Casey Rock Star

Right now I'm reading Jeffrey Toobin's 'The Nine.' I'm a Constitutional Law geek - won a AmJur Book Award in Con Law. Also finishing 'Fear and Loathing on Campaign Trail 1972' (who knew Ed Muskie was such a jerk?) There is no doubt remaining - my current Gonzo binge has taken on a life of it's own. I should be committed at once. Recently read Marc Eliot's Eagles biography 'To The Limit,' it was interesting, but Eliot was bought off with a on-the-record Henley interview - and in return he omitted several episodes, including a Henley/Frey fistfight and Henley's arrest with cocaine and an underage prostitute in a Sunset Boulevard Motel. Doris Kearns-Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" was a triumph of rational philosophy ... Obama says "Team of Rivals" and The Bible are the two books he'd want on a desert island. That should be all you need to know this November. I read both John Stossel books this past winter, I cannot understand why more people don't take him seriously. Ray Kurzweil is on the cutting edge of broad-market science now - 'Fantastic Voyage' was a real eye-opener - I'm waiting for the right frame of mind to tackle his "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence." For fiction, 'Catcher in the Rye' was a seminal life-event in junior high. I love Michael Crichton and John Grisham, though both have slid steadily downhill (Grisham's The Last Juror was astonishingly awful). My favorite novel changes all the time, but as I type here it's Steven Hunter's 'The Day Before Midnight' (not to be confused with that horrible Dennis Quaid movie 'The Day After Tomorrow.' Now THAT sucked!)