Strange as it may seem, most the people I know are making more time for travel since all the TSA nonsense has gone into effect. We're going to travel damnit it, and if we have to schedule four additional hours just so we can get on the freakin plane then that's what we'll do.
(And the HP books are some of the best children's books in the past 25 years-most of the really great books are from the 60s/70s and just miss the cut off, and most everything in the past 10 years are bad HP knockoffs.
Okay I take extreme exception to this comment. I've read all the Potter books, and quite a bit of other Young Adult fiction to boot, and I wouldn't call even half of it HP knock offs, not to mention the fact that the basic idea of a young boy or girl suddenly finding they have magical powers and then being trained in the ways to use them is not an idea that just suddenly came along with the advent of Harry Potter.
Of course I wouldn't call the series the best in even the young adult catagory. Want a good story with nice symbolism, strong characterization and a well worked plot try the Key's to the Kingdom Series by Garth Nix, or maybe the Artemis Fowl Books by Eoin Colfer, or the Septimus Heap Books by Angie Sage, or perhaps the Young Wizard books by Diane Duane, or the Chronos Chronicles by Anne Ursu, better yet try the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett.
As for Children's and Adult Lit mixing, the judge of whether a book is good shouldn't change based on whether it gets (arbitrarily in my opinion) classified as Child or Adult Lit, it should be based on whether its well written, has a strong plot, well developed characters and is engaging to the reader.
Considering the amount of shaving, texting, make-up applying, eating, and calling that already goes on in vehicles during rush hour, I'm not sure this feature should even be legal.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to blow shit up.
I'd say that more emphatically but I'd hate to make you think that I personally go around blowing shit up...which I would never do...of course.
That said, I'd have to put forward the "Science of the Discworld" Series by Terry Pratchett Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
But then like so many others have mentioned I've never even heard of most the books on that list. I wonder what the criteria they used for a good read was anyways...being on the Times best seller list, or making into Oprah's book club, because honestly both those reason may indicate public appeal but it doesn't necessarily reflect the actually quality of the writing. Of course I'm a sci-fi/fantasy girl myself so what do I know. I was pleased to see that Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time made the list, that WAS a good read.
See...and I checked Wikipedia for info on the different factions, but there was naught to be found, just goes to show that not EVERYTHING is listed on the people's Encyclopedia.
The problem I have, is that Grammar, is how the sentence is constructed, not what the words mean, originally or otherwise no words and their meanings really come down to etymology not to be confused with entymology (I'm usually the first to confuse the two, this time I double checked).
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Strange as it may seem, most the people I know are making more time for travel since all the TSA nonsense has gone into effect. We're going to travel damnit it, and if we have to schedule four additional hours just so we can get on the freakin plane then that's what we'll do.
Oh yeah, check Atlanta in the morning. Men and their electric razors.
Okay I take extreme exception to this comment. I've read all the Potter books, and quite a bit of other Young Adult fiction to boot, and I wouldn't call even half of it HP knock offs, not to mention the fact that the basic idea of a young boy or girl suddenly finding they have magical powers and then being trained in the ways to use them is not an idea that just suddenly came along with the advent of Harry Potter.
Of course I wouldn't call the series the best in even the young adult catagory. Want a good story with nice symbolism, strong characterization and a well worked plot try the Key's to the Kingdom Series by Garth Nix, or maybe the Artemis Fowl Books by Eoin Colfer, or the Septimus Heap Books by Angie Sage, or perhaps the Young Wizard books by Diane Duane, or the Chronos Chronicles by Anne Ursu, better yet try the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett. As for Children's and Adult Lit mixing, the judge of whether a book is good shouldn't change based on whether it gets (arbitrarily in my opinion) classified as Child or Adult Lit, it should be based on whether its well written, has a strong plot, well developed characters and is engaging to the reader.Considering the amount of shaving, texting, make-up applying, eating, and calling that already goes on in vehicles during rush hour, I'm not sure this feature should even be legal.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to blow shit up. I'd say that more emphatically but I'd hate to make you think that I personally go around blowing shit up...which I would never do...of course. That said, I'd have to put forward the "Science of the Discworld" Series by Terry Pratchett Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen. But then like so many others have mentioned I've never even heard of most the books on that list. I wonder what the criteria they used for a good read was anyways...being on the Times best seller list, or making into Oprah's book club, because honestly both those reason may indicate public appeal but it doesn't necessarily reflect the actually quality of the writing. Of course I'm a sci-fi/fantasy girl myself so what do I know. I was pleased to see that Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time made the list, that WAS a good read.
See...and I checked Wikipedia for info on the different factions, but there was naught to be found, just goes to show that not EVERYTHING is listed on the people's Encyclopedia.
The problem I have, is that Grammar, is how the sentence is constructed, not what the words mean, originally or otherwise no words and their meanings really come down to etymology not to be confused with entymology (I'm usually the first to confuse the two, this time I double checked).
The problem is that "eventually" can be a very long time.