18:11, Sunday 30 Mar., 2008
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Books read March 2008, with date finished:
A Science Fiction Omnibus , Brian Aldiss (editor) (13th)The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam , Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah (translators) (13th, r.)The Purple Cloud , M. P. Shiel (13th)A Lover's Discourse , Roland Barthes (15th)The Worst Journey in the World , Apsley Cherry-Garrard (20th)The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within , Edward R. Tufte (21st)Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , Tom Stoppard (22nd, r.)Antarctica , Kim Stanley Robinson (23rd, r.)What is History? , E. H. Carr (26th)253 , Geoff Ryman (30th)
Graves' fraudulent Rubaiyyat is breath-taking, as always. Cherry-Garrard, Carr, Stoppard and Ryman are also happy additions to this month's reading. But Barthes' Lover's Discourse is an observed and poignant pattern language of love. Recommended.
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