books

I have just finished reading Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope. This was written in 1869 and is the second of his six “Palliser” novels (although the role of the Palliser family in this novel is trivial). Essentially, the story is … Continued

I recently read Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Great literature it is not, but it’s a fun read. In it I encountered a theme for which I was entirely unprepared: information technology. Van Helsing’s band of vampire hunters made abundant and effective … Continued