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I got a laugh out of some of them. A few are spot on, a lot are just silly.

Water. Several years ago, my sons and I had the opportunity to visit Europe for two weeks. All during the nine hour flight going there, all I could think of as the plane cruised at 35,000 feet was this scenario: The plane explodes and plummets into the ocean. I somehow survive the crash...

If I understand the article correctly, their estimate is 139 million separate titles. Wonder how many actualy printed books there are? I have probably a thousand, myself. If everyone in the world had at least one, on average, that would be 6.5 billion and growing. Or are there more...

I have read all of the Discworld novels, with the exception of the juveniles, and have been reading his work since the series began. I've read some of his other works, including the Diggers trilogy, but he is certainly his most inventive in his own universe. In my opinion, he is the best...

Popularity is an odd beast. In college, I was constantly bombarded with French, Spanish, and English classes where we studed "literature." Not surprisingly, often these works were not big sellers in their day. Most of the popular french 19th century fiction, for example, is totally ignored...