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Max Tardiveau writes "I just finished reading Neal Stephenson's latest novel, Anathem. I was awaiting it with some anticipation because I absolutely loved Stephenson's best-known novels: Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon. One of Stephenson's non-fiction pieces, called In the beginning was the command line, simply wowed me when I read it. The man can write. A few years ago, I got really excited when I heard that he was writing a whole cycle of novels (the Baroque cycle). But I read the first book of the cycle — Quicksilver — and I was somewhat disappointed, so I skipped the rest of the cycle. I realize that many people enjoyed these novels, but I was hoping that Stephenson would get back his old style and inspiration. So, when Anathem was announced, I was full of anticipation — was this going to be the one? Would he find

Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter?

SAGAPONACK, New York: Among the nominees for this year's National Book Award in fiction, which will be presented Wednesday, is a book that some have complained is not exactly new: Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," published by Modern Library, which is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." After the finalists were announced in October, there was a small flare-up in the blogosphere from readers who questioned whether "Shadow Country" should have been eligible. Others, who loved the three original novels just as they were, regretted that the one-volume version was 400 pages shorter.

Classics app for iPhone launched with 12 novels

Software reading platform Classics has been launched on the iTunes App Store. The bookshelf and novel reader features 12 literary classics, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Gulliver's Travels, the Time Machine, Alice in Wonderland, Robinson Crusoe and others. The app remembers a user's place in the book and notes progress in the top bar as the user reads the story. Other books in addition to the first 12 will be added through updates.

Nintendo DS's Millionheir Come Help Find Mr. Phil T. Rich

If reading mystery novels, and watching crime dramas is to your liking, then you will like this offering the good folks at Nintendo have come up with. It´s the Millionheir game for the Nintendo DS.

Words of Steel: Best-selling author starting blog

After dozens of best-selling novels, Danielle Steel still has words to spare: She’s starting a blog.

Michael Crichton, Author, Dies at 66

Michael Crichton, the author of the blockbuster science-fiction novels “Jurassic Park,� “The Andromeda Strain� and “State of Fear,� has died. He was 66. An obituary will follow on nytimes.com.

Catfight in court: wife vs. mistress

Model Cindy Guyer has graced the cover of countless romance novels, but her real-life husband is no faithful Fabio.

REVIEW | Fan-dumb: Josh Koury's "We Are Wizards"

Full disclosure: I have never read any of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. I have never seen any of the blockbuster movies based on her series. That I plan to never do so is not entirely because of any perceived intellectual and emotional poverty of these books and movies--I know plenty of smart people who enjoy the Harry Potter stories, and there could be, at extremely generous moments, a certain side of me that would consider giving them a shot. But not as long as there are movies like "We Are Wizards," and not as long as there exist the Harry Potter-crazed subjects who comprise this painful documentary's meretricious survey of kitschy fandom.

OBITUARIES: Michael Crichton,'Jurassic Park' writer, dies at 66

Michael Crichton directed movies and created the television series "ER" in addition to writing thriller novels.

Sony Reader PRS-505 review

Sony's Reader is a leatherbound handheld device that allows you to carry hundreds of novels and reference books in electronic form. This latest version can now play MP3 music files and also recognise a greater range of file formats.

Angry Robot rampages on web

The new British science fiction imprint Angry Robot has just opened the doors on its first web site. News of their first scifi novels and signed authors etc is promised soon.

Mobiles turn into evidence vaults

NEW YORK: “Don’t try to hurt me—I’ve deposited a letter with my lawyer. If he doesn’t hear from me within 24 hours, he will mail it to the police. It details all your murky dealings.� That hard-boiled plot device from detective novels and movies is coming to life in a free service called My Mobile Witness from a startup in Pittsburgh.

Film Review: The World Unseen

This lushly photographed, meticulously appointed period melodrama about life in 1950s South Africa is surprisingly inert in the drama department. All the passions, frustrations and longings in "The World Unseen" come across in a pro forma manner, again surprising given how troubled and infuriating life under the nearly impossible conditions of apartheid must have been for people of color. Writer-director Shamim Sarif is actually a novelist -- indeed she is adapting one of her own novels here -- so quite possibly filmmaking is not her thing. Scenes are staged awkwardly and actors look generally uncomfortable.

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