Anyway, I’ve only got one of the books mentioned (“Then We Came to the End”), which I’m taking with me on a trip to [drumroll] Europe later this week. I’m looking forward to it, given that I work as an advertising attorney and interface with ad agency people every day (and they’re the subjects of the book). I’ll start it as soon as I finish “Dreaming of Gwen Stefani” and “Small Town Punk”, my two trophies from winning the music/literature linking contest.

Also, you are safe to infer from the foregoing that I’ve bailed on “1984″, the book that I’m apparently 55% like. I started it, but as I got going, having read it before, I wasn’t particularly re-engaged by it this time. Maybe it’s just that the concepts presented aren’t really that groundbreaking in this day and age. Plus, I read the book jacket which discussed how riveting the book is, right down to “the last four words”. So I immediately looked at them to remind myself of what they were, and that was pretty much the ultimate spoiler.