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:lol: Thanks for the laugh. After your post, though, I guess there was no point in my using the spoiler tags.

Have you read Ursula Le Guin? Start with The Dispossessed or The Left Hand of Darkness.

Maybe you will find something worthwhile that I didn't. In that case, I would love to hear your thoughts on it. :)

I thought "Across the Sea" was an excellent episode. I also don't think it answered very much at all in regards to the plot. But Lost has never really been a show about giving concrete answers, and I think that anyone that expects to get them is going to be disappointed. Lost is about Themes...

Good luck with this one. I tried to read it twice, and it just did not hold my interest. Even when I ignored the footnotes and stuck to the main story, I was bored to tears. I don't mind stylistic writing as long as it works for the subject matter, but it seems to me the author tried for all...

When I think "horror", I think of what actually sends chills down my spine. With that in mind, here are my picks: 1. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 2. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 3. The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams 4. Song of Kali by Dan Simmons...

1) One Book that made you read it More Than Once: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle 2) One book you would want on a desert island: A book on how to get off a desert island. 3) One book that made you laugh: Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins 4) One book that made you cry: Flowers For...

The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and To Build a Fire by Jack London The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery :stars4:

This was my third attempt at this book, and I finally read it through to the end. The ending was compelling, but it didn't make up for the lack of interest I had in the characters and the town. Overall, interesting themes that were poorly drawn, in my opinion.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez :stars2:

Four Freedoms by John Crowley The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Cloud Atlas by Dave Mitchell

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett :stars2: Okay, I actually didn't finish it. I got half way through and gave up due to boredom. I don't need another page of gratuitous sex, another paragraph explaining so and so's motivations again (I get it already!), and another sentence full of...

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster :stars4: This is the second book I have read by this author, and both times I had the same reaction. The writing is superb, the story fascinating and thought-provoking, but the end is a let down. It's as if I was driven down a winding road with a hazy...

I looked through this thread and I don't think Gene Wolfe was mentioned. Definitely intelligent sci-fi. Two of his best stand alone novels are Peace and The Fifth Head of Cerberus.

You got me there. I had to look up what Uggs were, and I don't find them attractive, so some other woman will have to answer this one.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood :stars2: In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster :stars4: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen :stars1: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann :stars3:

Fantasy: Patricia McKillip Science fiction: Ursula Le Guin

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann :stars3: Interesting ideas and philosophical discourse contained within a boring story full of one-dimensional characters. A little less philosophy and a bit more of actual plot and character development would have made this a great novel.