Hello, Kay;

10 Oct 04 23:26, Kay Shapero wrote to Noel Mercer:

 KS> FWIW, I recently picked up a PDA (Palm Tungsten T3) mostly to use as a
 KS> bookreader, and have gone on an ebook binge of everything from sf to

I've thought about buying a Palm for other reasons, with the Tungsten E 
being the best value over here ATM.  The T3's big feature is its larger 
screen; how are you finding it as a device from which to read text?

Does Project Gutenberg have much recent material?  I thought it would only 
have things that were out of copyright.

     Regards,

              Robert.

CBIP:  THE GOLEM'S EYE  by  Jonathan Stroud
     Book 2 of the Bartimaeus Trilogy.  Great fun.  Nathaniel is a bit 
     older and becoming harder and more vicious, just like all the other 
     magicians.  Bartimaeus is is usual self-advertising wisecracking self.  
     This time, we get more about the Resistance, how it works and why it 
     was founded - the travesty of justice in magic-ruled Britain...
Just finished:  THE SNOW  by  Adam Roberts
     It starts snowing on 6th September, and doesn't stop until the snow is 
     three miles deep.  Only a few people survive, most of them American 
     military.  And then the lies, conspiracies and cover-ups begin...
Just finished:  IRON COUNCIL  by China Mieville
     Set in the same shabby, debased world as PERDIDO STREET STATION and 
     THE SCAR, some twenty years after the events of those two books, IRON 
     COUNCIL may be too long, and the endless procession of brutality, 
     monstrosities, mutations, corruptions and cruel perverse punishments 
     eventually ceases to shock and starts to numb.  The last part is set 
     in a ruined city during a civil war, both factions under simultaneous 
     supernatural attack from without, and with a doomed train filled with 
     naive idealists and a cargo of frail hope steaming towards certain 
     destruction.  I saw the ending as largely a cop-out.  Yet, this dark 
     and dystopic book, well suited to the world-view of people who lived 
     through the horrors of the Twentieth Century's wars, civil wars, and 
     attempts to survive toxic regimes, makes most modern fantasy look 
     childish, shallow, and suffocatingly cosy.


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