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I just recently listened to the audio book version of this (long road trip to visit my folks). It was quite good. I am not a Sherlock Holmes fan, but have read a lot of great reviews of Chabon's writing, and they weren't wrong. Very elegant prose, and a very interesting story. What might...

I don't know if it's considered a guilty pleasure, but I like Loren D. Estleman's Amos Walker series. Not the usual stuff I read, but a nice break from it. As for TV shows, I actually search out and watch "The Nanny". :o

I take one along with me when my wife and I go visit my family. It's a 10 hour drive. This last time out was "The Final Solution" by Michael Chabon. Very short. It was read by Michael York, and I think he did a great job.

If you are a psychology major, or know a lot about the world of mental disorders, the book will be a big disappointment. I read it and thought it was quite shocking, and enjoyed the book as a whole. But in the real world, the ending couldn't really happen. (But then again, that's why they...

No, but thank you for your help. And I should have mentioned beforehand that I knew it wasn't Gombrowicz

I have been searching on it at Amazon all day with no luck. That is where I originally heard of this book. It is a collection of short stories by a Polish writer, and it is the first work of his translated and published in English. I believe it was recommended to me by Amazon because of my...

I think "2001" by Arthur C. Clarke would fall into that territory, as does "The Gods Themselves" by Isaac Asimov. I read both of those about 12-14 years ago and enjoyed them at that time. Another older one that I would recommend is "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. LeGuin. All three of...

I've been there once. There is a nice Borders not too far from where I live now. If I do go browsing or shopping for books the old fashion way, it's that one or independent places. There is a chain on the east coast called Atlantic Book Warehouse. They mostly carry remainders. That is...

I don't see the Wings choking this year, so much as getting bested by a team that is playing better. I wouldn't be suprised to see Dallas come out of the West, beating the Wings in the conference finals. They have really turned it around lately. The Wings big question is goaltending. Is...

I wasn't going to be so harsh about that trilogy, but can't argue with the truth. :D I read them because they tie into "I, Jedi" by Michael A. Stackpole. And that, I feel, was a very good Star Wars novel. "Shatterpoint" by Matthew Woodring Stover was also a very good Star Wars novel. I...

We would also need to ship off the idiots in the media that keep talking and filming these people. Some of the people on your list aren't necessarily the problem. But I am also fed up with having to hear about these people's lives.

Here are my top three ......... for now. ;) "The Lions of Al-Rassan" by Guy Gavriel Kay "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman

It has happened to me recently, as a matter of fact. Part of it probably comes from taking so much time to care for my son (2 1/2 months old and rather cranky when he's awake). Unfortunately my advice it's very original. Just keep trying different books. Though I wouldn't take too long...

I am going to miss "That 70's Show" when it's off the air. It was cancelled, though allowed to finish out the current season. Though it has run it's coarse.

My wife and sister-in-law wrote a musical based on "Silas Marner". Been lazy about shopping it around. They did enter a contest held by a production company in Chicago for first time writers a couple of years ago. Though it was a finalist, they passed over it. I am not big on musicals, but I...

I would recommend Alastair Reynolds' "Revelation Space" universe books. There are four, and three of them have an order. "Chasm City" is a stand-alone, then there is "Revelation Space", "Redemption Ark", and then "Absolution Gap". All very good hard sci-fi space opera hundreds of years into...

I didn't know they had a DVD out. Gonna have to check into it. I hadn't bought a CD in a while until I got "Deadwing" by Porcupine Tree.

Knight Ridder is huge. They own quite a few respectable newspapers in the US. http://www.knightridder.com/about/

You people disgust me!! (I mean this as a joke, if you need to know.) :D Even before our son was born, I could only get through five books a month at most. And they had to be shorter books, too. I see lists here that reach double digits. ARGH!! As for me, I finished "The Time...

As for the voting, yes I have voted for third and fourth party candidates as well. Even for the US President. There were three elections in a row where I voted for neither the Republican or Democratic candidates. But then those "other" parties never get elected, so again I feel like I lose...