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vlog# 2: JPod by Douglas Coupland

So I’ve decided

that since videos are kind of fun and different to writing out everything, and I don’t need to further my rapidly developing RSI to do it, I’d keep them up. And because a video blog of reviews …

Borderless

Closed for business
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You may have

heard the news that REDGroup Australia, owners of Borders and Angus&Robertson bookstores has gone into voluntary administration. That is, they’re broke. There are quite a few angles to view this development from, but …

[Book Review] Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death

First (paperback) edition of Slaughterhouse-Five
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I was not aware of Kurt Vonnegut when he passed away last year. I hadn’t read a single book of his, and that situation remained until a few weeks ago when, after watching a documentary on …

[Book Review] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Unlike the literate hypocrite over there, I haven’t got a cult classic to review today, but rather a modern-day, multi-million-copy selling, award-winning blockbusting bestseller by Stieg Larsson entitled The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was originally written in Swedish …