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	<title>Blasted Members - I love Books. Good Books. Reviews, author information, book-related news and quality literary web links. Enjoy!</title>
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		<title>The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Colour Photographs from a Lost Age by David Okuefuna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drop everything and rush out to your local bookshop! Utterly gorgeous, it&#8217;s the eagerly awaited (by me) companion book for the BBC Four series on Albert Kahn&#8217;s Archives of the Planet project.
Photographs (autochromes being a particular favorite) are a passion of mine, and these are stunning.
Inventing a process to create stable colour photographs was no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/06/22/the-wonderful-world-of-albert-kahn-colour-photographs-from-a-lost-age-by-david-okuefuna/</link>
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		<title>The Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what computers (in general) and the Internet (specifically) are doing to your brain?
I know I have &#8212; more and more lately.
The effects on us in general are, of course, innumerable &#8212; positive and negative. In this post, would like to mention a couple of the negative effects because these are what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/06/20/the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;&#8230;so far as you prefer those rapid and ephemeral writings to slow and enduring writings &#8212; books, properly so called. For all books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Mark this distinction &#8212; it is not one of quality only. It is not merely the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/06/06/sesame-and-lilies-by-john-ruskin/</link>
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		<title>Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be one of those promised short reviews.
All kinds of people recommended and loved this collection of &#8220;humorous&#8221; autobiographical essays. I find this a little disturbing. I suppose it&#8217;s just another example of how out of sync I am with&#8230; well, most people.
To me, he came off as quite mean and rather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/06/01/me-talk-pretty-one-day-by-david-sedaris/</link>
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		<title>Regeneration by Pat Barker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(First of a trilogy, it&#8217;s followed by The Eye in the Door and Ghost Road.)
I wanted so badly to like this. World War I poets, posttraumatic stress, early psychiatry&#8230; how could you go wrong? I read them over Christmas. It was this or Milton, I couldn&#8217;t make up my mind. Should have gone with Milton.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/28/regeneration-by-pat-barker/</link>
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		<title>High-Rise by J.G. Ballard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was good. Not great, but good.
The plot: the yuppie universe implodes.
The setting: a monstrous apartment tower that immediately brings to mind Le Corbusier&#8217;s plan for central Paris. (&#8221;Eighteen, sixty-story cruciform towers&#8221; each of them home to 40,000 inhabitants. Alain de Botton talks about it in his wonderful book &#8220;The Architecture of Happiness&#8220;, which I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/24/high-rise-by-jg-ballard/</link>
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		<title>New Hat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe I locked myself out of my blog last night.
I was twelve years old again, nobody home, staring at the door of my apartment. I remember flipping up the mail slot flap and making kissy noises until one of the cats appeared. I waggled my fingers at him. He turned and walked away. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/13/new-hat/</link>
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		<title>Unused brains and the curse of &#8220;nice&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BLVR: Rumor has it that you turned down the chance to direct Disney’s remake of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner because you felt they weren’t interested in really exploring racism.
HR: The way they wanted to do it didn’t have a lot to do with the colossal amount of pain and violence that swirls around racial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/07/unused-brains-and-the-curse-of-nice/</link>
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		<title>Bookshops in Paris, France (new and used!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe I haven&#8217;t done a post on the English-language bookshops of Paris before!
I searched this blog (yes, I wrote all of it, but I&#8217;ve a mind like a sieve this days) and only came up with one post on Berkeley Books of Paris. So here&#8217;s a little list I&#8217;ve compiled:
Second-hand bookstores:
San Francisco Book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/03/bookshops-in-paris-france-new-and-used/</link>
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		<title>Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What was I thinking?
This is exactly the kind of book I really dislike: sitcom-style quirky, hyper-verbal, endless prose fireworks to cover the complete lack of substance&#8230; I guess I was having a really open-minded day.
The experience of reading this book is similar to that of having a coked-up mensa member cornering you at a party [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/02/special-topics-in-calamity-physics-by-marisha-pessl/</link>
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