Sunday, December 28, 2008

Bookshelf 2008

Allan Dwan - The Last Pioneer [8?] Peter Bogdanovich
Born Yesterday [6+] Gordon Burn
Crisis [8] Hamilton Jordan
=Deliverance [9] James Dickey
The Edge of Running Water [7] William M Sloane
Francis Bacon in the 1950s [6+] Michael Peppiatt
Frenzy* [5] Arthur LaBern
Getting to Know the General [8] Grahame Greene
The Great God Pan [6+] Arthur Machen
Hegemony or Survival [8] Noam Chomsky
I Am the Cheese [7] Robert Cormier
In Siberia [8] Colin Thubron
Jack London - A Life [7] Alex Kershaw
James Benning [8] Barbara Pichler & Claudia Slanar (eds.)
=The Kraken Wakes [8] John Wyndham
Late Victorian Holocausts [7] Mike Davis
Lincoln - A Foreigner's Quest [7] Jan Morris
Miracles of Life [7+] J G Ballard
Monsieur Hire's Engagement [6] Georges Simenon
Negative Space [8+] Manny Farber
=On the Road [8] Jack Kerouac
Planet of Slums [8] Mike Davis
The Postman Always Rings Twice [7] James M Cain
=Red Harvest [7] Dashiell Hammett
Renegade [8] Mark E Smith
The Road to Oxiana [9] Robert Byron
Robinson In Space [8] Patrick Keiller
=The Tremor of Forgery [8] Patricia Highsmith
=Ubik [9] Philip K Dick
=Vanity of Duluoz [5] Jack Kerouac

* aka Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square
= re-reading

9/10 : Deliverance; The Road to Oxiana and Ubik
8+/10 : Negative Space
8/10 : Crisis; Getting to Know the General; Hegemony or Survival; In Siberia; James Benning; The Kraken Wakes; On the Road; Planet of Slums; Renegade; Robinson In Space and The Tremor of Forgery

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Meyers Legde Alt, 1986

1887. Inactive since 1945. 26 m (85 ft) square cast iron tower incorporating 3-story keeper's quarters, mounted on a square skeletal foundation. Like the Eversand Range Lights, the Meyers Legde lighthouses guided ships on a secondary entrance to the Weser from the north. Also like Eversand Range Front, the interior of the lighthouse was gutted by fire at some time after deactivation. In 1986, ledges were added to the tower as nesting sites for cormorants, and this lighthouse is also now white with bird droppings. Located about 3 km (2 mi) east of Eversand Range Front Light. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed.

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/deu1b.htm