I've been reading Karim Raslan's Ceritalah 2 - Journeys Through Southeast Asia. Haven't finished it even after 3 months - I'm a professional procrastinator.
It's a much more likeable Karim book than Ceritalah. But then again, I read Ceritalah in 1998 - 1999, when KL was more turbulent and uncertain, during the time of Anwar Ibrahim's reformasi. Karim Raslan's essays 'attached' itself to me. I found myself thinking that I'm getting to know him and that his views are not unlike my own. It's a collection of 'growing up' thoughts - this almost sudden
realisation of a different way of looking at the same old world you've looked at for the past decade or so.