"You may protest that these writers were able to sell science fiction to the high-pay markets because they were already well-known writers. It just ain't so, pal […] An editor of a successful magazine will bounce a poorly written story from a "name" writer just as quickly as one from an unknown." -Robert Heinlein

I did that, but then, after I'd been walking around like that for several hours, my roommate asked me if I would just hurry up and go to the theater already.  I said, "What theater?"

"It's Capitol, not Capital (though it really should probably be Capital)."

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She and Peeta were willing to die rather than do the bidding of the Gamemakers. "

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Wizard-on-wizard combat in the films "

@nooyawk I was accusing anyone of lying (you did not actually claim to have read it) but a person could talk about something, and make incorrect assumptions about it, based on what he'd heard, what he'd picked up thru the osmosis of popular culture, without having actually read it.  You claim that the ending doesn't…

The book and the movie differ on the reality of his murders.  In the book there is no real suggestion that anything is unreal.  The real estate women clearly knows about one of his murders, but is covering it up to avoid a scandal which would depress the value of the apartment.

Have you actually read The Lady and the Tiger?

The attempts by Limbaugh's defenders to spotlight misogyny on the other side of the aisle are nonstarters, in addition to being ad hominem, because they neglect the matter of power.  Limbaugh a good deal of influence over policies that affect the lives of millions.  Republican politicians live and die by this man's…

"You can’t watch Hugo, the lonely boy, peering out from clock towers to the hustle-and-bustle of a Paris train station without thinking of Scorsese, another lonely boy, staring out of his bedroom window on Elizabeth Street. "