Do you know where your towel is? If you don’t get it: I highly recommend reading some Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. I guarantee intellectual stimulation, many good laughs and plenty of wisdom concerning Life, the Universe and Everything. If you do get it: hello, fellow nerd. I love you. Seeing…
Tag: Literature
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The Oldest Living Things in the World
Life is hard, again. A sure sign of that is how much I read, since the number of books read seems to correlate directly with the levels of stress I experience. As far as coping strategies go, I can think of worse ones. I might be constantly tired from…
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Summing up a decade
The 2010’s have gone by, and I have been blogging (more or less regularly) throughout the entire time. In the same space of time, I’ve lived out my twenties. Ten years is a staggering amount of time, yet it has flown by faster than pigs with wings. I’ve grown and…
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Review: Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was a big fan of Douglas Adams already, still I have to say that upon reading this book my respect and admiration for him, as an author but even more still as a human being, has…
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A fond return
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I first read these books at the very formative age of 14. I read them for the 3rd time at 28 years of age, and yes! They still qualify as my favourite books, by far. It was a…
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Review: Imajica by Clive Barker
Imajica by Clive Barker My rating: 5 of 5 stars Of all the books which have ever spoken to me, this one shot straight up among my absolute favourites. Deliciously transgressive in the ideas it conveys, this story has profound things to say about sex, love, gender, death, gods and…
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Quoth 2017
I’ve no desire to sum up the year for all to see this time around. Instead I’ve dug through my collection of quotes, and leave you with a sample of them which more or less cryptically sums up my life this year. All the books quoted are well worth reading,…
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Science fiction at its best
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin My rating: 5 of 5 stars A marvellously thought-provoking and well-written book. Having read my way through the Hainish cycle has placed Ursula K. Le Guin among my favourite authors. All of the Hainish books are good. Four of them are brilliant, and…
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Review: Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton My rating: 3 of 5 stars “The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven” What it may lack in subtlety it makes up for in eloquence. A recap of the Bible,…
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A Thousand Nights, further continued
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, Vol 5 of 16 by Anonymous My rating: 3 of 5 stars 500+ nights into the relentless storytelling. More lessons learned: – If you follow through on your curiosity against your better judgement, don’t fret too much about it. You were probably destined to…