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Indeed. Mind you, that sort of thing makes me despair rather than finding it amusing. There's no reasoning with that mindset, which means that all the carefully constructed arguments in books like The God Delusion are a waste of time when applied to the people Dawkins is targetting. The best...

Showing my age here, but I preferred the 1980 version of Pride and Prejudice to the 1995 one. It seemed to catch the atmosphere of the Regency era and so the story made more sense than the more modern take on it that the 1995 version provided. I haven't seen this latest version, but if it's...

I think it's interesting that in this election the "values" candidates haven't done so well. Maybe we've finally reached the point where people's concern about their own future in terms of whether they'll still have a home, a job, or any savings in a couple of years' time has become more...

Well, I've found that being a member of this forum has helped me get some books off the shelf and start reading - but it's also helped me add a whole lot of books to the "must read" and "must buy" lists.:eek:

I'd be interested in the basis of the "doesn't know much about science" conclusion. He has a PhD in zoology from Oxford and has been a faculty member at both UC Berkeley and Oxford in the zoology departments. Dismissing someone with those credentials and that experience as not knowing much about...

I'm not so sure that it doesn't matter who you vote for. I seriously doubt that Al Gore or John McCain, if either had won in 2000, would have landed us in this idiotic war in Iraq. Even though McCain is now misguided enough to believe that this war is winnable and the insurgents and terrorists...

I've been meaning to read these books. I read a novel by Elizabeth Goudge years ago where the plot involved a central character living parallel lives in modern England and 18th century Scotland (I think it was The Middle Window), and it looks as though the basic plot in the Outlander series is...

Starving in Greenland...:( But also in Tokyo during the Edo period.

I like the George RR Martin series a lot, but my favourite fantasy series by a long way is the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.

Then major decisions get made on the basis of criteria other than common sense. And things get censored for reasons other than absolute necessity.

This may not be what you're looking for, but the Age of the Five series by Trudi Canavan involves flying.

1) One Book that made you read it More Than Once: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2) One book you would want on a desert island: On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin 3) One book that made you laugh: The whole Discworld series - Terry Pratchett 4) One book that made you cry...

I agree with you. I really dislike religious brainwashing of kids - actually I dislike religion in general but that's another matter ;) - but they should have investigated that original call a bit more diligently before acting on it. It seems as though they were just looking for an excuse. The...

It isn't so much that he's been punished for serving his country; it's that after all these years of this idiotic war, people are very leery of his apparent enthusiasm for continuing it.

I was disappointed in the epilogue. I think I remember reading that she hadn't wanted to write it but felt she needed to tie up some loose ends. Trouble is that it's such a perfunctory synopsis that it just leaves you saying "yes, and???" It also doesn't have the typical quirky humour and plot...

You want to try Japanese sometime...

A lot of my books are sitting in random piles on the floor and on desks and any other available surface because I ran out of bookshelf space a while ago. We need to get a couple more bookshelves. I've got to the point that if I'm walking round my office in the dark, I'm at risk of falling over...

Since she prevailed in the lawsuit brought against her for plagiarism, I don't think you're correct in stating that she stole her whole plot. You might want to be a bit careful about what you accuse people of because that post of yours is coming perilously close to defamation.

Nothing wrong with Harry Potter, and I'm not convinced about JKR being a bitch, but of course if you actually know her.... I've just finished the Rose of York series by Sandra Worth and am about to embark on the Sano Ichiro series by Laura Joh Rowland. Those AJ Hartley books look good. This...

I don't see any reason not to legalise marijuana. Some of the more dangerous drugs might not be such good candidates. I assume that legalised drugs won't be legal for children, so there'll still be that "forbidden fruit" attraction. Even so, I think it'll be a healthier situation than the...