Recent reading
Sep. 11th, 2007 01:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabGlass Houses by Jane Haddam - latest in her Gregor Demarkian series; I've reviewed it at Amazon.com. If you like the review, please clickie the "helpful" button. In that review, I mention another books I just finished, Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), which is about the assorted self-justifications people use in order to hold contradictory opinions without their heads exploding.
A few issues back, The Nation magazine had an article about the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On The Road in which they mentioned that it was also the 100th anniversary of Jack London's The Road, which I had never heard of. So I got a copy of the London through Interlibrary Loan, and read it. Interesting - about London's days hopping freight trains as a hobo, interspersed with getting thrown in jail. Anyway, supposedly London was one of Kerouac's big influences. I've never read On The Road so that's up shortly- I have it from the library, in the stack to be read.
Also, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I'm pretty sure that everyone on my flist has at least heard of this, so I don't need to go into detail. Just that I pretty much agree with every word of it, and it's too bad that much of the world tends to view any criticism of religion as abrasive, because the book isn't nearly as "abrasive" as reviewers have accused it of being. It's well written, it's got good points, it's funny in spots.
There were a couple other murder mysteries in there somewhere, but I can't recall right at the moment.
A few issues back, The Nation magazine had an article about the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On The Road in which they mentioned that it was also the 100th anniversary of Jack London's The Road, which I had never heard of. So I got a copy of the London through Interlibrary Loan, and read it. Interesting - about London's days hopping freight trains as a hobo, interspersed with getting thrown in jail. Anyway, supposedly London was one of Kerouac's big influences. I've never read On The Road so that's up shortly- I have it from the library, in the stack to be read.
Also, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I'm pretty sure that everyone on my flist has at least heard of this, so I don't need to go into detail. Just that I pretty much agree with every word of it, and it's too bad that much of the world tends to view any criticism of religion as abrasive, because the book isn't nearly as "abrasive" as reviewers have accused it of being. It's well written, it's got good points, it's funny in spots.
There were a couple other murder mysteries in there somewhere, but I can't recall right at the moment.
