Welcome to StephenKing.com! Powell's Books - Used, New, and Out of Print - We Buy and Sell. EServer.org: Accessible Writing. Terry Pratchett Quotes. Blog Archive » Compulsory Reading. Home | DTWOF Strip Archive | Contact « Extra! Extra! Sightings » Compulsory Reading June 25th, 2008 | Sketch Diary Okay, I feel bad for Ellen O and anyone else who was out combing th’ convenience store aisles for Entertainment Weekly. Both comments and pings are currently closed. 242 Responses to “Compulsory Reading” Anna says: June 25, 2008 at 1:50 am Thank you thank you… for making this essay and posting it here. New classic sounds classy, wondering what else is on the list I better check it out but then I probably end up having more books on my must read list again. Tina says: June 25, 2008 at 1:53 am Absolutely enjoyable Suz says: June 25, 2008 at 1:56 am That is so cool.
Thanks for posting it, AB. kate mck says: June 25, 2008 at 2:05 am sounds like we had much the same reading habits as kids. Maggie Jochild says: June 25, 2008 at 2:11 am I came to E. Ellen O. says: June 25, 2008 at 2:19 am This graphic essay seems to be an odd alter-ego to FUN HOME. Middlemarch has been on my To Read list for years now. Hot Library Smut. Readingissticker_lg.gif (GIF Image, 600x233 pixels) An Independent Socialist Magazine - Monthly Review. Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting -- New York Magazine Book Review. Reading a handwritten article about handwriting, in a 21st-century magazine, is like listening to your great-great-grandfather shout in the middle of a crowded multiplex about the incomparable glories of vaudeville and the lost art of wearing hats in public.
And yet, somehow, here we are. Certain vestigial urges have been awakened, deep in the muscles of my fingers and wrists, by Script & Scribble, Kitty Burns Florey’s paean to the now nearly defunct barbarism of dragging ink trails across paper. (I’ve switched to print, for the reasons we always end up switching to print: My handwriting, set against a neat field of type, looks like a giant mess of alien runes, and my keyboard-weakened fingers tend to cramp up after a couple of sentences.) Florey, a nun-educated “scriptomaniac,” lovingly traces the history of handwriting, from its ancient birth to its imminent demise. Handwriting, today, is artisanal—an emblem of slowness in an impatient world. Deadly Computer Blog » The most usefull book shelf ever. Apartment Therapy has a nice find of what I consider the best bookshelf ever. Built into the staircase, and still usable as a stair case are book shelves, and lots, and lots of books. I don’t have this many books, but I know someone who does, and she would get much good use out of something like this.
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Call it laziness, call it the incessant demands of the ever-wakeful internet, call it fear of the wrath of Harold Bloom, but reviewers -- particularly book reviewers -- spew out these same, tired old clichés with the force and regularity of Linda Blair in a scene from The Exorcist. The problem of reviewerspeak is not a new one. Strunk and White addressed the bane in The Elements of Style: But how to identify, and avoid, these little balloons of bright sound? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Top 10 Creepiest Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Creepy Edgar Allan Poe. Can you think of a name more synonymous with spine-tingling macabre literature? A master craftsman of prose and poetry alike, Poe dwells in that dark corner of our literary consciousness, along some creaky corridor laden with dust and cobwebs. Even more than a century on, reading Poe still feels like walking a razor’s edge between grim amusement and irrevocable madness. Here is a list of ten of Poe’s best-known tales and poems.
Halloween’s still a few months off, but there’s no harm in starting early… Hop-Frog published 1849 A dwarfish court jester serves as the titular character of this fiendish revenge tale. The Facts in the Case of M. Published 1845 In the mid-19th Century, the pseudo-science of mesmerism was all the rage in the salons of America’s bourgeoise, and Poe made it the central theme of this gruesome short story.
The Black Cat published 1843 The narrator and his wife own several pets. The Murders in the Rue Morgue published 1841 C. The Cask of Amontillado. Read at Work. Books. A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. - William Burroughs. Books. Found in Books. People have found teeth, money, and bacon inside their books. Be careful what you use as a bookmark. Thousands of dollars, a Christmas card signed by Frank Baum, a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card, a marriage certificate from 1879, a baby’s tooth, a diamond ring and a handwritten poem by Irish writer Katharine Tynan Hickson are just some of the stranger objects discovered inside books by AbeBooks.com booksellers.
I recently opened a secondhand book and an airline boarding pass from Liberia in west Africa to Fort Worth, Texas, fell to the floor. Was there a story behind this little slip of paper? Was someone fleeing from a country ravaged by two civil wars since 1989? I will never know, but used and rare booksellers discover countless objects - some mundane, some bizarre, some deeply personal - inside books as they sort and catalog books for resale. Adam Tobin, owner of Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, NY, has created a display inside his bookstore dedicated to objects discovered in books.
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@SF2Concat. Terry Pratchett (1994) There's a feeling that I think it's only possible to get when you're a child and discover books. I had to draw my own map through this uncharted territory. I'm now becoming perceived as a young people's writer. The aforesaid school librarians tell me that what the children read for fun, what they'll actually spend their money on, are fantasy, science fiction and horror and, while they offer up a prayer of thanks that the kids are reading anything in this electronic age, this worries them. It shouldn't. Morally suspect? Classical written fantasy might introduce children to the occult, but in a healthier way than might otherwise be the case in our strange society.
Irrelevant? Paper Portitude - The Library of Classic Literature. Literature Pick of the Week: Hansel and Grethel - The Grimm Brothers Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Grethel. He had little to bite and to break, and once when great scarcity fell on the land, he could no longer procure daily bread... Updates: 04.07.07 - A printer friendly layout has been attached to every literature page; there is also a "Print this Page" button in the top right hand corner of the same. Never mind the musty smell; it's merely the scent of dusty books, waiting to be opened and read. Presented to you here - in our humble library - are the classics. You've been reading since you were a child, so this should be easy. LibraryThing | Catalog your books online. VONNEGUT•COM -- The Official Website of Kurt Vonnegut. Legalize-books.gif (GIF Image, 650x522 pixels)
Whichbook. Rare Book Titles. - Daniyel Bombergo - Teshuvot she\’ilot / le-rabenu Mosheh bar Nahman.. - 1519 - Vinitsiya - Stanford Library - Alexandre, Noël - Conformité des ceremonies chinoises avec l’idolatrie grecque et romaine - 1670 - Cologne - Stanford Library - Amico, Bernardino (author) - Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edif - 1620 - Florence - Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University - Johnson, Richard (Master Michael Angelo,pseud.)
(author) - Juvenile Sports and Pastimes - 1776 - London - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford - Apianus, Petrus (author) - Astronomicum Caesareum - 1540 - - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford - Apuleius - - 1553 - Lyon - Stanford Library - Aristophanes - Comoediae novem - 1498 - Venice - Stanford Library - Baptista, Mantuanus (author) - In Robertum Seuerinatem panaegyricum carmen - 1489 - Venice - Stanford Library - Baptista, Mantuanus (author) - Parthenice - 1499 - Venice - Stanford Library - Berwick, Edward - Rawdon Papers - 1819 - London - Stanford Library. Hot Library Smut. The Best Graduation Speech EVER! RMC - Home. Net10: Microwave.