The 10,000 Post Thread!

[Scanty]

Yeah man, like, fricken trendy like Blade man, yeah :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2:

Anne Rice, Stephen King, Tolstoy, Suess.

Did Anne Rice write Flour Babies??? Or is that someone of a similar name...

 

[PT]

I don't think so, she has the Vampire Chronicles, The Witch series, and a couple others. Unless the Flour Babies is brand new, I'll have to check.

 

[greenfreak]

Swans mate for life.

So do Mourning Doves... Got time for a story? Too bad, I'm gonna type it anyway...

There was a Mourning Dove (let's call him Rocko) that I kept seeing hanging out with the sparrows at my bird feeder. Every time I saw him, I felt sad because he never had a mate with him. She must have died in the area because he was around just about every day.

The bird feeder is for small birds though and Rocko was way too big to perch on it. But I read that Mourning Doves tend to be ground feeders. So when Rocko kept trying to perch on the feeder, I thought that he must not be getting enough food on the ground. So I started putting food on the ground for him. But he kept trying to get on the feeder and falling off.

Finally one day, he made it! Got on top of the feeder and in the process, pushed the other three sparrows off of it. I ran and got my camera and got a few shots of him. I'll post one when I get home if you're interested.

That bird feeder gave us a lot of entertainment this summer. We had finches, cardinals, doves, squirrels and sparrows visiting it. I even found a green and white parakeet on it one day, flocking with the sparrows for some reason. Someone must have left a window open and it found some friends. Those sparrows aren't picky I guess, they treated the parakeet and dove the same as the other ones.

But now most of the birds have gone. I can't wait till spring.

 

[greenfreak]

So what does everyone like reading around here? What genre, mostly?

I used to read Stephen King but he's getting soft in his old age. The extremely lengthy descriptions are just a pain to go through to me these days. It's like no one edits him anymore.

I never liked Koontz or Straub, and I tried Patricia Cornwell but after a while, the plot lines all sound the same. I'm a sucker for great characters and a good story, and I can care less about 'messages' that authors sometimes try to get across. I just want to be entertained. Fickle, I know, but that's me.

I just pick off the bestsellers table these days. I found a gem the other day that you might like Scanty. It's hilarious, I was laughing out loud most of the time reading it. (it also made me gasp at one point and even brought me to tears) It's totally a woman's book, and it's called "Good in Bed" by Jennifer Weiner. I finished it in two days. She has a new book out that I'm going to see if I can get from Border's but if not, I'm going to order it from Amazon.

 

[PT]

Nope, no Flour Babies.

Here are her books.
http://www.annerice.com/books.htm

The ones by A. N. Roquelaure are particularly, um, interesting. I've got that set too. I don't care for the ones she wrote as Anne Rampling at all, however. She totally changed her writing style for those. Odd.

 

[Scanty]

aww, that's really cute. We've got two lakes in the village I live. Loads of swans and stuff. The two 'alpha' swans on the bigger lake are called George and The Duchess (yes...Watermead names it's resident swans )
The two on the smaller lake are called Henry and Lady.

One year, Henry and Lady only managed to have one signet. So Watermead (my village) called him Charlie. There was the cutest picture ever that year in the newsletter - of Charlie riding on Henry's back through a lake half covered in ice.

 

[Scanty]

oh I got it wrong, PT...I'll go and check who 'Flour Babies' is by. I was thinking that it didn't fit in with the other authors you mentioned! It's a children's book

 

[PT]

So what does everyone like reading around here? What genre, mostly?

I used to read Stephen King but he's getting soft in his old age. The extremely lengthy descriptions are just a pain to go through to me these days. It's like no one edits him anymore.

You know he says he's only writing three more books and he's done. He said himself he's getting tired of rehashing old stories, that it's been difficult for him to come up with something original, so he's quitting.

 

[Scanty]

lol...her name was Anne Fine. Doh.

 

[greenfreak]

Scanty, I think that's cute to name the swans! Did you know they can be very nasty? Someone I knew said she was feeding one and it attacked her! lol

PT, I heard that too. Judging by what the man's done in his life, I think he deserves it. I used to have all his books (I have about 34 of them) but after I bought Black House (sequel to my favorite King book-The Talisman) I just couldn't get into it. I forced myself to read the first chapter and it went on my shelf. What's the last book you read (and liked a lot) by him? I think mine was Rose Madder.

 

[whoreable]

i dont read anymore.
but maybe i should
finding books is too much work

 

[Scanty]

Yeah, swans can break your arm with one beat of their wings, apparently. But they're the queens so we have to be nice to them, lol.

I've tried reading Stephen King books and I have to agree they are mighty hard to get into. All that description starts to grate, especially if you're one of those people who is pedantic about taking in everything...

 

[PT]

What's the last book you read (and liked a lot) by him?

Desperation, I'd have to say. The Girl who loved Tom Gordon, but that wasn't even like him.

 

[Scanty]

What is everyone reading at the moment?

 

[greenfreak]

I didn't like Desperation/The Regulators. I read Tom Gordon too and it was ok, but you're right, nothing like his usual. That was actually why I really liked the Talisman--it was more fantasy than anything else and Peter Straub broke up the intense descriptions King is famous for.

Right now I'm reading "Eva Moves the Furniture" by Margot Livesey. Here's what the back says:

On the morning of Eva McEwen's birth, six magpies congregate in the apple tree outside the window--a bad omen, according to Scottish legend. That night, Eva's mother dies, leaving her to be raised by her aunt and heartsick father in their small Scottish town. As a child, Eva is often visited by two companions--a woman and a girl--invisible to everyone else save her. As she grows, their intentions become increasingly unclear: Do they wish to protect or harm her? A magical novel about loneliness, love, and the profound connection between mother and daughter, Eve Moves the Furniture fuses the simplicity of a fairy tale with the complexity of adult passions.

 

[Scanty]

That sounds really nice. I like stories that are set in relatively normal setting but have a definite supernatural element. Like Night Shyamalan's films.

At the moment I'm reading Thinks... by David Lodge (about human consciousness)
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (fantasy)
The Tao of Physics (only read a little so far)
and I've finally got round to reading the book Fight Club.

 

[PT]

Oh Shit, after you mentioned the Talisman, I remembered. I read Black House just a couple months ago, its with Peter Straub as well. Great book.

 

[PT]

Oh, Right now, I'm reading Learning to program in C++

hey, it's what I'm reading.

 

[Jeslek]

mv PuterTutor /dev/null

 

[Luis G]

pssst, that's a unix command, this is the one in C/C++

PuterTutor = NULL;