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To my horror, I have recently discovered it is possible for vaseline to go rancid.

Gem: I'll be sure to tell you how I like it. StillLearn: I'll keep an update of my progress in my profile. Unfortunately the rest of the series is at my parents home, so I'll have to steal a few volumes every time I go home to visit. I'm sure it will take me a few years to finish the series...

I went through a romance phase. Thankfully, it was very short. Jennifer Crusie was part of that phase..her books were slightly better than the cut and dry romance because of the humor. Most romance novels are just very formulaic, with the instant physical attraction and a whole series of...

The Great Events by Famous Historians is the full name, edited by Rossiter Johnson. There are 20 volumes..and it's out of print. It's a history of the world dating back to before 5000 B.C., that includes chosen selections of great events (I guess you'd say the juicy parts) from books by...

Hello. By day I'm a graduate student in computational mechanics...by night I'm one of you. A bookworm. Great forum.

into the clothes bin.

I think I'm the only one on the planet who hates Gregory Maguire. I read Wicked a few years ago, and only finished out of guilt since the book was a gift from my father. I tried again with Son of a Witch but had to give up. Maguire still writes in the same grating way he did 10 years ago...

Your prologue is too complicated. I get the feeling you're trying to pack in as many story twists into the minimum number of words. Complicated stories are fine, just don't try to explain everything at once. You're including a sketch on a society and a very long list of extraordinary and...

I really hate emoticons.

Using credit cards online is safe because of RSA public key encryption. The only way to crack it would be to factor a publicly known huge number (greater than 10^300) into two also very huge (privately known) prime numbers that are its only factors. This factoring would take longer than the...

I have apparently been outside the harry potter loop. Harry potter can't die...I'd be devastated. It is too cruel to kill the main character in a "children's" book. It's like when I got to the end of the Age of Innocence, and the guy just sits on the bench and then walks away. It was the...

No pictures. I admit to flipping through it.

Yes. It was about the size and spacing as my old copy of Peter Rabbit.

I agree. Jude was a big shock. I've read Tess too. Both those books were a long and painful journey that ends in paralysis. So much, in fact, that I haven't read any more of his books since those two. I will eventually recover.

I used to go running with a German guy. He was tall. I also have a very close friend who is leaving on a Fulbright to Germany. And I know one German word. Blau.

I can do random. Random is fab. In fact, I have been told that the most defining characteristic about me is that I am random. And I quote, "she's so random." That's me. Yes. I am random. However, there is nothing random about this post, seeing as how the thread subject directly relates to...

Zero times something is nothing. Zero factorial is not nothing. Something to the zero power is not nothing. Having nothing means having nothing to lose. I have nothing more to say.

I haven't seen the movie, but I was in Borders a couple months ago and was surprised to discover it was actually based on a book (yes, I know, this point has already been established). But I was especially amused that the book only had 55 pages. I realize that it was originally part of a book...

Hmm, considering I didn't like the movie this is very good advice. I will definitely avoid the books. Am I alone in thinking the movie was annoying in a What-About-Bob fashion?

I definitely didn't pretend my phone was ringing (vibrating) the other day when that guy tried to talk to me. Every time I mutter norwegian into my cell phone, someone is definitely on the other end listening. I would never do that just to avoid campaign people on campus.