Started reading Wittgenstein's Poker
November 8, 2001 (9:02 PM) ( link )

I've read the first two chapters of Wittgenstein's Poker. It's quite well written, but so far not much has happened; the authors simply seem to be playing around with the fact that lots of people remember the event in many different ways. I think that the really substantive part of this text is coming in the next few chapters. It's a short book, so I should hopefully be able to read it quickly, perhaps by the end of this weekend (at the same time that I finish my Wittgenstein paper!).

I've also started reading Lord of Light. I'm about a tenth of the way through right now. It's not quite gripping, yet, but I'm getting the same vibes from it that I got from Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun quartet: although the plot may not be much, the world that Zelazny constructs is becoming increasingly fascinating. Hopefully it'll turn out to be a great, one-of-a-kind book.