Tag: books
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be…
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I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home…
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I download a lot of books, but they just sit there and get lost in my Kindle. I forget about them. So I developed this hack: I add books I want to read to my Amazon Wishlist. Every once in a while I dump that into Fancy Hands and reserve all the books at the…
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Books I Read in 2012
Last year I read 10 fiction books and 10 non-fiction. Three of these were audiobooks I listened to in the car or on bike rides, and only two Star Trek novels. My favorite book was Self-Reliance (actually a long essay, you can read it in an hour or so). I read it once as a…
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“A revealing way of describing science fiction is to say that it is part of a literary mode which one may call ‘fabril’*. ‘Fabril’ is the opposite of ‘pastoral’. But while the pastoral is an established and much discussed literary mode, recognized as such since early antiquity, its dark opposite has not yet been accepted,…
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The Book of the Future, NYTimes.com.
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The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role. Pierre Bayard
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Learn HTML & CSS Book I am frequently asked what the best book is to learn HTML and CSS. I’ve usually recommended a book by Dan Cederholm, but even his material can presuppose an understanding of the basics of what makes a webpage work. This beautifully designed book by Jon Duckett looks like a perfect…
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If you’re looking for a book to buy me, you could do worse than Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt. What a badass.
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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel as read by Werner Herzog. This was my favorite book when I was five. That and something called Rootin’ Tootin’ Cowboy Bill.