As a lifelong bibliophile, this quote about books from Carl Sagan made me pause and look at my library with wonder. “A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person—perhaps
Title sequence of the David Fincher’s version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is totally fantastic. Not sure yet what it has to do with the story, but it’s a great piece of effects, editing, and cinematography. Super cool.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter – I thought it was a joke. Turns out, besides being a book by Seth Grahame-Smith, it’s a movie by Tim Burton (as producer) that should come out next summer.
Found that question on reddit, and the responses were great. Below are some of my favorite books of those listed in the reddit comments.
This NPR interview with James Gleick was weak, but good enough to whet my appetite for Gleick’s new book, The Information. To be fair, the topic of information theory is HUGE and intersects with just about everything, which was one of the points of the book that Gleick got across. But I guess it’s just