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I love books that take me places I know nothing about to broaden my horizons, or fictional places because it's great to visit someone else imagination. For example, I recently finished 'Memoirs of a Geisha' and I'm currently half way through the second book of Clive Barker's 'Abarat'....

I love black pudding as part of a fry-up, but never heard of having it with raspberry jam :confused: I've not tried dolphin but had shark recently and was told it's quite similar; didn't taste of much but had a really slippery texture I wasn't too keen on. Had ostrich too and that's quite nice....

Milo's in Closing Time as well, Yossarian's gone into business with him and the two of them are very rich after the war....Major Major's not your favourite then ? :p

Actually, I agree with this one, if I've been out drinking and I only get a couple of hours before getting up for work I tend to feel worse than if I just keep going.... :p

sorry :p :p :p

you forgot face like a slapped arse! :D

...and 'fev' when they mean 'five'... I lived in Dundee for a while and never got tired of asking Dundonians to say the phrase 'fev pays' when we went to the chippie (well there's not a lot to do in Dundee and I am easily amused!!!)

Wow Halo, you are indeed gifted, I can't read a map to save my life :)

Yeah, I like that one too :)

Wow, do people actually talk like that?! Thought they were just phrases out of the 'Oor Wullie' books I used to get for Christmas as a kid.... :D

That's so weird, people do that in Liverpool too! And in the east coast of Scotland, you replace the word 'lah' and substitute 'ken'. Go figure.... My favourite is 'knee high to a brussel sprout', meaning when you were young, as in 'ahhh, back in the day, when I were knee high to a brussel...

I second this one, 'I Lucifer' is a great book....

EQ: 53 No point in taking the other one, know I'm terrible at systemizing :p

It's a definate perk of the job :) That's what I like about this place; there's always someone here.....

Yeah, I'm exactly the same when it comes to arguments, the more irate someone gets with me the more calm I become. And as for being paid to talk amongst yourselves, I'm in work right now getting paid to drink coffee and spam the book forum :)

My friends tell me I'm a bit like Hobbes out of Calvin and Hobbes, does that count???

I find anything by Irvine Welsh a bit close to the bone because I'm Scottish and grew up in cities, and it's a great country, but areas like his settings do exist.....

Why not? It's a really good book.....

That is one good thing about it - it does make you very thick skinned and you learn not to take anything personally! Though it can make you very insincere - going 'Yes Mr Smith, I'm sorry about that Mr Smith' while making rude gestures at the screen does make me feel better when people are...

I've got 2 jobs, one in a call centre, and one working part-time for a university doing paid research in literature. I hate the first one, and love the second one. I'm doing the second one because loving literature is part of whoI am, which means in part I can be defined by that job. The call...