Reality Reading update
A Prayer for Owen Meany 58% [ 7 ] The Great Gatsby 41% [ 5 ] Alma Cogan 0% [ 0 ] Status Anxiety 0% [ 0 ] The Unfortunates 0% [ 0 ] Total Votes : 12 It’s looking…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Sick bucket at the ready…
Behold the waves of nausea which wash over you when you visit the wonderful website that is Thank You Tony. Thanks to Iain Dale for the link.
Booker 2005 Controversy – Already
Interesting article on the Guardian Books site about comments made by John Sutherland, the Chairman of the 2005 Man Booker Prize Panel: The newly announced chairman of the 2005 Man Booker prize has admitted that the judges are unlikely to…
Boris Blog
The journalist and occasional Tory politician Boris Johnson yesterday posted the following on his blog: January 19, 2005 Calling /attention all bloggers It’s quarter to four and I’ve got to write a column. which shall I do? Any ideas 1.…
Reality Reading
How’s this for a stupid idea: I’m going to run a poll among Palimpsesters to decide what to read next. I’ll give a shortlist of 5 books, and whichever garners the most votes I read after the Greene. Which books…
Sick Puppy – Carl Hiaasen
Sick Puppy was a good read. Funny and violent, it brought me much enjoyment. Trouble is, I can’t think of much else to say about it. On my Palimplist I gave it 4 out of 5 stars, but I think…
Quixotic
I bought the new Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote. It’s a beautifully bound hardback, and will be a pleasure to read, when I get round to it…
MS Word – the perils thereof
F**king Word!! There are some things Word is good at. There are some that it is completely crap at. One of those is the classic mistake of using it as a DTP package. The thing just doesn’t work! I’ve been…
Don Quixote
This month saw the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first of part of Don Quixote. I’ve never come close to reading it, but it sounds like one of those books which deserves to be read. As it is…
Nation States
I’ve been playing Nation States for a month or so now. My nation, Wavuncular, is now classified as a ‘Father Knows Best State’, apparently. I’m not sure how this happened. The People’s Republic of Wavuncular is a very large, safe…