Biff Wellington Posted May 16, 2012 #76 Share Posted May 16, 2012 YOU'VE BEEN RIPPED OFF JON!!!"Canadians" is the real thread about nothing. This is a mutiny. I'm msking this thread about something... So anyone seen any good movies or read any good books lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanVonErich Posted May 16, 2012 #77 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Well I guess we now have two threads about nothing.... And I'm still reading my Volume 2 of The Complete Sherlock Holmes ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schizoidwoman Posted May 16, 2012 #78 Share Posted May 16, 2012 (edited) Well I guess we now have two threads about nothing.... And I'm still reading my Volume 2 of The Complete Sherlock Holmes ! I hugely recommend The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes; they are beautiful volumes but very, very heavy. Incidentally, my husband is also from New York; he's from Rochester and also spent many years on Baffin Island Edited May 16, 2012 by schizoidwoman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff Wellington Posted May 16, 2012 #79 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Has anyone read Manifest Dedtiny by Barry Longyear? It's the best science fiction I've read since the Dune series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanVonErich Posted May 16, 2012 #80 Share Posted May 16, 2012 I hugely recommend The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes; they are beautiful volumes but very, very heavy. I bought "The Complete Sherlock Holmes", Barnes and Noble's classics edition. These two books are only 8.00$ brand new on Amazon, an amazing buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+susieice Posted May 16, 2012 #81 Share Posted May 16, 2012 I just saw Dark Shadows. If you read Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Killer, I saw the previews to the movie which comes out this summer. Looks pretty good. Alas, I now must leave for work. Have a good day everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shosanna Dreyfus Posted May 16, 2012 #82 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Finished reading Severed by John Gilmore about the Black Dahlia case. Interesting book and I like the theory, but information seems to be conflicted about how accurate the book is on some things. Must brush up and investigate further. Just started reading Blood On The Moon by James Ellroy (which was made as the film Cop starring the wonderful James Woods) and the Batman graphic novel Knightfall: Volume One (which is a backbreaking 630+ pages!). This week I've watched Underworld: Awakening (which was pretty underwhelming on first viewing at least although I enjoyed the previous movies) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, which was okay but I don't think I enjoyed it quite as much as the first film. For all the Sherlock Holmes trappings it was at times about as serious as the Charlie's Angels films (which I enjoyed but the silliness felt a bit out of place here) and almost felt like a parody of Hollywood's tendencies to insert overblown action scenes into any given subject matter. Still, why didn't anyone tell me it had Stephen Fry in it? Oui, I know lots of people did - shouted it from the rooftops in fact. But why couldn't they have waited until I was actually paying attention? Humph! Not keen on Watson punching the gypsy. You can't just go around hitting people you know! Oui, I do it all the time, but that doesn't mean I tolerate such behaviour in others! Anyway, oui, it was okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanVonErich Posted May 16, 2012 #83 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Finished reading Severed by John Gilmore about the Black Dahlia case. Interesting book and I like the theory, but information seems to be conflicted about how accurate the book is on some things. Must brush up and investigate further. Cool, I've read it 5 times, one of my favorite book. The problem with Severed is that it was released before we could have access to the DA's files on the case, therefore Gilmore could not have known that Elizabeth Short had "normal" genitalia and that the rumors about her having infantile genitalia were false, little details like that. But overall it's a great book. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shosanna Dreyfus Posted May 16, 2012 #84 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Cool, I've read it 5 times, one of my favorite book. The problem with Severed is that it was released before we could have access to the DA's files on the case, therefore Gilmore could not have known that Elizabeth Short had "normal" genitalia and that the rumors about her having infantile genitalia were false, little details like that. But overall it's a great book. Ah, merci for that That was one of the things where I noticed there seemed to be two contradictory opinions doing the rounds and I didn't know which one was true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWatcher Posted May 16, 2012 Author #85 Share Posted May 16, 2012 (edited) I'm from Pennsylvania which is pretty close to your neck of the woods. Finally stopped raining here after 2 days and nights I hope. Just checking the site before I gotta leave for work. Hope everyone has a great day. I was born in Pennsylvania near Scranton. How was Dark Shadows? And I know Rochester well too. I was just there a few months ago for a swim meet. One of the snowest places here in the US. I think its Rochester and Buffalo. Places close to the Canadian borber. They get all that lake effect snow. Edited May 16, 2012 by TheWatcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWatcher Posted May 16, 2012 Author #86 Share Posted May 16, 2012 (edited) YOU'VE BEEN RIPPED OFF JON!!!"Canadians" is the real thread about nothing. This is a mutiny. I'm msking this thread about something... So anyone seen any good movies or read any good books lately. You can try but I assure you we will keep bouncing back to nothing. Our previous thread has been going on for over 5 years and ..its still basiclly about nothing. Your right..you can never have too many things about nothing...and I've been known to enjoy a good Sherlock Holmes mystery from time to time. Its all in the details isnt it? Edited May 16, 2012 by TheWatcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff Wellington Posted May 16, 2012 #87 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Watch this. Manifest Destiny might be better known by the award novella within it called "Enemy Mine". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecklestoo Posted May 16, 2012 #88 Share Posted May 16, 2012 (edited) I'm from Connecticut, although a couple of you already knew that. As for what I'm reading...Fifty Shades of Grey...the dirty novel about an inexperienced, virginal college girl, and a very experienced dominator, business man. I'm only on page 3. Edited May 16, 2012 by Frecklestoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWatcher Posted May 16, 2012 Author #89 Share Posted May 16, 2012 (edited) Whats that about Kim Kardashian? Sex sells frecky..sex sells Wait a minute! I'm telling mom your reading erotic fiction again! Edited May 16, 2012 by TheWatcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+susieice Posted May 17, 2012 #90 Share Posted May 17, 2012 (edited) I was born in Pennsylvania near Scranton. How was Dark Shadows? And I know Rochester well too. I was just there a few months ago for a swim meet. One of the snowest places here in the US. I think its Rochester and Buffalo. Places close to the Canadian borber. They get all that lake effect snow. I live near Allentown on the PA?NJ border. Been to Scranton/Wilkes Barre a lot of times. My family used to go camping at Hickory Run. Still go up to Penns Peak near Leighton once in awhile. I liked Dark Shadows. It wasn't anything like the show, but Depp did a good job portraying Barnabas. It wasn't campy like I thought it would be. There is quite a bit of comedy in it though. All in all, it was good. Worth seeing as most Burton/Depp films are. Remember lake effect snow from the year I was up near Erie. No thanks, you can have it. I am re-reading The Lady In The Tower about the fall of Anne Boleyn. Just finished Timeline by Michael Crichton. The one before that was a paranormal history of the White House that I put in a thread on the site. Edited May 17, 2012 by susieice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schizoidwoman Posted May 17, 2012 #91 Share Posted May 17, 2012 I am re-reading The Lady In The Tower about the fall of Anne Boleyn. Just finished Timeline by Michael Crichton. The one before that was a paranormal history of the White House that I put in a thread on the site. The next book in my reading pile is The Lady in the Tower; I’m looking forward to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWatcher Posted May 17, 2012 Author #92 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Oh ,Allentown...sure...I've been there many times myself. So we are Northeasterners... Burton/Depp films do = intresting. Im not reading a bloody thing right now! I have all I can do to read my mail It nice here in the northeast today though. I may even curl up with some good mail this evening. Kidding The next book in my reading pile is The Lady in the Tower; I’m looking forward to it! Lady in the Tower. That sounds spooky. I like spooky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Waffles Posted May 17, 2012 #93 Share Posted May 17, 2012 hello Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanVonErich Posted May 17, 2012 #94 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Lady in the Tower. That sounds spooky. I like spooky Na, it's not scary, it's only a woman in a tower, watching other people and b****ing about them, how they look, etc. The entire book is like that, 500 pages of b****ing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schizoidwoman Posted May 17, 2012 #95 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Na, it's not scary, it's only a woman in a tower, watching other people and b****ing about them, how they look, etc. The entire book is like that, 500 pages of b****ing. Sounds fairly entertaining! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWatcher Posted May 17, 2012 Author #96 Share Posted May 17, 2012 hello hello Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schizoidwoman Posted May 17, 2012 #97 Share Posted May 17, 2012 hello Lo there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanVonErich Posted May 17, 2012 #98 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Sounds fairly entertaining! It is !! The best part is when the lady in the Tower is upset because she see a woman who's wearing the exact same thing she's wearing, I mean it's Hi-la-ri-ous, it goes on for 3 chapters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cenobite Posted May 17, 2012 #99 Share Posted May 17, 2012 where's me washboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWatcher Posted May 17, 2012 Author #100 Share Posted May 17, 2012 (edited) where's me washboard With the others...out back...near the box of spoons. I saw it there when we landed. So if no one has moved it...you should find it easy. I look to the night...to the distant stars. I sense another from my other deminsion will arrive soon... Hopefully more will follow. For if for nothing else but the shear beauty of being in a world with the lollipop princess. I welcome you. I welcome all the travelers. Washboards for everyone! Edited May 17, 2012 by TheWatcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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