Osler's Razor

I didn't see "break an ankle" on that list. Last minute addition?
 

Enjoy your break!
You deservve it.
Tell your parents I said hello.
 

7) Break at least one bone?
 

I'm glad someone else appreciates the value of staring into the middle distance and thinking about stuff.

My secretary sees me doing it, and she doesn't think I'm working, but I am.
 

Dr Alan W. Markman
TRIA Orthopedics
952-831-8742
 

I suggest, for the bad book, Justin Cronin's "The Passage." It's an attempt to be literary with the current trash fad du jour, vampires. Unfortunately, Cronin is no Stoker, and the whole thing falls as flat as my similies.

It has been some time since I have read a book that really engaged my mind long after I put it down, so I am fresh out of recommendations for "good" books, unfortunately.
 

Lane - have you read the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins? Even though it's aimed at tweens, the series is a great read. Both Stephanie and I read the first two books and couldn't put them down. The third comes out in a few weeks.
 

Campbell,

I hate all forms of the undead... vampires, zombies, ghouls, Anne Coulter. It's not that I don't like urban fantasy or paranormal stories. Jim Butcher's delightfully noirish Harry Dresden novels feature such creatures, but they aren't the centerpiece of the action, which is an unpardonable sin. The problem isn't genre; it's that these subjects are so overdone its hard to make them really have that literary zing. So I've sworn myself to never read a book where such devices feature as a centerpiece, much to my wife's chagrin, who finds something irresistably romantic about the rotting dead.

So I will pass along your recommendation to her, and console myself with obscure literary speculative fiction that I can never discuss with other people because I'm the only one dumb enough to read it.
 

I cannot believe you did not borrow the latest Emily Giffin book (heart of the matter - yes all l/c) from me for your "bad book" choice! Seriously, if you are going to mock my reading choices (Summer Reading 2009 post), you could at least let me continue to offer them on an annual basis!
Denise
FYI - It made Heart of the Matter read like Proust.