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Stewie, you're a slut. ;) Stewie and Moto, I think you two need to go to bed, or something. ;) Then Still's thread can go back to being about uplifting quotes, that people should be able to post should they wish. Moto, are you taking anything? You flit from one opinion to another so...

I did too, if I remember correctly, and had I not previously read The Remains of the Day, which is much better IMO, and read positive reviews from members here, I would not have finished Never Let Me Go. I am reading another, a Pale View of Hills, now, and the language in both of these is very...

You are kidding. :eek: I dont know about there (actually, I don't know where you are, but...) in the UK you need zillions of qualifications etc to become a librarian. These people know books, I think they do care about the types of books they are forced to stock, somehow. 21 Grams fella...

Oh thanks, you just reminded me that I read half of that one time on a train, so should hunt it out for future train journeys. It was readable, better than The Sea by John Banville which I bought at the same time. No need to read that now then. ;) Jonathan Safran Foer. In two minds about...

I think you may be the only person in the world (or this forum at least) who just has to have that. ;)

Sorry! I am reading this thread though, eventually. :) And I have started it, at least, now. :D Vintage VN? TOES! :D

I think this is a pointless idea. Horror, crime, fantasy or whatever are genres whereby the plots of the stories are beyond our real-life experiences (or hopefully, anyway). Many novels contain romance, which would just confuse the already slightly unecessary boundaries regarding books and their...

Finally got through the whole list and have read 68. :eek: But lots of them were Jane Eyre / Brontes / Dickens when I was younger because I was sadly neglected and my parents only bought me classics to read.

Maybe, but Yoshie didn't even get any money at the end, because Satake had taken it from her, and she was still a weak, pathetic character. Masako didn't even need the money, and at first she didn't know why she had agreed to the job herself, because initially she wasn't standing to gain...

Read it next Still. ;) I agree with the comments so far about the rich/poor divide. While reading, I found myself warming to the four main female characters, but after finishing I can find lots of faults: Masako, while an assertive character, with a good head on her shoulders, was just too...

Definitely? Are you sure? ;)

Peder, you can't go out and buy a book you hate the idea of, just to copy down the contents of the back cover for some forum members. :eek:

Lanark: A Life in Four Novels by Alasdair Gray The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life by A.C. Grayling The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov Glory by Vladimir Nabokov The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Saturday by Ian McEwan Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco...

In May, 31 members of this forum read 179 books: 168 unique titles by 145 different authors. Popular book choices were: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby The Time Traveler's...

Still pmsl at this thread. :D

I've just read The Cider House Rules, after reading Owen Meany long ago and Garp earlier this year, and still prefer The World According to Garp, which, as mentioned above, takes you through every emotion possible. Cider House Rules does, too, but to a lesser extent, though maybe that's because...

This thread is just the funniest thread ever. Firstly, who is going to type a whole paragraph for no reason? (Well, I know some of you have, which is the funny part, sorry). Second, what is a bunch of last paragraphs going to do, anyway? Other than spoil a lot of books for anyone who reads the...

But what if the title had more than three words? n/t..........

I thinkx... ...it would be so cool if every post had a title. That's all. :)

:D Well I can't wait. I finally bought this yesterday, actually. For some reason I hovered by the crime section (something I never do) in Waterstones and there it was, in the centre of a table with all these other "great crime reads", which made me remember it. So do continue with...