Archive for August, 2002
Revelation Space
Tuesday, August 27th, 2002
by Alastair Reynolds
ISBN: 0441009425
This debut novel is best described in two words: space opera.
It weighs in at nearly 600 pages, and is almost entirely plot-propelled (versus character-driven.) It covers the
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Understanding Comics
Wednesday, August 21st, 2002
by Scott McCloud
ISBN: 006097625X
Comics has always been on the periphery of my interest, so I've never gotten around to reading them. But I felt compelled to read this book for
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The Roaring Girl
Friday, August 16th, 2002
by Greg Hollingshead
ISBN: 0156005840
This is the kind of book you think you are going to like, you try to like, but in the end you don't like the way you
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Numbers: The Universal Language
Sunday, August 11th, 2002
by Denis Guedj
ISBN: 0810928450
This book isn't meant to be a deep scholarly text. It is set up more in the manner of those Freud for Beginners types of books (though
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