Writer Charlie Stross has a blog post entitled Why the commercial ebook market is broken that’s a really good read and puts forth a thought I hadn’t really considered before: My take on ebooks is that they are — and should be seen as — the cheapest form of disposable literature. “Disposable literature.” I like… Continue reading Disposable literature
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Comic book rant II
Okay, it’s been a good long while since I unleashed a comic book rant here and got my geek on. If you don’t read comic books, or don’t care, or whatever, you can safely pass this by. Otherwise, expect this to go long, and you may even be a little embarrassed for me. 🙂 Full-on… Continue reading Comic book rant II
Books, books, books
So far this 2007 I’ve been consuming bunches of books. Kind of continuing my trend from last year, though based what I’ve gone through in these first six weeks of the year, my year-end list might be much larger. Lisey’s Story, by Stephen King. His latest, pretty good but not the best he’s ever written.… Continue reading Books, books, books
Book report
I’ve been on a reading tear over the summer, mostly all good books, and I thought I’d be a little self-indulgent and list what I’ve read with some comments. Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World. It clocks in at something like 3,000 pages total, but it was by… Continue reading Book report
Derivatives
Cyberpunk: Cyberpunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, noted for its focus on “high tech and low life” and taking its name from the combination of cybernetics and punk. It features advanced science such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or a radical change in the social order. Cyberpunk writers… Continue reading Derivatives
Lost’s season finale book
Haven’t seen a book on Lost in awhile, but they managed to slip one into the season finale tonight: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Not that it was hard to spot; Desmond only waved it around enough in a bunch of critical scenes. As far as the season finale itself goes… I’m still trying… Continue reading Lost’s season finale book
For Dummies book cover generator
This is pretty cool: Dummies Book Cover Generator (via eMusings). Now you can generate a fake “For Dummies” book for any occasion (which would have been handy when I originally created this and this). Imagine the mayhem… At the very least, I can now mockup my For Tards ideas:
Lost book: Judy Blume
It’s like my regular Lost Book Watch feature or something. Anyway, right there on the screen in your face, Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. I don’t know that it has anything to do with the overall theme or plot of the show; since Sawyer was reading it, I rather suspect the… Continue reading Lost book: Judy Blume
The Paperback Exchange is closing
Heads-up, Bendites: The Paperback Exchange, which is one of the oldest used bookstores in Bend (if not the oldest), is closing! Right now they’re having a huge 75% off sale on everything. I stopped over there after lunch and bought four books (for only $4.50, which would have been regularly priced at $18) and talked… Continue reading The Paperback Exchange is closing
Tonight’s Lost book
Just had to point it out (even my wife noticed it): this week’s book on Lost was The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It’s going on the list…