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Books & Literature
200 pages into ‘A Game of Thrones’ and I’m completely hooked
Actually, I was hooked on the first page. I’m not kidding. Talk about translucent prose, this guy is amazing. HBO is creating a show based on the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin, A Game of Thrones being the first novel in that series. From what I gather, each [...]
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Books & Literature
Update: Reading, Writing, and Fantasy
We are on Day 7 of National Novel Writing Month and I am just shy of 14,000 words. I hope to be at 15,000 by the end of the day. NaNoWriMo really pushes the idea of quantity over quality in terms of word count and I can assure you, I’ve embraced that philosophy completely. I’ve [...]
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Books & Literature
Hemingway, check! Vonnegut on deck.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve temporarily set aside my ever-stack of beloved non-fiction books and decided to delve deep into the world of literary fiction. The classics, to be more precise. I’m afraid the likes of Magellan, Feynman, Catherine the Great, and Thoreau will just have to wait in lieu of a more fictitious coterie. My [...]
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Books & Literature
Possibilians and the Afterlives
04.14.09 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI just finished an interesting book called, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. I bought it almost immediately after listening to an interview with the book’s author [and neuroscience] David Eagleman on a segment of NPR’s On Point called Envisioning the Afterlife. The book is a blast; it’s a fun and thought-provoking exploration of the [...]
