By The Beachwood Book Club
A list.
1. The Bible/Unknown. Have you read it? And which version? And the sequels? The Greatest Story Ever Told, but not The Greatest Story Ever Read.
2. Moby Dick/Herman Melville. Call me Ishmael. Maybe I’ll do my laundry now.
3. Encyclopedia Brittanica M-Z/Various. Hey, if you got this far you’ve really accomplished something.
4. A Brief History of Time/Stephen Hawking. You wanted to get it. You really did. This was supposed to be for laymen. But if watches run faster in space, isn’t that just the function of the watches logging artificial time and not real time actually running faster? It just hurts too much to think about. Turn on the baseball game.
5. Dreams From My Father/Barack Obama. Because it’s so unreadable. But you don’t dare admit that to anybody. You just mouth platitudes.
Posted on June 18, 2006