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The Best 'Best of' Lists of 2008
Last year, I started a little tradition of compiling the best 'best of' lists from around the web. Now, as another new year is already upon us, 'tis time again to reflect on the myriad and most interesting ‘Best...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Pratchett 'Flabbergasted' by knighthood
Terry Pratchett has made his first public response to the news that he has been awarded a Knighthood in the Queen's New Year's Honours List. Pratchett has sold over 55 million books and is a campaigner for more...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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592 views | 10 recommendations | 12 comments
Bush's Book List Voluminous Yet Narrowly Focused
Perhaps even more shocking than the alleged Amy Fisher Sex Tape, George W. Bush is apparently a reader. My thoughts immediately jumped to Bush's numerous, and excruciatingly public, displays of vocabulary-related... What the Heck is '500 Best-Value Wines in the LCBO 09' ?
I was left scratching my head what the heck 500 Best-Value Wines in the LCBO 2009 meant.OK, it is a book by a fellow named by Rod Phillips, a New Zealander at that who offers the best value that the Liquor Control Board of Ontario has in stock.... President Bush versus Karl Rove: The Battle of the Readers
Turns out that President George W. Bush is a book lover. According to the President's former advisor and campaign guru Karl Rove, he and Bush have had a yearly competition to see who would read the most...Onion Johnnies from Brittany, an Endangered Specy in the UK?
Where was I all these years, utterly ignorant of the Onion Johnnies? Shouldn't I have known about them since they hail from Brittany (where I was born)... Elizabeth Day in Only 15 of Brittany's Onion Johnnies survive (Guardian, December 21, 2008) seems to conclude that they... Book Review: The Spirit: The Movie Visual Companion
This is a hardcover book with no dust jacket. It's thick and the paper stock is good.Included are many stories on the production process, Will Eisner's comic panels, behind the scenes photography on set, film... New book debunks the economic myths around global warming
" For decades environmentalists have battled to convince politicians and the public that climate change is a real and present danger. Near scientific consensus, coupled with the fact that every mainstream...Atlas of 21st Century Architecture, 16 Pounds of It
If it was a meal it would feed a party of 10. This 'plat de resistance', The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture ($195) is indeed a big heavy tome. More than your average coffee table book, it covers over 1000 buildings that sprung up around the world since the year...Murder In The Mountains.
In this latest novel from the bestselling author of The Caller and Darkhouse the discovery of the body of a murdered FBI agent near to a Colorado ski resort is the starting point for an investigation that brings the suffering caused by old crimes bubbling back to the...Art Space Tokyo, An Illustrated Guide to Neighborhoods, Places and People
More than a book, Art Space Tokyo is an illustrated guide to 12 must see spots on the Tokyo art scene, introducing galleries, museums such as the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art and other spaces, neighborhood by neighborhood, not to forget the people who made all this... The man who didn't invent Christmas
Charles Dickens had a lot to do with the image we have of the Christmas season -- Victorian England and all that -- but he didn't invent Christmas. Several months ago I wrote an essay on book titles that make too much of a claim for their subjects. To have titles such as... A Most Wanted Man: Surrender
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré I gave up on this book after 100 pages. Nothing happened except for the author introducing some rather dull characters in a rather dull place. Every time I picked the book up, I did so with the hope that this time, something... _UGLY_ Author Wins Court Case Against Cruel Mother
CONSTANCE Briscoe, 51, who made a fortune from her "misery" genre novel Ugly, in which she claims she was called "Miss Piss A Bed" by her cruel mother and had a sexual pass made at her by her stepfather, has today...
created by Christina 123 | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Top 5 Toilets with a View from 'A Loo with a View'
I realized very quickly once I started reading Five best ... loos with a view (The Guardian, November 29) that views here matter more than creature comforts except maybe for the underwater loo at Akashi, Japan...Not sure if that one matches a Japanese creation that I saw in... Top Members Today
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