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Is this anything like Fast Food Nation? If so, I'll have to check it out.

Haha...the next time I get called by a telemarketer, you can be sure I will try something like you mentioned, imthefoolonthehill.

While Rowling has a gift for selling books, I view her writing to be quite juvenille when compared with the likes of Pratchett (very humorous) and Tolkien (epic). That isn't to say that I don't read...

Of Mice and Men and Crime and Punishment have both played a part in shaping me as a person (i.e. they made me quite cynical).

Here are my personal favorites:

- Led Zeppelin
- Queen
- Rush
- Blue Oyster Cult
- Kansas
- The Guess Who
- The Band
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

I read The Joy Luck Club for school once (and enjoyed it) and I believe I've also read one of her short stories. The story in question was about a girl who invited a caucasian boy over whom she liked...

Day 23

Name: Count Beaumains
City: Avignon
Gold: 1300
Population: 23/50
Income: 125

Buildings:
Fortress

I'm feeling...riveting.

I read a lot obviously, but I do a lot of different sports as well. I debate matters of political importance with my friends frequently too. Besides that, I just do whatever I am inclined to do.

Anything not by Dan Brown. :lol:

Seriously though, I tend to term literature as books of importance, fiction that has more than just the goal of entertainment or is of high caliber writing (Jane...

When I was little I always had the desire to be a lawyer involved in politics. Heh, that's actually still my career plan. Once I get out of high school and get my degree in political science, I'll be...

Political fiction (or "non-fiction"), that is, anything by a pundit, scares me because even though much of what they spout is false (that goes for both the Left and the Right), there are many who...

In no particular order:

1. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (poorly written and absurd)

2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger (I've never identified with angst)

3. Flowers in the Attic,...

Dark Water: 4 out of 10

- Shoddy plot
- Where's the scare? It's definitely not in the water.
- Too much like the Ring, which in my opinion, isn't that good to begin with.

I'm glad I went...

My thoughts go out to all of those in London. This was defintely not news I wanted to wake up to. I'm only glad that the bombings were of the magnitude in Madrid; we can be happy about that at least....

Day 2

Name: Count Beaumains
City: Avignon
Gold: 225
Population: 21/50
Income: 75

Buildings:
Fortress

My Hobbit name: Bolo Sandydowns

My Elf name: Findaráto Eärfalas

Interesting results...

I believe you belong in Pride and Prejudice; a world of satire and true love. A world where everything is crystal clear to the reader, and yet where new things seem to be...

Being the big fan of military/civilization sims that I am, I'm willing to give this a shot...

Name: Count Beaumains
City: Avignon
Gold: 250
Population: 21/50
Income: 75

Buildings: Fortress...

Tennyson needs some representation on here too, and though I would post The Lady of Shalott, it's rather lengthy for a message board, so I'll leave you with this one instead:

The Charge of the...

I have too many favorite poems (and poets) to name, so I'll just post this one, a poem of Tolkien's:

Gil-galad was an Elven-king.
Of him the harpers sadly sing:
the last whose realm was fair...

Heh, my philosophy is very..."unique", but as to my god, He is to an extent both Biblical and a "force". I see God as the creator and the sustainer of life and that he ultimately controls all things...

I can usually come up with a vivid mental picture of the books I read, but occasionally I will forget a detail about a character's appearance and I wind up changing them completely (e.g. A character...

Fango, you should skip England entirely; go to Ireland, Scotland, or Wales instead. Those are the cool regions of Britannia. :lol:

Seriously though, you should pay a visit to York or the region...

I agree with you completely. To put faith in a book which is full of contradictions and blatant mistakes would be of the greatest folly, but one can still be a Christian through morale code and...