I love to read, but I'm not the sort of reader who is willing, like some, to walk down a street or subway platform absorbed in a book or magazine. Greg van Eekhout, though, has forced me into that mold twice in the past 24 hours, the bastard.
Damn, this is a shame, and damn, I wish I'd known sooner: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/nyregion/31coliseum.html
Last night I finished reading As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. I read the last paragraph and I wanted to throw the book across the room. It is with relief this morning that I retreat to the comforts of The Dirdir, third book of Jack Vance's Planet
Somehow, in general I think this list says a lot more about the people compiling it than about the books themselves. And it betrays a fairly anti-book, anti-education, anti-science bias. And why isn't The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People on there? Ouch.
I have been tagged with the Dread Book Meme by Jose over at Meme Therapy. As Trent Hergenrader has put it, now I've been rescued from impending productivity. Here are the questions: 1. One book that changed your life? The Mormon Murders by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White
If anyone out there has any expertise in the subject, what are some of the best recent fiction titles for, say, the 11- to 12-year-old audience?
I just read the first chapter of East of Eden—yes, Classics Clubbers, I'm grateful for the extra reading time this time around—and to me it read like science fiction. The world-building in that chapter, with its careful portrait of the seasonal and climatic cycles of the
Yes, we all seem to be more up in arms today about James Frey and his partially made-up memoir than we are about domestic wiretaps, freedom of information in China, and terrorists taking power in Palestine. And it makes sense to me why. Countless hordes of people feel like they
By the way, as an antidote to all the recent media attention for The Chronic(what?!)cles of Narnia, Salon's Laura Miller has written a profile of Philip Pullman for the current issue of The New Yorker.
Before it opens, I wanted to mention that █████ and I saw a preview screening of The Passion of the Lion last week. No, wait, I meant Narnia Wars Episode II: A New Hope. No, that's wrong too.... However you slice it, the movie version of the first (or
I am greatly relieved, as I prepare to plow into both A Storm of Swords and A Feast of Crows, to have discovered a site that provides detailed synopses of all the books in the series. I read (and loved) the first two books when they came out, and I&
Did anyone else see the Time magazine article a couple of weeks ago in which George R. R. Martin was declared the "American Tolkien"? A startling and delightful thing to read in a magazine like that. UPDATE: The article at Time.com is premium content, but I found
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