reading wednesday
Apr. 4th, 2013 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelights• What are you currently reading?
Multiplication is for White People, by Lisa Delpit. Recommended byjesse_the_k
• What did you recently finish reading?
The Ax, by Donald Westlake. It kept reminding me of Breaking Bad. The viewpoint character has worked hard and played by the rules, and he can't stand becoming unable to support his family as well as he thinks they are entitled to. He decides to stop playing by the rules. Like Walt, he won't change his plan even as he sees its terrible consequences, even as he realizes how his plan is changing him. Recommended.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Maybe Oryx and Crake, for book group? Maybe The Highest Frontier, for Wiscon?
Sore throat. No poem today.
Multiplication is for White People, by Lisa Delpit. Recommended by
jesse_the_k • What did you recently finish reading?
The Ax, by Donald Westlake. It kept reminding me of Breaking Bad. The viewpoint character has worked hard and played by the rules, and he can't stand becoming unable to support his family as well as he thinks they are entitled to. He decides to stop playing by the rules. Like Walt, he won't change his plan even as he sees its terrible consequences, even as he realizes how his plan is changing him. Recommended.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Maybe Oryx and Crake, for book group? Maybe The Highest Frontier, for Wiscon?
Sore throat. No poem today.
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Date: 2013-05-21 03:16 am (UTC)I read The Ax a few years ago and agree with your write-up. Westlake has written at least one other book where you see someone changing kind of like that, much darker than most of his criminal-caper Dortmunder books. Good, and also a little shuddery.
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Date: 2013-05-21 05:20 am (UTC)