Although I think I've just figured out the Big Twist and am mildly curious to see how it plays out and whether it really matters. I'm reading quickly now since I just want to know if anything cool awaits me at the end;

Polter-Cow, not much cool happens at the end. It's entertaining enough and the biggest twist to me is the relationship with the doctor at the end as that was the least predictable.

I'm currently reading the first Dexter book. I haven't seen the TV series yet, but I'm loving the book.

The first season follows the first book pretty faithfully, up to a point. After that, the books and the show diverge wildly. I still haven't read the third one as I've heard that it's nowhere near as good as the first two.

(Skipping thousands of posts ahead)

Anyone here read Ecstasy and Me, Hedy Lamarr's autobiography? Is it any good?

Anyone here read Ecstasy and Me, Hedy Lamarr's autobiography? Is it any good?

That's Hedley!

t /Blazing Saddles

Interesting instant coffee ad campaign from the UK: [link]

Literary Buffistas, I can't find if I've asked this before:

When I was a youngster, there was a scifi book about a boy who investigates a cave that is rumored to be haunted. Actually, a spaceship crashed there years before and Bad Aliens had enslaved the Good Aliens to do their bidding.

The Good Aliens each were part of a collective - a TV-looking-thing that was the "Think Think", long-fingered critters that lived under rocks that were the hands, one critter that was the eyes, one that was the ears, etc. The protagonist befriends a young "think think" and works to free the aliens.

I cannot remember what this is called.

Do any of you know?

Interesting instant coffee ad campaign from the UK: [link]

Ooh, I've watched some of those, but didn't realize there were so many more!

I'm sad to see that Carte Noire is now apparently part of Kraft Foods.

They've always had great ads.

So I was only half-right on the Big Twist of The Thirteenth Tale. I thought that Vida was actually Emmeline, not Adeline (and Emmeline was Adeline), but I didn't really see what that would accomplish. The actual truth was kind of cool, really, and I love the added twist of Vida's not knowing whether it was Adeline or Emmeline she saved. It's maddening; there are so many reasons I should have loved this book, but it just didn't do it for me. I also agree that Margaret's obsession with her "lost twin" was melodramatic and annoying and was one reason I never gave a flip about her. Christ, woman, can you honestly feel this much separation anxiety for THIS LONG over a twin you never knew? And then all the business with "seeing" her twin (especially at the end WTF) was just dumb.

Does anyone have any experience selling books via Amazon? I'm thinking about it for some of my old grad school books - a few of which are worth a lot - and wondering what people's experiences have been. I have sold stuff on ebay, but Amazon seems like a better fit for these books. Except it looks like it's mostly book dealers?