A Note On Author Dan Brown's Use Of Flashbacks
The Lost Symbol on top of a real book As much as I am a fan of great literature, I am also quite the bibliophile. So, even though his previous efforts hadn't impressed me much, the temptation was too great when I…
Does It Take Too Much Faith To Be An Atheist?
Answer: Classic Cliché Contents: My Logic Centre Is Burning ::
You think you're so clever!
Gore Vidal A most disturbing paragraph opens the recent New York Times interview with Gore Vidal. [ Interviewer: ] At the age of 82, you will be publishing your new collection of essays this week, which seems likely to confirm…
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You may remember I recently wrote about the man who was accused of racial harassment because he read a book about fighting the KKK. Well, he now gives us his perspective on the affair in an interview with the New…
Top Ten favourite (alternative) Bibles
The Cockney Bible The Technical Jargon Bible Nigerian Pidgin Bible The Aussie Bible The Klingon Bible The Gender Neutral Bible The Esperanto Bible The LOLCat Bible Da Hawai'i Pidgin Bible The SMS Bible Over 50 more translations here ::
Three books from the bargain bin
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Latest news from the year 2000
I buy a lot of books. I can't really afford to lash out €23.99 on the latest, hyped-up (and possibly disappointing) hardback. So I really enjoy cruising the charity shops and finding bargains. For example, I purchased a massive biography…
I take the Fifth
An interesting case from the New York Times illustrates nicely the right to avoid self-incrimination (within the United States justice system) but also a more disturbing trend. A guy carrying child porn on his laptop refused to give the password…
Not even in jest
When the Internet was young, and spam was still manageable, I used to send my friends emails with funny subject lines like: "Huge Penis Viagra Porn Stock Market Whores" and they would laugh (well, I'd laugh) and we'd get on…
Aliens
I just can't believe the price of this book! About ten years ago I bought a copy of Alan Alford's Gods of the New Millennium in O'Mahony's bookshop on O'Connell Street. This was before the proliferation of charity bookshops made…
