Category Archives: books
The Hunger Games
Jennifer Lawrence is brilliant. The movie is not. Oh, it’s fine if you need a big screen and comfy seats to rest in for 2.5 hours(!), but it will likely disappoint many hard-core fans.The fact that my seats were 10 … Continue reading
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The book is excellent and so is the movie, which glosses over the very small parts where John le Carre bemoans (through his characters, principally his villain, thereby never actually betraying the thought incontrovertibly as his own) the passing of … Continue reading
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In defence of Chetan Bhagat
So the man isn’t really a good writer, all right? I mean, he can string sentences together in a perfectly competent manner, but you would never read a passage from his books and think it came from Rushdie or Roy, … Continue reading
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Logicomix
Logicomix is a simply brilliant book written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou and coloured/designed by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna. It is about Bertrand Russell‘s quest for the Foundations of Mathematics and the (tenuous and … Continue reading
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An “Autobiographical” Book Meme
The link says “momental”, but I wasn’t sure what that meant. Via kalafudra: Write about five books that left a lasting impression from five different times of your life (or more if you’ve lived longer). Don’t limit yourself to the … Continue reading
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How To Be Good, Full Dark, No Stars, and The Theory of Everything
Finished all 3 today, although I have a lot of other books that I’m part of the way through. It’s just been that kind of day . How To Be Good is a rather characteristic Nick Hornby novel – funny, … Continue reading
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Yet another Top 100 Books Meme
The BBC Top 100 books meme, via LiberryDwarf. I’ve read a lot more of these than the last one I took, whichever that was. Anyway, same rules: Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started … Continue reading
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Towers of Midnight
I was going to write a rather incoherent review that anyone who hasn’t read all 13 books to date will not get, but then I saw Leigh Butler’s review on tor.com, which is pretty much exactly what I wanted to … Continue reading
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Disillusioned with Discworld
I just don’t like Granny Weatherwax that much as a main character. She is, first of all, a leader who does not know how to lead. For someone who is described in the text several times as someone who has … Continue reading
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Books I’ve Been Reading
Not including all the Harry Potter fanfiction. Quick reviews, because I have nothing particularly long and insightful to say about most of them. I’m just looking around my desk (and inside the Stanza iPhone app) and trying to remember what … Continue reading
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