I'm still just around the halfway point, but so far I'm really enjoying it...you have a point for sure, he's pretty full of himself but honestly: he titled his memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Were you expecting modesty? ;)

There's a difference between a veneer of arrogance and actual arrogance, though.

a veneer is a cheaper imitation. sort of a wannabe ... hard to tell what's worse ..



last read/reading :

I needed a break from the autobiographies so i picked up Eragon/Eldest
out of curiosity. (they are written by someone very young)

basically it's Star Wars put to a fantasy setting.
about 90% different from the movie .. which i understand because the book meanders all over the place.

I just finished reading book nine in The Saga of Darren Shan. Pretty good vampire stories for young people. But, now that I finally cleared enough of my "To Read" list, I can start on the book I bought the other week. DRACULA. I once, when I was about eight, read a much shorter, friendlier for children version, and I've always told myself I have to read the real thing. Next on my list is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, then Frankenstein. I'm doing all the classics.

Throw in The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Hound of the Baskervilles and the like. You wont be disappointed.

We studied a bit of the hound of the baskervilles in class but never finished it and ended up watching the film. In fact, same with War of the Worlds. The Time Machine sounds good.

Might want to get into some Lovecraft and Machen too.

Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction - Edward Craig

The Digital Photography Book - Scott Kelby

i picked up 4 books on digital photography ... they've been very informative ... filled in a lot of gaps so far.

Reading off and on "The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian" which are the first 12 published Conan stories by Robert Howard