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ELIMINATE THE IMPOSSIBLE.
The Excessively Complex, too, particularly if you wish to solve mysteries. First read The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective. It's Book Review No. 14. The contents will be left to the reader as an exercise. I did like one of the Holmes quotes from the end of the work. From "The Adventure of ( Read more... ) -
ONE MORE SUMMER, ONE MORE LINE.
Genl U. S. Grant famously described his 1864 Overland Campaign with a line, "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." That campaign took more than the summer, but ended the war, at a lower human toll than that levied by his predecessors in the east. Twenty years later, the now past-President Grant lent his name to a Ponzi ( Read more... ) -
books 137-139
The Book of Dracula edited by Leslie Shepard
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Title: Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
Author: Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
Year of Publication: 2009
Genre: YA, anthology
Pages: 403
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Summary: With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O'Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, ( Read more... ) -
Books 21-25
21. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (young adult) - 30 Apr 2010
What made this book interesting wasn't primarily the book itself, but how it relates to other reading I've done lately. Specifically, a few features pointed out in another work about Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have a bit of resonance here - specifically, ( Read more... )
