current book update

i've gotten a bit behind in my current reading list. i finished kierkegaard's fear and trembling a couple weeks ago. i must admit that i had a hard time understanding much of it. luckily, it looks like we'll be reading it in my philosophy in literature class this fall. second time around should hopefully be a little easier.



i also read and finished albert camus' resistance, rebellion, and death and chuck palahniuk's fugitives and refugees. camus' book was just as great as the his other books i have read. i especially enjoyed his letters to the nazi germans originally printed in an underground newspaper for the french resistance and his essays regarding the deplorable nature of capital punishment. palahniuk's book was... well... different. it was basically a tour guide of portland. some entries were personal and interesting looks and the fringes of 'normal' society in portland. others were quite boring. perphaps it would have been better if i had lived in and experienced portland.




while in virginia, i picked up albert camus' the plague at a local waldenbooks for my flight home (the entire state of virginia is entirely void of both borders and barnes and noble - apparently a testament to the state's literacy rate). i'm not sure what or if i will read to along side it.


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today was the first of eight days void of both school and work. needless to say, it was quite boring. i'm not sure what i'm going to do with myself. hopefully i'll be able to get some hiking and maybe a camping trip in before school starts.