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    Biscuits, that's right Biscuits

    Sometimes I am bored/blocked/fed-up/burnt-out and need a break from stringing together words for pay. Biscuits There comes a time in a man’s life when he has to make a choice and stand-up for what he believes. Despite contrived depictions of heroism found in movies and literature, it is...
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    Who Are The Writers?

    I think the percentages are off. I think it is more along the lines of 25% inspiration and 75 % perspiration. Ideas and plot devices aren't particularily difficult to conjure. Themes are easy to think of in relation to a set of characters and events. The execution and polish is the...
  3. J

    has anyone ever bought "final draft"

    yup I've been using Final Draft for my scripts for years. I have also worked in screenwriter. Both are good programs but I find Final Draft more intuitive and better to navigate/better supports rewrites and editing. Final Draft is more the industry standard in some respects since the...
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    Favorite Female Writers

    Alice Munroe - In my opinion one of the best writers working regardless of gender. I don't much care for Atwood though, I find her prose stilted and dull and her stories a mash of sci-fi and romance novels. I am also a fan of Margaret Laurence, Zadie Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Margarer...
  5. J

    looking for children books or stories.

    Is there a specific child in mind for the book. Gender and age play a big role in what type of stories will appeal. If it is a younger child and you are looking for something that teaches morals and doesn't shy away from the bible then the Veggie Tales books are pretty cool, not too heavy...
  6. J

    Need book suggestions for a sister...

    She's come undone by Wally Lamb might serve the purpose. I also highly recommend The Good Wife by Stewart O'nan. If she digs historical Anita Diamant's The Red Tent is a good one. Paul Auster's Moon Palace served a similiar purpose for me in some respects but likely won't connect as...
  7. J

    funniest lines in a book

    I will forever stand by the following line as the most perfect comic line I have encountered. "She looked at me like I was a side dish she hadn't ordered" by Ring Lardner Jr. In context he is describing the first impression he struck with a woman he was somewhat smitten with. I love it for...
  8. J

    How Many Books Do You Read in a Year (approx.)?

    Usually around 25-30. Wish it was more but with three kids going in three different directions time is at a premium. Also depends on what I am working on since I write scritps for a living there are times when I don't want other ideas and characters running through my head so I intentionally put...
  9. J

    Cormac McCarthy: The Road

    For me the overall theme was a comment on the excess of Western culture, in particular America, and the idea of what America is; coupled with an affirmation that what will lead the son out of the wasteland is the salvation granted in the acceptance of Christ. The religious symbolism carries...
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    Cormac McCarthy: The Road

    I felt the ending was the only possible resolution. All this talk of the book prompted me to scan a couple of passages again and now I have found myself re-reading it already with a more concentrated consideration of the philosophy and symbolism of the book; it's vitriolic assesment of current...
  11. J

    Cormac McCarthy: The Road

    The book moved to its conclusion with a slow determination that simply made the final paragraph more heartbreaking when it arrived. Necessary, self-determining and not surprising, yet still heartbreaking. The final judgement and nod to perseverence and the human spirit in the last paragraph was...
  12. J

    Recommendation for my nephew?

    Here are the two best books according to my kids. I read them to them when they were 2-3 yrs. old and they continue to be favorites today now that they are 11, 9 & 7 years old. They are both books of poems that are playful, funny, imaginative, don't talk down to kids and have a lot of fun...
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    Cormac McCarthy: The Road

    It has made most other novels I have read in recent years seem pale and trite by comparison. There is something truly wonderful witnessing a writer tackle greatness for no other reason than having the rare ability to attempt it. It is as complete an artistic vision as I can think of. Elegant...
  14. J

    More from the Most Bizarre Novel Ever Written

    Wolf, despite your self-proclamations this is nothing more than derivative pap and drivel. It is no more and no less than what can be found in hundreds of scrap books of first year lit students who took too much of the Beats ethos to heart and fell in love with unreasoned chaos, cheap symbolism...
  15. J

    Looking for gorgeous Canadian fiction:

    No problem, it remindeded me to renew my subscription to Quill & Quire so we are all winners. And since I am here some more cool Canucks to read Neil Bissondoth, Frances Itani, Tomothy Findley, David Gilmour, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, Jane Urquhart, Guy Vanderhaeghe (A suitable Boy...
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    Looking for gorgeous Canadian fiction:

    Look mom & dad, I am putting my degree in canadian literature to use! I would also add Joeseph Boydon's Three Day Road a great war novel told from the perspective of the native experience. Bill Gaston's Sointula wherein a formley medicated wife of a well-to-do Ontario town returns to...
  17. J

    Baby Euthanasia

    I would think it would be more fiscally responsible (and entertaining!) to have pay-per-view fights piting old people against one another. No holds barred hand-to-hand combat until one of the combatants is dead. The revenue generated could then be used to off set the costs of having to pay for...
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    Baby Euthanasia

    If someone would be so kind as to give me a list of the ailments that constitute severely disabled that would help me in my decision. Also, is just having a certain ailment enough? Since some afflictions have varying degrees of severity what is the required percentage the baby needs to have...
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    South Park mocks Steve Irwin death

    I have no problem with people deciding it isn't something they would like to watch. We all make those decisions when we decide what books to read, what movies to see, what music to listen to, etc. I am always a bit trouble by comments like some of the inititial ones which launched this thread...
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    South Park mocks Steve Irwin death

    A decade from now no one would be bothered by it. Five years from now, likely the same. A year from now, some people would be bothered by it. This close, more people will be bothered by it but it is the same joke. If you feel it is too soon after the death so be it. Others won't. I happen to be...
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