Book Review:

I've been reading The Omivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan (nonfiction). Just a chapter or two each day before bed, to help assuage the monotony caused by increasingly large amounts of useless law swimming around in my head.

Sadly, I'm very dissapointed. Pollan's latest book is nothing like his brilliant first book, The Botany of Desire. The Omnivores Dilemma poses a very intriguing question: What should we eat? Pollan seeks to answer this question by following four meals from their origin (in farms, factories, et cetera) to the moment they are consumed by a human. It reads like a high-brow Fast Food Nation, less sensational, more philosophical, and at times very boring. Which is sad, because Pollan is such a talented writer.

I'm still trying to finish The Omnivore's Dilemma, but Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems seems more enticing lately. It's a good book to keep around and read during a study break.