Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

Im reading Otherland by Tad Williams. I read it halfway a few years ago and got sidetracked and am just starting it over. I love the way he writes but this book skips around each chapter so if you do put it down ya kind of have to start it all over.

Anyone ever read Tailchasers Song? I think that was his first book. I read it when I was a kid and I still love it! 

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

 What's Alan Alda's new one like?

I got his autobiography a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. Like you, it was a bit of an impulse buy, and now I can't for the life of me think why I bought it! I don't even like M*A*S*H that much! I'm glad I did though. He's got a nice style.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

 I'm sure I'll enjoy it. Btw, have you seen Alda has a new science show on PBS, The Human Spark. It looks quite interesting. I was just watching a clip from it on their site: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/humanspark/video/web-exclusive-video-mirror-neurons/404/comment-page-1/#comment-439

Robert Altman - The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff  

What a great read for an Altman fan.  Zuckoff has chosen to tell Altman's story in a manner reminiscent of his movies, using the words of Altman's family, friends, agents, writers, actors, producers, crew members--as well as interviews with Altman himself, up to a few weeks before his death.  Illuminating read about the man, his movies, the industry, and art.

I finished the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and I would recommend it to anyone. It's fantastic. Too bad the author died at such a young age BEFORE his 3 novels were published. Can't wait to read the next two.

Started the Lovely Bones. Great read so far. I think I will have this one finished in no time. I am really digging on the voice of this book. It's different and I like it.

I picked up Anathem by Neal Stephenson as my trip book because I've enjoyed his work in the past, it is long (981 pages with glossary and addendum) and it stands alone, unlike his previous three books.

 I enjoyed immensely.  So much so that I read it through three times in a row on the trip and started it a fourth as the trip wrapped up.  It is great speculative fiction, science without a whole bunch of impossibly high tech stuff.  A fair amount of romance, a little mystery, philosophy, mathematics and over it all a great adventure story.  All set in a world that is strangely similar to out own while being, at the same time, quite a bit different.

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

"watch out for my cousin.."

Try "The Body on The Beach by Simon Brett".  Or The Inspector Morse series. :)  Or The Adrian Mole seriesby Sue Townsend - they're not a murder mystery just FUNNY as anything I'd recommend them to all. :)

Hi Kevin!  Good luck with your book - I have a friend who's studying for a creative writing degree and I know it's not easy.  Maybe it'd help if you get someone you can trust to give an honest opinion (after you've written it) and a proofreader, before you submit your manuscript.  I like to try writing short stories and poems from time to time but I'm not very confident about them.

Anyhoo - I'm reading three books at the moment - The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole (1999-2001) Sue Townsend, Daily Guidance from your Angels, (Doreen Virtue) and The Healing Miracles of Archangel Raphael (Doreen Virtue) fantastic!  I'm really enjoying all of them.

"watch out for my cousin.."

Pedophilia Is a Catholic Crime by P. Pope

Would You Like Some Sauce on That? by Y. Yank and Dick Dixie

 A Tiger's Revenge  by Claud Bahls

 The Open Kimona  by I.C. Morehare

friday nite, nobody around, now i escape undetected.. er.. under the radar