tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91482769680331363132024-03-06T08:47:20.910+00:00Philistine FriendlyPhilistine Press are a non-profit online publisher, based at www.philistinepress.com. All our books can be read online or downloaded for free. The site features fiction, poetry, music and spoken word. And it's great. Our new blog is based at www.philistinepress.wordpress.comPhilistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.comBlogger503125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-67313346073447724872015-06-03T18:29:00.000+01:002015-06-03T18:29:43.842+01:00We've moved<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-74607542742615399152014-11-10T09:00:00.000+00:002014-11-10T09:00:10.548+00:00Péter Zilahy's The Last Window Giraffe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-63276311022595970302014-10-27T11:39:00.000+00:002014-10-27T11:39:00.254+00:00Happy 500th blog post! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Here we are at our 500th blog post. This seems as good a time as any to reflect on this blog, a ramshackle addition to the Philistine Press website. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;" />Since its launch in 2010, <a href="http://philistinepress.com/" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;" target="_blank">http://philistinepress.com</a> has received approx. 400,000 page hits, mainly direct ebook downloads. (This stat doesn't include our modest success on Smashwords, Feedbooks, iBooks and Barnes and Noble among other platforms.) I'll have to start practicing my cartwheels for when we pass the half million mark. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Philistine Friendly has received roughly 10% of this figure, which is the way things should be, considering that much more work has gone into Philistine Press than this blog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'd like to think Philistine Press is the best non-profit ebook publisher in the world. By contrast, Philistine Friendly is by no means the best blog in the world, neither is it intended to be. It's like a randomly-selected busker who's won a competition to be the support act for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (my favourite band, in case you were wondering). </span></div>
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Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-36232219415432610362014-10-23T08:46:00.000+01:002014-10-23T08:46:00.115+01:00Hugh Laurie - Mystery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-88990904379643672832014-09-23T19:57:00.001+01:002014-09-23T19:57:05.524+01:00Rappahannick Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNwtDUjrN4OSRqX28u0sinMgyejEG5cBg_SYWCywVwLO6yUH_SaUmrxeL6LJB5-ceOAIPu-5ygvYjh9fcIwTtItS4pnVMdZ2WL2zTEneCdeNl7w4OCsBVsJ6ohLbz_2qGgvIXuRNkWrcA/s640/blogger-image--1543348904.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNwtDUjrN4OSRqX28u0sinMgyejEG5cBg_SYWCywVwLO6yUH_SaUmrxeL6LJB5-ceOAIPu-5ygvYjh9fcIwTtItS4pnVMdZ2WL2zTEneCdeNl7w4OCsBVsJ6ohLbz_2qGgvIXuRNkWrcA/s640/blogger-image--1543348904.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Take a look at this first rate online magazine - a great discovery: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">http://www.rappahannockreview.com </div>Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-71948271135102498492014-09-11T17:08:00.001+01:002014-09-11T17:08:14.381+01:00Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem - a 43-word review<div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This Great-with-a-Capital-G dystopian satire was published in 1971 but could've been written last week. 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If you've never heard of it, I'd advise you not to find out anything about the book in advance - it will only put you off. Just read it. End of review. Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-2272031126826180492014-09-02T12:00:00.001+01:002014-09-02T12:00:14.773+01:00Review - Blindness by Jose Saramago<div>There's a devastating moment at the midway point of Jose Saramago's Blindness which would've served as the perfect ending to the novel - an unhappy ending for sure, but only to be expected in this type of fiction. </div><div><br></div><div>Up until the halfway point, Blindness is a haunting dystopian classic. The second half seems fairly pointless. It's grim for the sake of being grim, with an disappointing conclusion. </div><div><br></div><div>As in Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Saramago's characters are deliberately one-dimensional, which works incredibly well. The need for distinct characteristics (or even names) isn't the point. It's a story about human beings attempting to survive in an oppressive environment. </div><div><br></div><div>I don't usually make a habit of offering writing tips to sadly-departed Nobel Prize winners, but if I was editing this book I'd have made it 50% shorter. </div><div><br></div><div>By the way, don't read this book if you're looking for an accurate and sensitive portrayal of blindness as a disability. To say the least, Saramago was pretty far off the mark. </div><div><br></div><div>Casting this shortcoming aside, the first half of this novel is well worth reading. </div><div><br></div>Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-26901300460862115012014-08-11T12:40:00.001+01:002014-08-11T12:40:54.298+01:00Review - Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, read by the author<div>To sum up simply, Choke is a Chuck Palahniuk novel. If you like Chuck Palahniuk, you'll love Choke. If you love Choke enough to digest it again, the audiobook version will definitely enhance your experience. </div><div><br></div><div>Unlike many authors, Palahniuk is the perfect performer of his own work. His delivery is suitably dark, capturing both the novel's seriousness and its blacker-than-black humour. </div><div><br></div><div>If you've never read any Palahniuk, or seen the film version of Fight Club, I suggest you do both. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm yet to see the film version of Choke, but I'm hoping it will exceed my expectations as much as the audiobook did. </div><div><br></div><div>Palanik's reading of the novel is followed by an author's note revealing the shocking circumstances in which the novel was written (in the wake of the author's father's murder). </div><div><br></div>Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-67365642869980806082014-07-25T08:04:00.001+01:002014-09-25T16:46:41.190+01:00Review - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Reading Murakami reminds me that there is far too much logic in fiction. The vast majority of the world's fictional characters inhabit a world in which every action has a rational explanation. Even sci fi and fantasy novels come equipped with their own internal logic. In creating these fictional landscapes, authors are ignoring the fact that we live in an irrational and illogical world. </span></div>
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Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-67181244202597047442014-07-15T19:44:00.001+01:002014-07-15T19:44:36.845+01:00Butchering the classicsCurrently listening to the audiobook version of Haruki<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Murakami's classic, Kafka on the Shore. Really tempted to press 'Shuffle'. </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Come to think of it, what I ought to do is listen to a linear narrative on Shuffle and see if it still makes sense. War and Peace, maybe? </span></div>Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-33470079966849584952014-07-14T15:35:00.000+01:002014-07-14T15:35:01.071+01:00If You Ever Need a Shoulder to Cry On, Don’t Use Mine or You’ll End Up in Hot Water by Stephen Moles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here's a surreal and original short story by Philistine Press's Stephen Moles from <a href="http://www.swampbiscuitsandtea.com/if-you-ever-need-a-shoulder-by-stephen-moles/" target="_blank">Swamp Biscuits and Tea</a>. <div>
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Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-9362137403378804972014-07-09T21:45:00.001+01:002014-07-09T21:45:57.569+01:00The Republic of ManiaAnyone who related to Philistine Press's 'Things That Don't Exist' should pay close attention to http://mannyneira.com/mania/ <div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN1CVwfx53JnuwLnOj5x9GKu2G4fhJVhJvYj3YgNQ9zlINh0xeoUv-DjjmP7wWh6ag67Q5cDvK-IOQn6SlmsR4MtlfRNy117VOoYi9ICWK9M2B-fANlPPtPWgWQnmv9-MlC70mfY5Pf3c/s640/blogger-image-1766769803.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN1CVwfx53JnuwLnOj5x9GKu2G4fhJVhJvYj3YgNQ9zlINh0xeoUv-DjjmP7wWh6ag67Q5cDvK-IOQn6SlmsR4MtlfRNy117VOoYi9ICWK9M2B-fANlPPtPWgWQnmv9-MlC70mfY5Pf3c/s640/blogger-image-1766769803.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-54845599265768311072014-06-13T20:55:00.001+01:002014-06-13T20:55:46.710+01:00"El Gesto" (The Gesture)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">"El Gesto"</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><b> </b>(The Gesture) is a project, which is created as a visual arts
reference in a research project. The aim of this research project is to
interpret facial gestures. Creation and movement sequences of fixed images,
linked to a three-dimensional animation are his offers. This is the main
graphic resource of this work, together with the own esthetics, offered by
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Researchers show that 80 facial muscles are able to create more than 7000
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frightened,... all these facial gestures create an esthetical range of
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This visual piece by Murfy is based on the theme music "Elles" released
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Many authors, myself included, attempt to create narratives that tap straight into an internal dream-state with minimal interference from the conscious mind. No one could possibly do this better than Dion McGregor, recorded sleep-talking in an extraordinary lucid and eloquent manner. <br />
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The most amazing audio recording I've heard for a long, long time. <br />
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Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-54283572499043434092014-06-04T08:46:00.001+01:002014-06-04T08:46:44.383+01:00Sign stump with bottle top<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglhQmegjJ3uqjltzxWrqBU4SW0IImffYMRLJoJZ4TkXylQQyNLwentt7zFE1qUM_ODFiBeDeC8yA-v7Pcxok4LKRhLUAIFCPv1o3jhECtL6SAozkNMjGAnb1ZeuyNhOlHbpFbB956uxdc/s640/blogger-image-128867622.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglhQmegjJ3uqjltzxWrqBU4SW0IImffYMRLJoJZ4TkXylQQyNLwentt7zFE1qUM_ODFiBeDeC8yA-v7Pcxok4LKRhLUAIFCPv1o3jhECtL6SAozkNMjGAnb1ZeuyNhOlHbpFbB956uxdc/s640/blogger-image-128867622.jpg"></a></div>Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-29789356448465809352014-05-26T09:00:00.000+01:002014-05-26T09:00:01.714+01:00How Everything Works<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"A famous urban legend states that a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building will punch a hole in the sidewalk below. Given the height of the building and the hardness of the penny, that seems like a reasonable possibility. Whether it's true or not is a matter that can be determined scientifically..." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So begins the latest in a long line of answers from <a href="http://howeverythingworks.org/">http://howeverythingworks.org</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Great website. Who needs a physics degree? </span> </div>
Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-43912613173194716772014-05-24T11:00:00.001+01:002014-05-24T11:03:34.913+01:00Smashwords and OverDriveTop news for Philistine Press and for indie authors in general: <div><br><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://tinyurl.com/qf6tssu </b></div></div>Philistine Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03315513488061032745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148276968033136313.post-5137166559616319762014-05-22T09:00:00.000+01:002014-05-22T09:00:01.806+01:00Hikikomori by Ellen Kennedy and Tao Lin - an inarticulate review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Er ... What can I say? ... This book is indefinable. And it's awesome. Simple as that.<br />
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Hikikomori can be read online for free <a href="http://www.bearparade.com/hikikomori/" target="_blank">here</a>. Hats off to <a href="http://www.bearparade.com/" target="_blank">Bear Parade</a> for publishing it. <br />
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More about the authors <a href="http://www.bearparade.com/2007/04/hikikomoriby_ellen_kennedy_and.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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