A review by me_haugen
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein

5.0

Read this one while I was waiting for the dust to settle. We were back at the quarry blowing up boulders to see if they were secretly big geodes again. Being a traveling geode salesman used to be a nice little cottage industry. You'd go to someone's cottage and go "that's a mighty empty shelf you got there." And then you wouldn't even have to break the geode open cause people want to do it themselves. Huge savings on labor. But now, no one has to wait for a visit from the geode man anymore, they can just go out to any old cave gift shop and get as many as they want. And it's not enough for crystals to be inside a rock anymore, is it? They all have to have special powers and stuff. No, I don't know what my geode crystals can do, I'm a rock salesman, not a wizard. Anyway, the old geodes just weren't doing it anymore so we bought an old abandoned quarry and went all-in on the giant geode thing. We didn't find any geodes though, just a bunch of big stupid bones that we threw in the trash. If you can't be smart enough to bury your freaky tall grandpa in a cemetery, it's not my job to do it for you. This book was good.