I'll still take Sigourney's narration over the horrible job Oprah did on Life. Absolutely ruined the entire thing.

Is that Hemux Tantamoq in that little armchair? Where's Linka and her plane?

I think I'm bothered by how much thought you put into that.

Oh, I definitely agree with you that there is never a good reason to ban a book, just trying to think of why someone might object.

It's been a good, long while since I read BNW but don't the people have a lot of (offscreen) "immoral" sexytimes?

Knowing this Doctor, I'm going to guess the Beatles.

Yeah, I'm getting the feeling from my place down here on the bottom of the pile that it really matters which you experienced first.

Oddly enough, the Crime and Punishment Museum in DC has a great exhibit debunking the "science" of television police/crime lab shows and showing how such things really work.

I'm good. I stocked up on Forsythia.

Ah, little kids. They make everything better.

Shaun approves of your plan.

Did you really miss the point that I know Goldman wrote the book and was joking about Morgenstern?

"You've been mostly dead all day - lose a turn."

You know how sometimes (always) Hollywood makes a movie based on a book and sometimes (always) the book is sooo much better because they left out so many good parts and you lose the beautiful language the book was written with and the internal bits of the characters that don't translate to the screen and so on and so…

I don't believe they exist.

Now who's being whiny? :P

And my sister.

I like big ships and I cannot lie!

Actually "The Infinitesimally Faster Than Light Drive" sounds like it would be Ted Chiang's foray into space opera and I would willingly pay to read that.

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