Amazing Adventures!

What is life without adventure? Boring. Then again, I would probably have more time to post on here. Recently, I went to Las Vegas, NV for my cousins wedding; definitely an interesting city. I will say this, the weather was beautiful as was the wedding.
If you like a good buffet and you are going to Vegas, forget the Wynn buffet, it's good and all, but The Wicked Spoon in The Cosmopolitan is a far superior in food choice. Instead of the typical, easy buffet foods, The Wicked Spoon offered a plethora of palate pleasing portions- seafood sausage cioppino, chollard greens, maple glazed vegetables, truffle potatoes, goat cheese and beet arugula salad, sushi, and don't even get me started on the deserts! I have never seen a person enter a food coma until that night when my sister passed out on the couch with a glazed look on her face. one word: amazing.

On to "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon. Wow: sums up how I feel about the writing style and plot of this novel.  As a reader, I was so invested in Chabon's charaters because the time and grace he put into each one that makes a reader adore them; you become invested in them.
 The novel is centralized around the comic genre and World War II. While there are many factors at play in the 20+ year span of the novel, including the rise of the comic book empire, and the role of the escape, the character's do not deviate away from themselves; you do not find yourself confused by a character's actions, but liberated, sorrowful, or frightened along with them.

If you are looking for a slightly interesting, more lighthearted read, "Great Philosophers who Failed at Love" by Andrew Shaffer is your book. This short nonfiction narrative goes through 30 of the greatest philosophers, and their interesting love affairs and marriages or lack there of. I love philosophy, and romantic relationships are always funnier, and slightly more tragic, in real life than in literature or movies. Only philosophers would chase seducers out of  a room where he is kept captive with a hot coal brand, or give his bride the diary of his sexual promiscuity on the day before their wedding; only a philosopher would end an engagement when the young bride could not learn French.

Enjoy!