Archive for Books
Burgess on the Clockwork Orange movie ending
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Unread-books project update
I started this project with about 350 unread mass-market paperbacks on my bookshelves, and I bought about 30 more shortly...
Ziggurat imagery in different tech levels
I've just started reading both Norman Spinrad's 1980 Songs from the Stars (first chapters set in a post-apocalypse quasi-ecotopia in...
Starting points for reading Delany
In the past couple years, there've been about three times when I've had occasion to suggest starting points for reading...
Mysterious Island, colonialism, and translators’ agendas
The other day, I pulled Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, off my unread-books shelf. I decided that I didn't really...
Time and Again
I've somehow for years had the idea that Jack Finney's 1970 novel Time and Again (which I hadn't read) was...
My year in books
In 2016, I read 172 books; an average of roughly one every two days. Well, okay, when I say “read,”...
The Mandela Effect and other memories
I find the whole Mandela Effect thing intriguing. (A group of people remembering something that didn't happen.) Here's one I...
Bradbury editions
I've wondered for years why new printings of the same old mass-market-paperback editions of Bradbury are still on the store...