I loved gardenweb, but I will so not be returning to this walmartization of yet another good community interaction. I hope gardenweb's owners made a bundle because they maintained an excellent source of intercommunication between garden enthusiasts for a long time; but the bigger fish will always eat the smaller I suppose. The question is, who or what will be the biggest fish and simply devour us all? BTW, houzz is extremely user unfriendly, no doubt slapped together by some billionaire with a "bright idea," customers and clients be damned. What's new?

Thank you all for sharing! So many of you have mentioned excellent books that I had not mentioned. The Historian, for example. Others, like Kristin Lavransdatter, I still want to read, have gone through the trouble to buy, and look at them every now and again as they wait patiently on my shelf. Frieda, I have read Collapse and found it hard to put down. That book formed the basis for many side books into the societies mentioned therein. I have Guns, Germs, and Steel; see note in above paragraph re: books waiting patiently. As for 1491, I KNOW I read it. I remember bits of it, but cannot find it listed in my book journal. I have searched back to 2001 and found nothing. This is odd as I find a perverse sort of satisfaction logging a book into my journal. I also read Tony Horwitz's A Voyage Long and Strange (only 445 pages)which covers a bit of the same ground, but I do not believe I am confusing the two books. annpan, your post made my laugh. You've been robbed! Love it! I recently read the new Elizabeth George book. Most of her Lynley titles are doorstops. But I cannot truly put any of them on a "fan club" list. They were okay, some better than others, but nothing I truly remember, nothing that was thought-provoking. And this last one felt choppy, disconnected, and just plain "off". PAM

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So you are picking fights and being rude because you feel entitled to do so? Ok, so.. why do you feel entitled to pick fights and be rude in this thread? LOL, I said that was your opinion. My opinion is that I am not rude, nor am I picking fights. If you constantly worry about what others "might" think... well I choose not to live in that bubble. I don't concentrate on trying to please people that are not "pleasable" under any circumstance. So now you are doing exactly what you are claiming that I am doing... being rude and trying to pick a fight with me. Interacting on a forum board is a "two way street". I am just pointing out the *error* in your thinking. (You can of course disagree if you want, you have that right just as much I have rights too.) If what I say offends you... well I'm offended that you're offended = call it even. I am not here to tell you what you want to hear. I am here to tell you "how it is." You are free to not like it. How a con works... tells you everything you want to hear. Itching ears love it... sooner or later you realize the fallacy of that. (The truth is the truth for a very important reason.) Honey do these jeans make me look fat? Let's lie? so you understand the point... because thus far everything seems to fly right over your head.