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Ah, you should. It'll only take you probably 30 mins to finish it. :)

Almost finishing it. I'm close. This book is fabulous.

Hmm, maybe we should have an online quiz or something. You know, to make use of these 'useless' facts. :) I always love quizzes. :)

We gossip about other people we know in PMs. :)

Private messages, Meadow, we use Private Messages in Goodreads. :)

Haha! Wonderful stuff!

Ok, Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games is 3.95 on Audible as a Daily Deal.

Wow, I loved Dracula. I expected it to be campy, but boy I thought it was fantastic. It was exciting, had spills (literally) and thrills, wonderful characters (ok, two of them). And nobody sparkled. Much better than I had expected (but then I did not have any expectations at all, and I find that...

Welcome!

I no longer read IT technical manuals, and when I do it's purely for pleasure, and i don't feel like i'm being bogged by it.

That is a lovely lovely book. Really very fun to read.

Hey there. One of my favourite authors live in Japan, but from England originally. Same name too (well, not Haskell, but who knows, you may be my next favourite author).

Of course, but make sure you bring some ladies with you, otherwise it'll be awkward with just us two blokes. :D

From a recent trip to Legoland Malaysia:

I agree. Fiction is much easier, although I dislike losing details. It's really the non-fiction that I'm really bothered about. Reading all the facts and then forgetting them seems to be an turns rewarding learning into an unacceptable waste of time. But then I already know I'm slightly weird...

Cake? CAKE????

Vodka to drink, hot chocolate to swim in.

Goodreads is more community, I feel. I couldn't use it to keep track of my books (as a catalogue) because it doesn't have a field for recording price! But excellent community tools and recommendation engine.

I'm going to write a book that has neither vowels or consonants!!!

Sinking my sorrows in vodka and hot chocolate. :(