I actually have a copy of that in my to-read pile. A friend gave me a copy. I will probably have to give it a go at some point.

I, uh… what?

No horseshit, the landstander?

Who?

Sarah Douglas in The People That Time Forgot is her own kind of gorgeous, thank you very much. Although they had her a little too Princess Leia at the beginning.

How dare you sir! That cyclops was amazing! And I had walrus nightmares for weeks after watching that film!

There's a scene in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger - I don't have to tell which one, I'm sure you know - which was very important to me as a young man.

My worst experience was a UPS driver who thought that describing his psychotic breakdown complete with hallucinations would somehow get me to become interested in his religious world view. I was very polite - how can you not be with the mentally ill? - but also uninterested.

I admit I am not much for self-reflection. The failed anthropologist in me, though, wants to learn about other people, cultures, and times. I'd rather read about the actual Wars of the Roses than Game of Thrones at this point in my life.

I literally L-O-L'd.

I have only experienced The Great God Pan as an audiobook and through the summery/analysis of the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast - but I have to admit to be sorely underwhelmed. It seemed to me just a treatise on the horror of female sexuality, with none of the "cosmic" stuff Machen tried to imply and which Lovecraft…

Two things keep me reading non-fiction. Wait, three things. I'll come in again.

I think I got as far as 200 pages the second time around, and realized that even though I was that deep into the book, I still didn't care. There was no urge to huck it at a wall - I have done that, on occasion - but no urge to go further, either.

"The Protestant Reformation was 500 years ago, I'm familiar with the literature, and I still go to Mass. Leave me alone."

I don't like strangers touching me, either, so… I'm fine with that.

I think they back off because Catholics already worship Jesus, so they're halfway there.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is… not all that high a bar. It's basic human decency is what it is.

I loved it. I found the opening choppy, but having read Glen Cook's The Black Company, it felt familiar enough to me to keep at it and see where it was going. Then the undead Neandertal with the flint sword showed up, and I was basically hooked. It's very obvious (at least to me) that Erikson is an archaeologist by…

I think, for me, it's also a matter of the time I have available to read and the attention span I have when time is available. Example: I'm "currently" reading The Golem and the Jinni inasmuch as I pick it up every couple of weeks and manage fifteen or twenty pages. I love it. I like the characters, the turn of the…

I honestly can't remember what it was that made me bounce off. I wish I could say it was the treatment of women, but I highly doubt that. I think I was just too young to "get" it the first time, and the second time I just found myself utterly bored by the whole thing.