Yes! It mixes in way better if you stir in a little bit of water to make a paste, then gradually mix the rest of the water in.

Yeah I think that diagnoses of ADHD are made rather too quickly and lightly. When my sister came back from a ten month exchange in Germany when she was 16 her host mother and the counsellor from the school she attended over there sent my Mum a letter saying that they thought she had ADHD. One of the justifications for…

But I'm taller than Mr. Apocalyptus, and the spider moving duties in our household fall to me!

I think perhaps those sheep know something we don't...

But was the feather dark black, or slightly darker black?

No one said the planet is dying. But we are quickly making it unfit for supporting our species, which will mean WE will die.

Well if you had read those books you would realise there's basically no similarity between Hunger Games and Battle Royale besides the premise (PREMISE not plot) of teenagers fighting to the death in a dystopian future.

Psst! I think Anodos was joking.

I'd have to recommend the Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglass. Magic does play a larger role than I gather it does in A Song of Ice and Fire, but there's plenty of morally ambiguous protagonists, bloody power struggles and even a race of angelic-looking people with a penchant for incestuous liaisons!

Seconded!

Not really, no.

I guess it eventually comes down to personal taste, but I and everyone I saw it with thought it looked pretty great, and alive.

I really enjoyed the movie and it comes up on the other side of the uncanny valley IMO. No dead eyes to be seen!

@Dresan I'll just quote from the link that dinosaurkitten provided.

@Wellmont Come on now, don't pretend that men are portrayed in an unrealistic, anatomically incorrect and oversexualised way nearly as routinely as women are. If both genders were displayed this way with roughly equal frequency then there would be less to complain about. But they're not.

Might you be thinking of The Long Walk? It wasn't kids fighting to the death, but walking in a race in which the participating teenage boys are killed if they leave the track or stop walking for more than a few seconds. This continues until one "winner" is left.

Graceling by Kristen Cashore is pretty darn good. Plus anything by Scott Westerfeld.

Yeah I never liked the cartoons very much and I'm a lifelong fan of Tintin. I'd definitely advise you to read the books.

I actually felt that the way all the stories were eventually woven together was fairly well done.

Maybe I'm being blinded by my love of all things to do with Greek Myth, but I didn't see anything wrong with it. What didn't you like?