This book is an interesting read, but for unusual reasons. Its as if Harrison sets out to write a terrible book, and learns new techniques to achieve this terrible along the way. An example of his mastery of the art:
I'm getting really into reading second hand science fiction from the 1950s onwards. I read a few (but nowhere near all) of the Foundation series as a child, and I remember liking them a lot. Stolen from Wikipedia , here
I've given this blasted cold four days of rest, with no running or swimming in that time. Thursday I started to feel a lot better though, so today I decided enough was enough. I put on my new shoes, zipped
Want to be happy? Don't have kids." Of the trifecta of being married, having money, and having kids, a Harvard academic says being married makes the biggest difference to your personal level of happiness. He's pretty harsh about parenting: "Parents
2008The Snook and I got up at the butt-crack of dawn this morning to head to the Domain for the 2008 Mother's Day Classic 8K race. (That's five miles for the non-metric.) We ran it together before in 2006, but
Meteorologists don't know nothin'. I sorta guessed that, but it's nice to have it validated. Remember Opera in the Domain? Every weatherperson in Sydney said it was going to pour rain, to the extent that a bunch of people piked.
