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Tag Archives: Books
There’s an interesting story behind my review of Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude by Neal Pollack. Head over to my books blog to check it out.
Why book trailers suck…
I always knew book trailers were kind of dumb. Laura Miller explains why, with examples: Never coming to a screen near you (Salon.com).
The death of the book has been greatly exaggerated…
Image via Wikipedia I see that yet another pundit is predicting the death of the physical book. His argument seems to be that books will go the same way as music and movies and become completely digitized. Well, I say … Continue reading
How many books are there in the world?
Leave it to Google to find the answer to this burning question. There are 129,864,880 books, so get reading! Details: Inside Google Books: Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you.
Today I am reading… FiveBooks
FiveBooks – the best five books on any topic. Check out the best five books on life beyond Earth, books that changed the world, and historic cooking, among many others.
The classics, auto-summarized
The New Yorker reports on a project to feed great works of literature into Microsoft Word 2008 and use its auto-summarize feature to produce 10-sentence summaries. The results are strangely apt.
The Book Depository live…
The Book Depository Live: I don’t know why this is fascinating, but it is. See what books people are buying right now around the world. [via The Book Depository]
One-star reviews on Amazon…
The only good thing to say about this “literary” drivel is that the person responsible, Virginia Woolf, has been dead for quite some time now. Let us pray to God she stays that way. — Amazon.com reviewer on Mrs. Dalloway … Continue reading
I recently read that the blog Shit My Kids Ruined, which I have highlighted previously on this blog, is the latest to snag a book deal. Which got me wondering: what do blogs like CakeWrecks and Fail Blog, which completely … Continue reading
Over on my books blog, I go into a lot of tedious detail comparing the ending of Lost with the ending of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. This is probably only interesting if you’re a fan of both, but … Continue reading
