Kiran Desai, youngest winner of the Booker Prize, has upset some people because of the fictional characters in her book. Threats against her and her family as well as book burnings are being made. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago tags booker prize literature novel protesters kiran |
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The Bookseller magazine has announced the shortlist for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year picked by extc68 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Realizing that offering a novel for free online won't hurt sales, The Man Booker Prize shortlist of winners will be available for download. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
I don't know if anyone on Plime likes her (I don't, particularly... ), but my mom asked me to download the book so she could read it. 0 comments edit related share entertainmentSuze Orman's book, "Women & Money", is being offered for free download from Oprah's site until 8pm tomorrow. Link is to the PDF file for the English version, but you can also find the Spanish version through Oprah.com. picked by Marli 10 months ago |
This fake book is a way of hiding your PSP and making people think you are reading a book. This is the perfect disguise. :) picked by pjanaway 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
’In 1973 I set out to do drawings of women’s genitals for use in sex education groups. I wanted the drawings to be lovely and informative, to give pleasure and affirmation. I organized the drawings into a coloring book because a major way we learn to understand the world, as children, is by coloring. As adults many of us still need to learn about our external sexual anatomy.’ -Te... read full post picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
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Find 'wild' books in your area or release a book into the wild for someone else to find. picked by Boomshank 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
The world's oldest ocean-going passenger vessel still in service has been converted into a floating Japanese bookstore. picked by VooDooPeacock 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A leading children's author was told to drop a fire-breathing dragon shown in a new book - because the publishers feared they could be sued under health and safety regulations. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 13 comments edit related share plime.com |
An Arizona man is celebrating a special day to promote comic books as engaging educational tools. Free Comic Book Day is set to take place the first Saturday in May. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share entertainment |
Rove in new book: "Bush is needy" 4 comments edit related share plime.comObviously not a groundbreaking book, so Bush is a needy cry baby, BIG SURPRISE! picked by buddha 1 year ago |
A documentary featuring an interview with comic book writer Alan Moore. Link to download movie in flv format picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago 1 comments edit related share arts |
This book originated as a by-product. During my time as the head of the science section of a now-defunct Swiss news magazine, I accumulated a stack of research studies about weird experiments. Unfortunately my editor had no desire to see these in print, because they violated all the basic journalistic criteria : they were utterly inconsequential, hopelessly ancient or both !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... read full post picked by Bornbad 3 days ago 2 comments edit related share science |
This wonderful person (who I hope didn't breed) spent many years of his life and $20,000 writing a book about how black people aren't really people, because the Bible says there is only one race of man. An entertaining read. picked by dumbn00b 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Jeffrey Lependorf created a 'book trailer' for his upcoming novel. He utilized the YouTube website and created a short film based on his book. Is this the future of marketing? picked by musicgirldani 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |