I read Caleb Carr's Killing Time yesterday instead of doing anything else. This was a very intriguing novel. I like how Carr writes because it gives me room to argue with the characters while I'm reading it. I don't have to take everything they say as 100% right; the reader is allowed their own ideas and interpretations.
The basic plot is in the near future (2023) with a faster, sleeker internet and a world of people who crave information and refuse the dicipline of knowledge. A group of renegade intellectuals try to prank the world into waking up to their apathy. Danger ensues.
Old men, fear me! You will shatter under my ruthless apathetic assault!
Uschi - 2 Old Men - 0
"I am convinced that this world is of no importance, and that the only people who care about dates are imbeciles and Spanish teachers." -- Jean Arp, 1921
"If Jesus came back and saw what people are doing in his name, he would never never stop throwing up." - Max von Sydow, "Hannah and Her Sisters"
