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I'm really sorry if I insulted everyone and made martin and phil angry. Apologies - once again. I'm quite harmless really. :confused:

Perhaps you ought to buy her a saucepan set - I tried and failed to get my mum into 'good' books - she much prefers poking around in the library. Books in her opinion are a waste of money when there's a libraray down the road. My mum loves reading - she got me into it - but she would prefer a...

Pretty difficult if we don't know the genre your mum likes- I can go only go by what my own mum likes which is John Grisham, Maeve Binchy and Catherine Cookson. For more 'cool' mums I would suggest Memoirs of a Geisha (my mum hated this though) and Angela's Ashes (my mum also hated this...

I did wonder about LOTR being so popular because of the film - but as already said it has been popular in the polls long before the film was released, even in countries other than the UK. I thought it was great - not my personal favourite - but I can see why it got the nation's favourite...

I'm quite new but thought I'd be the first to welcome you. Off to bed now as eyes are closing. Enjoy the site and the forums. :)

I have tried to read this book twice now - the second time I even got half way through. It just seemed too much like hardwork so I gave it up as a bad job. Sorry, that wasn't very helpful was it.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. -D.H. Lawrence

What I meant was that I carry a book with me everywhere I go (in my bag) - useful when sitting on the tube, bus, in waiting rooms etc. Believe you me the morning rush hour on the Piccadilly Line is hard, dirty work. :cool:

I always use an emery board (nail file) - great bookmark and very handy if you break a nail. :D

Was just wondering what novels, plays, poetry was on your school syllabus. We had to read a tonne of books for english lit. and french lit. A-level and we had to analyse them in so much detail I was sick of them by the end of it. A great way to ruin a perfectly good book. lol. These are...

Hmmm - have you tried adjusting the margins? You could also just copy and paste the entire essay into a separate document and try that - sometimes peculiar things happen to working documents in terms of page layouts (in my experience). Failing that put it on to a floppy disc and print it out a...

Edgar Allen Poe is one of my favourite writers - this is a great site with all his work on it - lots of reading there. :) http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/Work.html

I'd lay money on there being at least 3 James Bond films on over the christmas period.

I haven't read this but having read the comments here i may well. I reminds me of a book,which was not critically acclaimed, ut was along the same lines - The Genisis Code by John Case - I thought this novel was fabulous (and I'm quite a tough critic myself).

I will pay more attention to what I title my posts in the future (when i can pick my self off the floor from laughing so much). Cheers guys

I have written quite a lot, but never anything as big as a novel. I have been thinking about writing one for some time now but am worried about unwittingly chosing a topic, storyline which has already been done but that I may not know about. Does that sound odd? Does anyone else worry about this?

I am trying to get through the Discworld Series at the moment. My favourite character (if you can call it that) is The Luggage - a great creation. I particularly liked Small Gods - very clever.

Hi all Just thought I'd pop in and say hello, registered today. I'll read any type of book as long as it is good in its field - horror, comedy, modern, classics, high brow, low brow, fiction, non-fiction, you get the picture... Am currently reading Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett...