SFist Cheshire is trying to get into Jonathan Lethem's , but so far it's a little impenetrable. Too much writerly acrobatics for Chesh's taste in the first 40 pages or so. Disappointing considering his deep affection for Motherless Brooklyn, but he'll keep at it. He's also slogging his way through Doyle Brunson's Super/System, considered by many to be the absolute authority on how to take your intermediate pok3r game to an advanced level. It's an absolute disaster to look at for anyone who values nice (or even passable) typography, but the info of course is invaluable. Difficult to know when it's Doyle's voice or that of his expert collaborators, but that Texas Dolly attitude is all over the book.

Fortress of Solitude