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back to the topic now ahem.. back to Marquez, you've reminded me i picked up "cholera" from a second hand book shop - anyone fancy buddying up to read it? just need to got the doctors now i'm fed up of catching diseases form book shops! ksky

tales chewie, you got a good one there! Ashlea i know what you mean about service men, i've done events with John Major - special branch are a laugh to drink with and Salman Rushdie, Salman's special branch crew came with sniffer dogs and a metal detector! Even sir Alex Ferguson had...

teachers! i love it when teachers say things like that! did your teacher fight in the trenches? lol kskyhappy

5 star films i'm not taxing my brain over this too much but i would say that: Stand by me - is definately there "do you think superman could beat up mighty mouse" Shine, star wars lol - i'll think about films beginning with a different letter another day! ksky

oops sorry didn't realise it was decided! lol - good luck with a suitable boy! wake me up in august/2005 MUWAHAHAHAHAHA btw which era is war and peace set in? was it contemporary to tolstoys period, ie crimean war etc. ksky

wow this must be crap! lol. okay so why is it crap? i'm a tough one - hit me! ksky

fotr? hey cassandra was that the extended edition? cos if not get back out there and rent/buy that one the extra footage makes it a much better(er) film. ksky

lol suitable boy - yep its a biggie! thank god you've not chosen that i couldn't get past the first page! i've got these lying around waiting to be read, anyone fancy any of these: gould's book of fish -richard flanagan blindness - saramago gospel according to jesus christ - saramago...

author events resurrected an old thread close to my heart! everybody here should go to author events. we used to do a lot of them untill the evil empire turned the last bastion of literature into just a place to buy books. i used to help introduce authors for the paperback fiction...

lets see i think i've read 31 of these, i've bought quite a few of the ones i've not read and am completely disinterested in a lot of them. i think harry potter should count as one choice, especially as dark materials and lord of the rings does, mind you i suppose those two have one main story...

welcome nicola ahh the Gower peninsula. playground of my youth, many any idle hour spent poking around the rock pools of Oxwich bay, or rainy hour spent in the indoor market in swansea browsing second hand books. lol i took my freind on holiday to swansea to cheer him up when he split up...

he he i thought this was ask martin? yes i have read Pynchon, but only the crying of lot 42, i've got "V" somewhere actually the girl has requisitioned it which means i probably need to buy a new one or start an argument! I've also got mason and dixon (right title?) looming threatening from my...

is it true unfortunately yes, i've read far fewer of her recommends as she has of mine, mind you i don't always get chance to recommend the book she reads, i quite often just notice the gap in the book shelves. ksky

wow this is fun good lists, quite a few i've had my eye on, even a couple of suprises. lets see what other goodies come in. ksky

lol i read all six because i was convinced something redeeming would happen for them to have been recommended to me, also i have staying power :p (note to self - you will finish joyce's Ulysses) it did have the virtue of being well written in places i wouldn't take that away from him. It is...

ask martin? 1) so why did J D Salinger stop writing? 2) did the americans really go to the moon? 3) which life form will dominate the earth after chickens? ksky ps i don't think madonna wrote a book so much as got photographed and put in one! if its the one i've seen - very rare, very...

if vids and dvd's count the last new film i saw was "the last castle" with Robert Redford in it, my mum insisted. However i quite enjoyed it, daft prison flick with army hijinks. ksky btw by new i mean one i haven't seen before not recently released.

sorry couldn't vote don't cycle - but i agree with TMG safety first, i always wear one on a motor bike though. Somepeople might think it's not cool to wear a helmet, i'd say they lack imagination look at easy rider, but don't spray a plastic one, spray paint degrades plastic and weakens it. ksky

easy i would put it in stocks and shares, then liquidate them after the day is up, to be spent how i wish later on. doh thats boring! i would buy the rights to Taxman by the beatles and rerelease it with tony blairs photo on the front. some may feel this would take longer than a day...

checked it out ok i understand now, interesting psychological case. ksky