which part of
"This is the full edition of Libranet 2.8.1.
Feel free to use it as long as you like on as many machines as you wish."
is confusing to you, exactly?
and no, I have no vested interest other than that I am a happy user of such.
Actually, this is the worst legal job market in institutional memory (surpassing the Great Bloodletting of 1995), particularly on the west coast. Unfortunate, since IAAL. I hear the benefits and pay at W*l*m*rt are stupendous, though, so we all have hope.
I don't know as to whether the poster should get re-certified or not, but it sounds to me as if the cost/benefit goes against the certification.
My favorite non-Terry Pratchett fiction book of the year was Ilium (which is discussed in another thread above). Why? Because I love my scifi served with a heaping infusion of classics + nanotech. It's not the greatest book of all time, but it was the most enjoyable published-in-2003 fiction of the year for me. Now if someone would just light a fire under George R.R. Martin...
What Liberal Media? gets my nod for best nonfiction of the year, and easily so.
The worst, with a bullet, was Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix. I haven't been so bored and enraged with a book since being forcefed Microserfs a ways back.
Quicksilver was horrid and easily gets my vote for most disappointing book of the year. I like the rough cut pages, though.
Diary is Pahlaniuk's worst novel yet because it feels, to me at least, that he is tired of his schtick. The plot is half-baked, the connective tissue is thin at best, and it's missing his usual massive psychosexual issues. At least unlike other writers who are trying to milk their cache of goodwill (*cough* Jordan *cough*), Pahlaniuk's novels are progressively shorter, which is a nice change of pace.
In comparison to Lullaby, I think the central idea of Diary is not as strong/intriguing (culling poem v. a stepford town/(**spoiler, but if you really want to know, I'll tell)). The protagonist in Diary is female, which I think Pahlaniuk struggles with more so than when they are male. There is no action to speak of, and the premise of the book (told as if read from a coma diary) is abandoned/becomes unbelievable almost immediately. Like I said, I don't really think his heart was in it.
That said, Diary is still in the top half of all the books I read last year (which was around 55), probably top third. I a big Pahlaniuk supporter (particularly the first three), so YMMV.
I disagree with Diary being the worst, but I do absolutely agree with Quicksilver being atrocious (for me it wasn't the worst, but Quicksilver was certainly the most diappointing. Someone get Stephenson an editor with the Mighty Red Pen of Smiting!)
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which part of "This is the full edition of Libranet 2.8.1. Feel free to use it as long as you like on as many machines as you wish." is confusing to you, exactly? and no, I have no vested interest other than that I am a happy user of such.
That's easy: when the facts contradict the ideology, those unreliable, liberal-biased facts must go.
Libranet kicks major buttocks and is as reliable as any such project can be.
Actually, this is the worst legal job market in institutional memory (surpassing the Great Bloodletting of 1995), particularly on the west coast. Unfortunate, since IAAL. I hear the benefits and pay at W*l*m*rt are stupendous, though, so we all have hope. I don't know as to whether the poster should get re-certified or not, but it sounds to me as if the cost/benefit goes against the certification.
My favorite non-Terry Pratchett fiction book of the year was Ilium (which is discussed in another thread above). Why? Because I love my scifi served with a heaping infusion of classics + nanotech. It's not the greatest book of all time, but it was the most enjoyable published-in-2003 fiction of the year for me. Now if someone would just light a fire under George R.R. Martin...
What Liberal Media? gets my nod for best nonfiction of the year, and easily so.
The worst, with a bullet, was Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix. I haven't been so bored and enraged with a book since being forcefed Microserfs a ways back.
Quicksilver was horrid and easily gets my vote for most disappointing book of the year. I like the rough cut pages, though.
Diary is Pahlaniuk's worst novel yet because it feels, to me at least, that he is tired of his schtick. The plot is half-baked, the connective tissue is thin at best, and it's missing his usual massive psychosexual issues. At least unlike other writers who are trying to milk their cache of goodwill (*cough* Jordan *cough*), Pahlaniuk's novels are progressively shorter, which is a nice change of pace.
In comparison to Lullaby, I think the central idea of Diary is not as strong/intriguing (culling poem v. a stepford town/(**spoiler, but if you really want to know, I'll tell)). The protagonist in Diary is female, which I think Pahlaniuk struggles with more so than when they are male. There is no action to speak of, and the premise of the book (told as if read from a coma diary) is abandoned/becomes unbelievable almost immediately. Like I said, I don't really think his heart was in it.
That said, Diary is still in the top half of all the books I read last year (which was around 55), probably top third. I a big Pahlaniuk supporter (particularly the first three), so YMMV.
I disagree with Diary being the worst, but I do absolutely agree with Quicksilver being atrocious (for me it wasn't the worst, but Quicksilver was certainly the most diappointing. Someone get Stephenson an editor with the Mighty Red Pen of Smiting!)