Finished reading Jim Dodge's
Fud and Philip Roth's
Plot Against America.
I had never been too fond of Roth, but that read was great.
Dropped Norman Mailer's
Executioner's Song ten pages into it. Have to say that I don't want to order books on the internet, and there's only one bookstore where English written books can be found, and they come by sparsely, so my version was a translation, and a poor poor one (one shouldn't translate "across the table" that way...)
Currently reading Bernard Moitessier's
La longue route.
He was a sailor, on his way of completing a race when he decided the whole thing was stupid and went on a second world tour peacefully. Beautifully written. AND... that race is starting to make quite an impression on me, considering that it was the same race Donald Crowhurst ran, that another competitor sunk 2000 miles from the finish line to hang himself a couple of years later...
The Crowhust story, a man whose only options were terrible ones, here (English) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILxbWupWLg