Book Suggestions for the Xmas Break? - [Erik]

We’re once again heading up to Chicago for Christmas. This is good news for a number of reasons…

1) I love spending time with the family in the frozen fortress of solitude that is my Mother-in-law’s basement

2) Cold nights under the covers with Paisley (Who loves you babe?)

3) The last time I went to Chicago for Christmas, I came back with all kinds of great stuff for the show (including the “Goulet!” drop that we got so much mileage out of – not to mention the cow bell stuff)

4) Free scotch

5) Playing in the snow with the kids

And finally...

6) I’ll get a chance to read a book from cover-to-cover in one week

That brings me to a request. Any suggestions for a good read?

Last time, Matt hooked me up with Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk and I loooved it. I’m currently reading Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton, but I’m feeling I’d like to put that down for the holiday in favor of another good piece of fiction.

But I’m open. Let me know. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Morning with Merton - [Erik]

"The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything."

-Thomas Merton-The Seven Storey Mountain