otrops: jeff van campen’s personal blog

I have a bad habit. Occasionally, I’ll start a book and set it to the side with the intention of finishing the first book after I’m done reading the second. This is what usually happens. Sometimes, though, another book comes along, then another and so on. In the last two or [...]

Last Friday, Joanne and I went to see The Lives of Others. We left the cinema utterly amazed. It is an extraordinary film. The film literally took my breath away. I was so overwhelmed, I couldn’t speak for a few minutes after the film. Early in the film, there is [...]

Mike has posted a list of his own. There’s a lot of good stuff in there. I’d recommend checking it out.
Thanks, Mike! There’s a couple on your list I haven’t read yet, though I’ll be doing my best to fix that soon.

It was tempting to title this post “A Long Time Coming,” but that’s far too similar to the title of the first post in this blog.
At the time that New Media was coming to an abrupt end, Wendy asked for a list of my top ten books. I actually did start putting a list [...]