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by helenlouisa
Sun Mar 27, 2011 4:51 am
Forum: Literature & The Arts
Topic: Life In Hell
Replies: 9
Views: 4350

Re: Life In Hell

My absolute Favorite is the strip in which the little bunny recites his own version of The Pledge of Allegiance (what WAS his name?)..
"I plead alignment to the untitled snakes of a merry cow, and to the republicans for which they scam, one nacho, underpants,with Liberty and jugs of wine for owls..."
by helenlouisa
Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:47 am
Forum: Literature & The Arts
Topic: The 50 book Challenge 2011
Replies: 244
Views: 26310

Re: The 50 book Challenge 2011

1. A Devil's Chaplain- Richard Dawkins 2. The Anatomy of Evil- Michael H. Stone 3. God: The Failed Hypothesis- Victor J. Stenger 4. Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism- Michelle Goldberg 5. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are- Joseph LeDoux 6. The Pluto Files- Neil Degrass...
by helenlouisa
Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:29 am
Forum: Literature & The Arts
Topic: How to read more?
Replies: 22
Views: 3273

Re: How to read more?

Yes Rum....story collections are an excellent idea, to get back on the Reading Circuit. I read an excellent volume recently, with a delicious title..." My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me"....wonderful,modern interpretations of Fairy Tales, and even a few Greek Myths thrown in for flavor....
by helenlouisa
Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:35 am
Forum: Literature & The Arts
Topic: What's on your bookshelf?
Replies: 167
Views: 30587

Re: What's on your bookshelf?

HITLER - IAN KERSHAW FATAL PURITY - RUTH SCURR FRENCH / ENGLISH DICTIONARY THE WILSON PLOT - DAVID LEIGH PUSHING ICE - ALASTAIR REYNOLDS THE PREFECT - ALASTAIR REYNOLDS THE CALCULUS WARS - JASON BARDI THE HUMAN MIND - ROBERT WINSTON NIXON AND KISSINGER - ROBERT DALLEK THE GOD DELUSION - RICHARD DAW...
by helenlouisa
Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:28 am
Forum: Literature & The Arts
Topic: What are you reading now?
Replies: 1006
Views: 139016

Re: What are you reading now?

The latest Kim Harrison, "Pale Demon."
Especially amusing bit about these books, they posit that most of humanity was killed off in the 70's, by a mutated gene in a GM tomato...causing all of those mythological creatures (from banshees to witches) to come out of the closet, and take over!...
by helenlouisa
Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:11 am
Forum: Stage & Screen
Topic: Finally watched "No Country for Old Men"
Replies: 46
Views: 3909

Re: Finally watched "No Country for Old Men"

So who here actually read the book?...
And what's on the other side of the barn,FBM?
by helenlouisa
Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:00 am
Forum: Stage & Screen
Topic: More good movies we've seen.
Replies: 1002
Views: 119964

Re: More good movies we've seen.

I Am Legend with Will Smith. Very nicely done. And I cried at the end. Oh no!...have you read the book? While I'll agree that Smith (and the blue screens of an Empty New York) did a nice job of conveying the isolation of the main character, this adaptation is- in the end -just another movie that fa...