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Photography career books: be careful!

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Some weeks ago I bought a book about starting a career in photography. I think that exploring new possible careers that makes you proud and happy is always a good thing. The book is called “Starting your career as a freelance photographer” and I was quite undecided if buying it or [...]

Harry Potter Lexicon is decimating JK creative work

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One thing i cannot stand is greediness. I cannot accept singers or actors who cry because some evil people steal their music or film, setting their families at stake of starvation… or so it seems. I cannot accept it because it is unfair. In a public interview I have read some days ago, [...]

Books Underground: The Book Thief

It has been hard carrying this hardback on the underground. It is not light as a paperback, and you cannot push it easily in your bag… but the physical book took perfectly the weight of the words that it carries. The Book Thief is a sad story, a story about the World War II, a [...]

Books Underground: The Uninvited

Do you enjoy boring, useless reading? The Uninvited is the book for you! I did not like the writing style, the story… ok believe me if I tell you that I did not enjoy a single page! A book to forget, as soon as possible.
The overview of Beijing and of China is such a background [...]

“Next” delusion by Michael Crichton

When discussing about books, I admit that my taste are quite difficult to satisfy. I am looking for good books, with good story and well written. My brother pointed me to “Next“, the last work of Michael Crichton. I bought it at Borders two days later and, having finished Tom Clancy’s Executive Orders (good book), [...]

Evolution and The Selfish Gene

This night, during my sleepless hours, I started reading a new book: The Selfish Gene. Usually I tend to finish a book before writing something about it, but in this case there has been some passages in the first pages that I consider really interesting.
Richard Dawkins writes that the species are competing in what Darwin [...]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Just finished this hilarious book! Different from every other I’ve read lately, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a nice book to read!

Douglas Adam’s book is an Absurd Science Fiction, where the robot is depressed, the President of the Galaxy is a scapegoat and the Bureaucracy is so similar to the Italian one that [...]

His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass

In these last months the trilogy “His Dark Materials” has been one of the best I’ve read. The books are very well written and the story is so strange to be intriguing!
Now the time has come for Hollywood to take care of this books, even if I do not think that they will produce the [...]

What is remaining after the Deathly Hallows?

Yesterday has been a very strange days. I finished the last J K Rowling’s book the night before, and the entire Sunday has gone thinking back at the happenings of the Book 7. Sometimes I felt sad because of the knowledge that the saga is over; the same sadness I still experience.
Please note that I [...]

Deathly Hallows: is it ready or is it already gone?

The official launch date is 21st July 2007 at 00:01 GMT. It means that in this moment the wait is less than 15 hours.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the most awaited book in the history: millions of copies have already been sold in pre order and people are queuing from yesterday in front [...]

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