January 2012
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Introducing Barely Literary
Barely Literary is a blog about book reading culture including book reviews, trailers and movie adaptation news. It’s not about writing. We have a healthy relationship with our parents and have never been to Brooklyn.
Please follow along there and tell a friend. I’ll now be using this tumblr to pass along important photos and videos like the one below.
Dark Tower 4 ½ sounds complicated →
Technical Difficulties
Sorry folks, no posts over the last few days while I’m migrating my blog over to it’s own powerful domain. Fear not, I will be returning very shortly.
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LINKS this week
Stop everything and watch this dancing zebra. (via The Clearly Dope)
Good job internets with that SOPA thing. Now if we could just harness that power to bring back Community. |Uproxx|
New Hunger Games poster. Movie poster designers talking around the water cooler: Designer 1 “Hey, maybe we should do one that’s not diagonal.” Designer 2 “Shut your filthy mouth.”...
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BOOK REVIEW: Machine Man by Max Barry
In Machine Man, engineer Dr. Charles Neumann (get it? new-man. lol) crushes his leg in a gruesome workplace accident. He gets the idea to improve upon the leg’s biological design while building his prosthetic. The only problem? that other “fleshy” leg he has left is holding him back. So begins Charles’ obsession with bodily improvement through science, engineering and amputation.
Just ...
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Cannonball Read IV reviews of note
This year I’m participating in Cannonball Read IV. Cannonball Read is a race among Pajiba readers to read and review 52 books in a year. Or 26. Or 13. A charitable donation is made for those who get to 52.
There are 240 people signed up this year. That’s a lot of book reviews. I’ll try to find some of the interesting reviews plus reviews of books I’ve read and post them here.
An intern...
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SOPA/PIPA day :-(
Stolen from The Oatmeal. Be sure to check them out, but not today because they are blacked out.
The internets are full of info about SOPA and PIPA today. Here are some of the more informative articles I’ve read.
Internet property lawyer and Pajiba writer Seth Freilich give us an informative and profanity laden argument. |Pajiba|
An interview with Cheezburger CEO Ben Hue....
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It's Raylan Givens Day!
Today Elmore Leonard’s new book Raylan goes on sale. And tonight the third season of Justified premiers on FX. At 86 years old, Leonard is still cranking out crime novels and it sounds like he has quite an impact on the show. In an interview with show producer, star and teen heart throb (probably) Timothy Olyphant, he describes the give and take:
…there seems to be some synergy...
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LINKS this week
Pic from Vanity Fair outtake. To see more awesome people hanging out with Paul Rudd click here.
20 Books to read before they become movies in 2012 |BuzzSugar|
Mastering the Mix of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo |Underwire|
Rachel Ray leaves Random House |WSJ| - Warning! Stupid pay wall
Paul Rudd to guest on Parks & Rec |Warming Glow|
Avett Brothers working with Rick Rubin again. New...
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Cannonball Read IV reviews of note
“A La Modeliste” - Mark Ronson, Mos Def and Erykah Badu with help by Trombone Shorty and The Dap Kings.
This year I’m participating in Cannonball Read IV. Cannonball Read is a race among Pajiba readers to read and review 52 books in a year. Or 26. Or 13. A charitable donation is made for those who get to 52.
There are 240 people signed up this year. That’s a lot of book reviews....
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BOOK REVIEW: Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan...
The orphan, the freakshow, the tugboat, the narrator; this is Lionel Essrog. Through his mind, riddled with tourettic symptoms, we view his own private Marlowe detective story. Lionel, along with 3 other orphans from St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, is mentored and employed by Frank Minna, a small time mobster that runs a car service/detective agency. The 4 boy’s entire world view is...
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo opening sequence...
David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has inspired a lot of debate among fans of the Stieg Larsson’s books and the original Swedish films. I’m going to see it, but I’m not sure the big screen is the best way to watch a 5 minute rape scene. So I’ll probably wait until I can view it on the old 27” Magnavox.
However, there is no denying that the...
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LINKS this week
7 Things about the Justified cast that you probably didn’t know. |Warming Glow|
Creepy Got Milk ads. |Warming Glow|
James Franco signs book deal to write a fictional book about James Franco. |The Hollywood Reporter|
The amazing Merrill Garbus and the tUnE yArDs perform Bizness on Kimmel. |Some Kind of Awesome|
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Gladwell's Intellectual Adventure Stories,...
Malcolm Gladwell’s 3 most recognizable books, Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, have been redesigned for this stunning collection available at Amazon. I’m pretty sure my dog ate one of these and I loaned another out to some mystery person, so I may have to grab this set.
The set was designed by Paul Sahre and Brian Rea.
“During our initial meeting with Malcolm, he referred...
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Cannonball Read IV reviews of note
I’m going to assume Satan’s Lamborghini is a Diablo.
This year I’m participating in Cannonball Read IV. Cannonball Read is a race among Pajiba readers to read and review 52 books in a year. Or 26. Or 13. A charitable donation is made for those who get to 52.
There are almost 200 236 people signed up this year. That’s a lot of book reviews. I’ll try to find some...
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BOOK REVIEW: Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski
Charlie Hardie is a drunk, overweight, damaged, professional house sitter that just happens to stumble into a wild conspiracy laden plot to kill action movie star Lane Madden. Directing this attempted assassination is ultimate bad girl Boobs McGee. Actually she goes by Mann, but seriously, she’s topless for the first ⅓ of the book. The only person Charlie can trust is Deke the FBI guy that...
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BOOK REVIEW: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Under Wizard in the Yellow Pages, you’ll only find one result:
Harry Dresden - Wizard Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties or Other Entertainment.
As the only openly practicing wizard in the country, you’d think Harry would be rich and famous. You’d be wrong. Harry’s broke, down on his luck, mobsters,...
December 2011
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LINKS: Best of Edition
Best of 2011: Pop Culture’s Tastiest Bits |Underwire|
The Best Books of Cannonball Read III |Pajiba|
140 Characters of Ego: December Edition |Uproxx|
The 20 Most iconic Book Covers of All Time |Flavorwire|
The 2011 UPROXX People of The Year |Uproxx|
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