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![]() ![]() The Diamond Age is set in a near-future made possible by huge leaps in nanotechnological development. But it’ll leave the book vulnerable on rereading. He gets away with it because his invention is explosive and boundless and entirely seductive the reader is swept up in a world they don’t want to leave, and so the fact that the whole narrative is curiously lopsided doesn’t matter. As I go further into his back catalogue, though, and approach his plots with a slightly more critical eye, I’m also discovering that his earlier work tends to suffer from structural weakness. Like all of Stephenson’s books I’ve read so far, I found it thoroughly addictive, so much so that I blasted through it in under two days. The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.įurther to my plan to read everything Neal Stephenson has ever written, the Chaos, who is a good sort, bought me The Diamond Age for Christmas. ![]() The Great Reread, #5: I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith.April 2023: superlatives for the rest of it.Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs. ![]() ![]()
![]() Live at highest altitudes for any cat on earth – to 5000 metres. Longest tail of any cat to protect in freezing cold and give balance on steep cliffs. I’ve been in email contact with Sy and she’s shared her thrilling account of the Mongolia trip searching for snow leopards for the book here. ![]() For me those many years ago finding poop was so exciting, at least we knew the cats were there even if we didn’t see them! Along with Tom (who Sy calls the Professor of Poop), they do however find lots of scat (also known as snow leopard poop). Like my own snow leopard conservation journey in northern India (Ladakh) ten years ago, Sy and Nic didn’t see any of the rare and illusive cats. There are stunning photographs by Nic throughout. Readers will also be stunned by how much perseverance it takes to research and protect this endangered, little-understood species. We learn about local customs of the nomadic herders, other local wildlife like the desert hedgehog and the story of dinosaur finds in the Gobi desert made by adventurers in the 1920’s and 1930’s. With a dazzling as-it-happens narrative and spectacular photographs, readers, young and old, will be fascinated as they discover why these mysterious cats are called ghosts of the mountain. Photo Nic Bishop.Īs well as the story of this snow leopard conservation project, the book covers the history of the region with stories about Genghis Khan who ruled here hundreds of years ago. ![]() Sy scrambling through extreme terrain in Mongolia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Khan is adept at generating suspense and pouring on the gore (the film actually owes more to the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre than Romero’s undead movies), but the film’s main thrill is undeniably the surreal cultural tension at work. ![]() Soon the quintet runs out of gas, and they wind up encountering everything in the jungle from zombies to sinister hitchhikers to a psychotic family living in a shack. ![]() A collaboration between Pakistani director Omar Ali Khan (a noted horror buff who runs the informative Hot Spot website) and British producer Pete Tombs (author of the “Mondo Macabro” book on international horror cinema and owner of the DVD label of the same name), Hell’s Ground is actually a fairly straight-forward low-budget horror film, as it relates the creepy tale of five attractive teens (three guys, two girls) who pile into a van to travel to a rock concert and subsequently get lost in the woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ve never laughed a woman in to bed, but I’ve laughed one out of bed many times.” – Jack Whitehall “I accidentally filled the Escort with diesel. 46! It’s older than the Sydney Opera House, my penis!” – Rhod Gilbert “Looking at my penis, I find it endlessly fascinating. Sex with me these days is akin to thumbing marshmallows into the anus of a cat.” – Greg Davies I’m 42 years of age, I literally have to hit it with nettles. “The only thing I can offer to put ladies at ease is that I am of no sexual threat whatsoever. Why is there no jam? Have you run out of eggs?’ – Russell Howard “If they’re making cakes for divorces, why not ‘Happy Menopause!’ ‘Mmm, it’s a bit dry. “You never know where to look when eating a banana.” – Peter Kay “Recently my girlfriend asked me if I was having sex behind her back and I replied, ‘Yes, who did you think it was?’” – Jimmy Carr And that was cos I’d no small change for the window cleaner.” – Victoria Wood “I didn’t have sex at all, not a scrap til I was 67. (It goes without saying that the following contains some strong language, and very adult humour) Some fruity lines from rude comedians: ![]() ![]() OL481756W Page_number_confidence 92.99 Pages 216 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210118160052 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 356 Scandate 20210115164433 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780763635312 Tts_version 4. : The Robe of Skulls (9780744583618) by Vivian French and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. 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He also has been credited with inventing, with The Anubis Gates (1983), the steampunk genre - though Powers’s friend James Blaylock shares some of this regard, for his The Digging Leviathan (1984). The most obvious cause for his celebrity is that twice he has won the World Fantasy Award for best novel ( Last Call, 1992, and Declare, 2000). Tim Powers is my most favorite living novelist. 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Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. ![]() In AGAINST EMPATHY, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it. ![]() We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. ![]() |