You could call me a Stephen King junkie. I’m pretty sure I read all his fiction—not all in English, yet—and a few of his non-fiction works. The thing is, the man just keeps coming with more books. Which I don’t mind, as they seem to be getting better. As the name betrays, King’s latest novel… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2012
First Lines: The Fifth Elephant
The Fifth Elephant is the twelfth Discworld novel I read, and my first foray into The Watch series. (Due to it’s size, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld-series could seem daunting to the uninitiated. It was to me. I started with the first few in chronological order, which drove me to the brink of giving up. When I… Read more »
First Lines: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
I think I’ve seen Disney’s Alice in Wonderland only once, many years ago. All I remember of it was that Alice was a bit of a whiny kid, and that it was pretty out there. And that Cheshire cat. Well. Crazy characters, man. Crazy characters. When I put together my list of 40 books to… Read more »
Sunday Night Music Video
Seen Live: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
It’s June 10th, 2012. I am standing on the pitch of Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence, Italy, surrounded by some fifty-thousand Italians. The Boss is about halfway through his main set, and he has just pulled some kid up on the stage to help him out with the chorus when it hits me: if the… Read more »