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Oct. 8th, 2010 02:22 pmI'm going to fall asleep at my desk and nobody will care because nobody is here. It's a gorgeous day out and everyone has fucked off to enjoy it except me. I've been typesetting instead.
Charitable Getting is typeset, except for Chapter 16 and the Epilogue, both of which I need to work on this weekend. I also need to clean up one graphic and proof the cover design, but that's pretty much it. If I'm lucky and clever I'll be ordering my proof copy on Monday. (Lucky And Clever should be some kind of totem saying for me. 99% of my life depends on me being both.)
I've finally finished Michael Crichton's "Travels", which I've been reading on my lunch break because people get all weird if I don't take the full hour. It's an interesting book; sort of a strange hybrid of travelogue and autobiography without achieving either successfully by the terms of the definition. That's not...entirely a criticism, because it's still an interesting book; not fitting the standardised criteria is just a mathematical measure, in the end, and doesn't really say much about quality.
( Travels, by Michael Crichton )
Final Verdict: Crichton has some statements to make and some theories to put forth which read as either a little dated or a little privileged, but they're pretty passing, and in all I thought it was an interesting read. He keeps an engaging rhythm going and it was easy for me to read it in small chunks because the chapters (and passages within the chapters) are short. It's a good look inside the head of an author I admired as a kid and still like a lot. Certainly if you've got nothing more pressing and would like an engaging story, it's worth the price of the book.
That sounds a bit lukewarm, but then I can't really rave about the book or dismiss it out of hand. If I'd actually paid for the book (I got it via Swaptree) I might keep it; as it is, having read it, I feel like I've taken away all I really need to, so it'll probably go in the pile to sell at the bookstore.
Charitable Getting is typeset, except for Chapter 16 and the Epilogue, both of which I need to work on this weekend. I also need to clean up one graphic and proof the cover design, but that's pretty much it. If I'm lucky and clever I'll be ordering my proof copy on Monday. (Lucky And Clever should be some kind of totem saying for me. 99% of my life depends on me being both.)
I've finally finished Michael Crichton's "Travels", which I've been reading on my lunch break because people get all weird if I don't take the full hour. It's an interesting book; sort of a strange hybrid of travelogue and autobiography without achieving either successfully by the terms of the definition. That's not...entirely a criticism, because it's still an interesting book; not fitting the standardised criteria is just a mathematical measure, in the end, and doesn't really say much about quality.
( Travels, by Michael Crichton )
Final Verdict: Crichton has some statements to make and some theories to put forth which read as either a little dated or a little privileged, but they're pretty passing, and in all I thought it was an interesting read. He keeps an engaging rhythm going and it was easy for me to read it in small chunks because the chapters (and passages within the chapters) are short. It's a good look inside the head of an author I admired as a kid and still like a lot. Certainly if you've got nothing more pressing and would like an engaging story, it's worth the price of the book.
That sounds a bit lukewarm, but then I can't really rave about the book or dismiss it out of hand. If I'd actually paid for the book (I got it via Swaptree) I might keep it; as it is, having read it, I feel like I've taken away all I really need to, so it'll probably go in the pile to sell at the bookstore.
