I got behind again.

I want to start off by saying that Reading Lolita in Tehran, which I'm currently in the middle of, is fantastic.

Other than that I'm 8 books behind on reporting here, so you're not likely to get very detailed comments on most of them.

Seek by Rudy Rucker is a collection of his nonfiction. A lot of them are reports on various aspects of computing, but there's also memoirs, etc. Interesting but not a sit down and read straight through sort of book.

The Last Harbor by George Foy was ok, but not great. It was the first book of his I've read, and I'm not sure I'll bother again. It took me a good half the book to get at all into it and I still didn't care about the main character all that much, which makes it a bit hard.

Gridlinked by Neal Asher took probably 30 pages to get the swing of, but once I got there, I devoured the rest of the book. I liked this one better than The Skinner partially because it felt less like a movie plot and more like a novel.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (available online, btw) was a fun, light read. Set in a future where no one really has to work and everyone's always online, and the currency is your approval rating.

The U.N. for Beginners was somewhat interesting, but not as much so as most of the other "for beginners" comic history lessons.

Little Doors by Paul Di Filippo was a good book of odd short stories. I always feel like I'm taking too long to read short stories though and I start getting impatient by the end of the book.

Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski was my first Iranian book for the week. Well, Iranian history as written by someone Polish. It made the rise of an Islamic state there make a lot more sense. Very well written as well.

Timbuktu by Paul Auster was narrated by a dog. Good nonetheless :)
posted by kristin at 4:52 PM