What are you reading? - Page 330

After watching



I think I'm going to give



a shot.

Slow going on Sophie's World. I'm forging on, but it hasn't really gotten me in at all. Combination of a few things:

1. flimsy ass childish story to hold its premise together
2. crappy translation from Norwegian to English.

I mean, it's OK, and I'm all in favor of the 'let's dumb down what St Augustine was talking about and make it accessible' approach, but it's stitched together with some weird narrative that I just could not give a shit about.

Also you can see just from the way it was written that this is a translation job by a translator with no real effort to make it read particularly well or sound particularly good. Wish that when the translator was done with it, they passed it on to a native English speaking writer, gave him a tiny bit of poetic license with the phrasing, and asked him to give it a once over.

Pet peeve from such works here as well...lots of strangely placed exclamation points. What is it with foreigners and exclamation points?

The Casual Vacancy. About 25% through, really not sure what to make of it yet.

Finishing Tom McCarthy's Remainder. I think it's works better conceptually than as a novel if that distinction holds any water.

Really enjoyed this book.

What The Dog Saw - Malcom Gladwell and

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

The Mystery Knight. It is the third Dunk and Egg novella from George RR Martin.

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I hope he isn't cranking those out instead of working on the next AGOT novel!

Just finished Chrystia Freeland's Plutocrats-- a useful follow-on to Anti-Fragile.

And have started Andrew Solomon's Far from the Tree.
Edited by Concordia - 12/30/12 at 8:07am

My second foray into comics...not bad so far. My first foray being JTHM and Squee by Jhonen Vasquez.