i finished the radioactive boy scout – interesting book, amazing what this teenage kid managed to get, as far as radioactive materials are concerned, just by writing letters to the atomic energy commision, and other government agencies while posing as a college professor. this is pre 9-11 but STILL…you’d think that writing to a company that provides uranium for experiments would not succeed in gaining a sample…incredible.

so i thought i’d start fahrenheit 451 and i tried…got a few pages in and i couldn’t take it. it wasn’t making sense, i didn’t like the writing style, and if i had to read one more dickens-esque “he was shaking, yet still” phrases i was going to rip it apart. so that one is on hold.

so i tried catch-22. it’s going better, but i am still annoyed by it for some reason. i think i’m at a point where i just can’t read a novel right now. i may put that aside for the pentagon papers first but we’ll see.