Sometimes I'll read a few pieces from Roger Ebert's Book of Film. Ebert's a well-known film critic, and the book is a collection of his favorite writings about film. Maybe a couple hundred selections, from short stories and novel excerpts to newspaper columns, magazine articles, interviews, segments...

Okay. I just finished reading this story. Haven't watched the video but I read the story through one time. I've never participated in a story discussion here before, don't know how it works, but I can type out a few thoughts and observations. First of all, the postman and the absence of the sound of...

What amazes me lately is how the intelligence community in America has convinced so many that elected government should be overthrown on hearsay. We in America need to decide if we want our country governed by elected officials (no matter how much we may dislike them), or by intelligence spooks. Ca...

What amazes me lately is how the intelligence community in America has convinced so many that elected government should be overthrown on hearsay.

We in America need to decide if we want our country governed by elected officials (no matter how much we may dislike them), or by intelligence spooks.

Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters. Great book. From Wikipedia: Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short, free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the real Spoon River tha...

https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/10-great-websites-download-movie-scripts/ That link goes to a page with 10 screenplay websites. You should be able to find whatever you like there. I expect you know, but you can right-click your mouse and Save a play to your computer, so you can read it offlin...

Welcome. I read screenplays sometimes. I prefer books for fiction reading, but screenplays in print form can be expensive. And they're free online, so sometimes I download a bunch of new scripts. Sites like Script-o-rama have big collections of free scripts. The last screenplay I read was "Cobb...

Yes, a chapter of history per day allows me to retain some of it. The Civil War--one of the more interesting fields of study because so much was written by the losing side. That's not usually the case. I've read a few Texas history books. The last one was Men Without Countries . Three Roads to the A...

Hello all. I'm male, from Texas, and so on. I've never belonged to a forum like this one and I'm not sure what's expected of me, so I'll look around. Book discussions? Sounds good to me. I read my chapter of The History of the Conquest of Mexico for tonight (William H. Prescott, 1843). Chapter a nig...