New Review: Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's
November 6, 2001 (9:21 PM) ( link )

ADDED a review of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. As I mentioned yesterday, I wasn't very impressed by it. I've decided to start reading Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light. A Suitable Boy still looks daunting to me; the inability to tote it around really does hurt my chances of ever starting on it. I am currently also about a third of the way through A Prayer for Owen Meany; it'll probably take me a few more weeks to get through that massive tome. In other reading news, I picked up a copy of Wittgenstein's Poker at Widener today; the book uses a 10-minute brawl between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper as the basis for discussing turn-of-the-century philosophy and its major debates. Should be quite amusing; the title certainly interested me. I also picked up a couple of books at the Harvard University Press bookstore. For $11, I got good-quality editions of Igor Stravinsky's Poetics of Music (famous), Owen M. Fiss's The Irony of Free Speech (good for debate), Russell McCormach's Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist (weird concept), Michael Sandel's Democracy's Discontent (despite Lindsey's disdain), and David Z. Albert's Quantum Mechanics and Experience (a book about quantum mechanics as told by a philosophy professor at Columbia: Jesse nearly died laughing). Not a bad deal overall, although I was kind of hoping they had Robert Nozick's books there.