Search results

Drive-ins....not one left in New Orleans. One of my earliest memories is of a drive-in. My parents ran one in their youth. I remember loving out our mobile home window and seeing the neon lighted sign that was posted on the back of one of the screens - "Algiers Drive-In". I couldn't have...

Welcome!

Fenrys, I've read most of Tad Williams' stuff. If you enjoy War of the Flowers, try The Dragonbone Chair. It's the first in a trilogy. I'm reading Lyonesse: The Green Pearl by Jack Vance.

Idun, I was wondering if someone would bite. I'd be interested in reading that poetry, but, as a rule, I like descriptive writing. Unless it's overdone. I feel that, as most of us has agreed, if the description is important to progress the story or to "dress the set" by all means, carry on...

It's definitely worth the read. I read it over a weekend. It's told from the prospective of the dead girl, and while the details of her death are hard to take, the books doesn't dwell on them. Deep issues are offered up in a deceptively simple writing style. I highly recommend it.

Sometimes it's what that author chooses to leave out that makes the book interesting.

Here, here! Also Eye of the Dragon, his children's book.

Happy Birthday! I hope you are doing something exciting.

Welcome!

Besides Run Lola Run? That's one foreign film my whole family liked! And that's saying alot. Try - Like Water for Chocolate.

Welcome aboard! I'll think of you the next time I pass one of Rice's houses. :D

Quiet American - Graham Greene

The Long Walk stuck with me for quite a while. Even now, whenever I'm taking a particularly long stroll, I think about those poor guys.

Welcome!

Phil, I'm also a huge fan of Michael Crichton. I loved Timeline especially but also struggled reading Sphere. I finished reading it, but I'm not sure I "got it".

murphyz, I've read the first two, but what's the last one about? (and don't tell me it's about an alchemist! I know you were thinking it.)

welcome aboard!

Still...Snape is horrible toward Hermoine as well.

I suppose it is!

An interesting aside...(to me anyway). The term "short-sighted" appears to be used on one side of the ocean to mean the same thing as "nearsighted" on the other. Interesting. If I called someone short-sighted, it would be considered an insult.