The Trouble with Aliens
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Review:Noirish scifi is a weakness of myne. This fits pretty well with that description, and I enjoyed it very much. |
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Review:The first three quartes of the book are strictly a continuation of the end of The Stars at War. They are dreck. The final quarter, an independent story, is much, much better. |
If you read this blog on the website (and you do, because my feed is garbage ;-) you may have noticed a goodreads.com widget on the right.
It's not that my reading habits are interesting to anyone, since I have become a very shallow reader in the last two years or so (a terrible, terrible involution caused by all the free scifi ebooks floating around), but I love that site. In the past I posted some book-related stuff here, but it was always sort of guilty about it, posting things my readers (few as they are) probably don't give a damn about.
With goodreads, I have a way to vent my shallow opinion about my shallow readings. I need the same thing for movies.
Also, it's a much more reasonable thing than all that "now listening" idea. Who care what you are listening? It lasts for 3 minutes! A book is something you have in your head for at least a couple of days! It is so much more meaningful.
I have been thinking about using rst2pdf to create presentations. I finished exposing PDF transitions today, and that part works nicely.
Still needed:
Some sort of "page decoration" feature.
Handout support? I think this would work nicely with some sort of "conditional" directive. I need to think about it some more.
I intend to have that done for next friday, and release then.