One of my favorite authors, Steve Alten, predicted what seems to be described as an iPad in 1997 when writing the manuscript for Domain, a book (a favorite of mine) about the Mayan doomsday prophecy of 2012.

I’ve read this book twice before (reading it again for a third time this year) and just realized this. In a newsletter from Steve that I anticipate anxiously every month due to his informative and off-topic content (the joke of the month is my favorite part!), he explains that “[he] had to project what things would be like in 2012” back in 1997. It seems he was spot on.

I wonder what other things he may have predicted (or will predict) successfully in 2012.

I now want The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1! 

I didn’t try to tell him different. It’s scary to find out that someone else, even a friend, knows just how things are with you. “You are just a kid, Gordie.”

“Gee, thanks, Dad.”

“I wish to fuck I was your father!” he said angrily. “You wouldn’t go around talking about taking those stupid shop courses if I was! It’s like God gave you something, all those stories you can make up, and he said: ‘This is what we got for you, kid. Try not to lose it.’ But kids lose everything unless somebody looks out for them, and if your folks are too fucked up to do it then maybe I ought to.”

—The Body, Stephen King

(Source: superpasta)

I’m in love with Dan Brown’s website. Posting this because soon I will have read all the books on that shelf. I never got around to read the last book of the five, and it happens to be the oldest of them all: Digital Fortress. Now I am.

So far, you can say I’m in love with Susan Fletcher.

I can’t stand the ending of a good book. When reaching the dreaded final chapter and my mind blinks in realization of how it will be the last thing I’ll ever read—how that world, to which I have invested my time and emotions to, will be closed forever.

I tell myself that one day, probably, I may walk into a library and come upon that book to which I refuse to let go of right now, and smile as I remember how much I loved every minute of it, how much I grew with the characters and how better I understand the world now. But that’s also all I will be able to do as I will keep walking, moving on with the life that was once touched by that book.