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Hey LCS, when you nuke the abortionists, can I drive the getaway car? Thanks for the CGEB info, btw. Now I'm utterly confused.

Hello all, back from work and ready to party - actually, ready to sleep. Promising myself to be lying down by 12:30, at least. Wow, you were busy while I was gone.

2JM, George MacDonald is a very good author - or rather, some of his stuff is good and other bits are boring. I enjoyed "The Light Princess" but IMO, the best things he wrote were "The Princess and the Goblin" and its sequel, "The Princess and Curdie". Great stories for your boys when they're a little older - maybe after they visit Narnia.

I like the idea of renaming the thread. Maybe "The something somethingoranother; Hobbit Hole III" "Hobbits version 3.0"?

Just finished rereading a favorite book of mine, Passage by Connie Willis (greatest living science fiction author, bar none. Not even the Niven/Pournelle duo is this good.) Anyway, all of a sudden this Christian symbolism just hit me - the fifth time through. It was rather neat. I detected the symbolism in her Doomsday Book, one of the ten best books I have ever read, but here it was just... wow. There are so many reasons I love that book. It makes me cry every stinking time I read it.

So, what's new?

Rats!! You got back before we could stick you with the work. Hair is in the middle of a navvy furzel or something, so I don't know if we can look for her firm executive hand at this point. Anyway, even if we do end it at 10,000, we have most of a week left! If the maximum number is 65,000, that would mean we could safely go to the FOTR/TTT transition, in November, on this thread. The 25,000 limit would be cutting it too close.

Just finished rereading a favorite book of mine, Passage by Connie Willis

I haven't read any of her books, but have heard very good things about her, especially her book To Say Nothing of the Dog. Have you read that one, and if so, what did you think of it?

I read Doomsday Book, liked it alot, though it was told from the woman's point of view. Strangely I read it over a 2 day period sitting in the hospital with my 18 year old (then) daughter, while doctors tried unsuccessfully to figure out her problem (eventually they operated and found a rupturing apendix which surprised them). The subject matter of the book probably made me even more scared than I already was.

Still, I found Doomsday Book strangely inspiring. I'm trying to get my wife, who is Jewish, to read it, I thought it could give her some insight into Christianity.

I'll try Passage if you recommend it.