<t>Great discussion! I want to come back and comment on a lot of your posts...when I'm not at work.<br/> <br/> I was so small I don't remember the names of two movies that terrified me as a child. One featured a huge spider, and they blew it up with nitroglycerine. I think I was as scared of the peo...

My favorite is THE STAND. I liked UNDER THE DOME a lot, too, though I wish it had been longer. Really!

Saffron and DWill, those are two more beautiful shorties. :in_love:

Just about any slice from T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock would do, such as: "I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." or "Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? or &qu...

Thanks, everyone, for the advice, suggestions, and welcomes!

Lost fans: Didn't you love it when Sawyer taped together the halves of two different pairs of eyeglasses so he could read on the island?

I've tried three times to read The Lord of the Rings . Each time, I got halfway through The Two Towers , and couldn't get any farther. I wonder how it ends. :hmm: One seriously unreadable classic for me was Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Instead of the Rime , My books, try this ultra-condensed version...

Hello to everyone! This looks like a great site. I'm a 50-year-old female from St. Petersburg, Florida. I read mostly fiction, literature (if those two are different), and mysteries. My other interests are fiber arts, especially weaving, and movies. I'm currently reading Dickens, and am on my third ...