A Lost Hobby Returns

Last sunday marked the end of GATE and a lot of other activities that had been keeping me busy. With no other good enough way to while away time, I got back to the most popular hobby - reading. Within a week, I have gulped down two books: The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons - something I would not advise people do, especially one after the other (the order is immaterial). A & D seems more like a paper-back movie script than a novel, and the storyline as well the story-telling is far too similar to Da Vinci Code (and the intuition phenomenon worked here too, dammit!). It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if you gave A & D a miss. I think its the Robin Cook syndrome: you can't read more than one of Cook's books in a row, you start smelling the disinfectant.
Suddenly I feel saturated by suspense thrillers. Its time for some slow moving, serious and meaningful reading. I have high hopes for The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, inspite of the less than expected returns from the above two.