David > Recent Status Updates

While I'm enjoying it, I don't feel I'm enjoying it the way Moore intended. Except for one conversation on page 12, I haven't found anything to be laugh out loud funny. I'm enjoying it as a fantasy novel, but not as a humorous one. I enjoyed the scene with the Yeti and wonder if it will reappear again.

I haven't really laughed much, but I am enjoying Moore's story of a young Jesus. His interpretation of characters is interesting.

It hasn't been quite as funny as the conversation I recanted previously, but I'm still enjoying the book. I like the way that Moore introduces John the Baptist as Jesus' crazy uncle LOL.

Thus far, I'm really enjoying it. The funniest moment had to be the scene where Josh and Biff are pretending to be Moses and Pharoah. "Let my people go!" "Okay." "You can't do that!" "Why?" "Because God wouldn't let you." LOL I wasn't expecting to enjoy this because I was mistaking Christopher Moore for Terry Pratchet, an author I once tried to read and couldn't get into.

Some of his writings about health care are interesting, though his comments about Kaiser raised my eyebrows. He mentioned Kaiser receives "top marks in customer surveys" (Wikipedia says the same thing), but I thought that's the group my family in California always bitch about. Two nights ago on Colbert, Paul Krugman said that Romney's plans to fix the economy are used by Ireland and they're in terrible shape.

Can't say I'm a fan of Romney's creative destruction philosophy; while I understand the belief, I'm not convinced sacrificing jobs in the hopes it will allow new jobs to be created is a good one. I did like what Romney said, though, about how absurd it is to let foreign students get a degree here and then boot them out instead of letting them use their brains to help America improve.

It's okay when he's not saying things I don't believe are accurate. He says that Clinton rejected an opportunity to assassinate bin Laden when I've always heard that Clinton wanted to but Republicans bitched about it. Of course I have no idea which version is true because neither side knows how to tell the truth. On Fox News, Clinton claimed conservatives criticized him for being obsessed with bin Laden.

Oh, what a mess! I enjoyed Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities", but this was an absolute chore to get through! The most interesting thing of the book is the notes at the very end! Thankfully I'm done with everything except a few advertisements for other classics.

I just finished the chapter in which the third ghost visits Scrooge. When the story is coherent, it's pretty enjoyable, but there are times when Dickens tends to ramble on unnecessarily. I have to say I prefer the much shorter Goblins story than the Christmas Carol.

xxiii

I'm getting the point where I don't think I can hold any more knowledge on the subject LOL. I feel like I haven't really learned anything new in a while because I just can't hold any more. The one thing that I did learn (that I'm sure I'll forget) is that Blaise Pascal, a so called "philosopher", is the one who came up with the horrible argument claiming "if I'm wrong, nothing happens, if you are you go to hell."

The more I read, the more I enjoy it, but I have to admit I'm disappointed in a few things that have been left out. I wish he had gone into more details about Muslims (I know it's about "Bible" basics, but he gives more details about Mormons than he does Muslims) and I also wish he didn't leave out some not-so-flattering Basics such as what went down during the Salem witch trials.