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  1. bren

    Americans, vote Tuesday!

    My favorite Obama supporters are Rednecks for Obama. Check out the comments pages in the guest book. Love the rednecks and hillbillies too, especially these ones. Go Obama!
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    Which Was the Last Book You Read in One Sitting?

    David Sedaris' When Your are Engulfed in Flames was my last one-sitting read.
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    Wow, I just found this feature at another forum I attend. Getting used to the idea...but, yeah...

    Wow, I just found this feature at another forum I attend. Getting used to the idea...but, yeah, I still find time to check up on the old book and reader and whatnot. The Eightletters game is pretty dimblasted addictive - still playing like a mad dog despite my middling level as a player. Try it...
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    The today I'm irritated by __________ thread

    "Well, no you can't, girls, cause I've got big plans for them," etc., etc. There's lots of kids who don't know any better, but we just shoo them away if they're a problem. If there are "big doings" what can they say, but sputter a bit as you shut the door. I know... some can be pretty...
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    Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire

    When I first read this a couple years ago, I was stunned by its complexity and the layers of activity. Despite this, it is more than just an intellectual exercise. The first tastes of Shade's poem have a beauty and depth, unbelievable from a novelist; I read the start of the poem many times over...
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    Poll: How old is the average reader on this Forum?

    I had the Tetris bug too for a while, but I'm crap at crosswords. They're way too hard. My current addiction, Eight Letters, is fast-paced and competitive-a hard combination to avoid in my book. Try it! I'm torriblezone over there. Off to work, see ya.:)
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    Poll: How old is the average reader on this Forum?

    Unique, ladies! Uniquely in excess of forty years of age on this board; and "ouchie," refers only to the jolt of going over the fifty bump.:) It's a pretty fun ride when I've got all these great games to be addicted to. See signature. And book forums to lurk upon.
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    Poll: How old is the average reader on this Forum?

    Hey, I was just pointing out the uniqueness of old ladies in the poll. I'm actually a younger old lady since I'm being technical. I'm so-o-o-o young, my eldest (21) is still at home. Thanks for the flower, ABC and one more for you.:flowers:
  9. bren

    Poll: How old is the average reader on this Forum?

    I'm in the unique group of old ladies online. :cool: Yup, fifty this year, soon-ouchie.
  10. bren

    American accents in films (movies)

    Many people, for many reasons, intentionally speak in ways that are understandable only to themselves and those in their immediate social circles. For example, some american blacks may want to remain culturally insulated for reasons such as remaining unintelligible to authorities who can...
  11. bren

    Where are our members from?

    Looks like California is well represented here - I'm number three so far, though I'm a born and raised provincial one. Greetings to SeoulMan and Sleepy, and welcome to the wild west.;)
  12. bren

    Four Word Story

    to explode so foolishly?"
  13. bren

    Four Word Story

    spook. Why should a
  14. bren

    Long Series'

    There are too many authors in this world and too many books on my list, intentionally to tie myself to a long string of novels all by the same person. I've done it with a few series that I started with my children, but they're fantasy and SF which are not preferred genres overall. Yes, there...
  15. bren

    Orson Scott Card to J.K. Rowling

    You assumed correctly. He was not seriously suggesting she stole his story! He was making a point about heroic fiction.
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    Looking for a book

    Gary Paulsen has written many books along that line, though the majority of the ones I read were in the nineties with my children. They're pretty good, even if they may be unrelated to the one to which you refer. Wikipedia article. He did have quite a few books from that period, but none that I...
  17. bren

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    Hey, I'm at sea too. Being beseeched by a stowaway to intervene with the captain on his behalf. But it's 1849. We're destined for California apparently.
  18. bren

    The first sentence in the book you're reading

    "He was swimming, rotating from front to back, thrashing his arms and legs and puffing out his cheeks, and it seemed as if he'd been swimming forever...." From East is East by T. C. Boyle.
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    Books you've read before you had any knowlege of an upcoming movie based on the book.

    This is one I read not long before the movie came out. It's interesting to see so many from the Dick catalog being made into films all of a sudden.
  20. bren

    I have a question...

    If someone sold me a book thus defaced, I'd be red hot.:mad:
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