Neil Gaiman on the Value of a Cluttered Mind

Ive usually got four books going at a time, talkin about promiscuous. Im now reading

Parallel Universes
rereading Wind in the Willows
Ben Franklin An american Life
When will Jesus bring the pork chops (which reeeaaallllyyyy sucks a big one, George Carlin, like Howard Stern, should not ever write another book)
Krakatoa by Simon Winchester. (Hes a shitty writer but Im a sucker for detail)
Noddy-edit your post, theres a few words I didnt catch

Just a tad jealous

Farmerman--

Thanks for the heads up. In my youth I could do three things at one time--and do them well--but obviously those days are gone forever.

As penance I threw in the footnote for "kipple".


I'm currently reading:

Cain, Madelyn: The Childless Revolution: What it Means to be
Childless Today

Downer, Lesley: women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History
of the Geisha

Ensler, Eve: The Good Body

Gordon, Emily Fox: Mockingbird Years: A Life in and out of Therapy

Grandin, Temple: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of
Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

and just for fun, Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicle. I should finish the third volume, The Disorderly Knights tonight.

I thought Krakatoa was worth the prose style. After all you have Kenneth Graham and B. Franklin for leavening.

Who wrote Parallel Universes?

I think that Simon Winchester , next to Jay Gould , is one of the most pompous and interlineal writers . He takes a while to get to his point , and often, when he finaly gets there, it wasnt really worth the trouble. Goulds texts are like that, his essays are better . I hate when someone goes from Science to WAgner to the Yankees then back to WAgner, and then only has a teeny point to make. (Gould). People who arent writers get impressed with their own styles. I always use Gould as an example. I have to write tech articles and research and I always
1 want to start witha clear statement of what we were doing

2 discuss what we did and found

3 make up some theory or explanation

4 derive the equations

5 stop and go home

I like to see writers get to the point , unless, like Mcmurtry, when not getting to the point , IS the point. So Winchester aint one of my favorites but, as I said, Im such a details freak, I have to reaed his works that scuffle around geology.
Ben Franklin is by Walter Isaacson
Michiu Kaku wrote Parallel Worlds (sorry)