Scenes from a Commute – Bucking the Book Trends on the Train
THE READING TASTES OF most commuters do not stray far from the old chestnuts of current American reading – Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight”, Ken Follett’s “The Pillars of Earth” and J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”. I have seen a few more copies of “The Lost Symbol”.
Today I noticed a man, perhaps an academic of some sort, reading Marcel Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past”. Literature is not dead in the world, quite yet.
Hey, I’ve been reading Thoreau’s Walden on the Franklin line for weeks. But I have to admit that I can only handle about six or seven pages at most before I have to switch to something like Slave Girls of the SS.
Okay, seriously, my other book is currently The Still Small Voice of Trumpets by Lloyd Biggle. Good book, but much lighter reading then Walden - although I have to say that Thoreau is actually pretty damn funny!