Just Some Books I'm reading (or rereading)

The Frank Herbert book, I found in an English bar in Omiya, it's pretty good, I'm about half way through, but I'm starting to wonder when it's going to pick up... I still think it's good, but it's kind of slow. It's very interesting, it's about a group of clones that have been sent to deep space to conduct an experiment to create an artificial consciousness, they've been lied to and they have also been pitted against each other. It's all a complex metaphor, but I'll leave it to the reader to decide what it is... Amazing considering it was written in 1965. This is before transistors so the space ship they're in is very retro-futuristic. Kind of makes me think of the Anime Yamato.

The other one is a "minor classic" from an author who is an important figure in theoretical Anthropology. It's also old, 1959. In some ways it's still ahead of it's time and in other ways it presents an America that is all but unknowable. In a word Fascinating.