I’m a huge fan of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (which, at last count, totaled five books) and I was very disappointed with the big budget movie version because it lacked what made the books so good and that was Adams’ wonderful dialog. I was saddened when he passed away a few . . . → Read More: There will be a sixth “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” novel.
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Neil put up the announcement on his blog just recently: Kids! Free! Book! The good news is the link to the free online American Gods is up on the front page of the neilgaiman.com website. The bad news is that the link is wrong. For the next month, your free copy of American Gods is . . . → Read More: The results are in: “American Gods” now readable on the web for free. One of my favorite authors just posted on his blog that he’s done with his latest novel titled The Graveyard Book. Here he tries to explain what it is about and who it is for: Over the last few months people have written in and asked what kind of a book The Graveyard Book is, . . . → Read More: Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book” is complete. One of my favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, has just celebrated his blog’s seventh anniversary and in celebration he’s asking fans to vote for which book will be made available online for free: As you may have deduced, it’s the blog’s 7th birthday today. On February the 9th 2001, I started writing this thing. And now, . . . → Read More: Neil Gaiman seeks your opinion on which book to give away. Got a package the other day that I thought was one of the gifts I had purchased for my wife, but it turns out upon opening it up today that it was for me. SEB member Lost Alaska was kind enough to send me some books from my wish list: Spook Country and Pattern Recognition . . . → Read More: Christmas comes a little early for me. SEB regular DaBroad dropped by with a couple of links to articles about a warning from the American Family Association about the upcoming release of The Golden Compass. It seems they’re the latest religious group to get their panties all in a twist over this movie without even having seen it yet. They’re so in . . . → Read More: AFA is scared shitless of “The Golden Compass.” … The Golden Compass today. Anne ordered the box set from Amazon.com the other day after hearing about it from me and she’s already well into the second book. So I’m playing catch up at this point, but it’ll give me something to do during the occasional downtime at work. I’ll post about it . . . → Read More: I just started reading… Well one advantage to having so much downtime at work is the fact that I’ve read more books in the past month than any other time in my life. Or so it seems. I’m averaging a book and a quarter a week and I’ve managed to finish some books that I’ve had for a long . . . → Read More: Book reviews coming soon. JK Rowling says wizard Dumbledore is gay – washingtonpost.com Speaking at Carnegie Hall on Friday night in her first U.S. tour in seven years, Rowling confirmed what some fans had always suspected—that she “always thought Dumbledore was gay,” reported entertainment Web site E! Online. Rowling said Dumbledore fell in love with the charming wizard . . . → Read More: Didn’t see this one coming. Apparently Dumbledore was gay. It’s official: The last installment in the seven-part Harry Potter series has been named and a release date has been set: The print run and number of pages have yet to be revealed, but judging from the suggested cover price, a meaty $34.99, $5 more than Potter 6, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the . . . → Read More: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” hits store shelves July 21st. |
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