Freedom, horrible freedom
Apr 9, 2005
I got some free books!
- The Novices of Sais by Novalis
- Past Imperfect by Peter Charles Hoffer. Mine has a different subtitle: "Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History".
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
- On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins for some reason
- Television by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
- Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
The blurb on the back of Television begins:
The self-possessed protagonist and narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's novel is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin. He plans to write a groundbreaking study of Titian, but after a couple of months, all he's completed is "When Musset." He blames his obsession with watching TV for preventing him from writing more, so he decides to stop watching television all together (after the end of the Tour de France, of course).
How quaint. When's this Toussaint guy going to write Internet?
Comments
on 2005-04-09 21:50:05.0, dave zacuto commented:
Internet? You still use it there in Chicago? How charming.
and, further, on 2005-04-10 16:24:50.0, ben wolfson commented:
Actually I'm the lone holdout. Everyone else has these branal implants they use to communicate directly with the Overmind.