His Worst Collection of Tripe
342971
This collection of 100 or so newspaper columns is probably the worst material I have read of Thompson's. First of all, it starts OK, but then turns into a liberal rant for the last half of the book. In almost all cases, Thompson's wild and repeated predictions about the fall of Republicans never come to pass. In fact, not one of them came true.

It is a shame that a man with such insidious ability to write from the gut would allow himself to slide into the dark, slimy Left side of politics, all the while failing to report-much less admit-that the Left was as much if not more corrupt than the Right.

I would pass this tome of incoherent bloviating. His other works are far superior to this wasted cache of paper.
4831225
If you love Dick Cavett as I do, if you think him to be smart, funny, clever and clear-headed, avoid this book at all costs.  It is a virtually unreadable compendium of unedited drivel. The less said the better.
3295540
I have all his comedy albums.  I like his style, his delivery, his aw-shucks everyman persona.  I do not like this book.  I find it stale and contrived.  Admittedly, my opinion probably stems from his promotional interview on The Daily Show, where he "ad-libbed" literally every funny line to be found in the book.  And as I gradually came upon each of these "ad-libs" my ire grew.  Not rational, I know, but there you have it.
1784028
For a 3-disc anthology, this set has too many poor and odd choices. Yes, the obvious hits are all here, but this disc also has more than a bit of schlock; see the unnecessary covers of songs like "My Way" and "The Impossible Dream", or big band arrangements on weak tunes like "Learnin' the Blues". The other problem with this collection is that it doesn't flow at all, jumping around Glen's career from 60s to 70s and back again. A much, much better "Hits" collection to get is the 2-CD set called the "Capitol Years." No need to get this one unless you are a real completist, but then again the boxed set would cover more material and do a better job of quality material. This one is just plain strange.
2799596
For a book that claims to capture the BS phenomena, it is a tomb enamoured with the stuff of his own subject. Not worth the money for one or two points.
862510
This books gives a historical account of how the author came to develop the Variable Speed of Light theory to explain various problems with conventional theories of cosmology.

The actual substance of the book can be condensed in fewer than ten pages.  The rest of the book is a collection of unprofessional personal attacks on individuals, institutions, professions, and the 'unwashed masses' in general.  On several occasions, it took pure force of will to continue reading this trash.  If the attacks were at least written with wit and humor, they might have been funny.  As it is, the author is no better a writer than he is a scientist.  He comes across as a bitter, old man ranting and raving impotently at the world.

As part of the story of VSL's development, the author tries to portray himself as a latter-day Richard Feynman - a maverick, happy-go-lucky guy who enjoys life (read: not a nerd) and whose brilliance is hampered by having to deal with the mundane.  On page after page, he shows utter disdain and contempt for most professions other than scientists and truly seems to believe that taxpayers should just give him his welfare check (scientific grant) without any questions or reporting.

In the few pages where he actually discusses physics, he makes a complete fool of himself.  He savages his colleagues for losing touch with reality (and inventing extra dimensions in the universe) and then goes right ahead and uses extra dimensions himself.

His theory (which was proposed by another physicist before him anyway) is little more than mathematical mental [...], courtesy of the British taxpayer.
1245795
A shockingly bad, boring and mediocre collection of critical stabs in the dark.
1067451
Tendentious argumentation, tedious, name dropping, arrogant, and better than anything he's published since.
3043372
Bob Dylan seems to be one of those artists who are like a mirror. You see what reflection you wish to portray. Having read Jonathon Cotts Dylan,where Dylan is a great poet,Stephen Pickerings Dylan, where he is a wandering Hebrew prophet,I decided on this book. Well, the theology here is an odd mix of fundementalism and Hebrew-christian potpurri. Hey, you can take Dylan songs to justify union busting{union sundown],though I hardly think that is the intention. Ignoring the vast corpus of Dyans work to justify this is simply cheap. Dr. Fruchtenbaum may or may not be a good theologian. Howwever, this book is about HIM, not bob dylan. I was very,very disappointed at the questioanble theological viewpoint and the tedious pedantic postruing and lecturing. Thomas Merton near the end of his life was preparing a study of Bob Dylan. Now THAT would have been interesting and fruitful. This is not.
3766144
What on earth was with the dialogue?  No one speaks like that!  The storylines were nothing more than tripe, and I regret the fifteen minutes I spent forcing myself to attempt reading this awful array of words written by this so claimed "fantastic" author.

My expectations of quality were misled by the backcover, and I regret purchasing the book.  Never again shall I set sight on this man's awful writing.  I would never recommend this book, the short stories, or the author, to anyone.  What a waste of valuable reading time.
573981
I have read all of the three trilogy books  and nine of his previous books which I enjoyed.  This was the worst.  All the stories used in the 1940-60 period although notable were generally unhappy events: i.e. the Berlin Wall, Cuban missile crisis, Russian tyranny, and segregation in the US.  I found it a chore to read and try to keep track of all the characters as the author jumps back and forth with the narrative.  World Without End and many of his previous books were a joy to read.  Not so this one.  I was disappointed.
1601745
This book is yet another posthumous compilation of Feynman's musings.  With each successive book - starting from the wonderful transcriptions of Leighton, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman - they have been declining in quality for years.  Well, this is a hodgepodge of paper scraps and even raw oral interviews that have been thrown together to exploit just about the last drop of these kinds of things, and I can say that I don't think the process should continue.

There are some amusing things in this book and some interesting details, but there really isn't anything special except for the fact that Feynman enjoys the personality cult associated with a zany physics genius.  He was an original character and, in physics, a truly great thinker.  But that doesn't make every last little thing that he ever said or scribbled down interesting, except to uncritical devotees who live with the fantasy that everything he said was better than worthwhile.  Indeed, if you know about something in great depth he writes (well talks) about, his views appear as superficial as the rest of non-specialists on the subjects.  Where he is truly interesting in on physics, mathematics, and science - and the overwhelming majority of what he produced on those subjects is already available.

I would not recommend this book, except as a source of Feynman trivia if that is your bag.  Indeed, I had heard most of these things before - either in films about the man or from his earlier writings.  As such, that makes this book the crassest attempt to commercially exploit the legacy of this great man yet again.  If such a thing were possible, the editor should be ashamed.
2831888
What a load of tripe! This author is obviously an idiot, a product of our failed public education system for sure.
4408466
Unsophisticated, churlish, reductionist, largely derivative tripe. Subtle as a Mack truck, and sophomoric at best. Does a great disservice to Brits and Americans both.
1022696
Trite and utter tripe. Disclosure--I only could stomach only the first two chapters. Comfort simply repackages old arguments by dumbing them down, specifically the Ontological and Teleological argument. It disgraces Aquinas' Teleological argument! For example, examine his banana/apple argument. I really enjoy coconut. Using his fallacious reasoning, God either didn't intend for us to eat coconuts. Essentially, another echo chamber. Look elsewhere if you're looking for serious, authentic arguments.
4159998
Sometimes you wonder how something as badly written as Stomping the Goyim, a drug-addled nightmare of a cowardly, gay Jewish kid conceding to his inner demons, gets published.  I tried to give it a chance.  This proved foolish.  Disend's book -- if it can be called that -- prompts one to proseletize about the poor state of story.  There are some books that are nothing more than a waste of a processed tree branch.  This incoherent, undeveloped, utterly confused tripe is the worst book I have ever read.
3927550
For starters, the French to English translation is shoddy; the authors take serious literary license to dumb the text down the intelligence level of American college freshman. More importantly, and primarily, my criticism lies with the works published in this volume; they are of inconsequential importance. Most of these works are that of interviews, collected from various magazines. The content of these interviews reveals the depths that Foucault grounds himself in; that is to say; there is no ground. The ground is a social construction. There is no base. There is no reality. Everything is interpretive and functional, for (guess who?); those who exercise power. Very tiring. Those who wish to peruse the works of a true philosopher should do a search for Milton Friedman.