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my 2 cents: he's a great gateway drug-- potentially damaging, but life altering in a sense. a piss pour writer as far as technique goes, but some fun if you don't try to think too hard. like the new star wars movies: they're lots of fun so long as you leave your brain switched off. but...

it's starting to pick up a bit-- but that simply be because the (long and laboured) process of establishing 2 completely different settings is over (at, least, i hope it is.) however, i'm starting to think that maybe all the conspiracy and espionage and whatnot was a bit too much for mosse to...

I'm about 150 lonely little pages in, and it's taking me forever. Is it just me, or has any one else found this book distractingly slow? if you've read it, does it pick up at all?

there's helmet of horror (the story of theseus and the minotaur) you may also want to keep an eye on the myth series from canongate (official site), which this and the penelopiad and weight are a part of. rumour has it that they'll be publishing books under this banner until 2038 (yikes!)...

Favorite first words For me, many of the most memorable works both read and written have been attached to a great first set of words. we all know "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," but with that (for me) also goes "officious little pr*ck" (stephen king, the shining). there's...

one could say many of the characters in this book could easily be reflections of different parts of human nature-- V being the everyman that revolts with conviction-- the hero that everyone wishes they had the strength to be Evey being innocence that is threatened by the world around her...

is this it?

a quick googling on arkham asylum and i can tell you that this is a great example of what i'm after. i think what it is i like about this style of art over the v for vendetta stuff is that the vendetta art seems very crude in comparison-- like it was meant to be a sketch, not a completed...

Rule of Four was okay, imho, but i found that Caldwell spent more time trying to convince me that he'd really been to Princeton than he did in convincing me of the substance in the 'mystery'. The Historian was better, I thought, if a little slow to start. I'll second the motion for...

this may come off a little weird, but... :rolleyes: i just finished reading v for vendetta, and, as much as i loved it, i didn't enjoy the art work very much -- i actually had some trouble keeping my characters straight because of it, i think. i'm a bit new to graphic novels, and i was...

so... i've picked it up. i'm about to dig into it. but i'm wondering... what am i in for? googling has given me little about the book itself-- focusing more on the contraversy surrounding it. truth be told, i can't even really tell if anybody actually ENJOYED reading this book... so tell...

a label, yes. and a very personal one at that. the definition of "art", though, is as contraversial a topic as the one we're having here. the question "what is art?" vs "what is not art?" has been increasingly harder to answer concretely for some time now. the truth is that the only true...

before i donate my 2 cents on this, a quick intro: i am trained in the neo-classical system of art -- realist nude ladies and antigravity togas are, in fact, what does it for me. i'm not a fan of modern or 'contemporary' art, and dadaism specifically. now... onto the soap box i go. what...

in keeping with discoDan's suggestion that 50 mysteries back-to-back might not be the greatest thing, there's the Incarnate series - a great set of books by Piers Anthony that i thoroughly enjoyed. On A Pale Horse is the first one... and there's i think 7 or 8 more, one for each incarnation...

Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook AKA: funniest cook book ever. never cooked anything from it, but i've read it cover to cover. haha Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen AKA: the book my kitchen would be lost without. it's entertaining, informative and generally indespencible. i've...

i had a great deal of trouble with this book. to the point that i currently holds the #2 spot for books i didn't finish-- the other beinn "the shining" by stephen king because i was 12 and had just seen the movie. i found that the use of the language-- while cute at first-- became little more...

not sure if this qualifies as a classic or not, but it was 'classic' enough to make it into my high-school curriculum... margaret atwood's 'stone angel'. i had SOOO much trouble staying awake through it, i actually ended up reading it backwords on paragraph at a time. i have no idea how it...

i think that's what makes this book so powerful-- at any point in time there are going to be parallels to be made. it's a completely possible (and certainly terrifying) future being presented. i've read 1984 3 times-- once when i was young (about 13 or 14), again when i was 20 and again about...

we all know the popular books -- the da vinci codes and the oprah picks and the stuff that inevitably turns into movies. but does that mean they're good? so here's my question: what's your favorite hidden gem? out of the hundreds of thousands of books that are published every year, which is...

I got my book yesterday. really a painless process, and not bad time either! might be worth checking out if you're looking for a place to buy books-- especially internationally :) anywho, i'm off to read my book now, just thought you might like to know how it turned out