Farf Looks At Books

A few weeks ago I was listening to the excellent Watchmen podcast as the Faraci brothers took their deep dive into the recent Dungeons &...

I just recently competed in the first Jersey City Marathon (no, I didn't win it...this time). In the run-up to the event, I wanted to...

I'm headed out on a trip to Jersey City tomorrow, and had wanted to find a book that would put me in a New York state of mind. I was...

I've been reading Michael Lewis since his biggest claim to fame was being married to Tabitha Soren. (Immediate side note: Do you know...

There was news this week that Ryan Coogler, the director of Fruitvale Station, Black Panther, and the first two Creed movies, is looking...

I'll say right off the bat that this was a pretty underwhelming book. When you have a name like Kaiju Preservation Society, I'd expect...

Let’s start out with a couple of seemingly unconnected stories and then jump into the review: · I once worked under a CEO who had...

This is a terrifying book. And I'm not so good with terrifying books. In the past few weeks I actually spent time on many days dreading...

Overall, no matter who you are, Retail Gangster by Gary Weiss is a very good read - eight out of ten hot dogs. But if you were a child...

If you're a long-time reader, you might remember that a few years ago I reviewed Moore's novel Jerusalem and, despite a few great moments...

Buzz Bissinger’s The Mosquito Bowl covers a forgotten part of WWII – when two teams of college football all-stars within two Marine...

Sometimes it's harder to review a book because you place unrealistic expectations on that book. This is one of those books. It's a...

Junior year of high school, there were two teachers available to teach second half (1870s onward) US History. I had Mr. Powers (one of...

The Prequel Trilogy sucked. It drove a lot of people like me away from Star Wars, at least temporarily. But it happened. And once it...

I'm going to tell you two stories about my relationship with Pearl Jam, both only a bit over a year apart. First: My first semester of...

For all you long-time readers (WHICH YOU ALL SHOULD BE), you might remember last Halloween I ended up scrambling for a last-minute book...

If you watched the series "Pistols" on Hulu...well, you saw a whole bunch of unexpected Cinemax-tastic scenes between Steve Jones and...

Where to begin? Okay, imagine it's the Trojan War (which, if you know me, is why I picked this series up in the first place). Same...

How do you visualize something that has never been done before? How do you decide to take something that currently exists and find a way...

In Atlanta's Piedmont Park there's a historical plaque about the 1895 Cotton States Exposition. I've passed by that plaque numerous...