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thezI will be stopping at the bookstore after work tomorrow night to purchase the ninth installation in "A Series of Unfortunate Events." As much as I believe that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
neherenia has excellent taste, I never believed that the series would be so good when I started reading it. Those books are like crack. They are like crack smoked in a golden crack pipe in the warmth and luxury of a fabulous crack mansion.
In other book-related news, I found a copy of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time in the crazy and ever-growing Beardsley mini-library. It is delightful. Not only does Mr. Hawking cause my mind to go "!!!!!" about eight times a page, he's damn funny as well. Do you know why he is in a wheelchair? He is in a wheelchair because otherwise, his unencumbered force of sheer awesome would be so utterly powerful that it would cause the universe to pull itself inside out. Yes. I think there might be a chapter on that in the book.
I have also been reading The Bedside Book of Death, a scholarly piece dealing with man's five secular fears relating to death: fear of premature burial, fear of posthumous indignity, fear of bodily disintegration, fear of being forgotten, and fear of an ignominious death. The passages on resurrectionists were particularly intriguing. Besides that, I've learned about auto-icons and been introduced to the work of Fredrick Ruysch, and I'm not even halfway through the book yet.
Finally, I have been "reading" yaoi. Lots and lots of yaoi. Thank you,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
yaoi_daily. Thank you.
neherenia has excellent taste, I never believed that the series would be so good when I started reading it. Those books are like crack. They are like crack smoked in a golden crack pipe in the warmth and luxury of a fabulous crack mansion.In other book-related news, I found a copy of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time in the crazy and ever-growing Beardsley mini-library. It is delightful. Not only does Mr. Hawking cause my mind to go "!!!!!" about eight times a page, he's damn funny as well. Do you know why he is in a wheelchair? He is in a wheelchair because otherwise, his unencumbered force of sheer awesome would be so utterly powerful that it would cause the universe to pull itself inside out. Yes. I think there might be a chapter on that in the book.
I have also been reading The Bedside Book of Death, a scholarly piece dealing with man's five secular fears relating to death: fear of premature burial, fear of posthumous indignity, fear of bodily disintegration, fear of being forgotten, and fear of an ignominious death. The passages on resurrectionists were particularly intriguing. Besides that, I've learned about auto-icons and been introduced to the work of Fredrick Ruysch, and I'm not even halfway through the book yet.
Finally, I have been "reading" yaoi. Lots and lots of yaoi. Thank you,
yaoi_daily. Thank you.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Books
Date: 2005-02-08 04:36 am (UTC)I myself am halfway thru clan of the cave bear series and have several sci=fis waiting to be read.
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Date: 2005-03-08 10:34 pm (UTC)Funny thing about authors. Sometimes their books rock the entire ocean, but you wouldn't want to be in the same room as them.