Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez and Philip K. Dick's Exegesis.
Che: A Revolutionary Life one was informative, pretty good non-bias journalism. It doesn't feel like propaganda like most written about Che in the way that it's pandering to the his millions of admirers. As far as One Hundred Years of Solitude goes, it's a very interesting book that is brilliantly written. It reads a lot like a story from the bible in the way where it recounts the events of one hundred years of a town both in a way where it's significant and insignificant at the same time. I'm about half way and it really gives you perspective on how many small events in history, both as a town on a personal scale, lead history to the point you are at now. Philip K. Dick's Exegesis on the other hand reads more like an expression on who Philip K. Dick was and how his thoughts pieced together all the novels he wrote. I find it to be both brilliant and insane, which is the right combination to make something interesting. Much of his work had much repetition and patterns that can be linked together from book to book. It also recounts when he had his "spiritual experience" or "mental breakdown" depending on which side of the fence you sit on.
What are you reading, Mr. OP?
