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i hoard my books, one day i'm going to have a huge library with a swimming pool like in the first superman film, i don't care if the humidity ruins the books as by the time i can afford all that i won't have much time left to enjoy it. whilst i don't knowingly give books away some books i've...

he he sorry was having my weekend break. for litany and sillywabbit the woodwork project, was not actually woodwork related, i was making a 1:20 scale model of a boat house out of plaster of paris for part of the studio work of my degree. i got the idea from the plaster models Gaudi used...

litany - your new avatar made me laugh. i'd go with scrumpypunk! Wabbit - i think you hit the nail on the head, and re:btw - you should have seen what i was trying to build! ksky

just reading the paper, boris has been elevated by the tories to shadow arts minister. he has proposed a six point plan, a "poetry olympiad", new radio frequencies to allow greater air time for the rolling stones in oxfordshire and my favourite...outlawing american spell checkers. he also said...

oh well nothing to do with the genre of the literary fantastic then! lol kskyhappy

lol - sounds like typical young author bollocks to me. The boundaries between sci fi, fantasy and "literary" fiction have always been vague, when you start talking about magical realism and the "literature of the fantastic" (popular in the victorian era) it gets even more blurry. Anybody who has...

no worries mate, already on it! ksky

bios of the stars, not read many but i've read bios on Quentin tarantino, simon and garfukel, jim morrison and mark chapman (the guy who shot lennon), george macdonald frazier all quite interesting kskyhappy

yep i've read it. it was a long time ago but i recall that it was full of great observations. kskyhappy

the challenge i see no one has took me up on this - lol. i'm going to post reviews/opinions on the book titles i've read, though not all recently, anybody fancy joining me in the challenge? lets see how many we can get up! kskyhappy

the mostly fiction site is the best there. thanks ksky

trying to narrow it down, wonders whether it has to be contemporary. no order. 1. Have i got news for you 2. Black books 3. Sharpes rifles etc. 4. simpsons 5. Porridge 6. documentaries about archaelogy (that doesn't involve baldrick running around and telling us that they've found an...

just finished "survivor" by Chuck, started "hard boiled wonderland" murakami. survivor was first rate, though as the book went on i had trouble "believing" or even empathising with the characters which made it a little hard to be shocked by the revelations as they came (some predictably)...

just finished steppen wolf by herman hesse. not for the timid just started Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk, must say it is brilliant, reminds me of douglas coupland and iain banks at their very best. If Douglas coupland captured the zeitgeist in the '90's palahnuik has set it free again and...

hey martin did you use invisible ink?

I've been browsing the library, this could be such a great resource. why is this not being used more? there's only a hand full of reviews surely we can do better than that. Come on chaps and chappesses no need to be shy, it's just an opinion, lets get some more reviews on there. ksky

lets see... Knight of swords, queen of swords, king of swords - Michael Moorcock(otherwise known as the first trilogy of corum) really great, short and punchy. Stunniingly beautiful, Corum is the last of the Sidhe, tortured by the Mabden he escapes, and is given two mysterious gifts to help...

had to look that one up, but no i haven't. looks interesting, though i usually need sugar on my bran flakes, can you recommend a good one (preferably short lol) ksky

THE BASICS name: Darren age: 31 sex: Male where you live: Manchester (UK) phone number: X name of parents: Tak Chan and Helen birthday: 14th Novemeber name of pets (if any): Pond full of frogs - all called Froggy DUDES name of siblings: Rachel, Jenna are you the spoiled one in the...

vtchewbecca have you read any of these? A confederate general from Big sur - Richard Brautigan - hilarious Fup - Jim Dodge personally for reading over again they tend to be fun novels like: Lord of the rings - Tolkein Dancers at the end of time - michael moorcock any of the "classic"...