Was it ethically acceptable of me to buy Volume I of Robert A Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning 3000-page Lyndon Baines Johnson biography, get bored by page 3, then exchange it for the Justin Timberlake

That's what I don't get--it was supposed to be on Criterion in August (I posted on the Criterion Channel thread), but when I checked the other night, and again this morning, it's not there.

Checking their August additions post, I see it is indeed marked US-only.

I'm wounded and deeply offended. You just wait till I make five-hour documentary on Joey Smallwood.

It's no biggie if you don't read the volumes in order.

i'm listening to it on audible at 1.5x to keep sanity while baby wrangling. it's 66 hours. still have 10 to go. it's Quite Good.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, May 1, 2018 1:50 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

listened to the power broker with baby #1 and the first three vols of lbj with baby #2 and lockdown like this. different times.

threads that give you palpitations when you see them revived

i picked up my NYPL library card at the main library at bryant park on friday, and they had a "books written here" display so i was thinking about him. hope he's doing well.