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I found an interesting website that, for some reason, I think a lot of people here would enjoy. www.criticker.com You put in scores for a number of movies, it creates a score composite, and then recommends movies based upon how people with similar tastes score. It gets rather accurate once...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6495816 Winner for fiction: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers Looks like an interesting read. I've added it to my list.

I know usually a moderator takes care of this thread but I love it so that I can't bear its absence at the end of the month... I can wait no longer... Sorry all! The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Things Fall...

I thought this might possibly liven things up. Someone names one quote, another guesses, then the one with the right answer gives a new one or lets someone else give it a go. There have to be some ground rules, though. Let's work on the honors system and promise not to use Google, huh? And...

Hi, my name is Kyle. I'm a college student, and I'm currently waiting for my classload to dwindle in hopes that I can actually read some works of my own choosing. I just finished an English class in which I read eleven books by Philip Roth, so I'm rather obsessed with him right now. Another...

I know it isn't officially out till next month, but I've already seen Philip Roth's new hardcover Everyman in stores. I just got out of class where we read eleven of his books, and I'm now a fan. Just wonderin' if anybody's picked it up yet and, if they have, what their impressions are.

Okay, I'm looking to branch out to some new authors, and I was wondering which work you all considered to be the prime introduction. If anybody else has a question regarding a certain author, perhaps they can list and we could keep this thread going? Anyway, here's my list: Albert Camus...