Thursday, May 10, 2007

5: Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, M. J. Simpson

Crazy, driven, perfectionist with serious procrastination troubles. Maybe there's hope for me as a writer, after all. I'm all set, except for that "driven" bit; I bet it's not important, though.

Anyway, still catching up on ancient reading history, so don't have too much to say about this one, either. A little dry at times, with many names and dates: "...and in February of that year Douglas called Bill Somethingamabob, but they didn't meet again till the next March, by which time Lenny Notbill had talked to Douglas about his December deadline for...", etc. Whatever. Would have been a good library read. I don't need to own this.

4: Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction, John Polkinghorne

Bought this in New York while visiting Rob in February, and read it on the plane on the way back. (So, yes, I'm three months behind.) Excellent non-mathematical introduction that whetted my appetite to dive into Sakurai or Cohen-Tannoudji again. And...that's all I remember about it.

I should be a little prompter about writing these things.

3: Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett

Um, I haven't been updating. I read this months ago.