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Nabokov - Lolita Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Murakami - Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge I loved all these books for many different reasons although they all seem to have a certain darkness about them.

Das Boot - Lothar Gunther-Bucheim Fantastic story of a U-Boat crew in the Atlantic during WW II. Based on the authors experiences you can feel the claustrophobia and smell the fear and diesel fumes. Utterly engrossing

I try to read for at least an hour a day and longer when I can. I rarely watch TV in the evenings and can usually get a couple of hours in then. If I get a quiet weekend I can read all day both days which drives my better half mad:) . My book is my constant companion. I never go anywhere...

Most definitely. I find it very hard to start a new book immediately after finishing the previous one. I usually have to do something else for an hour or two before I can decide what I want to read next. With difficulty. It depends on my mood. I sometimes have to go through the first pages of...

I'm afraid I'm another one who believes damage to books to be sacrilege. Bent corners and broken spines are deeply frowned upon by me. Sadly my other half is not so caring and anything she reads rapidly disintegrates into dog ears and cracked spines. Thankfully we like totally different stuff...

I remember having to ask the teacher at school if I could learn to read (I was 4 I suppose), and being told 'Not yet'. I bugged her for days after before she relented. I've been reading ever since. I read the usual Enid Blyton 'Famous Five' books and so on and remember having a large...

Hello everyone. Thought I'd start here before moving on to the main boards. I'll start by letting you all know a little about me. Favourite authors include Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, Iain Banks (including his sci-fi stuff), Raymond Chandler, PG Wodehouse and Terry Pratchett amongst others...