Simon Winchester: A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.)
Lots o' trivia and some great information on the science of earthquakes. A bit pedantic....and a little scary if you live in the Bay Area. (***)
Ian Mcewan: Saturday
My favorite author did not disappoint. Mcewan's language is lyrical, and powerful as always...and his characters always stick with me long after the book is finished. Memorable read. (*****)
Lawrence Wright: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Expansive. Eye opening. Overall - a great piece of history. In a nutshell - the book tracks the roots of what is now Al-Queda from Eqypt in roughly the 1950s up to 9/11. The highlite is the in depth biograpohical detail on Osama bin Laden. After reading this book, I was left thinking that we'll never "win" a war on "terror". (****)
Jon Krakauer: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
This book (on CD) got me from about Massachusetts to Ohio on my road trip. A little disappointing, only because I have read numerous other books by Krakauer...I think he bites off a little more than he can chew here, and the subject matter is not as personal to him. In a nutshell - the book is about Morman fundamentalism and focuses on some interesting/scary/insane/influential charcters from throughout that religions history. I found Krakauer's quick history of the faith fascinating and slightly disturbing. Glad I did not read this while in Utah. (***)
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Big thanks to the bottle of Zegna cologne that I had in my
suitcase. The bottle broke somewhere in Utah - and now my entire
suitcase and car smell like Tony Soprano. Fortunatelty, none of my
clothes were effected. Just the suitcase. So much for the new car
smell..I guess there are worse things a car could smell like. But it's
a little overpowering.
I even tried airing the thing out in the middle of the Utah desert. No dice.
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