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Broken Angels, Richard K Morgan

August 15th, 2006 · No Comments

This is the second book in the Takeshi Kovacs c…

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Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan

July 14th, 2006 · No Comments

This fast-paced, densely textured, impressive f…

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Cities by by Paul Di Filippo, China Mieville, Michael Moorcock, Geoff Ryman, Peter Crowther (Editor)

July 13th, 2006 · No Comments

This was super expensive when it was released, …

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Since February I’ve read 26 books

July 9th, 2006 · No Comments

That I can recall or that I’ve made a note on my blog about. So it is definatly more than that. A shocking number of these are vampire related.
Lets break this down:
Fantasy - 111111111
Sci-Fi - 11111
Vampire - 1111
Horror - 111
Thriller - 111
Travel - 1
Factual - 1
Fantasy overload, followed closely by sci-fi. I didn’t think I’d [...]

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Delicious Library Disaster

July 1st, 2006 · No Comments

A long time ago I bought the Library from Delicious Monster and a hand held barcode scanner. Library is a super app that owns other libarary programs hands down in looks. I’m not sure if it does when it comes to usability though, I’m testing Books again; a freeware application that’s coming on nicely. Or [...]

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Personal Library Kit

June 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments

This little kit would make my life that shade nicer. I tend to forget who I lend books to, so as well as being decorative and fiddling entertainment this library kit would actually be practical.
Look, just writing your name in a book is nothing like as much fun, alright? Now about your overdue fine …

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell

June 27th, 2006 · No Comments

The Tipping Point’s an interesting read, it explains certain events and the critical mass by the tipping point that makes them. It does this by looking at some of the functions of large group communications, connectors, communicators and Mavens:
“The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of [...]

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Dead Witch Walking, Kelly Armstrong

June 26th, 2006 · No Comments

This is pretty well written but it’s weak in the plot dept., it’s not a patch on Sunshine. I’ve never read a book that the protagonist suffers so much, the last third of the book she can barely remain concsious.
The plot hangs on a series of action sequences and and ill defined baddie, it’s so [...]

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