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Always a good idea to keep friends that'll hand you back your testicle.

Sherman Alexie Raymond Carver Joyce Carol Oates The Norton Reader is a collection of essays that is both useful and entertaining to read.

I just watched this the other day. I'm not always a fan of the over-the-top gore like this but I tolerated it here because I liked the plot. So many horror movies go this route any more - not all that scary but plenty disgusting. There are a couple of funny moments too and it is certainly worth...

Yes, very similar. Both British authors as well.

There is an article in the Atlantic related to this too about Google's attempt to redefine how the news is disseminated. There is a good quote about the newspaper industry.

Do you like hard science fiction generally? Because I think most of Bear's books fall into that category.

I just read Flood by Stephen Baxter which ended up being really good. It took a while to get going, but the extreme rise of the world's oceans is ultimately a really terrifying idea and made for a good story. As usual Baxter mixes in plenty of science into the story and the event itself is...

Just one of the first few that came to mind. Van Morrison - Into the mystic We were born before the wind Also younger than the sun Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly into...

Sounds good, I bet we'll have to do that.

I'm hoping we get a clear 1st, 2nd and 3rd place choices but that probably won't happen so we'll have to do something else. *Thanks for fixing my poll disaster, Landslide.

Good example of how the prison system in the U.S. isn't all that interested in actually reforming prisoners. Maybe if they had a bit more access to information a lot of them could go a long way toward reforming themselves and thereby lower the rate of recidivism in this country.

Here are the nominees: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marcia Marquez The...

Poll. I'm on it.

Okay, so I nominated the book as a sly way of sneaking, what I thought was some of my favorite genre material, into the, otherwise more literature based, Book of the Month section. I had read that Sarah Canary was a really good example of a science fiction first contact novel and I had recently...

I'm ready to pick further from Landslide's most recent list if that's the next step.

Alright. I'll lie in wait.

The Helliconia series - Brian Aldiss ~In three books it tells the story of two races that rise and fall due to the planet's extremely long seasons. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman ~A soldier lives to see Earth dramatically changed over 1000 years while he has been fighting aliens elsewhere...

He always seems like he's about five seconds from going crazy on one of his fellow soldiers, but he never does. His personality it seems is the most insulated from all the horror around them.

Okay, I've finished Sarah Canary and I'm ready to discuss. I'll wait for you to create the thread so I'll know when your done too. Or am I going it alone on this one?

My wife and I have been watching it and like Lenny says, enduring it. The Okinawa episode in particular was more horrific and depressing than anything in Band of Brothers. Unlike that series where you became familiar with about ten or twelve characters you only get to know about four or five...