Currently reading The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell and the book I finished before it was Knellers Happy Campers by Edgar Kenet which is a short story that was adapted into a movie in like 06 called Wristcutters about a guy who kills himself and goes to an afterlife for all the people who committed suicide. I learned it was based on the short story so I found it for cheap and read it
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I'm starting What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver this evening. It's a collection of short stories. I've read Carver before but its been a while.
Last book I read was 1984 I usually give it a re-read every fall. It's a quick read and interesting to compare with the previous year.
I need to start reading more non-fiction, especially Sowell.
It’s good to mix things up. I’m really enjoying this book. Written in 95 and Sowell makes it seem like he wrote it last week in some respects like when he questions the agenda of sex education and asks why they are so eager to go after young ones. I have 1984 but haven’t read it yet. Well, we read it in high school but I’ve been meaning to re-read it
I graduated highschool from the school he went to. He was very accurate about the town, and lied about where he went to school.
Hey, I know this is late but I had meant to ask:
I knew he was from the PNW. I can't figure if he was from Oregon or Washington. That doesn't seem like a big deal to me, considering those rural areas are similar (let me know if I am wrong.)
Is there any reason he would want to lie about his school? I know he was an alcoholic and maybe wanted to cover up his identity at the time.
Either way, I dig his stuff.
Yakima Washington. He went to Davis, but said he went to Eisenhower. Davis is the very ghetto school. Eisenhower was the upper middle class one.
Ironically the best gifted program was at Davis.