The Gunslinger, by Stephen King, is the first novel in the Dark Tower fantasy series. It was originally published in five sections in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1978 to 1981...

A Civil Tongue is an amusing book on language by former NBC News correspondent Edwin Newman, the sequel to his Strictly Speaking. Here, Newman deals with the ridiculous and irresponsible use of English...

The movies I enjoy watching the best are OLD movies - almost the older the better - but I admit to liking talkies over silents for the most part. So I subscribe to Turner Classic Movie Channel (my one demand on the cable line up) and generally hunt for whatever oldies are around anywhere else on the tube...

Things Fall Apart is Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe's first novel. It deals with Nigerian tribal life before and during white colonialism, with particular attention to how tribal culture and white colonial culture come into conflict when white people move in and attempt to convert the natives to Christianity...

The Five Love Languages is marriage guru Gary Chapman's book on expressing love and commitment to a spouse. The goal here is to get readers to be able to "fill the emotional tanks" of their spouses, which does not always come naturally because people receive love in different ways...

The Problem of Pain is C. S...

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As I sat in on the Engineering 110 lecture on Wednesday, I felt this sense of happiness and inspiration as the professor spoke about his hopes and intentions for the class. I hadn't expected it -- I was exhausted from my 9-5PM schedule without breaks and was just hoping the teacher could get through the syllabus and let everyone leave early...

Free love is alive and well and living in mid-town Manhattan