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No no, Jughead. It's not misspelling, it's a statement. And the statement is: Wolf Larsen is a ...

Jeez Louise. Doesn't this guy ever get tired of embarrassing himself? :rolleyes:

I got stuck about 50 pages into My Name is Red, and have been (perhaps rather easily) put off trying him since.

Happy to oblige. The US has a gun problem.

Yes, congrats to Mr P. At least this means I can now definitively stop trying to get through his books...

Ooh, interesting. I kept meaning to look into Fante Jr's work when I read a couple of his old man's books earlier this year (or was it last year?) - but haven't got around to it yet. I seem to recall his three novels were all out of print in the UK, so you could be right about the slim chances...

I meant to watch this last night, but got caught up in Spooks instead (which I haven't watched in years). Er, plus I was assembling a piece of furniture at the time also...

Of course not. I was raising the point because you made the asinine comparison of guns with cars. Stewart said "guns are designed for killing, cars aren't." You then drew a distinction between killing and hunting, as though hunting did not involve killing. Stewart's original assertion - he...

Soooo... any of you guys got any questions for Mr Deaver in Darren's upcoming Q&A session with him??

ie killing, as Stewart said. "Tongue firmly in cheek" or not, SFG, this is really what a lot of Americans believe: that having more guns will make the place safer. The UK, with strict gun control laws, has 25 times fewer gun murders per head of population than the US.

Delusions of grandeur? Wolfie's got delusions of mediocrity. And even those are hopelessly optimistic.

From a cache of the Aries literary magazine website (now defunct, but still held in Google's cache): Which would mean issue 12 was published last year, and issue 20 isn't due out until 2013.

Ew. Naughty.

Er... which was?

Ah, those Djiboutian concretists! Let's face it, unless it's a UK or US author, we're unlikely to have heard of them. So my nomination is J.K. Rowling.

A pedant writes: You mean Walker Percy! Otherwise, keep up the good work, SFG...

All families have a secret: they're not like other families. (Alan Bennett) Family and Youth Concern would need to specify what they mean by 'unbalanced.' Do they mean the lack of a mother figure? So what of single parent families? Do they think straight children will be 'made' gay by...

Quite. Dawkins' point (and one that I agree with) is that if children were not indoctrinated, then most religions would dwindle to practically nothing, if not die out altogether. The old Jesuit saying of "Give me the child to the age of seven, and I will give you the man," is both accurate and...

Here's my Amazon review of The God Delusion. I realise B&R folk may want to go into more detail - restricted by Amazon's 1,000 word limit - so ask away on any specific points... If you're reading this, the chances are you're either a 'radical atheist' (the preferred term of Dawkins' late...

I enjoyed that one up to about halfway, ions, and thereafter I found it increasingly hard going and gave up. Good luck though...