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movie and book review: Robinson in Space by P. Keiller

It was time I watched Robinson in Space, having recently watched the last installment Robinson in Ruins (although some people have objected that this last movie is not one of the Robinson movies). Iain Sinclair says this is not “cinema as we have come to know it”. It isn’t at all. What is it, I [...]

book review: Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe

rereading this book after all this years is kind of strange. I read this book for the first time sometimes around 1994, before the first non-apartheid elections in SA. however i can only imagine what it must have been reading it when it was first published in 1971. in 1971 nixon was at the white [...]

books: Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

I loop like an infinite while statement. Instead of reading new books, I can’t help being drawn back to old books read  and reread many times over. Mona Lisa Overdrive is one of those, like really any other William Gibson’s books. and yet every time I reread a WG’s book, it’s like the first time. [...]

book review: How I reversed my hashimoto’s thyroiditis hypothyrodism, by Robert Dirgo

This book is over 120 pages long; however, 60 pages contain forms that the reader could fill with certain details on a daily bases to keep a diary. There are 5 different forms repeated 12 times to cover 12 weeks. If mr. Dirgo had been familiar with the invention of the copy machine, it would [...]

book review: the last legion, Valerio Massimo Manfredi

this is a great book, a novel that takes place in the context of historical events at the end of the roman empire, when Odoacer became king of Italy and deposed the last emperor, Romulus Augustus. It’s full of adventure, romance, honour; it’s also the story of a journey across Italy and Europe in those [...]