Echo

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." -Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger "It begins, as most things begin, with a song." -Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman "Eyes mark the shape of the city." -After Dark by Haruki Murakami "It was a dark and stormy night." -A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle "The summer she as fifteen, Melanie discovered she was made of flesh and blood." -The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter "When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta." -The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami

Katrina, the link isn't working! What happened?

Me too! BF and I have been together for 12 years, and my family is always pressuring us to get married and have kids. We have no intention to get married anytime soon, and if we ever did it would be more for practical reasons than anything else. The idea of a wedding and getting married makes me feel sick.

I have consistently enjoyed reading books by: Stephen King Jane Austen Haruki Murakami Neil Gaiman John Sandford Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child J.R.R. Tolkien Amy Tan No wonder these are all my favorite authors! I also love Ernest Hemingway and Charles Dickens, but there were a few books I couldn't get into (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Great Expectations, Pickwick Papers). I have grown very bored with: Anne Rice John Saul Dean Koontz I only like their earlier books.

Just so you know, I deleted the identical thread you posted in General Book Discussions. Please take a look at the FAQ and the Rules and Guidelines. Was the book fiction? Non-fiction? I'm not familiar with French authors, so I doubt I'll be of much help, but hopefully someone here will be able to help you!

Thanks, I love mine. I adore Calvin & Hobbes, too. I grew up reading all of the books, but I only have one now. My brothers have all the rest. I need to get some more!

Mac, I love your Calvin & Hobbes snowman....he's obviously contemplating his existence.

Laura, the gun was in a locked safe, but the kinds found the key and unlocked it.

Unfortunately, the child passed away. His family is donating his organs, though, so they're happy that other families will benefit. I can't imagine how his brother, who is only 8, is going to live with the guilt.

Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. One of my favorite shows!

C.S. Lewis is buried at Holy Trinity Church, in Headington, Oxford. Honestly, this was really easy to find...it was in Wikipedia.

I've had a few horrible mishaps: -As a little kid, I had this old book of children's poetry that I loved. It was probably published sometime in the early 1900s. Well, I was carrying it around with me one day and left it outside. And then it rained. Needless to say, my parents were very displeased at the result...the poor book was ruined! -At one of our old apartments, we had a lack of bookshelves, so I kept a lot of my favorite paperbacks in a box in the closet. After being gone for two days, we came home and discovered two inches of water in the bathroom and the closet (which was in the bathroom). It turns out, the neighbors upstairs had been running their washing machine, which hadn't been installed properly, and a cascade of water had entered our apartment...right on top of my box of books. It just so happened that their washer was directly above my cherished novels. They were all waterlogged and ruined, and the apartment people never even apologized. -I think I have spilled pizza sauce, Coke, and iced tea on at least 50 of my books. I can't help myself.

Here are my recommendations: 1980s: Duran Duran Def Leppard Bon Jovi Poison Depeche Mode The Cure Madonna Cyndi Lauper Michael Jackson Aerosmith Culture Club Metallica 1990s: Nirvana Pearl Jam Soundgarden Alice in Chains Counting Crows Britney Spears Green Day Rancid No Doubt Nine Inch Nails Offspring

This is so sad...the boy who was shot is a relative of a friend of mine. The entire family is in shock. Yesterday, it appeared that he had accidentally shot himself in the head, but now it seems he was shot by his brother. http://www.king5.com/news/local/Investigators-say-Elma-6-year-old-was-shot-by-8-year-old-brother-100442954.html

I've just watched the first 8 episodes of Cowboy Bebop, but now I'm all space cowboy-ed out.

Tonight it's going to be a Boboli pizza and salad.

It's scary how accurate this is.

It's done in a unique style, which probably isn't suitable for sketching. You can read it online here.

FLCL is good for that, it's only 4 volumes (6 anime episodes). It's really good.

Another one that I really, really recommend are the short stories of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, especially "Spinning Gears", "Death Register", and "The Life of a Stupid Man". You can find them in the collection Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories, which is an excellent collection of his best stories. The final stories, which include the 3 I recommended, tell the story of Akutagawa's own mental breakdown and are extremely haunting and poignant.

I know that there are a lot of people who read manga on here, so I thought I would start a thread for us to list our favorite manga series. Mine are: Bleach Darker Than Black Death Note FLCL Anything by Osamu Tezuka (especially MW) I also have a ton on my wish list, including: Black Butler Blood + Solanin Black Blizzard Apollo's Song Buddha Barefoot Gen Even though I'm an adult woman, I do like a lot of the shonen manga, and anything with a darker theme. But I'm also interested in the "slice-of-life" manga novels, like Solanin, not simple, and Ayako. So, what are your favorites? Do you have a favorite artist? What kind of manga do you like?