed Vietnam War era classic, Michael Herr’s Dispatches. Namely, that it sucked and was an overwrought stream of consciousness that More...
The Book Guy: A Classic Under Suspicion, Dispatches
It’s not very often that I throw a book away. Never actually. In the extremely unlikely event that I buy a book (I’m poor—book reviewing pays shit), I sell the book to a used bookshop, donate it, or More...