Last year I finally got around to reading some books that I should have read years ago. One of those was Neuromancer by cyberpunk novelist William Gibson, and I recently bought the two sequels, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
The prose is pretty dense and so they’re not exactly for the fainthearted, but great reads [...]

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You can hardly miss this book by Tim Ferriss at the moment, it seems to be everywhere, but the question must be is it just hype or does it live up to its seemingly unbelieveable title?
I read the book straight through when it first arrived and although it seems to set the reader up for a [...]

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One thing I was happy to see in Casino Royale was the appearance of the Vesper. This drink is featured in the book and, as in the film, it was concocted by 007 himself and later named after the heroine.
Now, one of the ingredients in the Vesper is Kina Lillet and author Kinsley Amis took [...]

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