What's new on my book shelf: a look at what a Scorpion reads on the side
Posted by El Spaniard on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 @ 09:19 AM
While the rest of the Scorpions are battling with the shit-on-the-bottom-of-your-shoe mess of Inherent Vice I used some holiday cash to stock up the bookshelf with some new reads that I thought I'd share with our loyal reader base (of 4 people):
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon - Epic fiction around the lives of the guys who lined the border between PA and MD and a handful of other states. Actually bought this one in tandem with Inherent Vice, but haven't got into it too much. Pynchon wrote this one in 18th century dialect before venturing into stoner speak for IV. Almost 800 pages so going to be a long one. Compare it to Shantaram which I've been reading for like 3 years off and on.
Suffer in Silence by David Reid - Fiction set around Navy SEAL BUD/s and Hell Week.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Everyone and their mother is reading this but I liked No Country and Blood Meridian so finally going to take this down.
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham - I'm one of the few SCORPS who reads non-fiction more than fiction. Heard good things about this one and he's tougher than any other President we'll see again.
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Dan Yergin - Geopolitical nonfiction about the most important element of the global economy written by an energy consultant with deep industry ties
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway - Been wanting to read more of his since Have or Have Not
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell - Orwell went to Spain to cover the civil war and instead ended up joining the fight against the Facists. Would Dan Brown do that?