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I'm reading The Wealthy Barber, by David Chilton. It's supposed to give me all the sense I need to get rich.

Yay!

Tough noodles

I just finished

The Lovely Bones

last night. It was good. The author has a new book that came out recently, but it's on my x-mas list so I can't read it.

I picked up

West With the Wind

a couple weeks ago...on Samira's suggestion I think. It's next.

Here's the summary from the chocolate story (you'll be happy to know chocolate is NOT fake). The story was pretty predictable:

That doesn't do me any good at the office

you guys have time to read? I barely have time to check the forums anymore, let alone sit down to read something that takes longer than 30 seconds

Edited, Nov 19th 2007 4:56pm by DSD

As someone who never bothers with anything more exotic than a Frango mint or those Lindt truffles, I found the exposé interesting. Granted the chocolate wasn't "fake" but much of Noka's claims were exaggerated or half-truths. If nothing else, I learned about the world of luxury chocolate and where it comes from.

***** that! Just life has taken over lately. I still have two more rooms to paint and I dont know when Im going to get to it the way everything else is going.

I love being so damn busy

If you liked Freakonomics, then check out The Undercover Economist. Same genre, but just a bit better.

I'm spending my time divided between Guns Germs and Steel, which is totally awesome, and Blink, which is really cool too.

If anyone knows of sites where you can read book for free, and which are not blocked by HMG, that would rock.

Are they selling it without Will Smith's mug on the cover yet? I'm boycotting it until then.

That doesn't bother me half so much as this.

Nexa

I read I, Robot back in high school and thought it was pretty interesting in how the robots progressed over time and all. I've no idea how I'd react to it now.

Speaking of Will Smith on the cover, I read somewhere that the film he was shooting wasn't going to have anything to do with the Asmiov novel. But the studio had had the license to the name forever and a day and the Asimov estate was ready to rescind the rights because the studio was just sitting on them. So they hastily shoe-horned in some elements into the Smith film and called it I, Robot.

That doesn't bother me half so much as this.

Blade Runner is a much better title.

Maybe for people with a short attention span, like those who prefer the movie. There is a whole lot more to the book than that one section and the deeper meaning is better captured in the original title.

Sure, but if Pride and Predjudice had been instead titled "Do unmarried women of a certain age have a chance at happiness with arrogant rich *****" it's a lot less likely it would have done as well.