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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Six books I'm going to hold off reading for a while

By Jack Brummet, Non-fiction Editor


Here are six books I'm going to hold off reading for a while.

In print; available from Amazon.

A guy got a patent on keeping a severed head alive.  In print, available on Amazon for $145.

In print; available from Amazon.

In print; available from Amazon. a thoughtful discourse on the creative, 
performative, psychological, and even occult aspects of the sharpener’s art.   
This is written by the same guy who wrote the "Get Your War On" comic strip.

In print; buy it at Amazon.  If you like language, it's pretty interesting to read a chunk of this to feel English without the "E"  He uses surprisingly few awkward constructions (you know that the -ed verbs had to be really tough to work around).  But the lack of "E's" surprisingly changes the sound of the language--both, by the lack of the "E" itself, and by the "A's" and "I's" and "O's" becoming more dominant visually, and in the sound of the language.

Still in print at Amazon.
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