Indeed, it is not uncommon for slaves even to fall out and quarrel among themselves about the relative goodness of their masters, each contending for the superior goodness of his own over that of the others. At the very same time, they mutually execrate their masters when viewed separately. It was so on our plantation. When Colonel Lloyd's ( Read more... )

A maddening stench filled the forecourt. Those corpses at the bottom of the heap had already putrefied, the eyeballs rolling out on strings of goo and insects working the flesh free of the bones - it seemed that even the blue sky overhead would be corrupted by the rank scene, with its foul miasma and eye-watering stink ( Read more... )

The road lay in shadow. To either side of it were endless rolling plains. Through they were dotted with what looked to be rocky mountains and woods, these did nothing to lift the air of desolation. Spread with gray clouds, the sky occasionally carried the growl of distant thunder. It would probably rain ( Read more... )

I just finished 'World War Z' and that was great. Max Brooks thought of a lot to put in that book. He's covering things I never would have thought of such as clearing zombies from the ocean floor and from the Paris catacombs, as well as what things look like to astronauts on the space station. He has some political changes that happen around the ( Read more... )

I got an e-mail that said 'Eworkers needed. Apply now.' I glanced at it and read 'Ewoks ( Read more... )

I'm going to start the fifth and final Fablehaven book, Keys to the Demon Prison. I flipped to the reading questions and the last one is:

13. Who is the coolest author ever? Is it the guy who wrote Fablehaven? If not, what's the matter with you? Explain.

I just finished The Golden Compass and liked it until the last couple of chapters. I ( Read more... )

I just saw it and thought it's the most disappointing one to date. I was afraid I was being cranky and preggo, but everyone I saw it with thought the same ( Read more... )

I think I complained here before that someone insisted I borrow a book from her at work. I can't say no, so I did. I even got 30-some pages into it, but couldn't go further. I was planning on reading Mort next, and Terry Pratchett writing about death can only be put off for so long.

( On the way for some curry... )