aNobii: News from Eliza clarke's shelf

The Camel Club

Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:42:42 PST

Eliza clarke put "The Camel Club" onto shelf

It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions. One man leads this aging, ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone." Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, curren ...

Bloodsucking Fiends

Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:25:15 PST

Eliza clarke put "Bloodsucking Fiends" onto shelf

Here's something different: a vampire novel that's light, funny, and not at all hackneyed. Between scenes of punks bowling frozen turkeys on the graveyard shift in a supermarket, or snapping turtles loose in a loft and gnawing on designer shoes, this novel has comic charm to spare. But it also packs an appealingly downbeat message about the consumer culture: Becoming a vampire has given the twent ...

Society of Mind

Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:24:31 PST

Eliza clarke put "Society of Mind" onto shelf

Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?"Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless. Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pie ...

Kafka on the Shore

Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:24:07 PST

Eliza clarke put "Kafka on the Shore" onto shelf