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If On a Winter's Night, a Traveler by Italo Calvino.

Correction. Today within a two hour period it moved from $2.73 to $2.88

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakaeur

I highly enjoy all of Lewis's books. The Screwtape Letters is a wonderful look from a completely different perspective. Mere Christianity is also just INCREDIBLE. It's so philosophical and honest. If you read nothing else, read the first chapter. His other works are also amazing.

I've discovered that it's POSSIBLE. My car can't right now. I don't have the money.

The higher octane rating is actually better for your car. Higher octanes means less chance of engine knock. I'm at $2.73/gal here. And on the subject of hybrids, the government did actually fund a lot of the research and they gave a tax break to the companies that are producing the...

No. I don't. What's the most difficult class you've taken in life?

SoundSilent: I'm a mechanical engineer, and at one point I was designing one of my cars to have transforming ability. I always thought Monster Garage should do something like that. It's actually easier than you'd think (but would take more money than I have). My dream machine? A 1972 Nova...

NK, excellent point on nothing happening in book 5 for so long! The beginning of the book especially infuriated me because all the characters were being whiney and obnoxious. I think it was true to life on how those kids might act though. I will thoroughly be disappointed if Rowling cops...

Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse. It's a book that involves GETTING headaches. Also, it's just a great book which has some thought provoking sections.

Because they're easy reads. They don't take me more than a day or two, so it isn't like I'm really taking that much time to read them. I probably wouldn't read them if they took more than a week or longer. Of course, I also like being able to participate in discussions on them. My friends...

I'm the one in my avatar. Is it that difficult to post a real picture of yourself? That question was in regards to those of you who didn't post pictures or real pictures of themself.

The seventh book will be coming out sometime soon, no? This summer perhaps? I don't really know, I don't pay that much attention. Anyhow, I have read all six of them thusfar, and it's interesting to see Rowling develop as an author. The first book was absolute crap. The ending was the...

What bugs me about Rand, even though I love her works, is that she is very excessively repetitive. After her short stories, everything is just Atlas Shrugged, but smaller and more condensed (as far as philosophy goes). Then even in Atlas Shrugged, every speech given by Rand's elitist society...

I used to have some of those talking records. One of some of Jack London's short stories and one of Robert Service's poetry. I know I had more though. Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew were great. Encyclopedia Brown I liked even better though. The mysteries were so easy to solve in the Hardy Boys...

What do you consider a happy ending? Cause I certainly know some books that end on a terrible part, but are happy endings. I would suggest "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende. "Beneath the Wheel" by Hermann Hesse. "The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe.

Ender's Game is always good.

I didn't see one for May, so here goes. Finished The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugidenes (sp) Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction by J.D. Salinger Victory by Joseph Conrad Contemplation in a World of Action by Thomas Merton Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh...

"The River Why" by David James Duncan is incredible. I second the Krakeaur recommendations. "Into Thin Air" is absolutely amazing, and "Eiger Dreams" is a good collection of his works. Ann Bancroft also has some incredible stuff. I hear that "Sand County Almanac" is also incredible, but...

I particularily enjoy his "13 Tales of Terror" or something like that. It's a collection of his short stories. They cover different tragedies that occur outside and the horror that people face when pushed to the extremes. One of my favorites is where two men are snowed in at a cabin and run...