summer reading

The semester is over! Hopefully I can catch up now with my shelfari goal of a book read per week. Of course, I have summer classes, but I don't think they will get in my way as much as typical summer laziness.

I've finished Crichton's Timeline and really liked it. The intermixing of quantum physics to explain time/space, trials of modernity, and necessity of history were perfect subjects for me. I watched the movie made in 2003 and it was horrible. The film ignored those three aspects of the book, it never touched on the value of history as an understanding of everything we know, a concept that Crichton made explicit throughout the book.

I've started reading C.S. Lewis Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile (edited by A.T. Reyes). Published this year, the editor gathered the remanats of Lewis' attempt to translate the Aeneid and then prefaced it with some wonderful introductions (one by himself and one by the last secretary of Lewis'). The language is so rich and earthy, unlike Dryden's too wispyish and gossamer translation or Fitzgeralds unpoetic and simply lacking prose.