4/27    Anybody read Michael Crichton's "Timeline"?  How was it?  And would
        you recommend it?  thanks.
        \_ I liked it. Easy reading, interesting storyline, lame physics talk,
           and abrubt ending.
        \_ this is trash, not high lit.  You just pick up a copy and see
           if you like it.  You need recomendations for a book that you will
           forget in a week?
        \_ It's VERY fast reading.  Sit down a couple of days at B&N and
           you'll finish it.  Not his best work, though.  The physics,
           as someone else mentioned, is lame.  The ending is ridiculous.
           He wrote himself into a corner and used a contrived plot
           gimmick to end.  Utterly predictable.
        \_ Stupid Americans.  Read real literature, like Dostoyevsky or
           Shakespeare.
           \_ Reading lit obviously doesn't make you a better person.
           \_ Been there, done that.  Now let me get back to my NY Times
              Bestseller.
                \_ Eye of Argon is the only Literature I'll ever need.  -John
              \_ Please summarize the plot of Brothers Karamazov.  Feel
                 free to leave it in /tmp somewhere.  I am curious about
                 your claims.
                 \_ Why put in /tmp what you could put in motd.public?
                    Better yet, don't summarize; append the whole thing! --pld
                 \_ Pointless.  You can find this sort of stuff all over
                    the net.  Who is to say *you* ever read it either?  How
                    about you put your summary in /tmp?
                    \_ I trust you not to do that.  The offer still stands.
                        \_ You're an idiot.  No one needs to prove anything
                           to you and you haven't made an offer.
                           \_ Little man.  You have read nothing.
                                \_ You're an idiot.  Still trying to figure
                                   out why anyone would leave you a plot
                                   summary in /tmp.  Maybe you're just a
                                   troll.
           \_ Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky?  How middle brow.  Can we be
              even more obvious?  How about a rainy afternoon with James
              Joyce and the Dubliners?  or chill with Nietzsche and
              Zarathustra when you've just been snubbed by the salesgirl
              at Macy's?  and for added contrast, some Edgar Allen Poe
              while sunbathing on the beach?  Ah, how pristine the bygone
              eras of unfeigned vulgarity when people read Lolita because
              they thought it was porn.
                \_ I read alt.sex.lolita everyday.  Does that count?
              \_ Hey this is pretty funny.  You post like (fucker) but with
                 a stick up your ass.  -(fucker)'s #1 fan
                 \_ Better yet, http://www.goatse.cx  -John