odell,<br /><br />3 counties??? I do hope they are legal. I kept using my old libarary card, until they asked for my new address because someone had already moved into my old apartment. Well, so much for that.<br /><br />I thought "Congo" was a much better movie then a book. I had read the book already when we were vacationing on Mackinaw Island here in Michigan, and the movie came on. The book was somewhat dark in nature, but the character "Amy" was what made the movie good, I think, as well as the female lead. In the book she seemed to be less caring or otherwise minded then the lead was in the movie.<br /><br />There is something about Crichton's books and movies. The books I found had a "dark" side to them, and were different from the movie characters. For example, Hammond died thinking a dinosaur was after him when the kids had found a sound effects speaker and were playing with it. This difference is fine because it causes and helps further the movie direction from the book, where both are just fine as they are. The future of the archelogists,(sp), were uncertain in the book as well, and I thought the book ended well.<br /><br />I was excited when I found that the movie "Timeline" was modeled after the book, and did not really mind that they changed the days back in time to hours, because of the time allowed for the movie. As movies go, it was not a bad mix either. But what I did not like was the cussing of every other word or so in the book. I like to have some books on tape as well, but could not make my self keep Timeline on tape because of it.<br /><br />Have you read the "Train Robbers", or the one about the medical story about the people who went crazy or something of that nature? <br /><br />P.S. I have found it indeed strange where the shipping charge is in dollars, and the books are in pennies. But I do know what you mean about those books. I am aways looking for a good deal about what I call "fluff" books, (books for fun reading, and not study or serious con