Slump
I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump the last week and a half. I started Stranger in a Strange Land and Pascal’s Pensees around the same time. Pascal has been quite interesting and very good reading but slow going. Pensees is fragmentary and incomplete and so cannot be read quickly or with less than full attention. On the other hand, Heinlein’s Stranger was abysmal. An interesting premise ruined by fourth-rate philosophizing and hippy-dippy commune-ism. Bleh.
Once I finished Stranger I immediately picked up Wodehouse’s The Man With Two Left Feet
February 8th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
You can not say I didn't worn you about Heinlein. He may have won the first Grand Master Award but….