We worked out early and have already returned to BTW South. Bad times, man. The frustrations presented in Tuesday's "Ricky Fitness" persisted all week. I'm running at the same speed and inclination as last week, but with much greater difficulty. I know, I know, shut my yap and stop whining. At least I'm not slowing down. "Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!"
The Queue
Interestingly, while The Legacy of Heorot is still a dynamite yarn, I've discovered a dislike for virtually all of the characters (most science fiction is more plot- than character-driven). The protagonist, Colonel Cadmann Weyland, spends the entire novel grousing about the mistakes and blunders made by his fellow interstellar colonists, but towards the end of the book a great miscalculation on his part is revealed, a mistakes that nearly allows the grendels to overwhelm the colonists' final redoubt at Cadmann's Bluff (a name I've always assumed was meant to invoke Rourke's Drift). Yet, he is still treated by both the characters and, more unforgivably, the authors, as being infallible. This is the sort of thing you don't realize when you're thirteen and are so fascinated by the unique biology of the dread grendels that you're blind to any and all failings of the text.
Natan Sharansky, The Case for Democracy
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, & Steven Barnes, The Legacy of Heorot
William Manchester, The Arms of Krupp ***in progress***
Simon Hawke, The Merchant of Vengeance
Jung Chang, Mao: The Unknown Story
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Harrison E. Salisbury, The 900 Days
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