'Sirens of Titan' is one of my favorite books of all-time. I love how he ends up explaining the meaning of humanity.

You ever read Nick Hornby. Reminded me of Vonnegut. Just finished 'A Long Way Down' by him. He wrote 'High Fidelity' as I am sure a lot of people know.
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Yes. I read "A Long Way Down" as well. I really liked that book. I can see a Vonnegut connection in the sort of bleak outlook of "A Long Way Down," but Hornsby isn't as twisted/strange as Vonnegut, imo.
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I'm reading the Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson right now. It's quite good.
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I just finished The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan, sequel to The Steel Remains. Fantastic novel of epic dark fantasy. But definitely not for everyone. The occasional graphic depiction of the protagonist's male-on-male sex acts were cringingly uncomfortable to read at times, even for someone like myself, who doesn't really disapprove in any way of the lifestyle or the people who live it. Let's just say it's one thing to say "screw who you like, none of my business" and another to read in endless detail about taking a man's cock into your mouth and what his cum tastes like. So if you can't handle that....might not be the book for you. Although that said, you'd be missing a great and extremely well-told story.
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Just started a real page turner.......Child Raising by judge William Adams
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One of my employees is an author of several books. David Michael Zink

This is a story of one man who took on the Al-Quida single handily. It started as an innocent voyage off the coast of British Colombia with a woman he was falling in love with. His Sailboat was apprehended by a boatload of terrorist leaving him and the woman he loved for dead in the cold waters. It then became a personal war for the Captain. After returning to his mountain home in West Virginia the terrorist came at him with vengeance in there heart. They were infiltrating into the United States by way of Canada for another attack on U.S. soil. He had to stop them. There was a double agent in the Government, The Captain trusted only one man in Washington. With his wits and determination to get even he fought like no other dared.




He returned from the war in Vietnam and couldn’t adjust back to the everyday routine he had left behind. His wife and child had died, and now, his one-room apartment located in the slums of Boston seemed to close in around him. He took to the mountains to rid his life of the dog-eat-dog society that he was living in. Will had only one plan in mind in order to keep his sanity, and he had the determination to conquer it. He built a cabin in the woods along the St. John River in the desolated Allagash Wilderness of Maine. What few people that were around him he did not mind, as most were Micmac Indians that scoured the woods for past generations. He fought the perils of the animals that provoked him, and when word reached the city that the son of Boston’s most prestigious bank president was living like a mountain man, Elizabeth Tusic from the Boston Herald forsaw a story in it. She wrote the first story after weaseling her way into Will’s camp and stealing his daily memoirs; the second story had cost two lives and almost more. One of the most legendary questions of the northern forest was starting to unravel.


The follow up book to Island 39
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No doubt he isn't, but who is? The way the characters thought to themselves sort of reminded me of Vonnegut.
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About half way through Sammy Hagar's Red. It's interesting, but not really well written. Lots of run on thoughts and quick sentences. Cool look behind the scenes, though.
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Finished the second issue of Lucky Peach. It was a bit of a letdown from the spectacular 1st issue.
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So far this semester, I've read Mrs. Craddock by Somerset Maugham, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and Anna Karenina by Tolstoy.

Why, yes, I am pursuing a Masters in English. Why else would I read all of those in 4 months otherwise.
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Ok, Sammy is a pretty interesting guy. I didn't realize how much he had accomplished outside of his rock life. Obviously he struck it big with Cabo Wabo, but he's quite the businessman. He pulls no punches, even with himself. He gives a ton of disclosure on how he partied it up as a rocker, and how it cost him.

The Van Halen segments were pretty interesting. It's obvious that there is a ton of animosity still between him and the brothers. The compliments he pays them feel almost begrudging, but he does give them, and acknowledge how much they accomplished while together. The official reason as to why Vah Nalen broke up, according to Sammy, is that Eddie had gotten almost paranoid for his need to control the group, and the Van Halen brothers hired a new manager that Sam wanted nothing to do with to manage just Eddie and Alex. This guy came up with the idea of a Van Halen Greatest Hits CD, with two new tracks from both Sammy and Roth on it. The brothers put the whole thing together behind his back as one of his kids was being born, and gave him the "you're either in or out" speech as they were ready to go with the four new tracks. He told them to go get fucked, and the rest is history.
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Shit, my issue hasn't even come in the mail yet.
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Got the new OA music issue (Mississippi) today. I'm loving the CD right now.
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MINE HASN'T COME IN. I WANT MAGAZINESESESESES
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Read The Mad Man by Samuel Delany.
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