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I remember watching the old show when I was a kid--tried never to miss it. Loved it, love the new one too. What don't I miss? The gaping plot holes. At least Adama fessed up to someone that this whole Earth thing was bogus. The new cylons are much more impressive too. (I know it was the...

dats jus so dam beyuteefal iy jus don no ifn i kin stan it aneemor Hows that?

Humor. Hmmm...yeah Douglas Adams seems to have overshadowed the market there. Terry Pratchett, I've found, is an inadequate replacement. I read a few of a series called Bicycling Through Space and Time some of it was pretty funny--some of it was inane drivel but some of it WAS funny. Dave...

THAT is a good idea. This first time through it may take a day or two but i'm goin to try to have it fixed up by February 1.

Hey was that a proper rant from an Englishman? Never heard (read) one of those in its entirety before.

Hey marxlaws you dork! Happy Hatchday...go play golf or something for crying out loud.

Mostly Harmless :D

Well that should do it. I'll get these counted up and we'll see how it goes from here.

...and we rarely say belgium unless we're really ticked off! Greetings and salutations!

I have never heard anything good about freelance editors or book doctors. Theres a thread here in the Writers Block I started a loooong time ago with a link to some publishing horror stories. Read it once and you'll take the time to work on your own editing skills. It'll scare the Alt key off...

Nope. But I've got the real title: Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century by HARRY TURTLEDOVE (Editor), MARTIN H. GREENBERG (Editor) Sorry, thought it was a yearly publication. Either way its a great read.

Every year a book called "The Year's Best Military Sci Fi" or something like that, is published. Its got some great stuff in it--short stories you won't find anywhere else. I don't know if a hard core Mil SF fan would approve but for your average fan Andre Norton's got a pretty good one Star...

People are very polarized on this. They either really like LOTR and the characters or they don't. If you cruise newsgroups sometimes, you'll see that there a bunch of Gandalf haters out there. Gandalf was cool when I was a kid and still is as I read LOTR--and he still is for Middle Earth. I...

Google: reading comprehension tests and you'll get a bunch of hits. Its a popular topic.

The Book Forum Top 100 List Update January 17, 2005 To Date Votes: 837 Books/series: 362 So far, 46 books received an average rank of 10 Keep those votes coming in folks. When we hit 1000 I'll post it up.

Very cool...I like the part where he said he was "always a writer with a day job." So much for that thing about how all writers write for money.

Sometimes the character shapes the scene and sometimes the scene shapes the character. Most of the time I get an idea for a character and its just dialog for awhile and the setting just sort of shapes it self around the character(s) discussion. Its as if the circumstances and the setting of...

Thats how I can tell I picked up a good book at the book store. If everything else goes away and its just me and the characters...you can almost smell the rain at Rivendell or feel the ground quake as Lazarus Long's ship lifts skyward. Its a great feeling. But yeah good books do that to you...

I thought the Belgariad was really well done. It was as believeable as fantasy could get and the reader was expected to swallow too many miraculous coincidences. Belgarath and Polgara were well written as sorcerers. Belgarion was a bit thick headed, I thought. Good story, happy ending. I'm...

Good stuff CathyC! Thanks a bunch. I'll remember that thing about the toner. The reason I asked about the envelope is because right now I'm just sending off short stories 10-20,000 words. Its a pain to put it all together and mail it off with a return envelope so they can send back the...