Brian's quite remarkable blog of wonder.

I finished reading Riven Rock. It was kind of uninteresting as a story, actually. I was a little disappointed, because it seemed like it was chugging along and building up at times... to no avail. I could tell it was exhaustively researched, like anything that comes out of T. C. Boyle, but it didn't add up to a really arresting story (especially for as long as it was). That said, though, I enjoyed it immensely, because it was basically just playing around for a while in the first couple decades of the 20th century, a time period I'm in love with. I should read other TCB novels.

I also finished White Noise. Wow. I've never read such an intelligent treatment of modern life. Very frightening stuff. I actually had a very disturbing dream that there was a lethal chemical cloud that I had been exposed to. I guess that means I liked the book.

Now I'm reading John Krakaur's equally disturbing but hilarious book about Mormons, Under the Banner of Heaven.