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I loved the book and I am very curious how they will do it. Ryan Gosling is a great cast for the role IMO.

Long may Benoit Blanc continue to be in films. I’m also looking forward to what Johnson and Peter Dinklage will do with their new TV series.

If only! System Shock is, as fiction, quite superior to this. And System Shock is not exactly amazing, story-wise. Re: SHODAN, The...

Thanks very much. Damn, that is disappointing, and quite unlike Tchaikovsky at his usual level - it almost sounds like he’s writing on...

I must sadly kinda disrecommend Adrian Tchaikovsky's Saturation Point. It's the only book of his I've read that I would say was...

Yeah, it's not a huge thing here in Vancouver but it's a reason for White Spot and other places to offer turkey dinners to cook at home...

Just read Spark, a beautiful fantasy novel by Sarah Beth Durst about the strength of quietness, and also about a girl and her lightning...

The late-middlish part even. Pulled up his proclamation earlier today in part due to this thread.

Speaking for myself - no, I’m English and I don’t observe Thanksgiving. But we live in Vancouver now and so we’ve had turkey the last...

I celebrate Thanksgiving as Abraham Lincoln intended, in honor of the defeat of those traitorous Confederate rebels at Gettysburg and...

It would be much better if US Thanksgiving was associated with the end of the Civil War than with the Pilgrims.

The comical thing about anti-colonial backlash aimed at Thanksgiving is that the annual holiday in the United States was actually...

Well, for urban folks. It started off with Jewish Americans, looking for something that was open to do on Christmas, which turned out...

Yum, sign me up. I lived in the UK for a bit and moved back, and my British girlfriend came with, we went to a Thanksgiving party and...

The one that always seems weird to me as a Brit is Bonfire Night. On the one hand we're making a family event out of symbolically...