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Neurotic Yogi Nice one :cool: with the ursine connection of your online handle to that animated picnic pirate. Did you do it on purpose or was it just an errant pun? Tobytook

I think I addressed this part of your reply in my previous post: But anyway, as to your other point: You're quite right, lies, but from a purely selfish point of view I don't really want to sit and read See Spot Run in any language. To be honest, my lament was made very much in an attitude...

Saturday birthday - very cool, no work. (Well, I assume not.) Enjoy the day. If you fancy, maybe you'll come out of the shadows and join us on the boards? By the way: like your bio, mate. How does one go about gardening children and dogs? Sounds like fun. Tobytook

I managed a book-signing session for Andy McNab at a Waterstone's branch in the east of England when Remote Control was released in hardback. Must have been late 1996, I reckon. Sadly, as "Andy McNab" is almost certainly a pseudonym, and the books are at least partly ghostwritten, the guy...

Irving, John (American ex-pat living in Canada. Closest thing in my opinion to a modern Charles Dickens - whom he cites as a great influence. Author of A Prayer For Owen Meany, one of the most affecting books I've ever read) Hey, Annabelle I went for a lurk around The Dusty Shelf and...

Ghent and the cockpit There is only one comics shop in Belgium that is listed in the UK magazine Comics International. It's probably pretty big, though. You might be nowhere near Brussells but if you get really stuck, you could give them a ring. They might be able to send items by post...

Reading other languages Good point, I suppose. If I really wanted to do it, I'd apply myself and make time. It's weird because I really like talking in foreign languages, learning new words and expressions. Maybe that's directly linked to my passion for travelling, though. Thing is, the...

Fielding, Henry (bawdy chap who wrote Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Shamela - a mocking parody of Richardson's boring, uptight epistolic novel Pamela.) Tobytook

Darren, Good choice. It looks fine. I notice that you've also sorted out explanatory links from the Reviews tab on the Homepage. Good thinking, Batman. Won't it be a bit of a hassle for you personally, though? Cutting and pasting images, links and whatever into every review, I mean...

Yeah, it's a rattling good book. One of those that everyone knows but few have read. Bit like The Bible. Sort of social manifesto slash philosophical tract slash roadtrip. I read a Vintage UK edition (early 90s, I think) which includes a new and fairly heart-rending Afterword showing how...

Hey, Lena. This is a tricky one, not least because your author was Ukrainian. That means any English rendering of his name is going to be phonetic - and therefore open to interpretation. You might find him referred to as Bahryani or Bariani or any number of permutations. That said, there...

Lies, Always a pleasure, never a chore. The captain has turned off the seatbelt sign and you are now free to move about the cabin. Let me know how the flight goes. Cap'n Tobytook

I would prefer to see it in a separate area. It'd make the site more compartmentalised, which may not be a good thing, but it would keep a review thread nicely focused - and the equally worthwhile meandering could still go on elsewhere. Hate to admit it but you've sort of lost me there...

Re: Stephen King novels And now to court the wrath of virtually everyone: Read It first as it is a genuinely excellent novel about the nature of friendship - with some the of the best child characterisation I've ever read. Then go out and buy The Talisman, the sequel to which is The...

Okay, spill Caught on the swell of the HR Haggard wave, we all sort of overlooked your implicit "please ask me what they are" request. I for one would like to know, so get busy - the floor is yours. Tobytook

One for Darren, I think: Any projected launch date for the Reviews facility? I periodically click on it from the Homepage but thus far I've been presented with the "coming soon" message. And to open the thread up to everyone: Let's get a show of hands as to how many would actually post...

Xenocide - Orson Scott Card (sci-fi writer, a bit minor league). That was a tricky one. Tobytook

If you think you ought to preface an opinion with a disclaimer like that, you probably already know it's going to be controversial. There's nothing wrong with a bit of healthy controversy, I think. As long as we all keep civil tongues in our heads. I'm sure Darren or one of the Forum gods...

Here's one for non-UK residents. The forum software displays GMT but the UK still practices Daylight Saving (i.e putting the clocks forward and back at the beginning and end of the summer). At the moment, then, we're an hour in front of "Forum time". Of course, users in other countries...

Welcome, Dawn. But I rather think the nature of this thread may have eluded you. Where's the U? Tobytook