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The sheer enormity of it is dizzying. Sumatra is about the size of California and, as mentioned, that moved a hundred feet. There are a multitude of tiny islands off Sumatra such as the Mentawai where existence is pretty much still stone age, with many villages along the sea. And if you consider...

I think The Cincinnati Kid took place there. The movie had Steve McQueen as the card shark.

I've read Fight Club and Choke. FC stunned me (no pun intended) when I was getting into how this guy wrote, but I thought it lost steam after awhile, then picked up a bit at the end. I also liked Choke but I wasn't surprised by his stuff the second time and his weaknesses were more obvious. I...

What I find most fascinating about Austen and one of the things I think keeps her going after 15 or so generations of readers is the sly way she expertly slips and slides her storyline through basic human emotions. Non-fiction is about information and fiction is about emotion, and she is a...

elbows off the table, please

Thanks everyone for the nice welcome and kind comments. Yes, Cathy C., I do like to mix it up. Keeps it interesting. direstraits, as a matter of fact, I did have a kris there once--a nice long wavy-bladed one, but it got lost along the way, magical powers and all. Readers will have to be...

yah, direstraits, I've seen some players that appeared to be dozing. Actually, there's various spellings of silat but I chose the one, it seemed, was more common in America. The technique is known here but not as much as the Walmarts and Kmarts of martial arts like karate and jui jitsu, etc...

W.G. Sebald (I like books with pictures)

Treasure of the Sierra Madre Don Quixote The Worst Journey in the World All the Pretty Horses

Gravity's Rainbow. Although I haven't entirely given up hope. Maybe in my next life.

I think his invisibility referred to his being black in a white society. I thought it was a powerful book. It's ironic how Ellison became invisible after he wrote it. Supposedly, he's been working on another magnum opus for decades.

The Great Gatsby

Cold Mountain I thought it was like the war itself, got off to a good start, got bogged down in mud and incompetance, and dribbled to undefined closure. Some scenes were great, like when they caught the catfish: --They God, Veasy said. That kills me.

I got here quick as I could. Besides, traffic in the Metroplex is horrible. All the mums are taking back all those horrible Christmas presents to turn in for cash so they can buy more horrible presents. Anyway, I'm here now, so stop complaining. Actually, I stumbled in to this site by accident...