Books
I’m two-thirds of the way through No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, I’m enjoying it, but not nearly so much as The Road, I think I just read that book at the proper time in my life. (Its funny how that works, coincidentally reading a book at the right time makes me enjoy it so much more).
Life After God by Douglas Coupland was my “existential crisis” book of my late teens and early 20’s, I read it quite a few times. I haven’t read it in a long time, but I have a feeling I wouldn’t get much out of it now, and probably not even enjoy it much. (Have you ever reread Catcher in the Rye? I read that book quite a few times as a teenager, but when I went back and read it a few years ago I really got annoyed with Holden’s incessant whining).
I picked up a couple books by John Fante at the library today. And Endgame Volume 1 The Collapse of Civilization and the Rebirth of Community by Derrick Jensen, I was really interested in Jensen and eco-politics/philosophy in general a couple of years ago when I was studying philosophy at UCSD, but then I moved to Santa Cruz and got wrapped up in different things (funny you’d think I would have gotten more interested in eco-philosophy up there). But a trip to Santa Cruz recently did remind me of Endgame. A random stranger at a party told me how he just got done reading Vol 1 and then some more folks were talking about it so I decided to pick it up.
