Yes, I agree that the message behind the crime should not be punished. It is just horrifying to hurt or kill someone over greed as it is to hurt someone and kill someone over hatred. When a person get a heavier penalty, that person is being punished for thought crime. When you punish hate crime, the...

I recommend J. Otmer's ADLAND. I think he will be glad to make himself available for book discussion of his book. Let me know if you want me to ask him and also please let me know how I should approach him with liason between booktalk and the author.

I suspect the last two posts, the excitement had gotten the best of you two authors. I don't want to confront you or anything but when authors recommend their own books, that behavior alienates rather than attracts potiental readers. It would be best if you can limit yourselves to the Fiction Sugges...

I had to remove the book trailer because I idiotically spelled the word, 'envelop' as 'envelope.' While it may be stuck in copies of my book, at least I was able to fix the trailer. Here's the copy. I think it's neat how viewers could try and read the page flipping scene. http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Try typing the words that you remember in the story on the internet then maybe it will pop up in results. Lemme know what happens.

I am curious to see if any one of you recalled the difference between the scene in the end of the book when Eli makes his/her attack and the scene in the movie. I felt the movie scene was masterfully done for the scene that the author purposely left out of the book and relies on the reader's imagina...

That's a terrific posting. That topic had been going around for awhile recently with the tread of writers making trailers about books. Myself, I was really ignorant of the process of book trailers when I started out. For my book, which should remain nameless, I came up with a concept of a mini film ...

A good choice of feminist literature. I read that short story and the part where it showed the stains on the wall, Stephen King guessed that was from the drool on the main character as she started walking and going mad and ending it with her crawling on the floor, against the walls.

There is also a House of Leaves discussion going on. I think that book is also the best horror story I ever read and also Let the Right One In is very excellent.

Red Badge of Courage it is. I often like to say to myself that it made Civil War like Vietnam, the impact of reality of war and suffering, even insanity.