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For Russia and snow, you may want to consider The People's Act Of Love by James Meek.

I don't quite see the logic in it either, since both involve reading.

On the Ishiguro front, a discussion of his book in May may have other benefits, as his new book, of five stories, Nocturnes, comes out then, so anyone searching for info on it may find the forum.

It reads well, with a good sense of rhythm. The alliteration is agreeable, too. There are some punctuation issues. The last line of each stanza doesn't always work, but that's more because it feels like there's a breath between third and forth lines that would otherwise be an effective enjambement.

Kindle 2 looks ugly.

Sounds good. You can't call what believers do 'reason', that's 'faith'.

It depends on what they are trying to achieve, I suppose. Some will just go for something daft because it sounds alien to an English speaking readership. Others will try to forge names that hint at the character's personality. And then there's the amateurs who resort to silly name generators...

For vampires, I suppose there's Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, starting with Interview With The Vampire. For something a bit more adult - and sexual - there's Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls. Fantasy (the sword and sorcery quest stuff) I haven't a clue on, so I'll skip on suggestions there. I...

I don't think it's so much a case of the writer comes up with the name and that contributes to its success. If Rowling's books weren't hyped up, I'm sure we would be just saying Harry Potter, what a dull name! As for Robin Hood, since he's a quasi-historical person, that's his name.

Boogedy boogedy! Now, why? As a reader, yes, I do enjoy a bit of mystery but I also like to place trust in the author. While the narrator in a first person piece - unless God is narrating - is not going to be omniscient, I'd like to think that the writer, in the context of their writing, is...

I suppose there's many that use dreams as an inspiration for writing, usually as a starting point, not as material for a complete story. One of my favourite writers - Richard Yates - wasn't all that good at imagination: his novels are pretty much all autobiographical accounts of events in his...

In a way I blame the hype around J.K. Rowling's success with the Harry Potter books. All of a sudden everyone thinks they have a novel in them, which they perhaps do, but some are better left where they are. Since she managed to publish her first novel (not without a struggle, mind) there seems...

Who's he selling to? ;) Okay, so it should be pedal. I have to agree with John on this. I read the story on the bus to work this morning and I was a bit bored with all the extraneous detail at the start. There was the sense of a mystery, which it seemed you wanted to convey, but didn't zone in...

Ah, I see now. I hadn't realised that on clicking on the menu to get to it, that I then had to click on the text/graphcs to actually get to it. I was only curious since there's nothing doing with it currently. Thoroughly recommended. I don't know. :) Where have you done them, out of interest...

First of all, I think we need to discuss the worst way. The worst way is to turn up at forums, recommend a new book (typically self-published) and conveniently forget to mention that you are the author. That happens a lot here, and it seems that all think it an original plot, yet its so...

Do my eyes deceive me? Someone else from Glasgow...finally!

I know that the same image over doesn't increase page load time. But when we did allow images in signatures a couple of years ago, it was a pain in the arse when different images were loaded in different threads by different people using different internet speeds. Plus, there was little value in...

No, you cannot have images in signatures. Signatures are interesting as they are. Nobody needs the same image over and over again adding to their page load time.

You are right, it's not available in English translation. Given its reputation, I would bet on it being one of the first titles given the translation treatment in the near future. For now, there's the following available in English: The Interrogation Terra Amata The Flood Fever The Book Of...

No change in my book buying habits, but should such a time come there's over seven hundred titles sitting around. Continued reading is assured.