It's Only A Movie: Alfred Hitchcock, A Personal Biography

Very interesting. Hitch was such a perverted dick.


To sum up just how much of a dick he was, here's a quote from the book, from Melanie Griffith, daughter of Tippi Hedren, who worked with and hated Hicthcock in 'The Birds':

"He was a motherfucker. And you can quote me".

I finished M.P. Shiel's 1901 novel The Purple Cloud at four in the morning today. Good stuff... the first half blows me away but it falls into bad territory about halfway or two-thirds in. Still worth a read and now I need to read the Arkham collection of Shiel that just arrived in the mail.

Just picked up 3 that I'm switching off and on (one of them is a comic strip book however... not really a big read heh). The Big Book of Hell, American Psycho, & Monty Python and Philosophy : Nudge Nudge, Think Think

I'm reading Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury...he has a very musical style. I liked Something Wicked...this one is a little harder to get into.

great book ..

those are my 2 favorite bradbury books

Neanderthal by John Darnton


i doubt i'll finish this one - its too stupid.

fuck i hate these books where all the effort goes into 'science fact' and not one bit of thought given to the standard stock characters.

another beautiful woman scientist. ... gimme a break

'The Notebook' - Nicholas Sparks
CK

I got this for Christmas. Haven't read it yet. Is it good?

just finished David Mitchell's Ghostwritten - very literary but truly excellent - disjointed but everything fits together in an amazingly neat package that leaves you truly in awe of his talent - - not horror or sci-fi per se, but there are elements in there from both and it is a really impressive piece of writing!

i just started Philip Roth's The Plot Against America- and, while i generally like Roth, I'm having trouble getting into it

If I had known that all the science girls had to do was take of their glasses and let their hair down to be beautiful I would have spent a LOT of time in the science lab. Anyway, thanks for saving me time here, I was looking at this one.