Stuck in the Mud by Jane Clarke is a bright and colorful story sure to delight all preschoolers.
Early in the morning, a hen wakes up to discover that one of her young chicks has run off! She is utterly distraught to find that he has gotten himself stuck in the mud! Hen tries to free him, only to end up stuck herself! Comedy ensues as one by one, the animals on the farm try to help o
Stuck in the Mud
Posted in Kids by krissysue2 149 days ago (Editorial)The Wolfen by Whitley Strieber
Posted in Horror by sarahhamer 152 days ago (Editorial)
the only book that has ever had me jumping at shadows when I walked down the street or terrified to go to sleep! Though I still read it over and over again!
The story follows two detectives investigating a number of horrific murders, started by the discovery of two viciously mauled, partly eaten cops at a lonely car compound. They soon discover that there is something now hunting the
The story follows two detectives investigating a number of horrific murders, started by the discovery of two viciously mauled, partly eaten cops at a lonely car compound. They soon discover that there is something now hunting the
Once...by James Herbert
Posted in Mystery by Cthulhu 209 days ago (http://www.amazon.com)
In this book James Herbert has created a fairy tale which is definitely for adults. Returning to his family home in the countryside the main character, Thom Kindred, is drawn into a fantastical world of faries, witches and demons.
There is a definite progression through the book which starts out full of enchantment and childlike wonder and gradually becomes darker and more twisted until it rea
There is a definite progression through the book which starts out full of enchantment and childlike wonder and gradually becomes darker and more twisted until it rea
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Posted in Popular Science by Factoid 209 days ago (http://www.amazon.com)
The singularity reffered to in the title of this book is a time of exponential technological growth, particularly in the fields of artificical intelligence, genetics and nanotechnology, which will completely transform society and even the human body.
Kurzweil is predicting realy astonishingly dramatic changes over the next few decades and beyond, but he is not just some random bloke with an ov
Kurzweil is predicting realy astonishingly dramatic changes over the next few decades and beyond, but he is not just some random bloke with an ov
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror
Posted in Horror by Cthulhu 209 days ago (http://www.amazon.com)
Review of H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 1: At The Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror
This collection of seven tales by H.P. Lovecraft, the master of the short horror story, has a good balance of stories from his dream cycle as well as the cthulhu mythos stories which he is most famous for.
It starts off with the eponymous 'At The Mountains of Madness', which is a classic cthulhu tale
This collection of seven tales by H.P. Lovecraft, the master of the short horror story, has a good balance of stories from his dream cycle as well as the cthulhu mythos stories which he is most famous for.
It starts off with the eponymous 'At The Mountains of Madness', which is a classic cthulhu tale
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Posted in Non Fiction by Factoid 210 days ago (http://www.amazon.com)
The basic premise of this book is that people make decisions in two different ways - logical conscious decisions using all of the information available, and 'thin slicing' which is mainly a subconscious process akin to intuition. It then goes on to suggest that we generally underestimate the quality of this intuitive decision making and that by learning to trust it and harness it we can be more s
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Posted in Science Fiction by kepher 211 days ago (http://www.amazon.com)
Set in the 29th century Hyperion evokes a future in which explorers have set out to the stars and colonised many new worlds, humanity has split into two factions, and advanced artificial intelligences have legal rights as living beings.
The 'hegemony of man' inhabit the world-web, a group of colonised planets linked together by gates which allow instantaneous travel (gifts from the AI technoco
The 'hegemony of man' inhabit the world-web, a group of colonised planets linked together by gates which allow instantaneous travel (gifts from the AI technoco
The Father-thing: short stories by Philip K Dick
Posted in Science Fiction by kepher 211 days ago (http://www.amazon.com)
Philip K Dick is one of the mosot celebrated science fiction authors of the twentieth century, and most people wil probably have heard of him from the film adaptations that have been made from his books, such as the 80's classic Total Recall, or the more recent Minority Report. Dick was a prolifc author who was driven to write largely as a catharsis for his paranoid delusion and drug induced vis
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