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“All this leads us to the unavoidable conclusion that after over 30 years and countless pages Murakami has very little left to say. If the mediocre books of the 2000s didn’t evidence it enough, this book does; in 1Q84 there is simply nothing that M…
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Over on Moby, there’s a bunch of speculation related to some off-topic, pro-Kindle commentary that has been coming in as blog post commentary through their queues. Given that a whole string of these appear to have listed the same exact URL, despite coming from various IP addresses, I have little doubt that they were indeed [...]
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I could sing the praises of The Frye Art Museum until the end of time. After all, who can argue with the power of free – especially when you’re talking about a wonderful collection of art and the outstanding rotating exhibitions (see “The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art”) that come through the [...]
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The lost female plot, feline fascination, and whimsicality of Haruki Murakami; the brain bending introspection of Paul Auster; the multi-faceted realities of Borges; and the “space between space” worlds of Neil Gaiman – are you noticing that this guy is in some serious company? “The Raw Shark Texts” is a sharp first novel with some [...]
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Alan Bennett has written a charming, albeit short and self-congratulatory (and reader flagellating) little story in “The Uncommon Reader.” While I’d highly recommend the little book if you can find it free or cheap, it’s rough to think that people will pay $12.00 for this, something so slight that it can be read in 1-2 [...]
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The book at Amazon: The movies referenced in the book:
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Long on promise, short on delivery. Kluger’s subtitle “Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can be Made Simple)” indicates that the reader is going to explore ways that complexity can be dialed up or dialed down. Instead, what a reader gets is 11 formulaic chapters expressing a question in the form “Confused [...]
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This is my first experience reading Vinge and I’m excited by the possibility of picking up a few more of his books. “Rainbows End” opens fantastically, intertwining thoughts on politics, scientific research, psychology and technology into an unholy amalgamation which sets the story cranking. While not quite the frenetic pace of the opening scenes in [...]
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This is a business book that needs to be on the shelf of anybody who wants to get better at their job, especially those who may not see a direct path to the next step or who realize that they may not be as successful in their current role as they have been in a [...]
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