tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post178125118730781883..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: OK, I'll Play: Ten BooksJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-18115737012229261992010-03-29T14:15:27.678-05:002010-03-29T14:15:27.678-05:00What's funny to me about Nelson is that I didn...What's funny to me about Nelson is that I didn't realize how much I would miss him until he was gone.Matt Jarvisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-26593528144236877822010-03-29T00:14:48.151-05:002010-03-29T00:14:48.151-05:00Tom,
Thanks for the tip -- I edited to reflect a ...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for the tip -- I edited to reflect a more conventional counting system.<br /><br />Good call on Bill James. I would love to see a study of just how influential he really is. Obviously, he eventually sold plenty of books, but I do wonder if the Abstracts were sort of like those bands that supposedly only sold five hundred records, but everyone who bought them wound up forming a band of their own.Jonathan Bernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-63164832955141972642010-03-28T23:55:36.618-05:002010-03-28T23:55:36.618-05:00One of them should have been a math book, so you&#...One of them should have been a math book, so you'd know the number 2 doesn't come up twice between one and ten....<br /><br />I can't say enough about what I've learned about writing from Bill James. One of the big things that you didn't mention was: Try to tell people things they don't already know. It seems obvious, but lots of writers don't bother.Tom Nawrockihttp://www.debris-slide.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-75895868868730892512010-03-28T17:05:16.780-05:002010-03-28T17:05:16.780-05:00"9. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution and The Huma..."9. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution and The Human Condition. And everything else, but I couldn't narrow it to just one. I don't really know how to boil this down to a sentence or two...for me, at least, she is essential."<br /><br />hear hear. I'm just making my way through On Revolution right now, it's wonderful (after having read Eichmann in Jerusalem, which I can't recommend more highly). The Human Condition is next...Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03126951768862692869noreply@blogger.com