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You know, this is the biggest question that I am asking myself: what must be done in order to make a bestseller? It seems the answer is not as easy as one would have thought before Mr. Brown's hits. As to Clancy - I think his books are much better. That's because I can see him investigating...

And whould you believe there are people who have spiders as home critters? Instead of a cat or a dog? We have those in Russia. My opinion is they do it out of inclination to look different, rather than of their love for spiders. And... In our family we were taught not to fear spiders: there...

It is quite usual, you know...

Yes. Maybe it is my mistake that I take it as natural for a film to fly much higher over the grounds of reality than it is allowed for a book... But on the back cover of every Mr. Brown's book I read about how high-IQ, how wise, how scientific his books were... And with all my respect for those...

Hi DemoPlay! How do you like the Treasure Island? My daughter, who is about the same age as you, liked it very much.

OK. And it looked OK to you that some ancient science-loving artist devised anagramic brands to be used on human beings and bearing names of "the four elements" on them? And that "Illuminati Diamond" of unbelievable beauty, turning out to be just... Oh, sorry, you hadn't get to it, so I wouldn't...

I adore them too. My wife kooks them for me several times a month. Too bad - she cannot bear them herself.

Oh... Quite strange, I was sure they are mostly in cotton shirts and bathrobes... I would say that the Pakistani blades should be wider than it is usual for Chinese and Japanese ones, so far as I remember from my history... BTW, I think that Pakistan could be considered an Oriental country...

According to our old ways we will have Christmas on 7th of January. Or to very old ways - on 21st of January. So now we have to be fasting, really. That's one of many answers on how we control our weight: we have much more fasting days then feasting days...

Lucky you. As to oriental make - you can be pretty sure of it. The thing is how old it is: if it is older then 10 years or so - you may bought yourself a fortune. If it is younger than that - it's made in China in order to be sold at flea markets. I got one myself - a friend of mine gave it...

Yes, ВЗБЗДНУТЬ is quite an interesting word...

OK, so they are really very much the same. And these sheds on small pieces of land looks like ours that are erected on our ogorods. Though ours look so ugly sometimes, made of pieces of corrugated steel, rotten plywood and carton... Thanks, I like it too. Too bad I do not time enough for it...

Thanks. (Though to express myself in English is SOOOOOOOO hard for me, comparing to Russian...)

Oh... Gtreat... Were is my Japanese - Russian dictionary... OK, OK... You were very close, Kenny. Though I would use a cross-bred between yours and one of Sitaram's variants: DastaEfskij. The last vowel [j] is like [y] in "boy", and the previous [i] is really [ee]... And e (that goes in...

Wow, there is such a thread here? OK, coming...

Oh no, I do not think my wife have ever tried that. But I know that some of her friends did exactly that thing.

Sure. Though now it is much easier to believe in atoms and synchrophasotrones and not believe in God and supernatural abilities, as our current system of beliefs is more "scientifically oriented"... And it is a Macho thing not to cling to an idea that there is some afterlife etc.... So what...

Hi Gollum! It was with pleasure that I read U. LeGuin, R. Zelazny, R. Silverberg, P. Anderson and E.A. Poe... Not mentioning Chekhov, whose were some of the first books that I read.

In a sense we are absolutely the same. Do you know that we have a magi who made an official statement that he will give life back to those killed in terrorist acts in Russia, so they could return to their families? And he is quite a wealthy person, as he charges a lot for his services. It seems...

Wow. It seems Honeydevil said what I liked most. As for me - I would not have thought of the two alternatives. If I ever started writing, that would not be because I wanted to be famous, to have my sons & daughters spread evenly over the entire world, or for any reason other than the need to...