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Continue, book worms.
I'm also in the middle of The Girl That Played With Fire.
Careful. The last person that was in the middle of that girl got sodomized.
One of my cousins has a 1 year old boy. I visited their family over Thanksgiving and was looking at some of the books they have around the house for their child. I saw Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree."
I read it. Holy shit, that book is fucked up. What a weird, and sort-of tragic and depressing children's book.
Reading aficionados, what say you to Kindles and/or reading on iPads? I have friends that swear by them, but I notice most all of them are a bit younger than myself. Are you all old fuddy duddy traditionalists who like actual books like me, or are you ok with the digital dealios? I can't decide if I'd like one or not, I need to actually spend a little time with one first before I could make a decision.
I thought the digital book prices would be considerably less than they are too, which is disappointing. Good price for things that are still hardback only, terrible for things in paperback.
i still can't get past the fact that i think it would probably hurt my eyes. i don't care if the screen is different or whatever or the fact that they're used to reading and staring at computer screens for hours by now. i am still wary of them for that reason. scrolling, or clicking to the next page, whatever the mechanic is, there's something i really hate about that. i still am convinced my eyes would bleed. and besides, i can drop a book without worrying it will break (nothing i can't really fix with some well-placed scotch tape unless something really, really shreds it, but that's usually beyond more than a simple accident). if i spill my coffee, the pages will dry.
i still hate the idea of buying digital music. music gets to mp3 format after, and only after, i rip it from its cd form to my computer and then put it on the ipod. fuck itunes. have i mentioned i also don't understand twitter? i finally joined the last 10 years and got a phone with a keyboard. it still only calls, texts, and sort of takes crappy pictures.
I'm also in the middle of The Girl That Played With Fire.
One-Foot Brain
In a remarkable 2008 story from Colorado Springs, Colorado, a fully-developed infant foot was discovered in the brain of a newborn baby who was being operated on for a life-threatening tumor. Doctors explained that it is not uncommon for the type of tumor presented to be tissue-most often muscle, hair, or teeth-from an undeveloped fetal twin. It is extremely rare for the tissue to develop this far. The foot was removed, and the infant was expected to make a full recovery.
Croatian Transportation
Frane Selak of Croatia has the travel bug-whether fate wills it or not. In 1962, he survived a train crash that killed 17 passengers when it plunged into a freezing river. In 1963, he was traveling by plane when the door blew away from the cockpit. Nineteen passengers were killed, but Selak landed in a haystack, safe and sound. Between 1966 and 1996, he survived a bus crash, two car crashes in which his car exploded in flames, getting hit by a city bus, and driving off a cliff to escape an oncoming truck (he landed in a tree).
But Selak doesn't mind: in 2003 he won $1,000,000 dollars in the Croatian lottery.
For one, space, you can have thousands of books in this little device. That also means, no dust over tons and tons of books.
I also found a really neat book at work called "Beyond Bizarre: Frightening Facts and Blood-Curdling True Tales". The title says it all, it covers all sorts of topics-ghosts, superstitions, medical anomalies, ocean lore, unusual travel spots, etc. A couple examples (the second one in particular I love, you'll get a kick out of it):
Angela
i still hate the idea of buying digital music. music gets to mp3 format after, and only after, i rip it from its cd form to my computer and then put it on the ipod. fuck itunes. have i mentioned i also don't understand twitter? i finally joined the last 10 years and got a phone with a keyboard. it still only calls, texts, and sort of takes crappy pictures
Books are part of my decor, so that's another reason I'm anti e-readers.
Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
More vampires.
This was a very disturbing and macabre horror story Some of the scenes made me glad that I rarely visualise things in my head when I'm reading; if the film versions are anywhere as graphic I'm not sure I want to watch them, I can't bear to look at horrible injuries and disfigurement. All in all a pretty remarkable book, my only real criticism was that sometimes it spent too much time on the peripheral characters when I wanted it to get back to the main characters who were the real emotional heart of the story.
I love that stuff. My Fifth Grade teacher used to read use stuff like that; we ate it up. The one book I remember she read to us was "Against Incredible Odds." I finally found it on EBay a couple of years ago. Great stuff--true stories of survival with lots of gross stuff. I would bring it camping to read to my nephews around the campfire.