Over the holidays I finished three novels, two of them very short. I append my brief reviews with a comment on their filmability (for those who may care): 1....
The following are really very nice, and some very funny. I would have been happy to have written any of them: ============================================== ...
... I thought about that as I read them. Some of them were wickedly funny, but without the context it is impossible to know if we are laughing with or at the...
One of the reasons I think they're funny--even very funny--is because it's hard to tell. Therefore, they throw you off base; they make it hard to know what the...
Richard Kostelanetz has done it again: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0301/arts-frizzelle.shtml Yes, the world needed a Gertrude Stein anthology! I felt...
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp?id=EF135B7F-9B41-4762-85C0 -CBCCC739728F Tolkien teaches us to take courage Tom Shippey The Daily Telegraph ...
Tim, I think this is excellent. Well, a little hyperbole there, but he gets the main points right. I was fearful for a moment that he was about to condemn...
When I first read "The Last Castle," by Jack Vance, nearly 25 years ago, I doubt if the issue of "racism" came once to my mind. Almost certainly I was most...
It might take an economist to explain the price: http://www.laissezfairebooks.com/product.cfm?op=view&pid=AU8612&aid=10437 Modern Austrian Economics ...
Araminta was a character in Jack Vance's "The DragonMaster" as well as the name of the station in "Araminta Station." And I think I ran across it in "Star...
I was disappointed to learn, today, that the plural of "salamander" is not "salamander," but "salamanders." I had hoped for an irregular plural, but my hopes...
It is traditional in some circles I've been associated with to lament the tendency, in literature both popular and high-brow, to depict businessmen only as...
"...perhaps the most notable of all the OED's minor quirks is its insistence that Shakespeare should be spelled Shakspere. After explaining at some length why...
If Shakespear couldn't spell his name, it seems to be a bit much to expect the OED to spell it. ... __________________________________________________ Do you...
I've mentioned Ruth Rendell before, I'm sure, as a writer of impressive crime fiction. My two favorites, in memory, of her novels are "Talking to Strange Men"...
What Netflix.com is to movies and TV shows on DVD, http://www.booksfree.com/ is to paperback books. The rental library is back in style! America started with a...
an article that seems on-target about the recent plagiarism-at-the-Times scandal, except for the stuff about the plagiarist being unique; I doubt if this...
Yes. I think the article is funny (assuming of course that its take is accurate) about the silly stuffy bureaucracy of the Times, and its pompous system and ...
An eBay sales pitch I actually enjoyed reading: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3532972825&ssPageName= ADME:B:SS:US:1 Here's the best part: ...
Forwarding message from James Gill. [Jul/02/2003 09:37] [micropayment comic available...] http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/trn/intro.html ... - t "I know . ....
... Hey, I'm willing to support the arts two bits worth. But after creating a BitPass account, it wouldn't take my money on my Mac. On my Windows machine, it...
... That is sad news. I wonder if it will take money* off my Linux box... Windows-centrism is, as you know, my most fervently opposed ideology. Dark days. -t *...
A brief review of the latest Harry Potter: http://www.reason.com/links/links070203.shtml The reviewer argues that the recent Harry Potter book is subversive of...
My take: Harry Potter is an insufferable twit. Throughout, the logic is that HP is right and magically blessed in being right, and everyone else is wrong,...
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