February 2009
6 posts
Why Agatha Christie?
Agatha Christie isn’t just popular with your nan, she’s popular in the second-after-Shakespeare-and-the-Bible-and-the-Koran kind of way. The Independent asks why, and spouts this conclusion, by way of Barry Forshaw, editor of British Crime Writing; An Encyclopedia:
“There is no single author out there who manages to translate so well into so many different languages. She keeps...
Cracking interview with Alan Moore →
My Take on the GRRM Thing
Let me talk about me for a bit. I don’t read fantasy. Sword and sorcery is more my bag, and even then, I really only go for Robert E Howard or, at a stretch, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Yeah, I read Lord of the Rings, but that doesn’t count. But then there’s George R R Martin’s epic series, A Song of Ice and Fire. After being perpetually disappointed by genre fantasy, I’d...
A Slightly Better Kindle
More info on the new stuff here. The most interesting feature is Whispersync, which lets Kindles sync to each other. Okay, that’s not particularly special, but apparently it will sync to other “mobile devices”, which is very interesting.
Viewing from afar (which is all I can do, considering there are still no plans for an Australian release), it’s sexier, but not sexy...