2010 Reading #28: Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
21. And Now We are Going to Have a Party by Nicola Griffith.
22. A Black Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson.
23. Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley.
24. Killdozer!: Volume III: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, by Theodore Sturgeon.
25. Justice League of America, Volume 1 by Gardner Fox, Mike Sekowsky, et al.
26. Hellboy: The Wild Hunt by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo.
27. Merlin's Wood by Robert Holdstock.
28. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel. During his life, I mainly knew Studs as a radio and television commentator; this is the first of his oral histories that I've read. It's very good. People you may have heard of and people you almost certainly haven't talk about their experiences (or, in some cases, their received knowledge) of the Great Depression. You'd expect it to be heartbreaking, and you'd expect that there would be disagreement about the causes and the merit of the attempts to ameliorate the depression, but you might not expect the sheer breadth of views represented here; in some ways reading this is as reality-unraveling as a Philip K. Dick novel, in that you wonder at times if some of these people lived in the same universe.
Books 11-20.
21. And Now We are Going to Have a Party by Nicola Griffith.
22. A Black Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson.
23. Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley.
24. Killdozer!: Volume III: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, by Theodore Sturgeon.
25. Justice League of America, Volume 1 by Gardner Fox, Mike Sekowsky, et al.
26. Hellboy: The Wild Hunt by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo.
27. Merlin's Wood by Robert Holdstock.
28. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel. During his life, I mainly knew Studs as a radio and television commentator; this is the first of his oral histories that I've read. It's very good. People you may have heard of and people you almost certainly haven't talk about their experiences (or, in some cases, their received knowledge) of the Great Depression. You'd expect it to be heartbreaking, and you'd expect that there would be disagreement about the causes and the merit of the attempts to ameliorate the depression, but you might not expect the sheer breadth of views represented here; in some ways reading this is as reality-unraveling as a Philip K. Dick novel, in that you wonder at times if some of these people lived in the same universe.