Bravo, Topless Robot:
“Topless Robot is of the opinion that this book is a cash grab by the late Douglas Adams’ wife, that Douglas Adams was so individual a writer that no one could or should try to replicate him, and that And Another Thing should be avoided at all costs. If there was a way [...]
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Hear, hear.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Disclaimer: I was predisposed to like this one from the beginning, so it’s fair enough to call me a partial and prejudiced reviewer.
Jane Austen is often called the first feminist fiction writer, and a new take on her most popular Regency romance — coauthored by Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith, and Kenneth Grahame — puts the POW [...]
Book Club: The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
ISBN 0-7710-0813-9
Summary
A dystopian tale describing the life of a woman living in the mid-1980’s in Gilead, a fundamentalist Christian society that rose from the destruction of the United States after a coup. The tale is told out of order with a present tense first narrative voice, and is revealed at the end [...]
To-Read List
. . . If I ever get a moment
Your Movie Sucks by Roger Ebert
The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren’t Any Words for Yet–But There Ought to Be by Douglas Adams
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
I Hope They Serve Beer [...]
Huh.
II love audio books. Whenever I drive down to Los Angeles I always stop in Gilroy, gas up, and buy an audio book. I don’t bother with the new stuff — it seems stupid to pay over $50 for a book I can get in print for under ten bucks — so it’s been a [...]
