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Sunday, June 29, 2003
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Finally, on the plane back from Los Angeles I started The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy and finished it here. It has, I think, one huge flaw (I won't spoil it for you), but it's a fascinating portrayal of life in 14th-century southern France. What's not to love? There's religion, sex, love, and positively medieval torment. The "heresy" in the novel is based on the real-life Cathars, a Christian sect that was prevalent at the time and put down brutally by the Catholic Inquisition--I never appreciated the separation of church from state more. Charmaine Craig depicts all the nuances of her characters' emotional turmoil and brutal life. The result utterly transported and gripped me. I couldn't put The Good Men down, even after encountering the major flaw (and I'm still not going to tell you what I think that is). |
11:36:55 PM
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And I took Prince Cor to see his first movie, Finding Nemo, which was excellent and managed to entertain Cor and me. Yes, Cor sat through all 101 minutes easily. It may have helped to have popcorn, a banana, and some cheese around, but I think he would've survived anyway. |
11:15:29 PM
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And I saw Adaptation, which was very amusing but not as good as I thought it would be, given the reviews. It did make me want to read The Orchid Thief. |
11:09:11 PM
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So, while I was away in Los Angeles, I finished Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. Very cool, but I don't think all of it sunk in. Mr. Watts provides many eye-opening and intriguing results from the science of networks, but I think I missed the totality of it. I mean, I knew even before I started the book that there would be many eye-opening and intriguing results, but if I had to explain what they were, I don't think I could. So, I'll keep this one on my bookshelf and read it again (in parts). It'll probably all come together in my head 5 years too late (after everyone else has long understood it and moved beyond it). By the way, this is somewhat in contrast to my experience with The Tipping Point perhaps because the scope is narrower--social phenomena as epidemics is just one of the several ideas that Six Degrees touches upon. |
11:05:24 PM
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