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I've just finished his 'The Four Just Men' - wow, I wasn't expecting it. Interesting format (a simple narrative: a how-will-they-do it, with the final reveal on the very last page). Ingenious. I'll look for more of his work.:D

I've been there. It was pretty cold during winter, no central heating.

If I had to point to one book, I wouldn't. There's just too many good ones that deserve to be read. If I say 'read this one', then I'll suddenly remember another one that needs to be read. I suppose if you want to see what a book is capable of, I'd say House of Leaves by Mark Z...

Don't get me started on Stephanie Meyer :banghead6mx:

Borges was a genius.

I don't 'get' Harry-Potter-mania. I've tried to read the first one and the third one of the series, but it just doesn't do anything for me. There are authors who have worked astonishingly hard to write a book, to 'make new' the language, but Rowling isn't one of them, so to say that she...

When I say (or, if you prefer, write) 'the most important book ever written', I mean by way of how it affects us today. Galileo's work, and that of Copernicus, et al., are important, but less so for how it affects us today. Of course, if I very serious, I could point to The Bible, The Koran...

'Said' with such finesse. I'm not convinced by steampunk either.:confused:

I agree: the Postman novel is Soooooooooo much better than the film.:innocent:

Is 'Who Owns the World' by Kevin Cahill the most important book ever written? It reveals the real landowners for every country on earth. According to Cahill, the Queen of England is the landowner with the most land: she legally owns all of Canada, New Zealand and Australia. It's all to do...

That book's great. I LOVE Smila Jaspersen, she rocks. She's so cynical and vulnerable, like the ice that she studies. Julia Ormond played her really well, although I felt that the film should have explored her world more. And the book's really well written. I didn't like the present tense...

I haven't got round to reading more of her work beyond 'Rebecca'. 'Frenchman's Creek' is supposed to be good.

'Reader, I married him.'

I thought that the first movie was excellent, but the second was badly screwed up. Why oh why oh why did Peter Jackson have to add all that rubbish to the 'The Two Towers'? All he had to do was follow the book. He could have ended it with the fall of Saruman which would have been more satisfying.

I love 'As You Like It'. Rosalind's the coolest character. I also like 'Julius Caesar'.

My boyfriend give me a copy of this book, he loved it. I wasn't so sure and it took me ages to get into it but I'm glad I did. I wouldn't call it a horror novel though. It's American Gothic at its finest but its more about disturbing the reader's sense of place and reality. Maybe it's a...