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Catching up on some reading.
After graduating I promised myself a couple of weeks of relaxation. The last year I didnt have much time and space in my head to read. These weeks it's time to catch up with my reading. I'm only allowed to read easy and fun things, although it was very tempting to buy a book from Popper yesterday when I was in the bookstore. But I managed to convince myself to stick to my promiss to myself. Only fiction for now. I 
just finished reading The Postman by David Brin. It's an older book, written in 1985, but since it's science fiction that doesn't matter much. It's an easy read, but nonetheless very entertaining. Brin sort of makes an idea experiment what would happen to mankind when everything we're used to have is destroyed; especially when there is no electricity to use all the machines we're so comfortably with. The result is total chaos and primitive war. I love books that speculate about those things. Brin does a good job, but twenty years later there would be some things descibed quit differently I think. For instance the explanation why nobody has managed to get airplanes running. The lack of fuel (impossible to obtain oil) is never mentioned. With all discussions going on about the rapidly shrinking oil supply this was something I missed in the book. Still a recommendation. Next in line: Studio zes, Liza Marklund (given by a friend, in Dutch)
