What are you reading this week of January 29, 2017? [View all]
Finally finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. That was quite an unusual book. It certainly stirs some thinking about a potential reason why we humans act the way we do. Maybe. It started out great, got into some really deep mystical stuff, but then turned into a hot mess. It would make a good action-packed movie but it wasn't easy to follow on the page, for me anyway. I kept nodding off during the "exciting" parts. Plus the characters were rather flat, one-dimensional. Some serious stereotyping. The ending was just sort of "MEH." Not a terrible book but not really a great one either, IMO.
Now I'm busy, busy, busy with Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. Shout out to DUer longship who suggested it. I'm loving it, again. We are certainly now witnessing an epic granfalloon. I think the saying, "Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God" must have lodged itself firmly in my psyche back when I was a teen and then became my leitmotif.
What are you busy, busy, busy reading this week?
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