Dave Cullen's Blog: Conclusive Evidence of Dave Cullen's Existence--The GoodReads Edition

I'm going to do an author Q&A on Columbine June 10-24.

The group is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1952...

And the discussion thread is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1544...

I look forward to discussing it with you.

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust


<h3>My review
I'm not far enough to review this book, but enjoying every sentence.



I'm reading very slowly, and occasionally, off and on between other books. There is no sign of a plot yet, which would ordinarily put me off, but from the opening sentences I was taken in. I did not expect to like this at all, but there you go.



I may spend the rest of my life reading this book, and I hope to enjoy the rest of my life.


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First, I stole the title from my general blog, which I stole from Nabokov. He's my literary hero. To write like that. Someday.

My favorite work is his memoir, "Conclusive Evidence," which he later retitled "Speak, Memory" at his publisher's request. In the foreward, he explains that the original title referred to conclusive evidence of his having existed. I heard a kindred spirit. Hopefully there are a lot of reasons I was plopped down on this planet, but I do believe that writing is my chief mission. So I'll do what I can, and hope to leave some useful evidence of my existence.

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FYI, my general blog is here, but requires some updating: http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/

(I've had some tech problems, so I've been blogging on OpenSalon this spring while the book tour vacuumed up every available moment of my time: http://opensalon.com/blog/dave_cullen )

Interesting NYT piece about a Kindle alternative:

Don’t Quit That Kindle Just Yet.

The COOL-ER device sounds not ready for primetime, but I like a lot of where it's going--especially on price.

And most of all, I like the flurry of alternatives. That's likely to juice up the market, build excitement, and act as a testing ground for ideas. Designers at Amazon and Sony will discover good ideas there, and users will too, and demand them.

This is how new devices get good fast: lots of ideas, lots

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The Today Show announced this morning that Michael Phelps "lost" a race last night, his second "loss" of the weekend.

Yet they showed footage of him getting a silver medal laid around his head.

I googled, and found most of the stories, including this one at Yahoo say he "lost"--not a mention in the whole thing that he came in second. (This one does--referring to two golds and two silvers.)

Man, talk about ridiculous expectations. I'm sure he wanted to win all four golds, and he didn't win the

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Ever since I saw the first Kindle, I've had one big complaint: the screen is way too small. It will never be widely adopted until the screen size approximates a book.

Problem solved.

Amazon announced the Kindle-DX, and the screen is as big as a book. (Though they don't have touchscreen keyboards yet, so they're wasting a lot of space, making the thing bigger than a book, but it's looking pretty good.) We have choices.

Unfortunately the price got even worse--up to  an outrageous $489 for the n

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