I watched that movie with friends who raved and raved about Hathaway's performance and were already talking about how she deserved an Oscar. After seeing her in it, I was dumbfounded because I didn't get how her being sad and poor for a few minutes warranted an acting award.

It took me 27 to get this one:

That is so true!

I agree with this.

That's very interesting! My family asks "Didja get eat?" or they drop the "did" for something that sounds like "Juh get eat?" I've never heard other people outside of Western North Carolina ask it that way before. Several weeks ago, some of us on here were discussing the curse words people from that area use, and one…

Southern accents are funny things. I spent all but 1 year of my childhood (and most of my adult life) down South and come from a family with thick Appalachian accents. (So thick that friends from college had difficulty understanding them.)

I have a hard time rooting against the Lannisters because the actors are so good.

I went through a book kleptomaniac stage in elementary school. I eventually was overcome with guilt and secretly returned them to my classroom before the end of the year, but now I'm wondering it I was on my way to an exciting career.

I'd love to have signed copies of a lot of the books mentioned on this thread, especially from Capote and Faulkner, but I've wanted an autographed Beckett for a long time. Endgame is the reason I became an English major.

I've noticed some of them almost want you to get sassy back. It's so hard to tell though who will react that way!

Yes, I've encountered that, and it is awkward. And it's true what you say about them possibly being worse because they feel ignored.

I can see both sides. I feel really bad for the daughter because I agree with you that she probably is still dealing with what her father did to her, but I also don't have a problem with what she wrote.

That bothers me too. My grandpa always taught me that "A dead son of a bitch is still a son of bitch," and I guess I took those words to heart.

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!

I seem to recall that scene, too, but I don't remember which book. I'm thinking she got sick of Hermione's name being butchered pretty quickly!

I still have to restrain myself from mispronouncing Hermione.

I like yours better than mine! :)

Hermione's name was one of the first I remember butchering, as a very straightforward "Her-mee-oh-nee."

I moderate a book group for kids at work, and sometimes they look to me for guidance on pronouncing the weird names. I always throw it back at them by asking, "And, so, how are you saying it?"

Haha With the really weird fantasy type names or Russian literature, I am not above renaming them "Z-?" in my mind, which is pronounced in my mind as "Z-uh-Z?" Of course, if there is more than one unpronounceable Z name in the book, I get confused real fast.