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Jehova's Witnesses. At least their missionaries - I'm very good friends with a JW, but those showing up at my door asking whether I've read the Bible... they're asking for it. I always say yes, because surprisingly I *have* read at least large parts of the Bible. And strangely I'm never...

LOL yeah I've had the thought myself, but I'm too lazy tochange the title - sue me :p

I was thinking of buying it - seems I can do so with me peace of mind intact. Will do so once my economy can shoulder it. I totally love the covers of the newest paperback version. They are so simple with the cowled mage looking awesome :D And I only recently saw the hardcover editions where...

When I take substitute hours at our local music school I'm paid approx 30 $ per 45 minutes. (yeah, weird system, I know) Not because it's dangerous, it's about teaching the kiddies how to play music on their recorder and actually make it sound like music. In DK the overall system in wages is...

Interesting. I'll look it up when I have the chance. Of course it's blindingly irrelevant to me as a Dane, but for curiosity's sake I'll check it out :p

Heh, if I've got the time and am in an evil mood I just have a little fun with the callers. Especially those who call form bookclubs and such and want to sell me an introductory lot of books blah blah. So they ask what I read, and when I reply fantasy and philosophy they always halt and don't...

Hmmm not a bad idea... I may just.

Aye, hehe I'm good at those. I spend all my time plotting for how I'm gonna take over the world :D

Not as many as I would like... I don't even remember them all, I think, and definitely not in chronological order. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society Paradise Lost - Milton The Last of the Mohicans - Cooper The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne An Outline of English...

Once upon a time when I was much younger - I was but a child, my grandmother talked me into starting a notebook about the books I read. Title, author, finish date and what I thought of the book. I am so incredibly bad at keeping such things updated, so it never got any further than just the...

That's a matter of opinion. There are people I have never forgiven for something as trivial as not sending me a promised letter, something that shouldn't appear unforgivable to anyone. Forgiveness, when it is heartfelt, is extraordinary no matter the severity of the forgiven deed. Like you...

Hmm, I never noticed. Then again, I'm seldom one to write short and concise posts, especially regarding a topic I'm interested in, such as sending warm and welcoming greetings to our new members, who must surely feel incredibly awed and perhaps a bit lonely upon entering this rather large...

LOL Miss Shelf, you'll find that the style with a distinct lack of quotation marks existed back in the day as well. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto has some of the most confusing direct speech sections I've ever seen, but once I got used to it I greatly enjoyed the book - it's hilarious.

Hmm I took it as referring to Sitaram's thread starter... ah well :p

Frankly, I don't care what happens to me when I'm dead and gone. Because, I'll be... well I'll be dead and gone and won't care. If my family would like to have a plot in the local cemetary they can go to, fine by me, and then I'd suggest cremation because that'll demand a smaller and thus...

Ahhh canvas sales. Thankfully I never did those, they're much harder to get somewhere with.

Such jokes suit my deeply sarcastic nature quite well - but I don't really find them funny in the conventional meaning of the word.

Sorry what? Cold callers? Not being a native speaker I've no clue what that expression covers...

Nah, Tolkien's characters weren't rounded enough for me to actually develop crushes on them - the movies on the other hand could handle that with looks alone... ohhhh Elrond *cough* Right, back on topic. I'll agree about Mr. Darcy, he always sounded like the perfect gentleman but still...

Mmmf, generally I find that many philosophical works qualify as hard reads. One, because there's the thoughts and concepts to sort out, and two, because most philosophers strive to be as precise in their wordings as possible and thus end up having very long sentences with more subclauses than is...