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Have any of you read 'Galapagos" by Vonnegut? "Thanks a lot, big brain!"

Well Dawn, You are wrong. The film, The Shining, is better than the novel. I agree that the book includes more information about the characters and their feelings, but I don't think Stephen King was in top form in the Shining. I don't think the book was very scary. I think the...

Yes Deerskin, I'm pretty sure Stephen Fry did read it. I'm not familiar with his acting and I don't have the audio book with me now, but I know he was some Tony award winning actor. Does that sound like your man? Has he done any other audio books? As for the movie, I didn't like it very...

Ubik- Philip K. Dick Idoru- William Gibson LOTR- Tolkien 1984- Orwell Brave New World- Huxley Gulliver's Travles- Swift Earth in the Balance-...

1. Batman 2. Phone Bone 3. Ironman or the Silver Surfer (not a tie, just one or the other) 4. The Joker 5. The Teenage Mutant Ninje Turtles (take your pick)

The Shining

Just finished the Two Towers. I'll be done with Prey by tomorrow. Also read last week, Lurker at the Threshhold, by H.P. Lovecraft

Sorry Dawn, I just started a new job and I've been very busy. Not too busy to read books, fortunately. And I have been reading the forum, just haven't had time or anything important enough to say to draw me from my slumber... Regardless, I'm back! Wynter, Thanks for posting back. I...

Wynter, Glad you revived this thread. What are some of the passages or events in Steppenwolf that affected you particularly? Or else, what themes interest you the most. I think that most people who love that book are seekers, (as described in the song by The Who), people who wonder...

How about Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth? Read it, you'll enjoy it. It isn't as fantastic as Adams or Robbins, but it is just as irreverent and funny.

Flowers for Algernon All of the books mentioned so far are common listings on high school reading lists. I reccomend them for adults too. I'm 25 and just read Flowers for Algernon and really enjoyed it.

I loved it. I'm surprised everyone is being so hard on this film. It's a blast and the costumes are very cool. I find the scene of Spiderman and the Green Goblin on the roof very surreal. There are two grown men in bright red and green costumes (In the theater these guys are almost 20 feet...

I just listened to the book on tape. I had a long drive, from Texas to Pennsylvania, and I stopped at a Walmart in Louisiana to look for something other than music to listen to. They only had a few books there and the first two Potters were among them. I hadn't read any yet but I did enjoy...

I think I liked The Two Towers best of all. The part of the LOTR that I think of most often is Pippen and Sam with the you know who! About the density of info....others may not agree, but when I run into that stuff I skip it if it confuses me and I try to fill in the blanks later through...

yep, you're right. I got the song and the novel confused. Now do you recognize the song? It's pretty famous.

The Stranger might be the Cure's first single. It's from 1979. It's on their collection of earlier singles, 'Staring at the sea.' It's really a good disc. It's on lots of best albums lists including Rolling Stone's top 100 of all time. I'm not too fond of metal but Iced Earth sounds...

The Stranger by the Cure is based on The Stranger by Camus. Both are great. What is 'Iced Earth' like?

Proloxic, Thanks for bringing even more variables into the equation! I actually had thought about a few of those and gave up because I realized I didn't know enough about submarine dynamics to solve the problem Actually, I was watching U-571 and it was a Nazi sub that ran on diesel and...

Sorry UKL fans, I bought Left Hand of Darkness and after two pages have deemed it unreadable. I don't mean it's unreadable for everyone. I just don't have the capability. I don't particularly enjoy novels that deal heavily with constructed civilizations (especially languages). There...

I was just kidding about the fire. As for my question, I was talking about submarines with a friend the other day and I was wondering if they would use more power to travel underwater or on the surface. I was wondering about a similar problem while watching Fear Factor the other night...