I've often wondered if enjoying ordering a "Tom Collins in winter for Chrissakes", makes me a fan, or a just a phony. By coincidence, I heard a debate on public radio a few days ago as to whether Catcher in the Rye should still be on the school curriculum in my province. I was starting to ...

How rude ponderings of love seem to the delicate philosophical senses when we degrade it to nothing more than evolutionary behaviorism? I'm jumping in as a new, unknown person (I adore reading at Booktalk, but rarely have time to post). Interbane, I assume you have more of your medication by now. D...

I remember Steven Pinker having a great answer to this question in his book, The Language Instinct . He dedicated a whole chapter to a rant against self-appointed experts on correct usage. He wrote: The legislators of "correct English," in fact, are an informal network of copy-editors, dic...

Hey, congratulations on the new job. I've been feeling bad about starting a discussion with you then disappearing. Life suddenly got very busy for me too, so I haven't been on the computer very much. Have fun in your new line of work! It's reassuring to find out the person in charge of making sure o...

Interesting. Thanks for posting such a detailed synopsis, Camacho. I think I will read either the book you've read or one of his others. I have some follow up questions for you, but I realize that I'm running out of time this weekend.

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Welcome Camacho! I'm fairly new to posting here myself. Interestingly, one of my main reasons for coming out of lurkdom, was to see if anyone had studied or read anything by Friedman. See my thread here: http://www.booktalk.org/the-shock-doctrine-by-naomi-klein-t4480.html I could of course, start re...

I'm far from an expert, but I've been interested in vision since reading a book (Phantoms in the Brain by Vilayanur Ramachandran) that broke it down into many different processes, and I often find myself conducting experiments with my own peripheral vision. I believe light has to fall on the retina'...

Now I'm quite interested in reading the book. I think this may have been a case of a film capturing the plot points and atmosphere of the original work, but not conveying the whole story, because (I assume) a lot probably took place in the characters' or narrator's thoughts. People like these killer...

[/quote] One of my favorite all time Psychos is Travis Bickle! Mr. P. [/quote] I like Travis too. I was thinking about various movie psychopaths this afternoon, and wondering if I really agree with what I wrote. The psycho in No Country for Old Men , was closer to the clinical definition of a psycho...

****SPOILERS BELOW****** Hi Randy. I felt the same way about the film, and wondered if I'd missed something, when I read all the great reviews. I've always enjoyed the humor in the Coen brother's films, but it was scaled right back in this one. I think psychopaths make for very boring characters, un...