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Now Reading: State of Fear While Running with Scissors
I have loved Michael Crichton novels since I was young. My father/grandparents introduced me to him via Terminal Man long ago. My father had read it back when it first came out and it was sitting at my grandparents thereafter. I picked it up one day while visiting and had most of it finished by the time we got home that night.
Ever since then I have read many of his other novels and after visiting Half Price Books‘ $1 discount racks, I have most of them in my collection now. That reminds me, Mom, if you can find Airframe (it should be on the shelves at your house) please put it aside for me ;)
We were in the airport at Atlanta waiting for our connecting flight on the way home from Orlando over Thanksgiving and I saw that they had a “new” book out by Crichton that I had not yet read. State of Fear is a novel about the environmental movement and how the media blows everything they say out of proportion about the *threat* of “Global Warming”.
“Global Warming”, in my uneducated opinion, is nothing more than simple bullshit to create funding points for science. This book, being well researched and referencing many journals, must really push some buttons for those that are really behind Global Warming. It basically says that it’s all horseshit, woohoo, but sadly it’s written by a fiction author ;)
I read most of the novel on the plane on the way home but finished it up on the couch today while trying to recoup from my latest cold :( I wanted to go caching in Wisconsin today with friends but figured 12 degrees and a cold wouldn’t mix well.
Anyway, while Kim was napping this afternoon, I set out to Target and Cub and did some grocery and Christmas shopping. I picked up a pair of jeans and another book for myself. Target has a bunch of books earmarked on a discount rack that they call being bookmarked. I picked up Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. I had heard Augusten Burroughs speak about Running with Scissors on the University of Minnesota Coffman Bookstore Author Event Podcast here.
I thought he was hysterical and had no idea that the story was even close to being true when I listened to him but afterwards was dying to read the book and see the movie. Kim and I went to see the movie the day it came out in wide release and enjoyed it for the most part. I wanted to see the movie first because I’m sure I’ll enjoy the book far more and I didn’t want to ruin it for myself doing it the other way around — like I always do.
With this version of the book being $5.99 I snapped it up quickly and will let you know how it turns out :)
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I updated the banner image with my skill-less graphic editing abilities to something a little more winterized. I was really hoping to get some winter photos taken already but w/it just being fucking cold and not snowy, that hasn’t happened yet — which is a good thing ;)
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