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I plan to exercise both mind and body more.

I just spent all my christmas present money and gift certificates on the extended LOTR trilogy. I think that means I'm a geek.

Don't forget the other variation: I just bought this book, doesn't it sound cool? What do you mean, it's book 3 in a series? Where can I get the first 2? Special order? ebay? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

2nd Quiz: You're Adventures of Huckleberry Finn! by Mark Twain With an affinity for floating down the river, you see things in black and white. The world is strange and new to you and the more you learn about it, the less it makes sense. You probably speak with an accent and others have a...

I just bought the extended version set of all 3. I think I'll spend all weekend watching them. I also bought Garden State (yea!)

Well, that's different:

Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris

I miss Calvin and Hobbes, AND The Far Side. But I'm making it through with Get Fuzzy, which is just hilarious. more available here

Try Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich for Native American fiction. They're both awesome. Alexie is a bit more accessible.

I always try to read the book first before seeing the movie, but I don't mind seeing someone else's vision of it. The English Patient, for example. Incredibly moving book, visually stunning movie. I enjoyed both LOTR versions, as well.

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Cross one off my list - just bought Blindness. House of Leaves is next on the list.

Since Gaiman has been a supporter of the Harry Potter books, obviously he isn't all broken up about it. The more you read, the more you discover that there are only so many ideas out there, the important thing is to have an original voice and combine things in a new way. So many great...

Sounds pretty unsubstaniated to me. Plus, at least in the states, a settlement is the cheapest way out of a long, painful, and time consuming lawsuit, even if you're not in the wrong.

America is due for a lot of these. I admire Moore's commitment to raising the questions, I detest his method and his inability to provide any of these answers, or inspire anyone else to do so.

The narrators of GG and CITR are both snobs, but think they aren't. So I can definitely see a comparison.

Great Gatsby

I just had to take a plane trip, so I spent it reading an issue of Cosmospolitan cover to cover (it was either that or Maxim). Based on the 2 page excerpt of "Fatal Embrace", I will never read anything by Aris Whittier. On top of absolutely no variety in sentence structure (subject, predicate...

There's a lot of great phrases there. I would say tighten it up a bit, but the imagery is gorgeous.

Certain kinds of books show up at the used bookstores near me; it's a good resource for some things but not the rarities. Still, I manage to find a lot of things to buy. And I get to recycle the books I don't want to keep - I'm really trying to not keep everything, there's just not room.