Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian judge....

This may be the only thing you to which you have ever added value.

And, that is only by linking to the content.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
That was at the Walker for a long time. It is quite large and thus somewhat disturbing in person.

When I first saw it I was pretty creeped out. It was around that time that I got into UF to deal with the issues that arose upon viewing it.

[patentparanyc]

OK, TM you can thank me later.

Exclusive NYPost photos of Jeter and Biel on beach

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01052007...worldnews_.htm

Dita Von Teese dumps Marilyn Manson--gee there is a shocker

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01052007.../pagesix_u.htm

and a shocking photo of britney looking haggard and 40 ish on the cover.

[nononono]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
OK, TM you can thank me later.

Exclusive NYPost photos of Jeter and Biel on beach

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01052007...worldnews_.htm

Dita Von Teese dumps Marilyn Manson--gee there is a shocker

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01052007.../pagesix_u.htm

and a shocking photo of britney looking haggard and 40 ish on the cover.

This is what 40 looks like? Hallelujah.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01052007...y_pagesix_.htm

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by LessinSF
This may be the only thing you to which you have ever added value.

And, that is only by linking to the content.

Dissent. That was the lamest sex video in history.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Or get your neck suctioned.

I had that done once, in New Orleans. Cost me forty bucks.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I would be somewhat surprised if per capita box wine consumption in Minnesota exceeded that in Michigan. In fact, I would be willing to bet you that it does not. Just to be sporting, I'll even let you exclude the UP.

You might want to rethink that bet. Thunderbird and Night Train don't come in boxes, although their consumers often do.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I haven't done romance in years

You ought to try it again. It's better than all that damn reading.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Tables R Us
See the movie before you read Devil in a Blue Dress. Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, and Tom Sizemore kick ass in that movie.

That could be the worst advice she's gotten yet. I can't think of one movie where that makes sense.

TM

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
That could be the worst advice she's gotten yet. I can't think of one movie where that makes sense.

TM

I finished reading Fellowship of the Ring for the first time about an hour before the movie came out. I started it a year previously with the intent on finishing the series before the movies came out, but Tolkien's dense prose was just really hard for me to get through.

I finished the The Two Towers about a week later and Return of the King about a week after that. I think that seeing the first movie helped give me context for what Tolkien was talking about that helped me considerably in reading the second two books.

The problem with Tolkien is that he's so descriptive, it took me awhile to realize that paragraphs that were longer than a page generally could be skimmed, but sometimes the songs needed more special attention.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by barely_legal
In fact, I think The Corrections is why I refuse to read books recommended by NotBob anymore.

You are correct. And your post used such colorful verbs and adjectives in taking me to task that I saved it, and refer back to it when I need to send clients letters about the stupid things that they do.

Originally posted by barely_legal
But Oprah loved it and it was a major bestseller, so I am clearly in the minority on that one.

You at least read it before you hated it. All the elitist snobs who would shun it merely because Oprah wanted to discuss it on her show (this includes the book's author, Mr. Franzen, by the way) are, well, a bunch of elitist snobs. She also had Steinback in her book club. Guess he's just another hack writing pap to please the Middle America housewife crowd.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Not Bob
You are correct. And your post used such colorful verbs and adjectives in taking me to task that I saved it, and refer back to it when I need to send clients letters about the stupid things that they do.



You at least read it before you hated it. All the elitist snobs who would shun it merely because Oprah wanted to discuss it on her show (this includes the book's author, Mr. Franzen, by the way) are, well, a bunch of elitist snobs. She also had Steinback in her book club. Guess he's just another hack writing pap to please the Middle America housewife crowd.

Weirdly enough, my yoga instructor last night told me he's in the middle of The Corrections and is enjoying it immensely.

I held my tongue about how much I thought it was overhyped.

ETA: I don't generally pay attention to what Oprah is putting on her bookclub's list, but there are some of the books on that list I've liked, some I never bothered to pick up. Just depends on the book. I certainly wouldn't shun a book just because Oprah likes it.

ETA2: The books she's hawked so far) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
The Best Way To Play by Bill Cosby
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Jewel by Bret Lott
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Light in August by William Faulkner
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Night by Elie Wiesel
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Paradise by Toni Morrison
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Sula by Toni Morrison
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
White Oleander by Janet Fitch

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I finished reading Fellowship of the Ring for the first time about an hour before the movie came out. I started it a year previously with the intent on finishing the series before the movies came out, but Tolkien's dense prose was just really hard for me to get through.

I finished the The Two Towers about a week later and Return of the King about a week after that. I think that seeing the first movie helped give me context for what Tolkien was talking about that helped me considerably in reading the second two books.

So, in no case did you see any of the movies before you read the respective books.

Even still, I disagree with you (not your experience, of course). It makes no sense to me to watch any movie before you've read the book. Why picture the movie and characters using someone else's imagination? All you're doing is replaying the movie in your mind.

And I didn't think the Lord of the Rings was all that dense. Ulysses is dense (and long). The Lord of the Rings is just long.

TM

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I finished reading Fellowship of the Ring for the first time about an hour before the movie came out. I started it a year previously with the intent on finishing the series before the movies came out, but Tolkien's dense prose was just really hard for me to get through.

I finished the The Two Towers about a week later and Return of the King about a week after that. I think that seeing the first movie helped give me context for what Tolkien was talking about that helped me considerably in reading the second two books.

The problem with Tolkien is that he's so descriptive, it took me awhile to realize that paragraphs that were longer than a page generally could be skimmed, but sometimes the songs needed more special attention.

Tolkein:

• Sam strode forward. Sting glittered blue in his hand. The courtyard lay in deep shadow, but he could see that the pavement was strewn with bodies. Right at his feet were two orc-archers with knives sticking in their backs. Beyond lay many more shapes; some singly as they had been hewn down or shot; there in pairs, still grappling one another, dead in the very throes of stabbing, throttling, biting. The stones were slippery with dark blood.

RT: Huh?


Peter Jackson:


RT: Ahhh!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by taxwonk
You might want to rethink that bet. Thunderbird and Night Train don't come in boxes, although their consumers often do.

For some reason I read Thunderbird as "Thurgreed." I knew I was going to reply:

"For all his claims I bet Thurgreed usually comes in a kleenex." Then i read it again and realized I couldn't do that reply