I sat down tonight, thinking, "Oh, I've got some time, and nothing really to do, since I can't read my texts which I haven't bought, and I don't want to go to sleep yet," and I went to go get a book. I have a whole stack of books in a box I had with me this summer, and in looking them over, I realized just how boring my summer reading list must've been. Books I've found in my box:
1: The Bottom Billion - about the poorest 1 billion people in the world
2: Universal Universalism - a book from my International Studies class that is 80 pages long and Heart-of-Darkness dense. You could stick a spoon up in it.
3: The Patterns of Human Rights Violations Among Illegal Immigrants in European Cultures - I got this book from the 'Free' section they have at the Library from time to time.
4: Third World Crap on a Stick - Yay!
5: Page After Page Filled With Boring Proselytizing By That 93-Year-Old Professor Who Refuses To Die and Open Up Another Tenure-Track Position
And so on and so forth. I haven't wanted to read for the last six months, in part because I've been in places far too interesting to stay put for more than twenty minutes. Now that I finally do, I have nothing to read! Grrrrr... Books that I want to read, and wish were here on my bookshelf:
1: The Silmarillion - I've read this book like 3 times already, and I want to get a fourth time under my belt so I can finally start quoting Elvish epic history. Yes, I am a total dork.
2: The Amber Spyglass - I read this book last year in two days. They were the most awesome two days of the winter.
3: Robert Heinlein - not a book, but an author. I need/want to read more by him.
4: The Mars Trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson's most famous works. Two of them won the Hugo Award, and they seem quite interesting.
5: Where's Waldo? - A classic of the interactive detection genre.
Of course, I will not have any time to read literature after like, Wednesday. But, I want the option to have things to read, should a rare spare minute fall into my lap. But, now it is sleep time. Zoom!
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I think you should read something on the lighter side...David Sedaris is very funny.
Or, try David Eggers' "What is the What." I have been slogging my through that book for months. One can only read so many descriptions of the horrors the Lost Boys (not the ones from Peter Pan or Hook-man I love Hook) went through.
I am not sure that Where's Waldo qualifies as "literature."
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