The Intuitionist, Whitehead. No. I wanted very much to like this book, and I did finish it, but it was disappointing throughout. I’m sure my mood wasn’t helped by the fact that apparently random words and passages were circled, underlined, or indicated with marginal notations. It most assuredly didn’t help that Whitehead used “latter” when “last” was called for, and “capitol” for “capital”. Ultimately, though, the book’s downfall was that it was patently speculative fiction (straight science fiction, really—dynamo-punk, perhaps) written by a non-sf writer. Who else would take an interesting speculation and not think about how many other things would change in a world where things had turned out that way?