A story about "Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun)" — 6 years ago
Rereading a classic work of dark fantasy.
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A story about "Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun)" — 6 years ago
Rereading a classic work of dark fantasy.
A story about "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" — 6 years ago
Finally got around to reading this book, which I picked up in the States when I couldn’t seem to find it in the foreign bookstores in Tokyo (it turns out that it WAS available here but in the British export edition with a cover I didn’t recognize and hence overlooked).
Funny, depressing, and mean-spirited (in good way) so far. Kinda makes me glad I live outside of the right-wing mediasphere, so I’m not exposed to their toxic-sludge-disguised-as-news directly.
A story about "Beyond the Blue Horizon: On the Track of Imperial Airways" — 6 years ago
Observer writer Frater follows along the track of a boyhood obsession, retracing the old Imperial Airways flying boat route from England to Australia, through the Mediterranean, Arabia, India, and Indonesia, looking for the remnants of desert outposts, colonial grand hotels, and even a Rajah’s palace.
A story about "Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure" — 6 years ago
A lavishly illustrated (photos by Basil Pao) companion volume to somewhat disorganized BBC TV series, following in the sometimes-literal footsteps of Ernest Hemingway. Not exactly a biography and not exactly a travel narrative, but a bit of both. More than Palin’s previous stuff, this is more than a stunt or a journey taken for its own sake: here, he seems to be trying to understand the environments influenced Hemingway and what he wrote, as well as Palin’s own reaction to the work and the places (and, of course, how the places have changed owing to the ordinary course of things and the bright light of Hemingway’s fame).
Better than the TV show, because the book (essentially) follows the chronology of Hemingway’s life, giving it a structure I though was lacking from the series.
A story about "To Say Nothing of the Dog" — 5 years ago
Breezy, funny, time-travel mystery & Victorian pastiche. One-hundred-eighty degrees apart in tone from Willis’s earlier Doomsday Book, even though they start from the same setting (the time-traveling history section of Oxford).
A story about "Single Sourcing : Building Modular Documentation" — 5 years ago
Related to work (not for pleasure: I’m not THAT much of a geek).
Essentially, Ament seems to be saying that tech writers should create their user docs in modular form for easy repurposing in different media (manuals, on-line, HTML, etc). Or maybe I should just say “Write own, read everywhere”.
Organized almost to the point of self-parody, it’s still informative reading.
A story about "Before the Wind : The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833" — 5 years ago
A gift from Diane Brown, Patrick O’Brian fan.
A story about "A Sea of Words, Third Edition: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian" — 5 years ago
A gift from Diane Brown, Patrick O’Brian fan.
