Weasel Wordshttp://www.klio.org/weblog/A Book Logen-usweb@klio.orgCopyright 2003<link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_06_archive.html#entry-462</link><description> Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is the single worst piece of SF I’ve ever read. Arguably, it may be the single worst book I’ve ever read, taking the hotly contested lead from Shadowdale, a piece of D&D fiction written by a literal c... </description><dc:date>2009-06-26T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_06_archive.html#entry-461</link><description>So for the last fifteen years or so, I’ve had a list of books I mean to read right this minute, any day now. And on that list has long been William Gibson’s Neuromancer . So many times I’ve picked it up, fully intending to read it. I’ve ev... </description><dc:date>2009-06-26T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_06_archive.html#entry-460</link><description>It occurs to me that I forgot all about John McWhorter’s Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue . I’d previously read his The Power of Babel and found it excellent, so was very interested in this smaller, lighter-looking book.... </description><dc:date>2009-06-26T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_06_archive.html#entry-459</link><description>So after finishing the big ol’ book of musical history, I was filled with a desire to re-read Dave Duncan’s “A Man of His Word” series (Magic Casement, Perilous Seas, Faery Lands Forlorn, and Emperor and Clown). I was a bit nervous about it, because... </description><dc:date>2009-06-25T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_06_archive.html#entry-458</link><description>I’m almost reluctant to even talk about Alex Ross’ The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century , which is a history of twentieth century classical music. Because the problem is that the book is excellent in ways I can’t do justice ... </description><dc:date>2009-06-25T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_06_archive.html#entry-457</link><description>I always hate writing booklog entries for single, isolated books late in serieseses, because the only useful thing there ever is to say about a late series book is how it compares to earlier entries in the series. But in the case of Jim Butcher’s Pri... </description><dc:date>2009-06-25T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_05_archive.html#entry-456</link><description>I’ve described myself as a “Dave Duncan fanboy” at least twice on this booklog, and only re-reading some old entries kept me from doing so a third time just now. One of the things I love so much about his work is that he doesn’t repeat himself. Whi... </description><dc:date>2009-05-17T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_05_archive.html#entry-455</link><description>Douglas Adams is, of course, most famous for his Hitchhiker’s Guide books. And like any reasonable geek of a certain age, I read those in middle school about 20-30 times, to the point where I can almost open up to a random spot and start quoting.... </description><dc:date>2009-05-17T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_05_archive.html#entry-454</link><description>Quick, name a Hugo-winning novel.... </description><dc:date>2009-05-17T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_05_archive.html#entry-453</link><description>Back when I was in junior high, I would look at the wall of tie-in books — Dragonlance, Star Trek, Forgotten Realms — in Waldenbooks’ SF section and sneer. Who’d read those trashy things, I always wondered, as I picked up the vastly superior literar... </description><dc:date>2009-05-15T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item></channel></rss>