David Sedaris is speaking at Cal Poly this weekend, and I will be attending. He stooped so low as to be interviewed by the Mustang Daily, which resulted in the following:

MD: Do you have any advice for college students? We need it.

David Sedaris: Right… I would just encourage college students to take drugs and have sex with as many people as possible because one day they’ll be old and right now they’re the perfect age for all that stuff. They might as well have fun now, and then they can reflect upon it later when they’re old.

MD: I’m using that as my headline: “David Sedaris says: Get Laid!

David Sedaris: Don’t leave out the drug part.

So here’s how far I have gotten up until now, I would recommend all of these books but for different reasons.  Pease forgive the vagueness of the plot summaries, but I didn’t want to give anything away, when you have the simple joy of discovery by reading them yourselves.



1. Slatewiper, Lewis Perdue (2003, 387 pages)--  Typical airport light suspense novel, but with some good twists.  Involves genetic bio-weapons and one strong woman.  Nice, fast, easy read.

2. Foundation, Isaac Asimov (1951, 227 pages)-- This is one of those books that I have read many times, yet it still appeals to me.  It is an integral part of Asimov’s history of the future (the good majority of his novels-- particularly series-- follow one time line in one reality and if you can get them in order, they create several millennia of "history", you will also find similar themes and characters through many of them).  This specific book chronicles the beginnings of a society founded on an intellectual basis and how such a society can help to save the galaxy and civilization from a new, predicted, dark age.

3. Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov (1952, 227 pages)-- The obvious sequel to Foundation, deals with what happens when this new foundling society deals with the old power structures of the old and dieing governing body.  This mighty power struggle and the eventual victor is all that stands
between civilization and barbarianism.

4. Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov (1953, 225 pages)-- This and the last two books are contained within one ratty, taped up binding.  The last in the original Foundation trilogy (Asimov later wrote a few more Foundation books to fill in the story even more).  All the careful planning and calculating of the Foundation’s society gets thrown askew by one unique person, a mutant.  The last book details the consequences and recovery from such a mutant.

5. Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins (1990, 479 pages)-- Wow, how to concisely summarize a Tom Robbins plot?  Following a few years in the life of a waitress artist, her husband and a few select sentient items from her picnic basket (see, tough to explain).  All of Robbins? books are sexy, page turning, exciting pieces that are beautifully written and highly entertaining.

6. Dragonfly in Amber, Diana Gabalodon (1992, 947 pages)-- Part of another series (first of which is Outlander), it is a historical romantic fiction, and the gratuitous sex is kept to a minimum.  Again, the plot is rather difficult to describe, it involves time travel, Scottish uprising, babies and red heads.  I am actually reading this series backwards, and Outlander is next, but it will probably take me a while to get through it, time constraints and all.

Happy reading!



(cross-posted 50bookchallenge)

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I found a new community, 50bookchallenge , the challenge is read 50 books in 2005, post to prove it.  The members tend to review all the books they read too, which means tons of recommendations.  I will be putting my first post tonight.  I dare you to join too, we’ll race.  It will be fun!