markaudette wrote:
I am trying to read "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk...
Chuck's book are far out, man!
Well said.
God luck trying to read the encyclopedia, by the way - especially if it's one like the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. I used that encyclopedia quite a bit when I had to consult a print encyclopedia for various research projects, and I found the style to be very difficult, technical, jargon-filled, and precise.
Currently reading
The Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It's good to read something of my own choice for a change, after being assigned two consecutive pieces of crap for English class -
The Great Gatsby and
The Crucible.
I'm developing a taste for good psychological war novels, it seems. Stuff about how being in a war affects one's personality - all the disillusionment and uncertainty that follows. Stuff that breaks the cliche of the valiant (right word use?) and courageous soldier. Billy Pilgrim's character certainly breaks a lot of those cliches.