David T. Klein

An easy read, and a brutally hard read

Revisado: 08-27-23

I just finished “On The Beach”, by Nevil Shute.

It’s a fantastic book, and I strongly encourage you NOT to read it. It’s really dusty in here and I think I got some in my eyes; they’re watering.

Don’t read it, because the end is predestined from the first page. Don’t read it, because it’s hopeless. Don’t read it, because each and every single character is so human and relatable and you can’t sit with them, knowing their horrible fate, which they have no means to prevent, and which they face bravely, being ordinary people like friends and colleagues who we all know.

Or do read it, if you want to be melancholy.

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A Meal Can Always Be Vehicle For A Story

Revisado: 01-11-22

It's a memoire of three generations, wars, denunciations, famine, black marketeering and survival, as told through cuisine, titled "Mastering The Art Of SOVIET Cooking". It’s poignant, without being saccharine; honest, without being bitter. За здоровье!

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Surprisingly nuanced

Revisado: 09-27-20

After listening to the various books that have come out about this presidency, I was genuinely surprised by Cohen’s account. None of the facts surprised me; what was surprising and a breath of fresh air was the self awareness, the lack of braggadocio, the contrition. Cohen acknowledges his role in the elevation of a chaotic and destructive force to the presidency and he helps the listener understand the complex role of the cult of personality, the push-pull of flattery and humiliation, and the demand for loyalty, paired with the knowledge that it was one-way.

Michael Cohen did some dirty things, and he shows a depth of understanding of his culpability and how he propped up a most criminal president.

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The emergence of a leader, the bond of a family

Revisado: 08-28-20

To say that war is hell would be trite. Lt Parnell takes us into the crucible fired by the flames of that hell, and shows how a leader is forged, and a family is welded together. This narrative examines the deeply intimate bonds between brothers, forged in the flames of war.

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Self pitying siccario

Revisado: 05-21-19

The main character spends most of the book focusing on how he was wronged and feeling sorry for himself, while trying to show that he’s hard, cold and unafraid. In the end, he sleeps through the one thing he came to this god forsaken island to do, and his love interest takes the shot, rendering him extraneous and thoroughly without purpose.

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