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"Did you find the purpose of your life?" As a battered child, my goal was to survive, to get to adulthood when I would be in control and this would stop. Now I have a feeling of freedom every day, and it seems to be fulfilling. I'm not sure, however, if that would exactly be called a...

For me, art museums are a high.

We don't have a TV. I think that if we had children, we might have one for the relatively educational shows and videos. I also know several other people about our age (early 20s) who just haven't gotten around to getting a TV, and don't miss it. Reading, socializing, Internet surfing, and...

A search of abebooks.com finds four trade paperback copies with this ISBN, all under ten dollars.

Sorry. Notice where it says Printed in the United States...5 6 7 etc. That means it's a fifth printing. It's a trade paperback of some kind. It's not a first edition, first printing, or anything exotic.

It has battle after battle until it's almost tiresome. As for Foundation, I'm almost sure it has no battle scenes, but if someone remembers otherwise, feel free to correct me.

It's been a while, but I recall that the Foundation trilogy was more about politics and intrigue. I would say The Forever War is better for battles.

I once read a commentary by a classic science fiction writer that listed several reasons "why their bad writing gets published, but your bad writing doesn't." I wish someone would help me find it again, because I can only remember the last one: "Your bad writing is worse than you think."

No problem. I think King is a hack writer too. But there are different ways for someone to be a bad writer. King's prose isn't clumsy. It isn't a struggle to read. I happen to find it flat and formulaic and childish, so that I get bored in spite of the plot. But for other people, it...

Many novels, especially young adult novels, set up a relationship that doesn't have much conflict. All too often, an unplanned pregnancy is used to fill the gap. It has become cliche. I will stop reading at that point.

Hmm, I keeyant tink of a famous person who kept duh chih-kah-guh eeyaccent after day left. (And you do heeyalf to leave chih-kah-guh if you want to become famous.)

The Chicago accent! Said the Chicagoan.

Dan Brown's "good plotting" is also not a given, making the mystery even deeper.

A friend of mine is a researcher for a TV news network. He has to keep up on the National Enquirer. Reporters come to him and ask for more information on amazing stories they had heard about, and he needs to be able to say right away, "Um, that's from the Enquirer."

Mari is "portrayed in a good light" for a change.

*sobs with relief*

My husband can wiggle only one ear. His left foot is half a size bigger than his right. Should I leave him?

Hmm...I didn't look at it that way because I never went through the how-to-capture-a-man phase. I met Eliott early and our mutual attraction and trust developed very fast. There was just the one obstacle of his shyness to get past, and the intiative I had to take to do it seemed relevant to...

My husband may or may not post an answer for himself, but I will say that when we first met he was an extremely shy person. I made all the first moves. Once he got that confirmation that I wasn't going to reject him, he felt confident enough to help the relationship develop through more stages.

Oooh, I'm going to change my username to The Google Spider.