Personal MBA likes the Kindle as a v1 device but like most others, looks forward to the day when he can read all of his material on such a device. So far, only ~30% of the pMBA reading list is available on the device.
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Get the free eBook from True Films “200 Documentaries You Must See Before You Die.”
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Here’s the deal, don’t take anyone that’s squeamish. I thought it was a fantastic film treatment of a darkly comic musical but the blood really does gush and flow going so far as to splatter the camera in one of the shots. A great film for fans of the macabre but definitely not for their girlfriends (sorry, Jan!). Yet another argument for owning the entire Tim Burton collection.
Link to the trailer.
For a fantastic review of the movie, check out the Mumpsimus. While I do not know the play as well and think he underestimates the gore, I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of his sentiments.
The New York Times Book Reviewers each select their personal Top 10 for the year. There is lots of good reading to be found here.
Quoted: Janet Maslin, Michiko Kakutani and William Grimes pick their favorite books of 2007.
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Bookgasm posts a list of the “5 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2007.”
Quoted: In formulating this year’s list, I took a long, hard look at my nominees and made, perhaps, a bold choice: I left out William Gibson. It’s not that SPOOK COUNTRY isn’t a good book – it is. What it isn’t, however, is science fiction. Mr.
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The Bookgasm list of best and worst of the year in literature.
Quoted: In a world where the Goldman family is now making money (and taking writing credit for) O.J. Simpson’s tasteless IF I DID IT book, and where the Kindle and the iPhone have made the media act like giddy schoolgirls, we at least have the solidity of BOOKGASM, presenting good (and bad) books for …
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Crystal Island has been granted planning permission in Moscow. If created, it will be the largest building on the planet, encapsulating 2.5 million square meters in an audacious and inspiring design.
Quoted: Foster + Partners
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“The Bank Job” starring Jason Statham looks outstanding. The film chronicles an unsolved 1971 London bank robbery known as the “walkie-talkie bank job.” What’s compelling about this story is that the British government issued a gag order suppressing public news of the robbery within days of the heist. A modern day “Deep Throat” informer acted as testimony for the film and points to embarrassing blackmail material implicating the royal family as being the reason the story was suppressed.
See the Guardian Unlimited story here for more information on the robbery.
I can’t wait for this one. February 29th.
Oh hell yeah. The Dark Knight.
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The preview trailer for “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!” looks great. Please oh please my don’t do a poor job with my beloved Dr. Seuss!
Quoted: A new CG animated feature film from 20th Century Fox Animation, the makers of the “Ice Age” films, based on the beloved book, first published in 1954, by Ted Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss. Seuss books are among the defining works of family literature, have sold over 200 million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages. The “Horton” series (“Horton Hears a Who,” “Horton Hatches the Egg”) are consistently among the top-selling of all Seuss titles — generation after generation. HORTON HEARS A WHO is about an imaginative elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community which thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help.
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This post, salaciously titled “The World’s Most Dangerous Bookstore,” is a recollection of a visit to a book shop stuffed floor to ceiling with books, complete with one odd owner.
Quoted: Enduring legends are borne of disbelief: Scotland has its Loch Ness Monster, the Himalays its Abominable Snowman, and Oklahoma City, not to be outdone, has the Bookman. Joe had first heard about the Bookman from a college philosophy professor who doted on spinning myths concerning the biblio-obsessed hermit to his students.
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A fair representation of the Amazon Kindle entry into the wireless reader space…
Quoted: Opinion: Despite criticism of the company’s wireless device, it’s better than anything out there today.
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Quoted: Random House imprint Vintage is redesigning the paperback versions of Thomas Pynchon’s novels […] -Design Week.
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“Lost in Translation” is a phenomenal movie but I always wondered what Bob Harris (Bill Murray) whispered to Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) at the end. Well, with a little digital processing, these guys on youtube figured it out and I love the fact that it’s in keeping with Bob’s character.
A great hour-long interview with Jeff Bezos, mostly centered on the new Amazon Kindle e-book reader but with other interesting tidbits on innovation in general.
The new Iron and Wine video for “Boy with a Coin” is outstanding, featuring Sam Beam playing guitar to a class of flamenco dancers:
Online graphic novel set in Paris - “The Killer.” Looks great playing in Flash. I definitely want to check this out later.
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A complete transcript of Doris Lessing’s outstanding Norbel Prize for Literature speech. A wonderful read about the state of reading and the hunger for knowledge.
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