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[Video] Going West: The worlds living in a book

Posted in Books, Culture, Video on Nov 23rd, 2009 No Comments »

Amazing handanimated poem and the world it describes.

[Book] “And another thing…” by Eoin Colfer

Posted in Books on Oct 25th, 2009 No Comments »

It is always hard to fill someone elses shoes. In the case of Douglas Adams I guess we can safely assume that it is almost an impossibility. Yet, Adams’ wife gave permission to Eoin Colfer to write the sixth book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. The book was published in early October [...]

Quote

Posted in Books, Quotes on Jan 29th, 2009 No Comments »

Even if your youth sucked, hearing the soundtrack from it down the years almost always cripples or caresses you. You can never tell which it’ll be until you hear it.
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[quote] Jonathan Carrol on Tattoos

Posted in Books, Culture, Quotes on Nov 9th, 2008 No Comments »

Someone told me they read on a blog that two people had tattooed on their wrists the phrase “Hope gleams in the idiot heart,” a line from the Russian poet Mayakovsky that they found in my novel THE MARRIAGE OF STICKS. I have always loved the permanence of tattoos, the conviction by the person who [...]

He’d rather be alone

Posted in Books, Culture on Nov 3rd, 2008 No Comments »

This sounds like an interesting book:
In a political season when environmental policy is the stuff of candidate debates, Kull offers a different take. According to his observations in Solitude, no environmental ills can be cured until we first remedy ourselves.
On his lonely island, Kull finds that we in this society strongly desire to satiate and [...]

Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”

Posted in Books, The Internet on Feb 29th, 2008 No Comments »

Is now available “for free” from Harper Collins (his publisher).
Just click here:

Though may I be the first one to say: WTF Harper Collins, why not offer a DOWLOAD???? Why chain someone to a browser? It’s not like some Hacker will not figure out a way to pull down the entire thing and throw it up [...]

John Connelly @ Google

Posted in Books, Video on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »

As I like his books, I figure I point this little “nugget” out:

It seems Stephen Harper and George Bush have a lot more in common than we think….

Posted in Books, Culture, News on Apr 20th, 2007 No Comments »

Neither seems to like books, which prompted the author of “Life of Pi“, Yann Martel, to send Stephen Harper every second Monday, in the hopes that he would pick up a book, and indulge more into the arts.
“The Prime Minister did not speak during our brief tribute, certainly not. I don’t think he even looked [...]

I just lost all respect for Michael Crichton

Posted in Books, Musings on Dec 14th, 2006 1 Comment »

When I read “State of Fear” I was a bit torn over it, but overall “enjoyed” the read. It was a nice fastfood entertainment. Little did I know just how insulting he had been to quite a lot of people it seems.
Best-selling novelist Michael Crichton is a vocal critic of global warming science. His 2004 [...]

100 Suns

Posted in Books, Photos on Jul 17th, 2006 No Comments »

Browsing a book store today I came across a book titled: “100 Suns“, it shows photographs of 100 above ground nuclear atomic bomb tests in all their glory.
I can’t help being fascinated and horrified by those pictures. In some of these photos you see how the radiation has distorted the film material, in others you [...]