FFB: Reading for Survival -- John D. MacDonald

This isn't really a book.  It's more like a booklet, just over 30 pages, in which a couple of John D. MacDonald's characters have a discussion about man's survival over the centuries.  Well, it's not really a discussion, either.  The two characters are Meyer and McGee, and it's more of a lecture by Meyer.  It was published in 1987 and was one of the last things MacDonald wrote before his death.  

And it could have been written yesterday.  In the last few pages Meyer (and MacDonald) really take a hammer to any number of topics that are in the headlines all the time right now, and it's a fine rant, indeed, mainly because I'm on Meyer's side all the way.  Others might find it uncomfortable and even blasphemous.  So you've been warned.

This isn't to say there aren't a few missteps along the way. Meyer seems to believe an easily unproven (in this Internet age) explanation about the origin of a comment by Jesus to a rich young ruler, but I can overlook a few things like that.  

There are a couple of brief, illuminating afterwords, as well.  Worth reading if you ever come across a copy.

Croc Update (Use Your Thumbs Edition)

NST Online Man uses thumbs to escape crocodile attack: "At the Semada River in Balai Ringin yesterday, a man battled for dear life with his bare hands when he was attacked by a six-metre long crocodile.

Mathias Winston would have become crocodile fodder - had it not been for his quick-thinking to use his thumbs to jab at the man-eater's eyes!"