PUBLIC MARKS with tag livre

 Je suis devenue écrivain à 35 ans. Avant, j’étais femme au foyer. A cette époque, je croyais à la vertu et à la bonne volonté ; je voulais être quelqu’un de bien. Mais, je n’étais pas heureuse. C’est difficile d’interpréter le monde : je me trouvais souvent face au désarroi ou au désespoir. Je prenais soin de ma famille mais je gardais l’impression d’être seule, je gardais un sentiment d’inutilité. Il m’a fallu accepter le fait que le monde d’aujourd’hui est injuste, absurde et tragique. J’ai  alors découvert le côté lâche et égoïste du monde que je ne connaissais pas avant.  

Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written! The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Long-term there’s no future in printed books. They’ll be like vinyl: pricey and for collectors only. 95% of people will read digitally. Everybody in publishing knows this but most are in denial about it because moving to becoming a digital company means laying off like 40% of our staffs. And the barriers to entry fall, too. We simply don’t want to think about it.

1. Do You Need the Book? We started reading books on the kindle for iPhone and it's changing our whole approach to book buying. Not only are we not accruing physical books, but when a great book is recommended to us, we can download it immediately--very satisfying. Of course that doesn't help us with the books we've already got. But to thin them out we consider: if we had to move, would we bring them? And: in 10 years will I remember this book? If it's a yes then it's worth it. If no, it gets donated to a friend or a library.

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there—even backpacking tourists rent rooms. In short, it is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet.

Et un livre ne tombe jamais en panne!

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A precursor to Alexander’s A Pattern Language, in which he and Chermayeff define what’s wrong with the design of the suburbs, and outline the principles behind a more human (and urban) environment. As interesting for its approach to the problem as it is for any of the proposed solutions.

Car de la même façon qu’il abuse du langage en capitalisant sur un terme chargé d’un énorme imaginaire culturel et économique, le livre électronique ne prospère actuellement qu’en raison du passé glorieux que le livre (en papier donc, le vrai) lui offre.

Book Drum has assembled multimedia profiles of 150 great books. Discover more about us here. One part of each profile is an illustrated Setting. We've now brought these together in a brand new internet phenomenon: an interactive crowd-sourced literary world map. Click on a red pin to read about a book setting, or just roam the map in search of your next geographically-inspired read! If you'd like to add a book to the map, find out how to contribute to Book Drum here.