Vacation Reading List.

Vacation Reading List. As always, I read a lot over my vacation. The best reads: Winesburg, Ohio – loneliness takes many forms in this collection; Faulkner’s The Reivers – great characters; Agatha Christie’s A Death In The Clouds – a good Poirot mystery; and How Can I Get Through To You – great analysis of some the basic issues in modern marriages.

OK reads: Mirror Dance – modern space opera; The Talented Mr. Ripley – very faithful to the movie; Venus by Ben Bova – OK hard science fiction; Inversions – another good but not outstanding Iain Banks novel; Salamander – started out very strong but has gotten a little too mystical on me in the middle going.

I won’t bother to record the bad reads, they are better left unmentioned.