Thoughts on Christopher Moore’s Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
Mankind, I suppose, is designed to run on–to be motivated by–temptation. If progress is a virtue then this is our greatest gift. (For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?) On the other hand, can you call such a profound weakness a gift, or is it a design flaw? Is temptation itself at fault for man’s woes, or is it simply the lack of judgment in response to temptation? In other words, who is to blame? Mankind, or a bad designer? Because I can’t help but think that if God had never told Adam and Eve to avoid the fruit of the tree of knowledge, that the human race would still be running around naked, dancing in wonderment and blissfully naming stuff between snacks, naps, and shags.
Re: Philip K. Dick’s Confessions of a Crap Artist
Dick is a genius. His depictions of insanity are eerily close to home; the minds of his sociopaths could easily be our own. I’m a sucker for a good book about insanity, so this was right up my alley. I will be collecting and reading more of his books.
Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass. Random House.
I finished the His Dark Materials series just before Christmas, and am just getting around to writing about my thoughts on it. (Warning: There be spoilers up in here.)
I’ve had His Dark Materials on the Mt. TBR (the Mountain of books To Be Read) for a while, and since the movie is coming out soon, I decided to start reading them. And already I’ve started getting chain-letters from Christian friends denouncing the movie as a gateway drug to atheism.
I recently finished reading The Vintage Book of War Fiction, edited by Sebastian Faulks. It’s a collection of excerpts from famous and lesser-known novels about war, from WWI to Gulf War I.
I’ve prettified Life on Paper, switched platforms–Wordpress instead of Thingamablog–and integrated my LibraryThing information. I’m not too terribly sure what I will be posting here, but…well…yeah.
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