i’m trying to get more disciplined about reading books. i figure it’s like most things, i just need to make the
time and the time will magically appear. i’m already making
progress this month, having finished
small pieces loosely joined
.
i might start reviewing books by how long it takes for me to fall
asleep after i start reading it. as much as i wanted to like
small pieces loosely joined
, i found that it made me fall asleep after about 20 minutes. as
much as i might agree with many of basic points in the book, i
found it covered a lot of the same ground that i covered in
philosopy seminars at
evergreen
in the mid-nineties. of course, that’s not
david’s
fault, so i’d still recommend the book to the unitiated.
i’m almost embarrased to admit that i enjoyed
the da vinci code
and found it difficult to fall asleep after i picked it up. i
imagine it’s the sort of thing that
robert anton
wilson
might have writtten had he decided to make
the illuminatus trilogy
a mainstream page-turner, without all the drugs and high wierdness. while it’s a good guilty read, many parts
of it feel like the author is trying a bit too hard to get someone
to pick up the film rights. i guess it worked since
the movie is, in
fact, being made
and directed by
ron howard
. no, i’m not making that up. opie is directing a movie with the
premise that jesus christ had a child with mary magdalene. then
again, maybe it’s not so wierd, since ron’s
supposedly a
freemason
. who knows, maybe he really does know the da vinci code.
and now, i’m on to Autumn of the Moguls, which is looking like it’s
52 minutes on the sleep scale.