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Audible is having it's Holiday Sale, and a fair selection of books are currently going for USD$9.95. Pretty good price - got about 5 myself. Anyone here goes for audiobooks?

Hey, I think we know the same guy!

You get to see the show on TV where you are, or are you going through the, uh, same means that I do?

Just watched the first season of Sherlock (all of 3 episodes, albeit they are 1.5 hours long each). As a fan, I'm always wary of remakes or retcons, and the most visible recent effort is the Downey Jr/Guy Ritchie movies. I have to say I was not impressed. However, Sherlock, the 2010 TV...

Predictably Irrational, Daniel Ariely: PopSci, but endlessly fascinating Maus, Art Spiegelman: opened my eyes. Unmissable In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, Steven Levy: Currently reading this. It's not really spectacular, but I have a healthy respect for the idealism...

I agree with most here - it depends, but I'm leaning towards 'no'. Series tends to imply genre, and anything over 5 is definitely pushing it if the author is sub-par. I loved the early Wheel of Time, then faded badly somewhere in Book 7. I was on a Jim Butcher diet for a short while, but after...

Wait, I thought there was going to be a movie for Ender's Game. Harrison Ford's name was bandied about in the papers, as I recall?

I recently started a reading journal, which is quite a departure for me. I've always kept a list of read novels, and I (attempt) to keep a reading blog of my adventures, however this is by far the most formal I've tried doing this. I've always seen very little value of writing things down if...

A few I recently finished: 1. Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov (he wanted to name the book 'Speak, Mnemosyne', which I thought was cooler than 'Memory', but what can you do?). 3 stars, mainly on the strength that he doesn't seem to be able to write a simple sentence. 2. Brideshead Revisited...

Folks, regardless of what you like, please do yourself a favour and read Guy Gavriel Kay. And I'm talking to those who wouldn't normally sully themselves with genre too. I mean, if Cormac McCarthy can get away with The Road, then you owe it to yourself to check out some great storytelling from...

FM, I have this: The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | LibraryThing. An absolute treasure! :)

I forgot: sparky you're a moderator here!!! In your honour I shall go watch a couple of episodes of BSG. Annotated Set: Uh, it's freaking expensive.

I'm halfway through the first season, so don't spoil anything for me! I loved the incredibly tight, uh, fight scenes with the Cylons. And Grace Park is better here than in the short snippets I saw of Hawaii Five-O. To keep myself on topic though (so the moderators don't kick my ass), I have to...

I'm all for trying a new spin on a good classic. Poor analogy, but the new Battlestar Galactica (which I'm only now getting around to watching) is pretty damn good. I have to say Downey jr's Sherlock while enjoyable didn't really do it for me. I'll give the series a go, definitely. Thanks pont!

Yeah, it does seem like an annual jaunt, doesn't it? :) Thanks and seasons greetings to you and Kat!

The Magicians was one of my absolutely favourite reads of 2009. The blurb got to me - something about Harry Potter in an adult setting. I've always loved rite of passage stories ever since Le Guin's Earthsea, so a coming of age story with lots of magic? Hmm, may be interesting. Because I had...

On an SH binge recently. I've never read the latter novels and stories, and shall be looking forward to sinking my teeth into them early next year. Apparently there's a Sherlock Holmes TV series recently. Anyone seen that?

Did not find Brothers Karamazov and now Crime and Punishment (starting) particularly funny, no.

My thoughts exactly. I've never underlined a book more than this one - too many great lines in a single book. Wait, I never underline a book (that would deface it, the horror!), I just highlighted it in my ebook copy. which, I have to say, has been lost, since I don't have a Microsoft lit file...

Hey libra! Glad you got something interesting. Since I don't go to comics shops anymore, I relied on (well, could be considered just laziness) the Comics app in my iPad, and realized that it didn't have fcbd-specific comics up.