Tag: Galatea 2.2

  • I simply remember my favorite book…

    My favorite books all enter into the category of those that make me weep hysterically (except maybe everything Douglas Adams ever wrote, which only promote the tears after hysterical laughter.  Maybe I should say books that promote hysteria!). But for today, I’ll go with my favorite novel by a living author:  Galatea 2.2, by Richard Powers.

    My first reading of Galatea 2.2 came during my freshman year of college;  I found the book by wandering the library bookshelves and pulling something that looked interesting off, a practice that has introduced me to most of my favorite writers.  Later, I would discover that the head librarian was also a fan of the relatively unknown Richard Powers; hence, the library including all his works in their otherwise scanty recent fiction collection.  With the book’s ample treatment of the history of literature, it instantly hooked this budding English major.

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