Lee DurbinOn ReadingI enjoy reading, but for most of my adult life I’ve been a terrible reader.Jun 8, 2019Jun 8, 2019
Lee DurbinI’m LeavingMarch 1 is Saint David’s Day, ostensibly a day when the Welsh celebrate their patron saint. When I was growing up in the Rhondda I spent…Mar 1, 2019Mar 1, 2019
Lee DurbinMy Laravel Project: Part 2So now that we have Laravel up and running, let’s get down to business.Feb 8, 2015Feb 8, 2015
Lee DurbinMy Laravel Project: Part 1This is an attempt to document my progress in building a web app that will enable me to reboot Renaissance_Hub, a Twitter account that…Feb 8, 2015Feb 8, 2015
Lee DurbinYou are standing at the end of a road before a small brick buildingI suppose my interest in Interactive Fiction (IF) goes back to my childhood. I remember playing Granny’s Garden, a text-based adventure…Feb 8, 2015Feb 8, 2015
Lee DurbinWilliam Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury [originally reviewed 16 October 2011]Alcoholism, hypochondria, autism, avarice, promiscuity, and a self-destructive fixation with the past: these are the last days of the…Feb 8, 2015Feb 8, 2015
Lee DurbinJack Kerouac. On the Road [originally reviewed: 25 September 2011]It’s a line at the end of the penultimate part of this book that really says it all for me: “When I got better I realized what a rat he was…Feb 8, 2015Feb 8, 2015
Lee DurbinPeter Ackroyd. The History of England Volume I: Foundation.What is history? E. H. Carr famously described it as the choices made by historians, and in that sense Ackroyd’s history of England is a…Feb 8, 2015Feb 8, 2015
Lee DurbinDoris Kearns Goodwin. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.I killed Lincoln last week — Saturday, at noon. While I was doing it (he had his chest arched up, holding his last breath to let it out…Feb 8, 2015Feb 8, 2015
Lee DurbinWilliam Golding. Lord of the Flies. [originally reviewed: 24 September 2011]It’s difficult to think of something to say about Lord of the Flies. Despite the somewhat nihilistic vision it presents, despite the…Feb 8, 2015Feb 8, 2015
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