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Uncle Bob Martin: 13 Books That Stuck to the Roof of My Mind

8 June 2009 12:33 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Wall Street, they tell me, is on an upturn, and the economy is well on its way to recovery. Hooray and Huzzah! But, even if all this optimism is justified (which I doubt), the rough times aren't entirely behind us and, however long they linger, certain businesses are going to suffer -- especially certain businesses that may not be fit for survival in the digital world, like publishing for the niche markets of Sf and horror.

And, even if happy days are here again, some 20th Century businesses won't be coming back, ever.

Every year, March is National Reading Month, and every year it passes by with no one noticing, except for a few librarians who have to get up on ladders to post the banners (of course, this year, no budget for banners, so there wasn't even that).

Well, this blog is going to change everything; we're going to

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Hugh Laurie! Jessica Simpson! They're Big Overseas

12 May 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Who says success is measured only by Hollywood's terms? In France, House star Hugh Laurie is right up there among such literary luminaries as Jean-Paul Sartre, Jules Verne and, oui, Victor Hugo. The British star's novel Tout Est Sous Contrôle, a translation of his 1996 thriller The Gun Seller, is currently No. 2 on France's best sellers list, according to global news agency Agence France-Presse. The novel, a James Bond-like spy spoof, has sold more than 100,000 copies since its release in February by a little-known French publishing house Sonatine. And though the success comes 13 years after it was original published - and

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