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I love Shade's taking on of that person who was boosting a terrible author. It had me in tears of laughter. I can't remember what it was, if anyone can point me to it I'd appreciate it!

For me, it's books where there are long passages of what someone's thinking, I guess this would be under the "stream of consciousness" umbrella. Flashbacks are another gripe. Sex scenes shoehorned in, apparently to make the book attractive to those who are titillated by soft-core porn...

Yeah, too bad the crazy ones don't last long. :rolleyes:

I haven't read Bad Haircutyet, but either The Wishbones or Joe College is a must! I liked Little Children but couldn't relate as much to the characters.

I've read Little Children, The Wishbones, and am currently reading Joe College, and will be reading Election as soon as I get my hands on it (I saw the movie a couple of years ago). I just can't get enough of his books. I can't put my finger on it, but I like his characters, and the situations...

Bill Bryson tops my list! I found Under the Tuscan Sun so-so. There was some good writing in it, but I got disgusted with it towards the end when she seemed to have a religious conversion that bordered on the hysterical (and not the "funny" definition of hysterical).

I find that some people look down at people who like mysteries and crime writers. I like the mental exercise that a good mystery gives you. Figuring out whodunit isn't always easy, and a good writer keeps you guessing till the end-and doesn't bring somebody out of left field as the culprit...

Happy (belated)birthday, might_be_sirmyk!

Happy (belated) Birthday Stewart! :)

I wouldn't need a spaceship for people I'd happily keep nearby-all I'd need is a rowboat. I sound like a crank, don't I? :D I don't care! :p

I was thinking about how many people I'm tired of hearing about all the time and how nice it would be to be able to ship them off to Mars for a few years at least. They would be straitjacketed and hockey-masked like Hannibal Lecter and wheeled on a dolly into the space ship. Only after the...

Happy Birthday! :)

I've become hooked on Sally Spencer's mysteries. They're rather short compared to some, but "short" in the Christie and Doyle veins; Ms. Spencer doesn't bog the reader down with unnecessary details that send the plot off on tangents. I read a lot of mysteries, and I've read three of her books...

Anatomy- How Many bones does the human body have? 206. Science: what's the planet farthest from the sun?

I don't believe blurbs. What do you call the inside of a dust jacket that describes what the book is about? I've called that a blurb, too.

Literature: Who penned: "Neither a borrower nor lender be"? (Can't think of a hard one) Shakespeare? Literature: name the Seven Dwarfs.

I watched the first 15 minutes of "Napoleon Dynamite" and turned it off. Same with "Anchorman".

well, men don't suffer from postpartum psychosis, so I suppose it would be harder to work up sympathy for a man, and he'd most likely get at least life in prison if not death. I don't see what reason a man would have to murder his five children, unless it was a case where "if I can't have the...

Sweeps months are when the networks find out how many people are watching their shows. February, May, August and November. November and February are the most important. Last year my house was chosen to participate in the Nielsen ratings, but I think we did a piss-poor job of it, the forms to...

I was disappointed it was a repeat last night, February sweeps has begun, hasn't it? They made us wait forever for a new episode, threw us a couple new ones then we're back to repeats. I'm not that "into" it, and this isn't endearing the show to me.