books

Tricks of the mind
TV. I spend a lot of time giving out about it. That soul-eating suckbox sitting in the corner, dominating all your senses. Slowly eating your life. Hours where you could be making, creating, living, loving. Or even depleting the long...
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Still drawing willys
Yeay my first published graphic work (well first time in a book anyway). Much bigger news of course is that the first copies of the book have arrived. Congrats again to the Missus. Booyakasha! I reckon my images would have...
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Shantaram
Shantaram is one of those books that kept pestering me until I decided to read it. In the space of one week I heard three different people say how amazing it was. And then I started to hear little bits...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
It must be great to be such an established writer that you can just write about your [normal] childhood and know it will sell. But deservedly so. Bryson is such an entertaining writer with a great turn of phrase and...
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Lance Armstrong V Stuart Shorter
I recently ended up reading two books side by side, It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong and Stuart: a Life Backwards by Alexander Masters. Now I don't like watching sport, I don't like talking about sport and I...
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The Persistence of Memory
A few years ago I got sick of having a terrible memory. I've since nailed it down to a slightly bizarre portion of bad memory in that I can't for the life of me remember proper nouns; pubs, shops, roads,...
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Raw Spirits
Big Brother is on. So I'm off. Even though I was just about to tackle a scary pile of ironing, I’m just so rock ‘n’ roll these days! So I'll write this instead. I’ve just finished reading ‘Raw Spirits’ by...
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Bunnies!
Two of my favorite things share a common theme - bunnies! Donnie Darko and a book by Bill Drummond called 45. Ok, they're called Echo and the Bunnymen, so the link to Donnie Darko is pretty obvious. But another subtle...
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What is web design for?
What is this book for!? It's not for me that's for sure but it's not for anyone. I don't know who would read this. It starts with the same old tedious stuff you get for novice web material -history of...
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The God Delusion
I've pretty much given up novels in recent years. I'm a bit tired of fiction but I've recently got a great hunger for learning and information, not too uncommon in your thirties apparently. So I've been reading a lot of...
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