Found a copy of Hissing Prigs in Statice Couture today, still in its plastic wrap and everything. So pleased.Not Crap!

"Effect" is a noun, "affect" is a verb. That's the shortest way to explain in.

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This makes the story sound very different from how you're telling it, Marsupialized:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-beat ... 4099.story

Haven't read this, but I've loved the Woolf I've read. Gorgeous writing, great sense of human emotion and thought. To The Lighthouse is easily one of my favourite novels.

Poll needs Pharoah Sanders.

I went with Ornette, but was torn between him and Coltrane. Sanders would have made the choice even more difficult.

houseboat wrote:Ian McEwan is a hack.

Is there a different author working under the same name now?

Go read Black Dogs.

I'm sad to hear the bad reaction to this movie. I've heard good things by and large, and Ian McEwan is easily one of the best authors around these days, so I was hoping it'd turn out well. May still check it out anyhow though.

I believe it was originally four parts in France, with the first two in book one and the second two in book two for North America. The books were really great. When I first picked them up I had trouble getting myself to stop reading them. Skipped a could classes to just keep going through. I thought...

the way in which this technology works is that it rearanges things at the sub atomic level. you could literaly thow some nanites into a bath tub full of wood, and if given the right commands they could turn that wood into gold, all by rearranging the molecules. Hello UK Chris. erm. no. no this coul...