[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Places-Between-Rory-Stewart/dp/0156031566/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281659525&sr=1-1]Amazon.com: The Places In Between (9780156031561): Rory Stewart: Books[/ame] Interesting memoir of a Scot that walked across Afghanistan 3 months after the USA intervened with the Taliban. Really gives you a good idea about how, and why real average rural Muslims preceive their world.
Walden by Hank Thoreau. It's taking me awhile. I'm a slow reader. On top of that, he keeps making all these classical lit and historical references that sidetrack me when I have to look them up. Very challenging, but educational and at times humorous.
I'm on the last hundred pages of The World According to Garp, by John Irving. I also started reading The City and the City by China Mieville.
Yeah. I liked Hotel New Hampshire, but not as much as some of Irving's other stuff. And now having finished it, I liked Garp better than it.
A book called Affluenza. It's all about duh murkin dream. [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Affluenza-All-Consuming-Epidemic-John-Graaf/dp/1576751996]Amazon.com: Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (9781576751992):…[/ame]