Category: books
The Millennium Trilogy’s Author: Stieg Larsson
These are the book covers for UK’s release of the Millennium Trilogy. The book covers in yesterday’s post are used in the US editions. I prefer the US covers. The author of the Millennium Trilogy died in 2004 several months after he submitted the trilogy to his publisher and before the first book was published.…
The Millennium Trilogy
I just finished the third book of the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson at around 2am Thursday night. The Millennium Trilogy consist of “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo“, “The Girl Who Played With Fire“, and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest“. The contemporary crime-thrillers originally published in Sweden in 2005-2007 were translated into…
The Geography of Bliss: Happiness Scores
Continuing from yesterday’s blog on the book “The Geography of Bliss”, the author – Eric Weiner mentioned a World Database of Happiness that is maintained by Ruut Veenhoven at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It describes itself as a continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life. For this research project, happiness…
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
I finished this book last year in the summer and liked it a lot. The author described it as a “philosophical self-help humorous travel memoir.” Weiner was a veteran foreign correspondent for National Public Radio and traveled the world in search of the happiest places. This is how the book was described on his web site:…
Pattern Recognition recognized
I finished reading “Pattern Recognition” by William Gibson (first published 2003) – thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended. It is less sci-fi furturistic than his early works. The story revolves around a quest to find the maker of a series of enigmatic online videos that rocked a certain corner of the cyberspace inhabited by otakus, industrial…
Jet Lag / Lost In A Moment
I am reading “Pattern Recognition” – a sci-fi-ish fiction by William Gibson. His style in describing all things near-futuristic can sometimes be abstract, to say the least. But it surely beats something that reads like a fanboy’s wish lists of next-generation gadgets. The main character is a media consultant who is psychologically “allergic” to certain…