vultan
Registered on: 02/12/2006
Questions: 641
Answers: 3143
Helpful answers: 99.39 %
Network: 22
Trackers: 3
Bookmarks: 404
Rank: Albert Einstein
iQ Points: 23,393
Questions & Answers by vultan in "books"
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- Which book has been made into a film the most times? (closed)
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- Answer: It's probably the Bible - unless you mean which 'entire' book has been filmed most in its entirety rather than just parts of it being used for separate films.Show all
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- JK Rowling has 'outed' a character in the Harry Potter books (closed)
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- Answer: I didn't pick this up or expect it but I had no reason to think otherwise. I think that JK Rowling, as the author, feels that she has finished the series so now she can experiment with a little bit ...Show all
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- What's the biggest selling book ever, excluding religious books like the Bible or Koran? (closed)
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- Answer: Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong 900 million copies sold for 1 book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books#List_of_best-selling_sin...Show all
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- Removing sticky labels from books (closed)
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- Answer: Nail varnish remover and lighter fuel both work well, there's also some proprietary stuff (Sticky Stuff Remover) - obviously all these are OK on shiny surfaces, if the comics are paper...probably ...Show all
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- And italics: why? (closed)
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- Answer: to differentiate them from our native language (foreign phrases) and regular narrative (book titles, song lyrics). sometimes titles of books and songs et al are put in inverted commas instead.Show all
Answers by vultan in "books"
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- Is the Church over-reacting over the film release of "The Da Vinci Code"? (closed)
- 3 hours after the question was posted (05/07/2006 02:24pm)
- earned credits 50 - earned iQ points 6
- vultan: Yeah, the Catholic church over-reacted, and in doing so probably brought the book even more sales than it already had and made themselves look a bit silly. But there are degrees of over-reaction. ...Show
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- Is it legal to pass this on? (closed)
- 64 minutes after the question was posted (07/13/2006 09:56pm)
- earned credits 12 - earned iQ points 5
- vultan: If the chef is famous, chances are they already have a publisher for the book, in which case I suspect you could be in for a whole world of legal hurt if you started distributing it willy nilly.Show
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- How many books do you have in your house? (closed)
- 5 hours after the question was posted (07/21/2006 12:28pm)
- earned credits 10 - earned iQ points 2
- vultan: hundreds.Show
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- Which books do you think have left their mark on the world? (closed)
- 4 hours after the question was posted (08/10/2006 06:59pm)
- earned credits 30 - earned iQ points 2
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10 Answers - 3 different opinions to the answer of vultan
vultan: Things I haven't seen mentioned yet: The Kuran The Origin of Species by Darwin Whatever Freud's famous book was - you know the one I mean Mein Kampf, sadly. Perhaps The Female Eunuch by Germaine ...Show
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- What's your favourite book? (closed)
- 3 hours after the question was posted (10/19/2006 05:34pm)
- earned credits 4 - earned iQ points 2
- vultan: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Also Ulysses (Joyce) is very, very good.Show
Bookmarks by vultan in "books"
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- CTV.ca | Jay Ingram's new book questions consciousness copy
- last saved by vultan 697 days ago by 4 other members
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- Harvard Book Store copy
- the classic site of that
- last saved by vultan 700 days ago by 3 other members
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- Written Voices Radio copy
- last saved by vultan 700 days ago by 3 other members