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I can not argue, you know - everybody has his own taste in movies. I never managed to convince my friends that the "Fight Club" was an amazing movie. I agree that "Once Upon a time in the West" has a couple of ingenious scenes. But it is about one good scene per hour! And there are about 3...

I'd suggest Jose Saramago's "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ". The Bible can do as well (at least some part of it).

Do you have a TV set at home? Because I do not, so I really read a lot. The only problem is that I became internet-addicted around a year ago, (when I got my very own PC - or more precise, when every member of my family has got his very own PC :) ) so this declined my reading (of literature)...

I had 7 years at school of this stuff. I don't see much point in it. I mean- it is OK, I may follow the writers' hints without any effort from my side. However, there are many more, non-bible-related hints, that I miss... I miss the references referring to Ramayana and Mahabharata, Koran...

We've just seen two movies: 1. "Once Upon a time in the West", because our friends advised it us with a great enthusiasm. We watched-and watched- and watched, and nothing! We waited and waited and waited to get a clue what was this movie about and who kills whom and for what reason. At...

The possibility that they are unbiased does not necessarily mean that the animals are not treated cruelly. Being a devoted heretic myself I do not follow any restrictions or hold any believes in my life. But I simply dislike meat. I actually can never forget the scenes when my parents were...

Here are several example of non-pathetic, strong women (17-19 centuries!) portrayed by the contemporary writers (just a random sampling coming to my mind... I am sure that there are more!) 1. Jane Eyre (an 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë) - an independent women, taking care of herself, working...

Just seen the Bee Movie. I went because I like the Seinfeld's show. I had lots of expectations - I guess this was my mistake. The movie is cute, well animated, has some touch of Seinfeld's "family humor". It is also a "green" movie, emphasizing that animals are living creatures - and that...

Well, I never read anything really "ancient". The most ancient for me was the greek legends and the Odyssey, but I do not have any problem with that sort of ancient literature. Those are sometimes more modern in their views on life than some contemporary works. (for example, Nabokov). I have...

I also read around 95% of the above list - when I was between 12 and 18 years old. I remember that it was so romantic! So magic! So adventurous! But I am glad I read those book THEN. NOW it simply would not work. Now I am too rooted to the earth. I took once Monte Cristo as a re-read, and I...

Jeans+under wool tights under jeans (+sweater + three other layers below a sweater + coat) is the only way I dared to get out so far. Yet I look on those brave girls and women in the subway and on the streets, with a bit of an envy. And with a shiver (that's FREEEEEZING outside!). May be local...

I need an advice from people living in cold countries. I am coming from a very hot country to a very cold one. I needed to buy stuff for the coming winter, so I watched closely people in the streets for realizing what to buy. May be somebody here from cold countries can explain to me how...

I did not know that! Wow, that's really ahead of his time! I read only one book, called "Father Goriot" - I remember being OK with it, it was a smooth reading, although as always - the way that people thought and acted in the preceding centuries sometimes drives me mad. I personally...

Depends in which language, and what :cool: . Comics I read slower (per page) than a pure text. Technical stuff I read much faster (because it is boring) but several times (because I never actually get what they are trying to say to me). Emails that I get I simply "photograph" with my...

Never heard, never read. But will put it on my TBR. Now you made me curious, though. What was his username? If I ever get a prize (the Turing Prize, the Nobel Prize, or an Olimpic medal - should I mention that I am a memeber of the B&R :D ? )

Actually I only checked the ONE ABOVE (2007) :D But yeah, I liked the point of talking-to-past. The time machine is launched!

Dat watt exactly my point ist!

My new favorite is Jasper Fforde! All your list of - the bad force appears -> fight the bad ->good days return are present there. It's surrealistic, very jumpy, very clever - what the fantasy should be like. Moreover, they are present in a completely new way, making it a NEW fantasy! And one...

Hi Morry, You talk so much that I do not know what you metersay. I like the Matrix not because of darkness but because of the IDEA - do not you have sometimes the feeling that YOU live in a Matrix? And would not you like to be a hero and break through it YOURSELF? Same with the Lord of...

I am not sure, but sounds like Max and Moritz. One of my friends bought this for his kid and then realized what it was about. He hid it far-far away, probably he will give it as a birthday present to other kids whom his son dislikes the most :D