Tag: Neil Gaiman
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#bookblockade — well, many thanks to David Archuleta’s media clout
Here it is. A series of unrelated events can lead to a change agent for the Philippines. If not transformative, at least it will be very informational to bloggers and news agencies around the world on the plight of the great book blockade. Thanks to David Archuleta’s appearance in Eat Bulaga, the Philippines is now…
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Audible Recommendations: Predictably Irrational, Gaiman’s Graveyard Book, Batman
The alternate title of this post is “The British Pop Culture Invasion.” 🙂 Ah, to make up for the lack of recommendations for the past few weeks, here are three books I downloaded with my subscription from Audible. The first is a Diggnation recommendation from Kevin Rose titled Predictably Irrational. I got this version as…
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Coraline: The Graphic Novel
There are some books that aremeant to be turned into graphic novels and Coraline fits the bar. I bought this over the weekend at Fully Booked in Rustan’s Makati for P640.00. The imagery – especially that of the “button eyed other mother” is disturbing. The graphic novel is illustrated by the award winning P. Craig…
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Some… wait. MORE realizations about Audiobooks, DRM and Neil Gaiman
There’s something bugging me. When I started subscribing to Audible three months ago, I noticed that my search field for books greatly diminishes when I’m logged in. For instance, when I do a search for Neil Gaiman on Audible without signing in, I get a good size of his past works including Anansi Boys, Neverwhere,…
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Love-hate with audiobooks and “real” books – capping with science fiction
I tried to make it a habit to post my monthly audiobook download. So far I’ve recommended three titles (Stephen Colbert’s I Am America and So Can You, Bob Newhart’s I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This, and the dramatization of Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls) in this blog and I by far have…
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