Without a doubt, Duma Key is one of Stephen King’s finest works. In his oeuvre, it can be placed somewhere between Rita Haywood and the Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. Sure, there’s some spooky stuff, but like Shawshank and Mile, it’s first and foremost about the people.
Highly recommended.
Stephen King — Duma Key
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According to the latest statistics, the market share for Firefox is just 16,4% in The Netherlands. Which leaves us second to last in Europe, with only Ukraine below us.
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My momma always told me that you shouldn’t make promises you can’t keep. (Actually, I can’t recall her ever telling me that, but bear with me.) Your mother probably told you the same thing, as it seems like something every mother is bound to tell sooner or later. And if it wasn’t your mother who [...]
Since I’m way too lazy to do some real blogging, I stole this from the internets. Deal with it. ;-)
The instructions for this one are simple: open up your favorite music player (in my case, foobar 2000) and answer the following questions truthfully.
How many songs total: 12,291
How many hours or days of music: 6 weeks, [...]
As a Springsteen fan and someone who has a soft spot for tastefully played organs in rock music, it saddened me to learn that E Street Band keyboardist Danny Federici died yesterday.
Here’s two songs to celebrate his life and music.
Bruce Springsteen - Give the Girl a Kiss (1977 Darkness on the Edge of Town outtake, [...]
Once, I came across a list of things every man should be able to do. Strangely enough, Google isn’t helping me find it. Sure, it lists all sorts of similar lists, but not the one I had in mind. So, instead of backing it up with some empirical evidence, I’ll have to invoke the (my) [...]
While not caring about this website for a while is fine with me, but invariably, stuff keeps piling up. So without further ado, tonight’s business.
Nightwish in Amsterdam
For years, I’ve had the idea that it would be great to go to a concert in the goth-scene (think Within Temptation, After Forever, Nightwish, et al) in a [...]
Our prime-minister, in a reaction on Geert Wilders’ film, Fitna:
Muslims, Christians and people of other convictions can easily live together in peace. The problem is not religion, but misuse of religion to sow hatred and intolerance. That is why we are calling for respect for everyone’s deepest convictions.
This year, Dodenherdenking (May 4th, the annual remembrance [...]