I have read A Brief History of Nearly Everything and I consider it a must-read for everyone. It is quite a project though, but I learned things that I never would have had I not read his book. So amazing. I love all of Bill Bryson's stuff, especially A Walk in the Woods, and In a Sunburned Country, but Short History is his best.

I just watched a show on Science Channel called The Search for Particle X and I almost cried at the end! The best chance of finding it at the LHC/Cern and they didn't :(

I just finished reading a book I started in September of 2016.
I feel so accomplished.

congrats, Moonshadow! =)

I'm going to start reading The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud.
It won the Giller Prize and I have a personal goal of reading every Giller Prize winner, because every time I read one I just love it.

well that's cool too. i just keep reading the series i've started reading. but i have The Handmaid's Tale to re-read .... soon.

I never really think too much about literary awards, but I just looked and Fifteen Dogs was the winner for 2015, so looks like I'll need to pick a different book for my "published in 2016" category. I must have a reprinted copy.

Now I want to read that, but two books only! I plan to start The Scarlet Gospels when I get home.

I need to reread The Handmaid's Tale too. I love Margaret Atwood. I have read many of her novels and they are so good! My favorite book of her is: Alias Grace (and it also happens to be a Giller Prize Winner). A friend described it like this: "that book has a lot of words" yeah, but its good words!

LOL!

i've also read her MaddAddam series: Oryx & Crake; The Year of the Flood; and MaddAddam. oddly disturbing, actually.....

SO I never post here but I am indeed reading books, one a month xDDD
I read Contact, by Carl Sagan! It made me want to read more of his books.
Also read a Japanese book about me. I mean, a 30 year old that does nothing and still wants money from his father |D

From Atwood I've read Oryx and Crake and Surfacing. I have another on my shelf, forget which one it is. No plans to read The Handmaid's Tale though. It's just not the sort of story I'm interested in.

My sister has started a course on European history and will be reading "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" so I've decided to make that my next book and read along with her. :).

that's ok, Quiet Man - it'd get boring after a while if we all had the same taste in books. =D

and hi there, mdom!! *waves*

I don't want to read Handmaid's Tale but here I am reading The Scarlet Gospels. I've seen three or four Hellraiser films but the reading it still a little shocking. That is, perhaps, the point. I do like how Barker wrote his own annoyance with the fan-created nickname "Pinhead" into series canon now. The cenobite is aware of said nickname and he likewise detests it.

Yeah, I know. Still reading Memories of Ice and my copy of Ivan Denisovich arrived today. I got impatient.

i enjoyed Hellraiser and Hellbound. i've seen Hell on Earth, and maybe #4? i don't remember. i did read the Hellbound Heart once upon a college, but don't remember much about it now. *sigh*

was the Cenobite now named Pinhead given a different name originally?

In the original Hellraiser film he was just called "lead Cenobite" but fans dubbed him "Pinhead" and Clive Barker hated the name because it was so undignified sounding for the character. However, it stuck, and you see it in the credits of later films.

The book reads thus:

"Whatever torments he had planned for these last victims [...] it would be worsened by orders of magnitude if any of them dared utter that irreverent nickname Pinhead."

I've seen Hellraiser, Hellraiser 2 (the one with the insane asylum I think?), one that involved a nightclub, and Hellraiser 4: Bloodlines.

ah, lead Cenobite makes sense. and i agree, Pinhead does sound undignified for him.

yes, Hellraiser 2: Hellbound is the one in the asylum. there's that other puzzle 'box' at the end, if i remember right. and i believe Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth has the night club. i may have seen that one too. pretty sure i didn't see 4 though.

4 goes through the history from the creation of the puzzle box to the future on a space station, following the Lemarchand line.