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You've gone mad with power ever since they crowned you mod. It won't end well, you know. Sure, they give the moniker and the keys to the secret lair, and if you are lucky a sidekick to order around, but the hours are brutal and there's no pension plan.

Can I just say, "WTF?" People are now allowed to graffiti my profile? This place just keeps getting weirder.

Stuck on the pane two flies buzzed, stuck. Glowing wine on his palate lingered swallowed. Crushing in the winepress grapes of Burgundy. Sun's heat it is. Seems to a secret touch telling me memory. Touched his sense moistened remembered. Hidden under wild ferns on Howth. Below us bay sleeping...

This seems as good as place as any to say hasta luego, mis amigos! The asylum is back open for business and it's party time in the CK Hizz-ouse!* *I'm sure if Krunk'd was here, he'd correct my spelling. Middle-aged ladies like myself should not try to engage in that...

"The Crying of Lot 49" is an excellent book. It's so small and moves so quickly that it's almost like watching a movie, and after you've read it, you'll need to blink a few times to adjust your eyes to the world outside again. :)

Since I was mentioned by name... There are two schools of thought...the one is dive right in to GR. It is, to many minds, the definitive Pynchon so best to just go for it. The other is to start with "The Crying of Lot 49" which is the most accessible of Pynchon's work, get a feel for his...

Having read this thread, I understand at last why I'll never fit in around here. :( <*Hugs "Gravity's Rainbow," "Ulysses," "Wuthering Heights," and Anais Nin's diaries close to heart and goes for more coffee.*>

I've just read through the poems you posted and I wanted to say how much I liked them. They reminded me that poetry is best when it is read outloud, and they made me want to hear them in the author's voice. The word selection, the rhythm, and the "voice" of your writing is very strong. I...

There was finally a discussion of spankings* on TBF and I missed it! :eek: *For the record, I don't believe in spanking children, that's just perverted and wrong. Good spankings should be left to adults who can appreciate them. :cool:

I did a banned books summer awhile book. Of course, while I was I reading "Tropic of Cancer" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (among others) these are the books that are being banned these days. Apparently, a little healthy sex is one thing, but that devil-worshipping Harry Potter is the new...

I've been trying to hunt around for my copy of "The Scarlet Letter." It's been years since I read it, but it seems to me the was a little sumpin'-sumpin' goin' on in the subtext between Dimmesdale and Chillingsworth. I'll have to take some time to see if I can find something that directly...

The books have the tremendous advantage of not having Jim Carrey in them. :p

Sitaram, I believe you also visit the Literature Networks, which includes full text of books that have reached public domain (it's something like 50 years after publication or after the the writer's death -- I can't recall now, I stopped studying things like that a long time ago), so I would...

I could never post my diary to a blog! :eek: The men in the white coats would finally get me for sure!

My daughter is 9, and the last two Harry Potters (Order of the Phoenix and the new one) are too dark for her, but she did enjoy the first three. Her other favorite book is Cornelia Funke's "Dragon Rider." These books are very light reading compared to TLOTR. :)

I know this is the children's section and a lot of you young readers visit here, but I wanted to have a word with some of the grown ups who may read this section, too. My daughter and I have spent the summer reading this series and if you have the opportunity to do so I recommend it. They...

I've kept journals most of my life. They are my therapeutic outlet, they help me to process my emotions, to make decisions, to set goals and move toward them, to toy with some poetry or a story idea, and they give me an excuse to have a few minutes peace and quiet in the course of a hectic day...

When I was young and had lots of free time and could read until my eyes bled, I was a reading omnivore. I read anything within my reach. I read cereal boxes, junk mail, Tolstoy, MM Kaye, Jackie Collins, Gone with the Wind, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Judy Blume, the menus of Chinese take-out...

As someone who can get a harmless giggle out of Bruckheimer film and still appreciate Atom Egoyan (or Jim Jarmusch or the Coen Brothers or Akira Kurosawa), I guess I have to, very humbly, disagree with you. This thread was started for people who were asking for alternatives and not one of them...

You know, beer and porn DO make the shift go faster.