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Hey lahondas, Yeah, it's always quite freaky when you find out that your partner is doing something behind your back (regardless of how small that something is) because it spurs you into thinking: now it's this, but what else...? But whenever a situation like that happens to me, I try and...

I feel exactly the same! That's exactly why I refused to watch any of the Lord of the Rings movies (a difficult task cosidering I'm in Wellington). But people don't seem to understand this reasoning and think that I am being melodramatic with my refusal. I believe that watching a book...

Well, it isn't that interesting, but here goes anyway. Used to work at a book store and a co-worker asked me to assist a customer who was looking for book recommendations, since I was in charge of the fiction section in the store. So I asked the customer a few questions about what kind of...

Pink Floyd's On the Turning Away. It's making me feel sad.. in a good kinda way. :o

I love Pratchett. He's the only author who is able to consistently brighten up an otherwise crappy day for me. And Thief of Time is one of my my top 5 favs from him. A little bit more convoluted than the Pratchett norm, I felt, but absolutely brilliant because of it. I recently purchased...

LOL, yeah but I bet the way in which I found out is much more embarrassing than yours. The other female writer that I really like is Katherine Dunn (which I don't think anyone mentioned yet). She wrote Geek Love, a story about a circus freak family and the interactions that the characters...

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Haha, I suffered from a similar misconception until about 3 years ago when I found out (to my astonishment) that Joyce Carol Oates is a woman. Don't ask me how that came about (the misconception, not the discovery), it just did. I really enjoyed Katherine Dunn's Geek Love.

Uncle Tom's Cabin. People don't believe me when I tell them that I burnt the book after reading the first 20 pages or so. And the bait's been laid.

I loved Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf and was, therefore, surprised when my lecturer crinkled up her nose at the mention of it on the first day of my Old English Beowulf class. In comparison with the other translation I had read, Heaney's translation seemed less abrupt and silly. But...

The only one I can think of at the moment is Seth's An Equal Music (which I raved about recently in another post :) ). But am thinking of running an experiment of reading A Clockwork Orange while listening to Beethoven alongside Alex to see if the music evokes the same reactions from me as it...

Hey kkayh, I may be totally wrong, but your description reminded me of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, written in the 60s (I think) and based on a true story of 2 man who killed an entire family in a small American town. I read the book some time back and can't remember much about it, but the...

Not really surprised you feel that way; I know a lot of people who didn't think much of it. My view is, its a book whose enjoyment is greatly enhanced with the reader's own experience / background / what the reader brings to the story. An Equal Music was the only book that described what I was...

I'd recommend Salman Rushdie. The controversy that surrounds Satanic Verses detract from that the fact that it is a brilliant book that gets attention for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to recommend Seth (An Equal Music just blew my mind away), but with only 2 prose works published, I didn't...

Awwww, that's sooo sweet! No one's ever called me dead skinny before. Unfortunately dear, your guess is not at all correct. I am far from skinny, talk in bloken engrish and walk like a baby elephant. So basically, look for someone who is the total opposite of your expectations, and you'll...

My computer is hooked up so that every letter that I type donates 5 cents to an African village somewhere in Asia. Received an email from Babu Kalangi (the village jester) asking me not to type anymore because the villages are sick of having small round metal bits randomly drop on their heads...

I love Christmas. I just hate the way everybody else screws it up. But this year, I hate it even more because now, I'm on the other side of the equation. I'm the idiot that sells you crap so that you can crap it on to other people. Plus, I'll even wrap it up all tight and snuggly for you...

LOL! I love the way threads take on a life of its own. Or rather, in this case, death of its own... Just finished an English Lit and Economics degree. Will be heading back home in Feb. Got a job at this retail store to tie me over till then. Good news is, I'm getting money. Bad news is...

More like precursor; i.e. Shakespeare showed them how it was done. Don't get me wrong, I love the Bard just as much as the next guy, but it is generally agreed that he wrote to appease the groundlings (at least that's what I've been told from the literature I've read from Shakespearean...

"...and then, and then he goes down to hell to recover his stuff, right? ... and he has to have this verbal duel with the demon that has his stuff to win it back, right? ... and so they start duelling in words and the demon keeps on getting one up on him and just when it seems as if Morpheus...