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Thanks for the birthday wishes. :)

I second Garth Nix, and also recommend The Darren Shan Saga (twelve books total) by Darren Shan. Rather good teenage vampire fiction which comes in easy to read, short books which are great for the teen reader. ;)

I just went on a binge... Middlemarch - George Elliot The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence Troilus and Cressida - William Shakespeare Strata - Terry Pratchett Silas Marner - George Elliot Red Azalea - Anchee Min...

Indeed I did. ;) Very nice collection which I'm looking forward to reading.

My collection of Penguin Great Loves arrived today, but the little box they are in is broken. Sad times. Also received Milton's Paradise Lost for my reading list.

But who trusts what the publishers put on covers these days? ;) Personally I think that the comparison between the two books isn't too strong, but it could be argued. I recommend Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans, which I just finished reading. The plot is that of a young man (also an...

Orlando - Virginia Woolf The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck All second hand and cheap. I restrained myself from buying too many books as I really can't keep up with the actual reading...

I can't think of anything I've read right now, but a quick look around the bookshelf infront of me I saw a copy of Dante. I do believe there are writers lurking around in the Divine Comedy. I'm loving this idea, its got me stuck thinking. I think I had better go peruse my other shelves for a...

I may just do that. I wonder what a B&R gathering would be like... we could all enter the venue and just sit down in random places without saying a word to one another and just start reading books.

I meant to source that before posting, but now I can't remember.. I remember reading it somewhere but now it is lost to me. But it was definately true that he saw poetry as his main base of work, but that wasn't the thing which gave him his popularity and paycheck, so he couldn't always just be...

Nice one. :) But heres another way of looking at my initial idea: Have you ever been in your local book store and taken a second to look around and though "I wonder if anyone from B&R is here, or comes here?" I mean, I could have been wondering around my local Borders minding my own business...

:lol: Just give me more of the Scots and I'll be happy. Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh and Alasdair Gray were all there, but sorely skimped on.

I know what you mean in some respect, but just about every book by authors such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen and Philip Roth does not need to mentioned on the same list. Maybe they could solve both our problems and mention more books by some of the lesser known authors? ;)

Today I was thinking about the forums I visit online, and when replying to the thread about other book forums I got to thinking, I wonder how many forum users bump into one another in real life? Does it happen? By accident or meeting up? Or how about the thought that you could pass by another...

Dead Can Dance - Desert Song

Thats what we did, and most things tend to work fine. :)

I've read 51 of those books, with at least 120 on my TBR list. But I'm not ashamed of that score, I'll read what I like when I like and since I'm only 18 I think I've got a long enough time to make my way through the books that I actually want to read. The list is all a bit too samey for me...

I meant to reply to this when it first appeared, but forgot. I absolutely can't stand Thomas Hardy. I read both Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge about a year and a half ago for a class (I was the only one of three who actually read them both all the way through, so it...

Last concert was Siouxsie Sioux earlier this year. Man, that woman still has it. Next concert will either be a free gig by Pretty Balanced next month, if I can make it, or I'm going to wait till October to see Amanda Palmer solo. I may get to go to both though which would be nice.

Surely it has to be looked at from an historical viewpoint, taking into account both life expectancy and general trends in human behaviour at the time of writing, to make a proper analysis. What is applicable to an age bracket now may not necessarily fit at any given point in history.