Sewer of Miscellany

What are you reading?

I'm working on Dealing: or the Berkely to Boston Forty Brick Lost Bag Blues, a 60s "counterculture" novel about collegiate pot dealers by "Michael Douglas," a pen name for michael Crichton and his brother Douglas.  Not great, not awful.

Anyone else?

Re:What are you reading?

ThomasJeffersonGeronimo:

I'm working on Dealing: or the Berkely to Boston Forty Brick Lost Bag Blues, a 60s "counterculture" novel about collegiate pot dealers by "Michael Douglas," a pen name for michael Crichton and his brother Douglas.  Not great, not awful.

Anyone else?

I am reading 3 different books right now. First, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, maybe I'll finish it by the time the next movie comes out. Then I am reading the web usability classic, Designing Web Usability, by Jakob Neilsen. And last is How (Not) to Speak of God by Peter Rollins, which is a great postmodern theological take on what he likes to call "Heretical Orthodoxy", it's pretty interesting stuff.

Re:What are you reading?

ThomasJeffersonGeronimo:

I'm working on Dealing: or the Berkely to Boston Forty Brick Lost Bag Blues, a 60s "counterculture" novel about collegiate pot dealers by "Michael Douglas," a pen name for michael Crichton and his brother Douglas.  Not great, not awful.

Anyone else?

I just finished reading The Trial by Franz Kafka, translated by Breon Mitchell.  Now I want to see Orson Welles' version of it.  I was also told that Scosese's After Hours was kind of inspired by the book too.

Right now I'm reading The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson.  I'm pretty stoked for the Bruce Robinson directed film of this.  I've been waiting for it for a LONG time!

Re:What are you reading?

That Welles Trial movie is pretty neat, it turns up on TCM a lot, and I think it's a public domain cheapie on dvd.