Posts Tagged ‘jorge louis borges’

A New Universal History of Infamy by Rhys Hughes

February 2nd, 2009

You might not know Jorge Luis Borges. Which is fine.  And you probably haven’t read is Universal History of Infamy either.  Which is fine. I haven’t gotten to it yet.  That doesn’t preclude you from enjoying Rhys Hughes’s A New Universal History of Infamy. » Read more: A New Universal History of Infamy by Rhys Hughes

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OK Maybe I Haven't Lost It Just Yet

January 16th, 2009

Because I was a bit tired today and the temperature was around 13 degrees I didn’t go for a run. I did go to Barnes and Noble to spend some of my gift card money. The last foray into the local B&N was fruitless, I didn’t seem to have the motivation to buy anything. But this time I ended up with a few books.

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On How and Why Reading Older Books Gives Me Persepective On New Books

June 11th, 2008

The past few months I have picked up the classics. Or what people consider the classics in genre fiction. Novels from HG Wells, Jules Verne, MR James, Ambrose Bierce, and other contemporaries have been on my reading table and I have shifted from author to author. And in this retrospective of genre fiction I have brought some perspective of the new stuff that is currently being released in SF, horror, and other genres.

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