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I just included the ones that I've read. Shameful that none of Mrs. Gaskell's books are on here. I would also add that I have probably half of the other books at home and they are on my to read list. Of course at the moment I am eschewing my literary classics for a complete re-reading of the Inspector Rebus series by tartan noir author, Ian Rankin. On book 10 of 17 at the moment. Loves it. 43--Suck it BBC. I've read more of your classic literature than most Brits (ETA: I know not all of these books are British). As we say here in the colonies: BOOYA! 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read more than half--does that count?) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma -Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (not proud of this) 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (again, I've read about half) 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (in English AND in French) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

There was a similar thread in the Buster a few months ago. I pay 34$/month for health care and preventative dental. 17$/month for supplementary dental.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 13, 2010 -> 09:01 AM) What are you covering? That sounds like a pretty cool class. It's basically a social psych class in the first half (aggression, stereotype, stigma, groups, etc) and then in the second half we watch movies and tv and talk about how those relate to the class. We're also going to a nursing home and interviewing the residents--so they're learning about how a stigmatized group (the elderly) experiences that stigma. I don't usually teach first years so it has been a learning experience for everyone involved.

So, since 9/11 how many successful terror attacks have their been using airplanes? Serious question, maybe airline travel is more dangerous than I thought. Wouldn't a breathalyzer on every car save more lives annually? Or require everyone over 40 to get a colonoscopy? I guess I think that all these extra security measures are a bit over the top.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Nov 15, 2010 -> 11:26 AM) I wish I could vote "mix" for some of these. For the record, most public institutions don't get 100% government funding--a lot comes from tuition, grants, etc. For example, some of the UW System schools only get about 22% of their operating budget from the state. So, at least for that option it is a mix.

The new Governor of Wisconsin is really excited about privatization. There are rumors that he is interested in privatizing the University of Wisconsin system. So, how do you all feel about these different areas of life being privatized? (I would have included more poll questions, but it maxes out at 3.) Feel free to expand ya'll and make some comments.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Nov 11, 2010 -> 03:15 PM) I saw a special on it and I too thought it was in the earlier part of the century. I also thought it happened in January when the weather is really bad. Typically ship traffic on Lake Superior is stopped from Dec-Feb because the lake is frozen. In my experience the gales and wind and storms in November are really scary and terrific. (Although it's been a REALLY mild month thus far.)

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 11, 2010 -> 10:20 AM) I don't think writing a book advocating the subject is illegal. No, but I think it would give the authorities probable cause to look for child pornography or other misdeeds.

I saw this yesterday on Jezebel. I went to the site, read the description of the book (which is in a very loosely defined English) and was totally skeeved out. But he has a right to write it (and a right to get investigated and put away for writing it) and amazon has a right to sell insane nutters self-published books. Won't affect my shopping there. And, yes, Amazon grocery is awesome and they do have bacon.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 6, 2010 -> 08:11 PM) Bedford Stuy? Did he ride his motorcycle in the rain too? QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 6, 2010 -> 08:43 PM) a tip of the Billy Joel hat to you. Must be an old people thing because I don't get it. . .

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 2, 2010 -> 10:24 PM) Black people usually have to go to black barbers to get specific styles or because of the different texture of it... my hair is fine like a non-black person's butI still have to go to a black barber to get it cut a certain way. Funny story. One of my friends did Jesuit Volunteer corps for a year. He worked in Manahtten, but lived in Bed Stuy. Now, this kid is whiter than white--he actually still wears his monogrammed LL Bean backpack. So, he needs a haircut and decides to go to the corner barbershop. He walks in sits down and the barber looks at him for 10 minutes. Picks up scissors, puts them down again, looks at Will, picks up the scissors, puts them down. Finally he says, son, I do not know how to cut your hair. I think you'll need to go somewhere else. And so all year he had to go and get his hair cut far away from where he lived.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 12:30 PM) Yeah. That's exactly what I did. How about....Bozo the Clown did some interesting things. Sorry if my use of your ridiculous talking point went over your head. Tone it down and keep it civil.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 11:03 AM) Why were there so many Dem targets? Why could they pick up so many House seats? Oh, right, because the Dems had such a strong majority. It was a big night for the GOP, pretty much across the board. There's no doubt about that. Regression to the mean. Stats explains the worlds.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 10:58 AM) There were plenty of Democrats writing the GOP obituaries after 2008. Exactly and they were being silly too.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 10:53 AM) Biggest swing since social security was passed. I'd say the biggest swing in 60+ years is a pretty powerful mandate of sorts. There is only one way to measure a revolution: what happens after. I imagine in 2 years, the R's will lose a bunch of seats in the house, maybe gain some in the senate. Who knows? One election does not lasting change make. Step away from the Kool-Ade.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 10:48 AM) Merry-Go-Round Merry-go-rounds are fun. This is more like the mood swings of a toddler.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 10:42 AM) The revolution happened for many reasons but by and large my personal belief is in a small government that ensures certain necessities but by and large stays out of your way. Revolution? I don't think so. Anymore than 2008 was a revolution. Cycle, maybe. Pendulum, maybe. Revolution, hardly.

Interesting little piece of connectionist modeling looking at committee memberships in a GOP and Dem congress: mmmmm models.

Vacation to Cali: no longer being planned. Big shocker for me of the night was our US Rep Jim Oberstar got ousted. He brought a lot of money back to Duluth (badly needed money)--so we'll have fun when that dries up.

Gentlemen, could you please start a new thread for this discussion? Gracias.

Well, so far things are looking good for Dayton. Keeping my fingers crossed because Emmer is just icky. Hoping Oberstar can keep his seat also. And for Illinois politics, I hope Foster can keep his seat.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 29, 2010 -> 08:45 AM) For State House 11th district, my choices are apparently a democrat whose consistently dodges questions of how to fix the budget, or a Republican whose web page is almost entirely written in Latin. Fantastic. I thought you were joking. Oh dear. Wtf is that guy doing?

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Oct 28, 2010 -> 12:50 PM) Are you kidding me? http://www.foodinsurance.com/ Hahaha. Oh my god. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the American Public.

And up here they are talking about this current storm being worse than the one that took out the Edmund Fitzgerald. Looking at the lake this morning I believe it. Lake Superior doesn't do anything by half. Not looking forward to driving over the bridges tonight.

When I was 5 or 6 I watched The Birds with my dad. And thus began my life long phobia of birds.