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Written by Harvey Shepard
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006 |
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“The Echo Maker”
by Richard Powers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
451 pages
Imagine a writer who shows the intricacies of the human heart through
the relationships among a group of complex, fascinating characters,
while embedding their lives in the real world of modern science and
technology, politics, business and the natural environment. Imagine
such a story in prose that soars to heights of lyricism, while staying
grounded in a plot with elements of a mystery story both engaging and
disturbing.
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Written by Paul Foster
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
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“DMZ: On The Ground”
by Brian Wood, drawn by Riccardo Burchielli
Vertigo, 2006
Formations
of bombers are patrolling the skies. Putrid, makeshift medical clinics
are full of limbless kids. People are trying to live amidst
booby-trapped streets, looting, gangs of militias, car bombs and
snipers. Bodies are hanging from fire escapes as a warning to
trespassers. Military forces are instructing photojournalists to crop
“small bodies” out of their images. Sound like someplace in the Middle
East? No, this is Manhattan in Brian Wood’s powerful graphic novel
“DMZ: On the Ground.”
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Written by Courtney Denison
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Wednesday, 15 November 2006 |
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the latest in etiquette for the modern professional
Just when hope was nearly lost that the world would forever be stuck
with people talking too loudly on their cell phones in public or
embarrassing themselves with boorish e-mails, Thomas Blaikie aims to
bring us up to speed in his new book, “For the Manner Born: a Most
Proper Guide to Modern Civility.”
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Written by Harvey Shepard
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Wednesday, 01 November 2006 |
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‘A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit’
by Alan Lightman
Vintage, New York, 2005, 211 pages
“I loved the grandeur, the power, the beauty, the logic and
precision of science, but I also ached to express something of
myself—my individuality, the particular way that I saw the world, my
unique way of being.”
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Written by Liberty Hardy
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Wednesday, 25 October 2006 |
Serves: no purpose
500 pages (250 too many)
1 plucky heroine
1 tortured writer husband
1 crazy sadist
1 cup of “The Dark Half”
1 cup of “It”
A pinch of crazy sister
Lots of blood
The ability to sell millions based on name alone
Note: not to be served to anyone who isn’t the most loyal of Stephen King fans
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