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May 19, 2006
What Are You Listening To?
Jeff and I were talking last night about how slow it's been on the blog lately. His life is too busy right now to have much time for blogging, and mine has gotten so routine lately, I haven't found much interesting to blog about. I suppose I could join the DaVinci craze, but it seems so stupid and pointless to get worked up over it. You either have the faith, or you don't - and no movie should matter beyond its entertainment value (or lack thereof). I think that's about all I need to say about that.
Anyway, on to something else. As you can see from my last post, I'm a big listener of audiobooks. I think it's safe to say there are more hours of audiobooks on my iPod than music - probably by a 2-to-1 margin or better. So, for one of the "here's what I'm listening to lately" posts, I present the following books I've heard to in the last 30 days or so:
Alexander Hamilton - I haven't gotten far into this yet, but after listening to Adams vs. Jefferson several months back, I thought a little perspective would be in order. I haven't gotten far into his public life, yet, but I'm at the Revolution, so it should get interesting very soon. The material is very detailed and enjoyable.
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince - An excellent way to spend a drive to and from New Orleans. It got us there and back with a disc to spare. We still haven't listened to the funeral yet. No more spoilers in case there's someone who hasn't read it. It's a good setup for the final book.
Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars Volume 1 - Yuck. It takes a lot of work to screw up a book about Khan Noonien Singh. Greg Cox does it by ignoring him for most of the story.
To Rule Mankind and Make the World Obey - I'm almost done with this history of Ancient Rome. Barnes & Noble sells their Portable Professor series as college-level subject matter. This one seems more at a high school or middle school level - the teacher tries to make the material seem interesting by quickly boiling down motivations in an almost "folksy" way, but it almost makes the history trivial. Not one of the better entries of the series, but an interesting topic, and easy to listen to on the commute.
I've been hitting history a lot lately - especially American history. We're planning a trip to DC this summer, so it's a good way to get the juices flowing. I want to pick up some more philosophy and religion soon, but that's further down the list right now.
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