The Bookfloor:
Here is what I have pulled off the bookshelves lately (and likely still find lying on the floor ;-)
Literary value is neither implied nor warranted ...
Literary value is neither implied nor warranted ...
| 'I don't buy everything I read - I haven't even read everything I've bought' -BNL- |
On Deck - Bobos in Paradise and The Circle of Binding Energy
In Bobos ... yuppie bohemian wannabes - yep, you and me search for happiness - and I imagine are sorely
dissapointed.
The Curve is John McPhee's tome on nukes - you can't have as many people as we humans have had working on
atomic weapons for as long as we have been working on them and not expect one to be detonated in one of our
cities every now an again, can you? "Encounters with the Archdruid" meets the Manhattan Project.
In Bobos ... yuppie bohemian wannabes - yep, you and me search for happiness - and I imagine are sorely
dissapointed.
The Curve is John McPhee's tome on nukes - you can't have as many people as we humans have had working on
atomic weapons for as long as we have been working on them and not expect one to be detonated in one of our
cities every now an again, can you? "Encounters with the Archdruid" meets the Manhattan Project.
Managing Ignatius - Jerry Strahan
The real-life stories of Lucky Dogs, the New Orleans streeting vending tradition upon which John Kennedy Toole
based Paradise Vendors which during a low stroke of fortuna's wheel employed Ignatius Reilly the man/myth of A
Confederacy of Dunces.
The real-life stories of Lucky Dogs, the New Orleans streeting vending tradition upon which John Kennedy Toole
based Paradise Vendors which during a low stroke of fortuna's wheel employed Ignatius Reilly the man/myth of A
Confederacy of Dunces.
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
"The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into it's batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the
asteroid belt. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. You want to talk contact patches? Your
car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the road in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliveraotor's car
has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road,
starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta." and that's just his car !!!
"The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into it's batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the
asteroid belt. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. You want to talk contact patches? Your
car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the road in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliveraotor's car
has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road,
starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta." and that's just his car !!!
Who Moved My Cheese - Dr. Spencer Johnson
The mouse-man parable to re-shape your life around. I find myself running the maze in search of "new cheese".
The mouse-man parable to re-shape your life around. I find myself running the maze in search of "new cheese".
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Classic stories of crime, wit, and punishment told with a flair for exaggeration (all to the betterment of my dear
friend Holmes). The thing I can't figure out is why does Watson subject himself to this abuse. Is medicine that
boring?
Classic stories of crime, wit, and punishment told with a flair for exaggeration (all to the betterment of my dear
friend Holmes). The thing I can't figure out is why does Watson subject himself to this abuse. Is medicine that
boring?
Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
Visit the London-underground ofJack the Ripper through the eyes of a pan-handling lost soul, and battle against an
infinitely prolonged Gypsy attempting to restore his dead gods.
Visit the London-underground ofJack the Ripper through the eyes of a pan-handling lost soul, and battle against an
infinitely prolonged Gypsy attempting to restore his dead gods.
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