I highly recommend The Chronoliths by Robert Wilson. The Spin series is also great, though i was a little disappointed by the last book.

The book literally captures your imagination, conscripts it until you’ve added another chapter. That’s simply the price of reading it.

Don’t place seed books in your library without adequate quarantine. Or do you want the plants to spread and Asimov’s robots to become mossy?

Fictional plants can germinate in minds, so books about them are special, more akin to seedbanks than books. Other books provide the soil.

Attempts have been made to travel the river, but it ignores most ships. The only vessel that works is a small paper boat from old books.

Their society has never known books and writing, or needed either. Large orchards are a thing of power, and closely guarded against arson.

@Merenlin There is Audible for books but I use Smart AudioBook Player on android

@shazow Maybe “Graphics Programming Black Book” http://t.co/tY31It6psj

📚 Finished reading NOT A BOOK: Understanding Complexity by Scott E. Page

📚 Finished reading NOT A BOOK: Understanding Complexity by Scott E. Page

Specialization is for Insects
From Robert Heinlein’s science fiction book, _Time Enough for Love_:

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure … ⌘ Read more

The joy of reading Hemingway
Recently, Kent had the misfortune of picking “ A Moveable Feast”, by Ernest Hemingway, for a school assignment. I know I am not the right person1 to judge anyone’s writing style, I am simply recollecting the comments Kent has made while reading the book.

So far, other than finding the book boring — mind it, he is barely 13 — he is puzzled at the use of French terms that he … ⌘ Read more

@bo_go Black Books http://t.co/EmGWztn

Steal everything

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother conceali … ⌘ Read more

Всички броеве на Popular Science в Google Books http://bit.ly/9NvIgM

Google Books ме убиха с това архивно издание. Помня че го имам някъде вкъщи: http://bit.ly/OoarM