Pudding Time! Archives: books
Figures that on the day Wired reports gmail invitations aren't worth anything on eBay anymore I'd get the ability to send three. One's claimed. Two...
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I just finished Greg Bear's "Forge of God" and "Anvil of Stars." The first is an end-o'-the-world novel in the tradition of "Footfall" with a...
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Just wrapped up a reading of George R.R. Martin's "A Storm of Swords," the third book in his "Song of Ice and Fire" series....
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In the past few days my Dune Prequel screed has provoked a cordial e-mail from a friendly stranger and a nod from someone on...
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Here's a lengthy screed regarding my wild, unseemly, and excessive disappointment with the "Dune" prequel series. If you aren't up for 3100 angry words...
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I've spent the last few days reading Jessica Mitford's "The American Way of Death Revisited". I picked it up on the heels of sitting through...
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Ray Bradbury is 83 today. Some of the first "real" books I remember reading were his "The Illustrated Man," "A Medicine for Melancholy," "The Martian...
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Somehow this got set to "draft" so I'm nudging it back to the top. -mph It's getting time to make some room in the pad....
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I finished up LTC David Grossman's "On Killing" over the weekend. It's essentially a book about the evolution of military training doctrine and the behavior...
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I hate getting sucked into considering Ann Coulter. Or Matt Drudge, for that matter, but, via Tresy at Eschaton, I took the bait: "The...
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Evidently The Joy of Linux is out in a trade paperback edition. I'm sure it'll never earn back the advance, but I'm pleased to see...
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Whaddya know... Random House wants to bring back The Godfather. This morning, the editor who runs the property told the Today Show "I love...
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Indianapolis indie weekly Nuvo has interview with Kurt Vonnegut, who is 80: "We have been conquered by psychopathic personalities who are attractive. "...
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Building on the popularity of his assault on the underlying despotism of Star Wars, David Brin brands J.R.R. Tolkien an enemy of progress: "Now...
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Only five days to go before The Two Towers and you never got around to reading The Complete Guide to Middle Earth? Don't get...
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If it's December, that means it's time for The Two Towers, which means it's also time for Plastic to debate whether Lord of the...
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I reflexively don't like SUVs, but outside not being able to a.) see around them, b.) understand their "utility" in a city where it's...
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