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If someone said that reading is a huge waste of time to me, I would ask them if they were a WoW player and/or how much time they spent watching telly. My own dad, unfortunatley, is one of these people who thinks that reading is a waste of time. He would probably watch about two-three (or more) hours of telly a day after coming home from work. I fail to see the difference.

^ Excellent! I shall give that a try.

Apologies if this has already been covered, but I would like a recommendation. I am after a compilation of pieces of music that features the piano either solo or as the main event, so to speak. I am after melancholic and/or powerful music which is all about what is imo the most beautiful musical instrument of them all. Thanks in advance.

I have a 16GB (NET) iPod which contains about 8GB of trance,a bout 3GB of drum & bass and the rest is full of artists such as The Beatles, Coldplay, Moby, Pink Floyd and the like. I really ought to put a bit of jazz and some nice, melancholy piano music on there as well.

Anjunabeats 100: Mixed by Above & Beyond and Drum & Vass Arena: Mixed by Friction and Fabio (the latter will be returned and removed from my iPod because the tunes featured do not match my preferred style of D&. Trance is in fact my favourite genre of music, however I do enjoy D&B and I am having to get into it more as the main protagonist in a story I am writing is a drum & bass DJ.

I don't have a partner (yet) as I live with my family, however myself and my grandmother both enjoy our reading. Dad strongly believes that reading is the worst manner in which one can waste their time (and he has a point as I spend a lot of time reading and contributing to forums - not this one specifically but a music related one) whilst Mum watches the Crime & Investigation channel in lie of reading books with a similar theme. My grandmother is often told off for reading too much, the folks reckon nothing gets done when she does but at her age, she should not have to look after seven St. Bernards along with the rest of our rather large semi-suburban menagerie. I bet Dad would not (voluntarily) read my book/s if ever they were published (once written), but I will be forcing him to given the amount of time that I have devoted to the family's animals.

Oh wow... I had no idea that authors as well as readers frequented this forum before I joined! thank you very much indeed for the encouraging words. B) I must admit that I have yet to truly find my voice as I writer, so I haven't embarked on a major project just yet, however I feel it won't be long now before an idea turns itself into a solid number of chapters and hopefully even a whole novel. The library of Western Australia has Star Gazing on order so it won't be long at all before I will be able to read it.

I am looking forward to finding and reading ths book. The thing that I am attracted to it the most is the main character and her blindness, for I am (legally) blind myself. As a prospective writer, it will be interesting to see how (I assume) a fully sighted writer goes about writing bout the experiences of someone with no useable sight. I hope to one day write a story about a character who s also completely blind.