I recently read this article in the New York times by Anna Gunn, the actress that plays Skyler White in Breaking Bad about how much hate her character gets. It was surprising to me how obsessive people can get about a fictional character (death threats.. really??), but, not surprising to me that people tend to …
The Separation, by Christopher Priest
I finished reading this last week, and much like the other books I've read of Priest's, it left me with a sort of surreal feeling. The story is about identical twin brothers and their lives during WW2. As with his other books, Priest paints a very realistic world, full of details that suck you into …
A Fire Upon The Deep
I just finished reading A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge. Bought this one because it won a Hugo for best novel. I really enjoyed it. It was full of huge ideas and memorable characters, and interesting aliens. Two though-provoking features in this book (very minor spoilers) : one, is that there are different …
Fused words
I’ve come to notice some patterns in some people’s speaking that I find sort of irritating but also interesting. It seems that certain groups of words that are spoken together often enough become ‘fused’ together to be one word in the mind. For example (and once I mention this you will hear it all the …
The several books I own: Hitchhiker’s Guide
Hitchhiker's Guide, and the rest of the 'trilogy', probably had the biggest, earliest influence on my writing style than any other books. They were also what inspired me to write in the first place. I read them when I was 14 or 15, and afterward began trying to emulate his style with my own …
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