Archives for Books & Literature

On Andrew Keen... (September 5, 2007) Andrew Keen makes me furious but I don't write about him as a rule. Why not? Because you don't feed the trolls. And I don't think I've ever seen anyone so clearly acting like a troll. I mean, you only...

Incapable of restraint or idleness... (January 25, 2007) Mary is one of the last surviving members of humanity, sat on a boat in the Galapágos Islands in the book Galapágos by Kurt Vonnegut. She is accompanied by a handful of other survivors and Mandarax, a small portable information...

On my favourite books... (April 12, 2005) Okay. I don't normally do these things and please God don't take this as an opportunity to start sending me more of them, but I'm going to respond to Lubin Odana's book-reading memetic challenge. I don't normally do these kinds...

Live from ETech: Cory Doctorow and e-books... (February 12, 2004) Warning: What follows makes increasingly little sense. Day Three Proper of ETech has resulted in a certain lack of mental flexibility and a weird warm grinding feeling at the temples as my over-saturated lobes rub together... So in a few...

God Bless You, Mr Vonnegut... (November 10, 2002) One of my favourite authors is Kurt Vonnegut. One of his favourite authors is Kilgore Trout. Kilgore Trout is what Kurt Vonnegut would be if life was a ludicrous joke and reality was one of Kurt Vonnegut books. Kilgore Trout...

Flashbacks and Comic Books... (January 1, 2002) Flashback madness. I'm ten - I'm living in a little village in Norfolk called Belaugh. On Sunday mornings my dad drives to the nearest village (Wroxham) for the Sunday papers. Sunday is the only day of the week that the...