Recommendations

A running ledger of recommendations including books, movies, music, video games, sustenance, and the rest. Annotated, opinionated, and updated when something earns more space, for better and for worse.

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Item	Type	Year	Rating	Note
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson	Book	1971	★★★★★	One of my favorite books from one of my favorite writers at the height of his powers. This book captures the American dream, the corporate dream, and the gravity of power in a calculus quite unlike anything else I've come across.
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street David McClintick	Book	1982	★★★★★	Rules for thee, but not for me. Money and power talk and Hollywood has a sordid history clouded by decades of playing pretend with everything everywhere all the time.
Barbarians at the Gate Bryan Burrough, John Helyar	Book	1990	★★★★★	"Huge brains, small necks, weak muscles, and fat wallets — these are the dominant characteristics of the '80s — the generation of swine." — Hunter S. Thompson
The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan	Book	1995	★★★★★	Balancing science with wonder is hard, but Carl is the guy to do it, even after 30+ years of change.
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon	Book	1966	★★★★★	Exceptional writing for a fever dream storyline on subversive culture networks. I think. I'm still processing what I just read.
Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson	Book	1995	★★★★★	Perhaps the most formative work in my reading life. This is Bill Watterson distilling the universe into a teacup.
Walden Henry David Thoreau	Book	1854	★★★★★	Food for thought that warmed my mind and continues keeping it kindled with inverse, rebellious thoughts.