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I also enjoyed watching his antics, and feel sorrow at his tragic death. Still, I always felt unsettled at his sensationalistic style, dragging the animals out of their hiding places, waving his hands and face in striking distance, turning his back on them, and daring them to attack him. There...

Well, I'm taking a vacation with my wife (I said WITH, not FROM) - celebrating our 4th anniversary. That's 4 years of unmitigated marital bliss (I used to think "marital bliss" was an oxymoron, like "military intelligence"). We're off to Greece for a week - cruising around the islands and a...

Anybody into Nelson DeMille? He's terriffic! The General's Daughter may be the best known of his books, having been made into a movie with John Travolta. Night Fall is a superb and chilling, intricate novel (I'm sounding like a book jacket). Right now I've almost finished Plum Island, and it...

Wild guess. Crumb? Don't know if it's right, but at least it fits. or, in the same vein... American Splendor? or, am I breaking a rule by venturing 2 guesses in the same post?

Not crazy at all - I know exactly what you mean. steffee Why should you have to justify reading to anyone? If they don't understand, it's kinda their prob, I think. gem Annoyingly easygoing? I wish more people were more annoying. Wait... forget that.

I can safely assume that most - if not all - of the membership here are book lovers. After all, this IS a book forum. So you're going to relate to this. Have you ever noticed, how your whole disposition changes for the better when you are into a book you are enjoying? And not just while you...

I cried in the very first chapter of Saul Bellow's Herzog's Gift. I cried because I spent good money on it - and 2 other Bellow books - and I could see that I was not going even finish chapter one, much less finish the book, much less read the others.

Well, I hate to break it to you, you guardians of books that have a mania for keeping them in perfect, new condition, but all your books are on fire. That's right, they're on fire. The fact that you don't see flames shooting out of them only means that they are burning very slowly - they are...

never know- You're right. I guess you knew that time. Movie freaked me out too - I just saw it (again) on AMC last night. I have to say that although it's freaky, it's an excellent movie. Absorbing and compelling - considering the genre. By the way, Jeff Goldblum's charater is named Seth...

NEW RULE (a la Bill Maher): If there is no quote for a few days because the last correct answerer did not post one, or else it got lost in the thread, than anybody is free to post a new one. quote: My teeth have begun to fall out. The medicine cabinet is now the Brundle Museum of Natural...

I read an article about him (Jack Kerouac) in the NY Times a few months back. I was amazed to learn that he lived in my neighborhood (Howard Beach, Queens) and hung out at bar on Cross Bay Blvd - that I pass every day. Never read his books though. On The Road is on a future TBR pile.

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

Don't know about the stormy seas - that sounds more like Winslow Homer. Sargent was a portrait painter, primarily. His most famous work is Madame X, which was a total scandal when it was painted. I mean, it turned the art world upside down. It's not my favorite Sargent painting, but it is...

Picasso, John Singer Sargent, Vermeer

Well, I've finished it. I've read your spoilers, steffee, and while what you wrote has some validity, I still come away thinking Henry was a pretty honorable guy. Yes, he changed people's lives by his existance - we all do. Anyway, it was a really good book, I think, but I also agree with...

Got It!!! First of all, thanks Stewart. I did find something - and old copy of Chessbase, but it didn't work - the program was too old. So I was back to needing something to do what I wanted. I wrote my own macro - here is a screen print. You enter the move or moves on the left (white...

Mattyj- Broadcast News is correct. tundra- Yeah, you can "cheat", but it's just for fun, so what's the difference?

Yeah - that's the one. The main branch of the NY Public Library, 5th ave and 42nd St. Funny thing - although I pass that library at least once a week, when I saw that movie I was at the outskirts of Death Valley - the hottest place in the Western Hemisphere.