Oh
forgot to mention in last post, after the Salzman, I read a very interesting book on race relations, called The Fall of Rome- fascinating book. Moves way beyond old fashioned notions of race, into a world where the racial ideas of two black men collide.
Then I started Being Dead. Now I don't know if you would like this book, but it is so good, and so unusual, I want to mention it. It's about two corpses, we know them for just a teeny bit before they are corpses, and then we take a journey with them as they lie, where they lie, decomposing. It sounds a bit ghoulish, it IS a bit ghoulish, but it's also original and interesting. I read a bit of it to one of my classes, a less scary part, and a less gross out part, about a little beetle who is first to the scene, and is actually a grass beetles, so he is annoyed by a corpse falling on him, since he is programmed to eat in the sun, and he has to dig his way out from under the corpse, and gets caught for a bit in the wooly sweater it is wearing. Anyway, fascinating reading, and perfect for Halloween, really. |
