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Ok, I GOTTA ask... What the heck is wrong with Where's Waldo?????? I am completely mystified over here.:confused:

Well if I am actually buying books I either glance at my TBR list before going to the bookstore, or I try to focus on things I have heard about recently that I'd like to read. Browsing is SO much fun but I rarely buy a book I come across just by browsing. Unfortunately I don't always do the...

Happy birthday! :)

Happy birthday! :)

I finished: Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (re-read) Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire Not finished yet: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Does Anything Eat Wasps? Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Harry Potter and the Order...

Something by Jack London would probably work. However, I am kind of having a tough time thinking of an adult-level book worth discussing that is free of "immorality"... but maybe it's just me.:confused: :o

Interesting question, about who is lying: HH, Nabokov, or both. We know HH lies, to the reader, to Lolita, and to himself. But Nabokov... I think that if he does lie, he also enables the reader to get at the truth. He could state things one way, and if you were reading at a casual level...

Yikes. IMHO, fantasy is best enjoyed in series form. I quite enjoyed Wicked by Gregory Maguire and Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King, but I'm not sure if either author would be compatible with your tastes. Those are the only stand-alone fantasies I can remember enjoying.

Still: I suppose she does a good job of it, but I'm thinking back to the Poisonwood Bible and her portrayal of how things were in Zaire when it first gained independence. Evil was everywhere. It was pretty clear (at least to me) that the perpetrators of the evil were often motivated by fear or...

I recently saw The DaVinci Code *barfs* It was an ok book, but the movie blew chunks. I rewatched Monsters Inc. last night and laughed really hard. I love how they did that little girl. "Mike Wizowski!":D

Oh Gem, I hope your experience with Wizards First Rule hasn't ruined Fantasy for you forever!!:eek: I like the genre very much overall and I was quite disappointed with Goodkind. I won't be picking up another book by him at all. I know lots of people like him a lot but he just isn't for me.

Theories are good! :) I wasn't trying to shoot you down or anything, I just had a differing opinion.

I've read the Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, and Prodigal Summer. And I guess I should clarify my earlier statement... I never come away from her books with a feeling of hopelessness, but I think Kingsolver is good at displaying huge social problems in their full...

That's true, The Bean Trees had several lighthearted moments sprinkled throughout. It didn't crush the reader as much with the hopelessness of the injustice Kingsolver focuses on.

ABC, that's great. I never thought about it in exactly those terms before but HH is constantly pleading for sympathy, both explicitly and implicitly. It doesn't ultimately work on the reader (at least not this one!), and he obviously doesn't really care what Lolita thinks, so I agree with you...

I tend to gravitate most toward General Fiction when I'm in a bookstore. There I can find literary fiction, historical fiction, and other things that interest me. However, if you're talking about what my favorite genre is in general... yikes. That completely depends on my mood. Though I...

Happy Birthday :)

Happy birthday :)

I don't think it would matter, even if the Fidelius Charm were lifted (and it looks like JKR said that was not possible anyway). Harry's protection that comes from staying at the Dursleys ends when he turns 17. He only has a month or month and a half left from the end of the 6th book, and then...

I loved this book too. I constantly marvel at the way Atwood evokes such depth and complexity with such simple, flowing sentences. Her characters are fascinating too - they reveal things slowly, and never completely. The reader is always left guessing what their true motivation is, or whether...