Category: Books / Novels / Writing


  • Finished A Feast for Crows How We Believe The One Kingdom The Elegant Universe Origin of Species The Hidden Face of God A Treasury of Great American Scandals The Arabian Nights Common Sense The Dream of Reason Democracy Matters Public Enemy #2 Utopia Everything Bad Is Good For You The Coming Age of Conan Abandoned…

  • My Crack, originally uploaded by sneezypb. Amazon is open 24/7. Go get your copy of A Feast for Crows now! UPDATE: I was pleasantly surprised to get this. I pre-ordered it on January 17, 2003. No… that is not a typo. 😀

  • In celebration of Banned Books Week (ref Why Banned Books Week?), what books from the The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-20001 List have you read or now want to read because it is on this list? I have read 17 of the books on this list. Does that make me a bad person?

  • So iTunes has Audiobooks of The Song of Ice and Fire Series. How long does it take to read George to read them? A Game of Thrones – 33h 45m A Clash of Kings – 37h 13m A Storm of Swords – unavailable Based on my calculations, it should take about 2 min per page.…

  • seriouslyuguys may be on to something. Anyone want to go in on getting The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection? It is like $8,000 so we could do shares at $200 a pop? We would only need 40 shares to sell. LOL From Edwin A. Abbott to Emile Zola, the 1,082 titles in the Penguin Classics…

  • What do to on a Sat night? Watch CSPAN2… Simon Singh, author of Big Bang: Origin of the Universe…

  • brittsaqt suggested a required reading list. So here goes (in no particular order) with Amazon links: A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin Illiad and Odyssey – Homer A Brief History In Time – Stephen Hawking The Elegant Univese – Brian Greene The Dream of Reason – Anthony Gottlieb Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and…

  • Know what I forgot… It is on! Already pre-ordered. A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R. R. Martin see larger photo List Price: $27.95 Price: $19.57 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. See details.  You Save: $8.38 (30%) Availability: This item will be released in April 2003.…

  • As a consumer, I get the feeling that companies don’t care for me. If I were a vindictive person, then I probably would be going out of my way to screw them out of even a tiny bit of their profits. Piss enough of us off, and they would feel the pain in their wallets.…