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Great post, Hugin, I may have never written mine if I had seen yours before I started...

Again, I like your position. I am sure of it myself. If it wasn't for Mikhail from Saratov and some other personal experiences, I would have been 100% with you. I think it is the only right approach to this problem: not to believe what you are told, but try to "mull it over, test it in your...

I like you position, Libre. When I am caught in a discussion like this one, I usually say almost the same, word for word. This position is logical, clean and easy. The problem is: our life is illogical, not always easy and rarely clean. What I am saying is: if we eliminate everything that...

Yep, it took about 6 or 7 hours only - not too much. Thanks.:) (Too bad the possibility to edit the message ends so quickly - I've forgot to insert /qutes in the proper places in the previous one, and it's closed for editing already...)

That's an interesting story. I think that's the same phenomena as with our old women, who sometimes get to know things that couldn't be explained by ordinary reasons. From the other hand, I would like to tell a story of quite the opposing situation: we had two very well-known TV gurus, who...

Thanks to "Santa Barbara", I am immune to soap-operas. We have our own now, of course, but I somehow manage without them. BTW, I have downloaded the Berezovsky film on Friday. Though, I wouldn't try it again in my office: our guru says that meaty downloads are hard on our server, and as this...

I think that absolute majority of people who pretend they have "special abilities" are frauds. Some of them may know hypnosis, some of them know psychology, some of them know tricks and others know nothing at all. But there were and there are people with special abilities. I do not think they...

Sorry, I do not know the English word I need - so I will say slightly more than wanted. My grandmother had a sister. The sister had a son, and he had a son and two daughters. One of the daughters got married. Her husband was quite an intelligent man, he knew several languages and it was fun to...

Yes, that's what I meant, thanks. Sure. I hope to be able to see this change in her taste when she is twenty one... You know, the major difference between our cultures is that we learned first about soap-operas only fifteen years ago or so. Because of that nearly 100% of population have...

It is amazing how we made these messages in exactly the same time, to the minute...

I just finished watching a Russian gardening program on our NTV channel, and before that went the Top Gear. It is not subtitled, it goes as all the other international programs on our TV - exactly the same as Russian programs, with a different Russian actor for every different actor in the...

Sorry, the previous one was in German, the English one for Boris Akunin is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Akunin and Julia Latynina is author of very different things, and "The Insider" is some cross-breed between "Economy-Fiction" and "Reality Thriller", if there are such things...

Hi cshigh, As to Fantasy, I can mention Sergey Lukyanenko, who is very popular here because of two films made after his stories. I hadn't read anything by him, but you can learn about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lukyanenko or on his official site...

Yep, I agree with you, I've felt the same. Plus, Mr. Brown has a queer sense of time: when I tried to imagine how a person could do all these things in the time allocated for that by the author, it was always impossible. Maybe I am too lazy, though...

People very often love quite strange things. I think they have right to - otherwise who would have loved us? :)

Thanks, Gem. I think that if somebody started reading after reading DaVinci Code - that's good. Though... Sometimes I think that reading in itself is not a virtue, as keeping a dog does not necessary mean the person loves animals.

Hi Spiralsky! Welcome, feel yourself comfortable here, it is a great place to know more about people in other countries as well as about books... That's funny: life here and in the States is very much the same in very many aspects: it is cold in Winter where I live but not too much, same as...

I see. We have a possibility to watch many BBC programs - I like them very much. But really I do not watch TV too often, and when I do - it is mostly news, programs on gardening and interior design, talk-shows on political and social problems, music clips, films about nature, travel, science...

Wow, that's great. I do not think we would have much bigger figure here in Russia. That means people are interested in Russia. (Or that they got too bored with everything else already.) Oh, that's natural, of course. I, on the other hand, am quite curious about other countries. But in the end...

You are welcome, that's my pleasure to be of help.