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Vacation Reading

I won't be blogging for the next week, but instead will be finishing these half-finished books. Bonfire of the Vanities:  This is an excellent book because you can impose your own meaning onto it.  Is it about race in New York?  The unfairness of the criminal system?  Or is it about the mid-life crisis of the 38-year old protagonist?  Or about the dangers of infidelity?  Or about the futility of pursuing status?  I told a friend that being around New York hedge fund people at a party made me not regret checking out of the status game.  He, in turn, recommended Bonfire.  He was right.  There's no way to win, and you will always be malcontent.  Why play a rigged game?   I suppose the counter is that you cannot escape the status game.  Even the boojis in Middle America need a new minivan when Bob Smith rides up in his new Dodge...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 05, 2010 (boomark / email).