No workouts today.
Thoughts on recent books:
Killing Rain -- Barry Eisler
I actually didn't think this was as good as some of the previous Rain novels. The action and settings are good, as always. But the writing isn't quite as tight, and Rain's moral overhaul seems a bit overdone in places. Still, well worth reading.
Under the Banner of Heaven -- John Krakauer
The best of Krakauer's books thus far. Since he's writing about the LDS church and not personal experiences, he's less self-indulgent than in his other books. This helps bring his excellent writing style to the fore.
The Fundamentalist LDS movement is a superb example of Paul Berman's thesis (in Terror and Liberalism) that totalitarian thought systems, whether religious or political, inevitably spawn death-cult offshoots.
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