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Let me describe my perfect reading environment... A softly-lit room, with a roaring log fire, bookshelves from floor to ceiling, comfy armchairs all around. A large pot of tea (that's proper English hot tea to all you post-Boston Tea Party colonials!). A clock ticking, but no other...

Oh no, not ANOTHER one... With apologies to all intelligent Americans (and I know there are lots of them)...is it any wonder that the world thinks Americans are dumb? Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder has admitted not knowing people speak English in London. The NFL player might want...

:D :D :D :D That is VERY good!

Change your job...:D No more 'nightmare'. And you'd be ££££ better off! You must love your colleagues. I get on fine with the people I work with, but I have no desire whatsoever to socialise with them outside work, let alone buy 'em Christmas presents. Maybe I'm antisocial. I don't care :)

Nope. I don't know and don't care how many books I have ever read or have read in the last month/year/decade... And I can always remember if I've already read a book when I see it in a shop and am thinking about buying it.

Nowt wrong with 'em as far as I know...maybe they have fewer pages because they use very small print :D

The American editions are all full of spelling errors...'color', 'labor', etc. :D :D :D

And then of course there is (Sir) Cliff Richard's 'Wuthering Heights - the musical' (I kid you not). As I have commented before on here, did he ever actually read the book? Poor Emily - what did she ever do to deserve this?!!!

They are all, to a greater or lesser degree, tripe. The definitive film or TV version of 'Wuthering Heights' has yet to be made. If it ever can be that is.

And the sequel, 'Claudius the God' I enjoyed 'Wife to Mr. Milton' too, one of Graves's less well-known novels.

Or get a new boyfriend...:D

FWIW...I think JKR should just shut up and count her money.

Woooo.......you 'non-rereaders' are weird :D. Do you buy a CD and only listen to it once? Would you buy a picture and only look at it once? I love to reread my favourite books. Currently reading 'Wuthering Heights' for the third time, and believe me, it gets more enjoyable each time! A few...

Sounds like a 'Mr. Hurst' moment - "you prefer reading to cards? Very singular." Of course Lizzie gives as good as she gets, and so she should, and so should you :D I find it quite amusing when non-readers take the mickey out of - or worse still, 'pity' - us who read. If only they knew! They...

A spear would be much less likely to produce a 'clean' kill. And if you trap the bunny in a box you still have to kill it - hitting it over the head with a club or drowning it seem a lot less humane than a clean headshot with a .22 round. Just my opinion though.

You're gonna have to explain that one...don't tell me there's a town in Kansas of that name? I already know what a weird State it is...:D

Bit of a sweeping generalisation there old bean, don't you think? I don't own a gun, but if I lived in a rural area I'd like to have one to shoot game for the pot and suchlike. Rabbits, woodpigeon, that sort of thing. If I could jump through all the hoops that UK gun licencing insists on...

When you ask "...what reading material usually goes in there?" do you mean what reading material is so bad that you flush it down the pan? :D I'm sure we could all come up with a list of candidates...

I don't much know (or care) if I'm right about that - I'm not a statistician, I used the expression 'statistically significant' in a general sense, not a specific one. If they only asked 1003 people about their reading habits, how do they know they asked a truly representative sample? Did they...

The dropped 'h' is common in many English local accents. Especially in London and areas around the Thames estuary. The 'arf quid' (or 'half quid') is half of an English pound (quid), ten shillings in the currency of Bram Stoker's time or 50 pence nowadays.