Why Don’t Authors’ Websites List Their Books in the Right Order?
Monday night I finished reading Linda Nagata’s far-future epic series The Bohr Maker, Deception Well and Vast back-to-back-to-back, and I wanted to take a break from amazing stories of super-science and find something a little more down to earth, so I looked at my Kindle’s recommendations and something about Mark Gimenez’s Accused caught my eye. [...]
Fragment by Warren Fahy – Review
I like to browse through Amazon’s catalog of cheap e-books to see if I can find anything interesting. As you’d expect, many of them aren’t very good and probably wouldn’t have been published in the days before on-demand printing and digital distribution. However, I thought it might be fun to blog about some of the better [...]
Shifted by Colin D. Jones – Review
Whenever I get tired of checking the bestseller lists on my Kindle book reader for new novels to read — the top of the list has been owned by Hunger Games and Lisbeth Salander ever since I got the thing — I like to try out a few of the cheap e-books. It’s a bit [...]
Declaration of Independents – Part 3
Over at Nobody’s Business, I’ve finally posted the third and final part of my review of Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch’s Declaration of Independents.
Declartion of Independents – Review of Part 1
Over at Nobody’s Business, I’ve put up my review of part 1 of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch. Update: And I got a mighty nice shout-out from Matt Welch at Hit & Run.
Paper Books Becoming More Expensive
Here’s a fun fact: The free market, combined with poorly written computer algorithms, means you might have to pay $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping) for a book about flies at Amazon. Read all about it at Michael Eisen’s blog it is NOT junk.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Well, Amazon Order Tracking says that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is on the way. The shipping origin is right here in Illinois, so when Amazon shipped it yesterday, it only took three hours to reach Chicago, but Amazon put in a request to hold the package until tomorrow. I actually thought about driving [...]
The End of the Harry Potter Series
[Be sure to read the comments: I wrote the first few of these here, but a lot of people have contributed some truly funny endings.] The end of the Harry Potter series, as written by Mario Puzo (The Godfather) : Replacing the fallen Dumbledore as head of Hogwarts, Professor Minerva McGonagall proves to have balls [...]
On My Reading List: The cult of the amateur
I’ve just picked up The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet is killing our culture by Andrew Keen. I spotted the book at Borders and read the jacket copy, which surprised me in its ability to make me seethe with anger: in a hard-hitting and provocative polemic…Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s [...]
The First Helpdesk Incident Ever
If you work with computers, you have to see this. Unfortunately, you have to read the English subtitles at the top. (video link) (Hat tip: Glenn)
Disrobed
In the spirit of Jon Swift, I’m going to review Mark W. Smith’s Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left’s Stranglehold on the Courts without reading it. In fact, I think all I have to read is this part of the description: America’s courts, legal culture, and law schools remain solidly in the [...]
Book Reviews Without All That Reading
Philipp Lenssen points out that an Amazon user named Jon Swift has a habit of reviewing books he hasn’t read. Here are a few examples: Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract With America by Newt Gingrich A Contract As Good As the Paper It’s Written On I have not actually read this book but [...]
What Should Mike Read?
Mike at Crime & Federalism wants reading suggestions. He prefers practical non-fiction and enjoys “books that are that are hybrids of insight and practicality.” Here are my suggestions: Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg. It’s about thinking carefully about incentives and how people respond to them. Good for thinking about public policy, but I’ve also found [...]
55 Ways to Have Fun With Google
Philipp Lenssen has finally released his book 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google which he describes as “A cabinet of search engine curiosities, riddles, games, and a little bit of usefulness.” Philipp is the author of the Google Blogoscoped blog, which is consistently one of the most interesting technical sites on the web. It’s [...]