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I am! You're in for it, this show gets so dark, but it's fantastic!

That was the wrong word, I probably should've said militaristic.

I'm somewhat new to Simmons but I dig him so far. I loved The Terror and Summer of Night. Drood left me a little cold, Carrion Comfort was pretty good. Song of Kali is in my ereader, I just haven't worked my way down to it yet :) My friend Matt swears the Hyperion Cantos is the best thing...

Ah yes, poor Moby Dick, that one is definitely a chore. LOTR, well, either you get caught up in its universe or you don't. I never read Atlas Shrugged, I got through The Fountainhead but just barely. But Catch-22? That one kind of surprises me.

I think 1984 is a better-written story (& I have to wonder what Orwell would make of Skype/Twitter/etc.) but I think BNW's premise is pretty brilliant. Most "grim future" stories, like 1984, deal with highly fascistic societies; but BNW goes in the opposite direction. You have what seems to be...

I'll have to check that one out sometime; I love Band of Brothers (the book and the miniseries both).

My mother's piano. What's your avatar pic and why did you choose it?

I quite liked Pitch Black; I think David Twohy is a really underrated director/writer. Jack Reacher - I haven't actually read the series, so I wasn't too put off by Tom Cruise being cast...it was an ok action/mystery but also a painfully blatant white-male reactionary fantasy. 2 1/2 out of 5...

I read both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights when I was 14; and I love JE, I re-read it about every 5 years and keep finding new things in the subtext. Didn't like Heights at all, although maybe I should give it another try now. At 14 I just could not fathom why the actions of these two...

"Dreams" by Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

:( He was one of the best at writing smart "under-your-skin" horror. I love his Twilight Zone episodes too, that's one of my favorite shows.

Les Miserables (2012) - some iffy casting and it would've helped if someone else had directed - Tom Hooper used way too many close-ups and tilts, musicals are supposed to use their sets - but I liked it for the most part :star3: Cloud Atlas (2012) - it was....interesting. I had trouble...

Pink Floyd (although nothing from The Wall lol)

Sad news. Not a good week, between him and James Gandalfini (though that was a heart attack apparently, not cancer). Sorry to hear about your friend too, abc. My mom died of lung cancer at 50 and I'm still kind of raw about it.

the Mulholland Drive soundtrack -

That's par for the course with Zack Snyder. Still, the word-of-mouth for this has been better than I expected. I'll probably go see it when it hits the second-run theater. I watched the JOHN ADAMS miniseries over the weekend. I loved it! McCollough's book is probably my favorite...

42nd Street - :star4: Fitzwilly -:star3: Jane Eyre (2011) - :star4:

These are for adult/general readers: F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series - if you also like paranormal/horror with your action (it begins with The Tomb). Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt books are pretty good.

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Has anyone here worked - or attempted to - through any of those write-from-home sites? (The ones like Helium, Wisegeek, Oboulu, etc.) I've had a Textbroker account for a couple years and have had pretty good luck with it. I'd like to try some others and if anyone has any horror stories or...