.......Oy.

If this has been asked and answered before, I apologize upfront.

Can someone tell me how I can tell if the book I have is a first edition?

I have a hard cover of "The Haunted Air," published by Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, and on the copyright page it says at the bottom, "First Edition: October, 2002, printed in the United States of America, 0987654321," and there is another string of numbers as well.

OK, OK, I know I sound like the ultimate dummy because the book is labled "first edition." But there was a thread that went into many variations on the theme of first editions, and I don't know if this is a first edition of a second printing or what.

I just contacted CD who say they received MM today and it should ship next week - at long last!

Catwoman.

I mean, it looks like they were trying to make a bad movie. Halle's hip-swinging fashion model walk whenever she's in that ridiculous costume* is...is...

I'm at a loss for words.

And her cat mannerisms are...are...

There I go again.

I knew it would be bad -- I confess to masochistic tendencies where movies are concerned) -- but not this bad.

*Even her leather getup can't save it.

Philip K. Dick's novel, "A Scanner Darkly". A long time ago, I read this book. It was very complex to me. I hope it's easy to understand that story in this movie version......but, it's animation!

When is this movie's release ?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_ind...arkly.html

I just came across the following tidbit and thought everyone might find this interesting (or amusing depending on your musical tastes):

"MYTHIASIN, featuring former STEEL PROPHET singer Rick Mythiasin, will be having their new demo aired on the internet on The Alternative Noisefactor, a program developed by Dutch station Omroep Terneuzen. It broadcasts every Wednesday between 9:00pm - 11:00pm CET (3:00pm - 5:00pm EST).

In other news, Rick Mythiasin and guitarist Mark Coglan recently did an interview with Metal To Infinity. The following is a brief excerpt of the pair describing the band's sound:

Coglan: "I don’t think we fit nicely into any one genre of metal. One song might be complete power metal and the next one comes along and it is just pounding drums and blast beats and Rick’s screaming like he just got his nuts bitten off by a coyote. Although we would probably be classified as a power metal band we have no power ballads and 70% of our songs are fast as hell and very thrashy. There is also more than little influence from the bands coming out of Sweden, like The Crown, or At the Gates."

Mythiasin: "We're like power thrash with a sinister edge! Songs about despair and an uncertainty of a violent future we all live in. Impending doom and destruction and judgement and ultimately cast into the fires of hell for a life of sin and unrepentance! The first song is called 'The Future Is The End'. It’s inspired from the book The Keep by F. Paul Wilson."

I listened to this song on http://www.bravewords.com - just look for the newsbit about "MYTHIASIN" for a link. Who knows, maybe FPW will grow a mullet and start headbanging......

Cheers,

Brett

Marc B. and myself are proud to announce after weeks of backbreaking work the newest version of the F. Paul Wilson FAQ.

The main goal of version 2.0 was to make the FAQ completely downloadable. After much discussion which turned into a shouting match and then ended up as an all-out brawl, we decided that the best format for this would be PDF. (actually, it went something like this: Marc: Hey, let's use PDF. Mike: Okay.)

We know that PDF isn't the most popular format with all of you, but the positives outweighed the negatives and this is what we decided to go with.

Please give us feedback, good or bad, and we will consider it for future revisions of the FAQ.

Okay, I'll stop typing now, here's the link: http://webpages.charter.net/mjturman/fpwfaq/index.htm

The Tomb
Legacies
Conspiracies
All the Rage
Hosts
The Haunted Air

I decided to go with the order on the card pages and website, seemed like the easiest. I haven't read any of the Adversary Cycle yet, except for the The Tomb. I really like Jack. These books are great. Also, why are the few books that the stores actually have, in the horror section as opposed to the scifi or mystery section? I am looking forward to the Adverary Cycle, but I think I'm going to have to Amazon them since, I think I bought all the F. Paul Wilson books in my neighborhood. That's really sad since there are 2 huge bookstores and 2 small bookstores within a couple of miles of me. Why is the horror section always the first to be shorted? That's a whole other thread though.

Lisa2

I saw Get Shorty in the theater and didn't care for it that much. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for the quirkiness of the characters or maybe I just didn't get it. Regardless, I decided to go see Be Cool. I was very pleasantly surprised. I loved this movie. I laughed quite a bit during this movie. The characters a great: Travolta as Chili Palmer, a shylock who changes over from the movie to music industry; Uma Thurman as the recent widow and owner of a recording studio; Vince Vaughn as a manager who "thinks he's black"; The Rock (Duane Johnson) as his flaming gay bodyguard; and Cedric the Entertainer as a rival manager and pseudo gang leader. Travolta takes over the contract of a prospective singer-songwriter-diva from an abusive Vaughn. All parties battle for control of the contract and hilarious shenanigans ensue. After watching this, I definitely will give Get Shorty another try.

Through constant exposure via my grandson I've become, if not necessarily a fan, then at least an amused observer of this undersea naif. I took him (the grandson) to the movie and we had a great time. Now it's out on DVD and we watched it again yesterday. There's no more joyous sound than a 6-year's old belly laugh. (Like any little boy, he loves potty humor).

You'll probably enjoy it more if you're already familiar with the characters, but if you're in the mood for great silly fun, check it out.