Two books this week:
THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, Edgar Rice Burroughs
EVERY TOOL IS A HAMMER: LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT, Adam Savage
THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT was bad. It was boring. The main character was a dickhead and the heroine was the most damsely damsel who ever did damsel. An adventure book on a secret hidden land with dinosaurs and submarine battles shouldn’t be boring, but holy shit this was.
EVERY TOOL’S A HAMMER was outstanding. The title made me a *little* nervous it would end up being kinda “self-helpy” but it’s not. It’s really just a bunch of stories and ideas about Adam Savage’s philosophy of making things. It was incredibly informative and inspiring and Adam Savage seems like the good guy you hope he is.
joezone 