Still reading ILIAD. I'm in Book 16. Fuggin' Righteous. But today I've been reading Cell by Stephen King. Whatta hoot! The thing takes off immediately. Hot action, on page 88 before I even looked up. Also, last night I read the first bit of Fahrenheit 451. I LOVE THIS BOOK! I picked up the 50th Anniversary paperback, so attractive, so hot! It really is one of my all-time hall-of-fame awesome books. And one of the few which SCORES as a movie too. To Kill a Mockingbird and Lolita spring quickly to mind, although there are others of course ... yeah that 451 movie is a SCORCHER! I should watch that once a month ... so yeah, it's a sunny Sunday and after I've come back from my run through Rock Creek Park over to Arlington Cemetery I've been reading paperbacks. Cell, 451, and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I've been wanting to hit this for years. Killer stuff. I've peeked through the first bit and it's kickin' off with some mind-bendingly lovely verbage. Give it up to the acclaimed translators of this edition, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Right on. I finally also picked up the Red, the White, and the Blue copies of Average American Male. Yes. I'm knee-deep in awesome paperbacknesses ... yum.
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