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March 09 2010
Feeling chuffed to finally find a use for Twitter after all this time! Thanks @JoanneRighetti for brightening my day!
March 07 2010
Question from a #WordPress virgin: can you create a child theme using another child theme as a parent? Can't seem to get it to work..
February 24 2010
Chris is currently reading: The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by
Dan Brown
bookshelves: currently-reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
February 19 2010
Compulsive reading just like "Angela's Ashes", but maybe runs out of steam a little bit towards the end. Will definitely read "Teacher Man" to complete the set though.
February 05 2010
An interesting read, but not really a biography of Dusty the person. Was more of a lengthened discography in many ways.
January 31 2010
I was initially a little embarrassed to find myself wanting to read Chris Evans' autobiography as I'm not a great fan of modern celebrity biographies (see: Cheryl Cole, Jordan, etc).
However this book was a very light but interesting read. Great for bedtime reading too as it's made up of short but snappy chapters.
It's easy to think of celebrities as shallow, but Chris is somebody with surprising depth, determination and insight.
However this book was a very light but interesting read. Great for bedtime reading too as it's made up of short but snappy chapters.
It's easy to think of celebrities as shallow, but Chris is somebody with surprising depth, determination and insight.
January 17 2010
January 16 2010
A very pleasant, uncomplicated book with brought me much pleasure and occasional outward laughter. A great bed-time read.
January 10 2010
January 04 2010
Chris is currently reading: Operation Terror (paperback)
by
Murray Leinster
bookshelves: currently-reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
January 03 2010
January 01 2010
This book swings between gripping and dreary.
It's at its best during dialogue and key events in the story, but his descriptions of future architecture tend to be both numerous and overly verbose for my taste.
That said, there are a few places where his comments on the trends of future society are remarkably prescient.
If you take the time to read the forward written by H.G. Wells himself, you'll see he readily admits to it not being one of his greatest works. Compared to his other novels, he has a point. But as a book in its own right, it's definitely worth a read.
It's at its best during dialogue and key events in the story, but his descriptions of future architecture tend to be both numerous and overly verbose for my taste.
That said, there are a few places where his comments on the trends of future society are remarkably prescient.
If you take the time to read the forward written by H.G. Wells himself, you'll see he readily admits to it not being one of his greatest works. Compared to his other novels, he has a point. But as a book in its own right, it's definitely worth a read.
Was disappointed to discover that it was Christian fiction rather than a straight thriller. The frequent references to God, psalms and missionary work were wearisome.
December 26 2009
I enjoyed reading this book in the main, though there were two things which occasionally frustrated me.
Firstly, the author does seem to pad the narrative with plot summaries of each film and/or extracts from the script. Obviously, plot summary is needed at times, but at other times it either serves no purpose in driving L&H's story onwards or becomes a little excessive.
Secondly, I found the author's tendency to interpret L&H's work somewhat odd. For instance, at one point he interprets a scene to have homosexual overtones. I'm by no means naive, but it seemed a terrible stretch of the imagination to come to that conclusion.
I'd be curious to read John McCabe's biography of Stan as it benefited from first person contact; a luxury Simon Louvish never had.
Firstly, the author does seem to pad the narrative with plot summaries of each film and/or extracts from the script. Obviously, plot summary is needed at times, but at other times it either serves no purpose in driving L&H's story onwards or becomes a little excessive.
Secondly, I found the author's tendency to interpret L&H's work somewhat odd. For instance, at one point he interprets a scene to have homosexual overtones. I'm by no means naive, but it seemed a terrible stretch of the imagination to come to that conclusion.
I'd be curious to read John McCabe's biography of Stan as it benefited from first person contact; a luxury Simon Louvish never had.
December 20 2009
December 13 2009
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