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I've been playing Diablo II for the past 2 years - it's THAT good. Unbelievably great game. Other faves of the past: Lemmings; Command and Conquer; GIANTS; DOOM; Warcraft; Need for Speed And the best game of them all: Chess

In general, I'm really turned off by celebrity worship. Most of them are just overpaid egomaniacs that are good at their job. I thought Clint Eastwood's performance in Million Dollar Baby was extraordinary. I liked the aborigine in The Gods Must Be Crazy.

I did mean when they go to see Teabing - which was in France as you said. But both in book and movie they are knocking on his gate moments after Langdon gets the idea. And it felt like this was happening within the time frame of the story. I mean, all the places they go, the banks, Churches...

Well, IF: -you read and LOVED the book and; -you have FREE tickets and; -there's nothing else you feel like doing instead; THEN -go. It DOES follow the book very closely, to it's credit. I was dissapointed tho. When I read the book, I lost interest about 1/3 through, although I did...

WARNING - SPOILERS ABOUND! Well, we just got home from the theatre. In a word - actually 2 words - IT SUCKED! Peder is right that if follows the book quite closely. I guess I must have hated the book too. At least, the last 2 thirds. If the Church objects to this movie, it...

I read the first 3 books of the series years ago. While I enjoyed them - they were pretty good stories - I found Auel's writing to be rather childish, with little subtlety or nuance. Embarassingly so. The plots were contrived and the interactions between Ayla and the other characters were...

Sure I would. I use what's useful. Fact is, it was a shock to me when Windows replaced DOS. I'm still getting over it - and I'm still annoyed by many of its quirks, like just now the start menu popped up because I must have touched it with the heel of my hand while typing. And that happens...

OK, I don't have laughing elephants, squirting fountains out of their trunks, exotic cats, or bustling metropoli. I'm in the small minority that like their desk tops plain and uncluttered. You know, those graphics consume your video ram and other available resources. I'm of the opinion that...

I went to sleep at night, and awoke up in a strange room. My soft blue room where I grew up, vanished in the night. My comfort is dashed, my serenity shattered. The safe haven of my old room is now stark and strange. Brown walls and leering faces on the ceiling mock me, and shout...

On a bill, where it tells you how much you have to pay, then it wants you to write in the amount you are paying. Why? Aren't they going to look at my check anyway? If I write I'm paying $1,000,000 and I'm paying down my entire mortgage, and please put the extra in the bank for me, are they...

Not sure what "dense" means in this context. Difficult to get through? True, it is difficult. That's because it continuously forces you to think outside the box, as they say. As far as "dry", well, as I said, if the paradox I gave as an example (called the Epimenides two step paradox, or...

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter. I just saw this thread. All the books suggested are undoubtedly great thought provokers. BUT Josh, reading your original post, I believe I have the BEST suggestion by far. The book I'm suggesting, is so thought...

lilshorty, ions isn't so bad a sort. But he's a little annoyed by your shorthand. It does put many of us "literate" sorts off, you know. If you took a little more effort to write coherently, well, you might get a warmer response! Now, back to your original question. John Steinbeck has...

Aqua- The verse I quoted is from The Wastelands. I haven't gotten to The Song of Susannah yet. The verse appears and re-appears in different forms, I suppose. ions- I get the impression you are getting weary of this conversation, and that's fine if you are. Let me just state MY position...

What phrase?

ions- I haven't read much (hardly any) Joyce, but I do believe him to be obscure. That's the impression that I have from reading the exerpts that I have read, (for example the one you posted) and because I must have heard it said a million times. I can accept King for the writer he is, but...

Well, thanks for the compliment. Now, let me ask you something - if you can answer this as objectively as possible, that will help to demonstrate my point. You're walking alone in a forest, and you find a COMPOSITION notebook. You open the book, and find the KING poem, unsigned. You flip the...

There are those that say that Stephen King (my favorite author) is a hack, a clod, a clumsey and shallow blender of pure pulpy tripe. That's nonsense! He's a literary genius! "See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds...