Don't Get Too Comfortable

I gave up on reading The Worm Ouroboros. I tried and tried, but the Jacobean-style writing was simply too bizarre and foreign for me. I would read passages carefully and end up focusing on the words more than the story they were meant to tell! That's not enjoyable reading. 

I raided Johnny's bookshelf and turned up Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff. 

From the Amazon description: 

"The belly laughs start on page 7 and occur regularly throughout Rakoff's frequently impertinent, occasionally irascible, yet always inimitable take on contemporary American society. A newly minted U.S. citizen, a process he reveals in all its maddeningly hypocritical inconsistency, Rakoff embarks on a series of journalistic assignments as peculiar in their phantasmagoric diversity as, well, America itself. From the pretentious preoccupation with gourmet dining to the rigor of fasting, Rakoff contemplates the extremes to which we will go in pursuit of our particular, often downright peculiar pleasures. A trip on the Concorde is followed by a jaunt on Hooters Air, and visits to Beverly Hills plastic surgeons segue seamlessly into a tour of a cryogenics storage facility in Arizona. Whether interpreting popular culture or investigating political calumny, Rakoff's cogent observations are delivered with a comforting mixture of appropriate moral outrage and unabashed mocking wonder, as he unfailingly elicits the inherent truths behind our most cherished and churlish institutions"

I almost always enjoy an examination of first-world 'problems' (see Stuff White People Like) and this seems like it will be a fun and quick read. 

My friend very good, real-life friend Moto at The Adventures of a Journeyman Archivist suggested The Passage by Justin Cronin for my next read. Looks like it's time for a library card!