Saturday, November 15, 2008

Want to read a book?

Then go on a road trip. You'll read lots. Here is a list of what I've flipped through so far:

DelCorso's Gallery
Late Nights on Air
Dreams from my Father
Choke
How did the States get their Shapes?
In the Shadow of Watergate

5 comments:

Danielle said...

How was "How did the States get their shapes?"? I've spent quite some time complaining about the apparent arbitrariness of the shapes of a lot of the states. Idaho - what is that?

Nick said...

Oh man, what a book. Lemme tell you, nothing is as arbitrary as it seems when it comes to state borders.

Almost every border is there for a reason, and a lot of the time was the result of an angry and protracted dispute.

I learned that any borders that don't make much sense, in the east anyways, can be blamed on a British inability to correctly identify lines of latitude.

Unknown said...

Here's something partially related to your post. Look at these results from the election:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/

Unknown said...

For the trip home, might we recommend:

William S. Burroughs, Leaving Las Vegas - or -
H.W. Nevinson, Farewell to America
- or -
"Welcome Home" in Barbara Smith's Canadian Ghost Stories

Anonymous said...

Choke's not really Palahniuk's best in my opinion. Invisible Monster is better by far.

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