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Archive for June, 2009

Doctor Who: The Sirens of Time (1999)
Nicholas Briggs
Starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy
Big Finish Audio Play #1
When Doctor Who finished on British television in 1989 fans of the show were distraught. The BBC had cancelled a British institution that had been running since 1963. The show, it is true, had its [...]

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La Recherche de l’Absolu (The Quest of the Absolute) (1834)
Honoré de Balzac
Thompson Publishing Company, 210pp
Translation by Ellen Marriage
“La Recherche de l’Absolu is, as has been said, a novel in itself. Taking minor points only, it is a masterpiece.” So said George Saintsbury in his introduction to the Complete La Comédie Humaine. After reading [...]

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