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Zen & The Art of Weak Scholarship
This is perhaps the greatest book review ever written: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, An Unappreciation.
Russian Bookjackets, 1917-1942
Russian Bookjackets, 1917-1942
Thirteen Books On My Reading List
This my is edition #36 of the Thursday Thirteen silliness. Enjoy!
I have something of a book problem. No sooner had I divested myself of the last thousand or so volumes of the library I had built haphazardly over the last decade or so than I began building another one. This one is, so far, a [...]
Harry Potter = Luke Skywalker?
Harry Potter = Luke Skywalker?
Theodore Dreiser, Where Are You?
Theodore Dreiser, Where Are You?
What Should I Read Next?
What Should I Read Next?
Dune Timeline
Dune Timeline
The Rare Book Room
The Rare Book Room
Spook Country
Woo hoo! Proofs corrected and in as of today, publication on August 7. When does my ARC arrive? I will update the library page as soon as I have it in my grubby little hands…
Here is a short description from the US publisher Putnam’s catalog:
Tito is in his early 20s. Cuban by ancestry, he speaks [...]
More Free Online Books
The Creative Commons Wiki has a list of some forty odd books available for download under a creative commons license, and covering the full gamut of genres:
In fiction, you’ll find three works by sci-fi writer and blogger Cory Doctorow — Eastern Standard Tribe, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town and Down and Out in [...]
Neal Stephenson Mini-Series Coming Soon
Neal Stephenson Mini-Series Coming Soon
Unfilmable Novels
Unfilmable Novels
The Book Vending Machine
The Book Vending Machine
New Year, New Design
The new year is traditionally a time for new beginnings, so this year I am celebrating with a new website design and layout. Borrowing heavily from Jason Kottke, this new design is built around the idea of better separating and presenting the content here.
I have added a “diversions” sidebar and category to house smaller link-only [...]
Read A Book A Minute!
Read A Book A Minute!
The Importance Of Living
Now, this isn’t a product oriented blog, being about frugal, philosophical living and various other anti-consumerist topics, but I am making an exception for a very few books that I have found to be personally very rewarding, and that I constantly refer back to as I seek a deeper understanding of myself and the world [...]
Thirteen Books I Couldn’t Do Without
The Emperor’s Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
The Elements of Reasoning
The Importance Of Living
Why I Am Not a Christian : And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)
EXAMINED LIFE
In the Spirit of Happiness
War All the Time: Poems, 1981-1984
The Prophet: 26 poetic essays
The Subject Tonight Is Love : [...]
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