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Okay. I was fine with the time travel in 12 Monkeys.
That's actually one of my top 10 favorite sci fi movies! One reason is because they did time travel "right."
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That's actually one of my top 10 favorite sci fi movies! One reason is because they did time travel "right."
Yup. I was pleasantly (well, kind of... it was depressing) surprised
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Started R. F. Delderfield's "God is an Englishman". A long time ago I read and enjoyed his "To Serve Them All My Days", but I never got around to reading this one before.
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"Happy" by Alex Lemon is looking pretty great so far. College life when there's SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR BRAIN.
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Also, I'm a big Bruce Willis fan.

And to compare, Stu is an even bigger Bruce Willis fan than I am. He will watch =anything= with Bruce Willis in it.

I have more refined tastes. Such as Hudson Hawk.
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Yes - guilty as charged. Willis = fun. And I'm one of the few who also likes Hudson Hawk. :blush:
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I've got about 100 pages left. It get's odder as it goes. It's kept my attention but I'm wondering why it is so highly rated in the Sci-fy/fantasy genre.
I can see it being a really good book if you are into mythology and thus understand all the references. I'm not, so while I get some of the references, most do not make sense to me even after reading a portion of the wikipedia article. (Already spoiled part of it for myself, so I had to quit reading.)

I'm about 3/4 through. I'm kind of thinking that if I have to read a wikipedia article to understand it, it's not that great. I mean it's masterful, but it comes across as just weird because I'm not able to read between the lines.
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