I’m back, but I’m finally sporting the sore throat and runny nose that have been the fashion rage with everybody I know the past month, so any vacation news or pictures will have to wait til I’m feeling better.
I need to rest up, since SXSW starts tonight, and St. Patrick’s Day is tomorrow.
The only thing I’d like to leave you with is a brief book review: Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters is an absolute waste of time. I can’t even get traction on the vast and numerous reasons why I dislike this book, it’s just a monumentally pointless collection of words.
It took me more than a month to finish it, and between that and the equally tedious Nick Hornby book How to Be Good, which has been keeping me from enjoying my cardio workouts since January, I have officially sworn off novels for a while.
So I’m back on the non-fiction. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch has been a fascinating read so far.
More later. I have a date with some Nyquil.
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Just finished two great novels by Tom Robbins — “Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas” (fascinating, a bit of a mess) and “Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates” (very funny, very odd, less entertaining that “Half Asleep”), either of which I think you’d enjoy and both of which I’ll be happy to loan you, should I ever actually see you again. I’d like (well, maybe “like” is the wrong word) to read “Stories from Rwanda,” so I’ll trade ya.
And be careful with that Nyquil, Mr. Sobriety.
see? wasn’t it crushingly disappointing that ‘how to be good’ was so dull?
hmm.. seems that I’m not getting through any of the books I’m reading these days. I should probably quit a job and spend less time on orkut
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I came across your blog today. Loved the way you described ‘Invisible Monsters.’ I can’t tell you how many lousy books i’ve finished because i was too lazy/stubbort/chep not too. If you haven’t already, check out – Under the Banner of Heaven. It’s eerily fascinating and too-strange-to-not-be-true.
I never read novels. I recently read _Astro Turf_, which was really entertaining. Now I’m re-reading _Confessions of a Raving Unconfined Nut_, which is also a hoot. Don’t let anyone say that non-fiction is boring.