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Careful, Stewart. They be elves and hobbits, not weak-as-piss pixies.

I've only read The Hobbit and LOTR. Attempted The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and....forgotten the other one. The Hobbit is great, I'd definitely recommend it. Oh, and minus five cool points for using comic sans :(

Want...to...type...so...many...things....in...response..head explodes

Harry should die at the start, so we don't have to listen to him whinge the whole time. The rest of the book can be half Ron/Hermione, half Fred and George and whatever new products they have invented for the shop. And the last sentence can be: "Oh, by the way, Voldemort was killed by...let's...

I've had to stop my outrageous book ruining techniques since I have borrowed a few books from friends recently. I've resorted to using bobby pins as bookmarks, since they are all over my lounge room floor and are the first thing I find when I reach down for a place marker.

I was reading texts on psychological testing and counselling, but since I've left my course I don't need to anymore! I'm planning on reading a few of Albert Ellis' books, and I would love to read up on evolutionary psychology, if anyone has any recommendations. PS. SF, your new avatar means...

That is odd. I have the Adams-read version, he's very good at zooming through the dialogue. I didn't now that Stephen Fry had done recording of the series (but he has of course, done HP. This thread is starting to go all...strange...)

I love H2G2, and I'm currently readin Life, the Universe and Everything. I'm not finding the sequels as good as the first book, but I will crack on anyway, as I need to know what's going to happen. I feel the same way about HP, the series started going downhill at OotP

Well, for many and varied reasons I have just discontinued my uni course. Actually, one of the reasons was that I wasn't able to do as much leisure reading as I wanted (undergrad was certainly less time consuming!). ANYway, I now have time to read all those books that I want to finish...

Oh, yes, this was also on our reading list that year, but I...erm...cough, mumble, mumble, mumble... And adults who write their own HP stories. Some of these are really quite good, especially when you wander into specialists sites.

Hands down, the best adventure films ever made are the Indiana Jones series, The Last Crusade in particular. Now give me five minutes and I'll probably change my mind.

I read Wide Sargasso Sea at uni. It is an off-shoot of Jane Eyre, and tells the story of how Rochester met and came to be married to Grace Poole, and deals with the reasoning behind her madness. Very emotive and great to see the story from another POV.

Oh, I went the boring path and chose them all. If only someone would write a superbook featuring a deranged alien serial killer who is trying to stop our protagonist gaining the secret gem that will heal the possible love of her life, including car (or spaceship) chases, lasergun fights...

Take that, Brown.

I've read various articles over the last few years to indicate that it has many cult-like qualities. Could you put in a link to whatever article you're talking about? Only because I'm too lazy to google it myself.

Mmmm..it definitely sounds like a Graeme Base book. What about The Eleventh Hour (you have to search for tiny mice throughout the book), The Jabberwocky, or others? There's a list of his books here, if it helps.

:D And most likely rolling about in his grave.

Well, I was being facetious, but these Balinese shadows are superb! Personally, I do a pretty mean dog, but I would love to learn this one.

There is a Koontz thread here, but it hasn't been updated for a while. The only Koontz I have ever gotten through is Life Expectancy, which I quite enjoyed. Tried reading the one about aliens and weird rain several times but cannot get into it.

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