First Set of Pictures of 2008 (2 of 5) (updated: Jan 27, 2008)
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When people asked me to recommend an interesting book, I have mentioned Paris Hilton’s Confessions of an Heiress. If one sets aside his or her unfounded hatred of Paris, they’ll realize it’s an updated format of the etiquette books from as far back as the 19th century. In this day and age, even Peggy Post’s attempt to update Emily’s Miss Manners’ tome has resulted in a long list of do’s and don’t with one’s cell phone and PDA. Do the folks these days even know who the Vanderbilts were? I say if it teaches the raunchy young girls of today to be nice and abstain from casual sex and booze, why not?
But, if you really can’t stand Paris’s one pose mug for 200 pages, then I recommend a light reading of Simon Singh’s Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem. A book so well written, even a mathematically inept individual such as I can easily grasp and follow the cliffhanger that spans several hundred years.
Of course, for pure style, Hitch’s Why God Is Not Great is almost as entertaining as his buddy Martin Amis’s Money, the hilarious novel to end all novels about a drinking rampage through Manhattan.