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IT was shown on TV here in 2 installments. The Stand is much longer though, 4 parts on TV, 2 vhs cassettes and a grand total of almost 6 hours - lots cut out too!

Unexpectedly, this book had me giggling like mad last night! The bit with the house of Rabbis and the beans was very funny:

I'm really enjoying this book. I was worried that the subject matter would be heavy going, yet Baddiel manages to keep it manageable. If you saw Baddiel on the "Who Do You Think You Are?", it's obvious where he got the idea for this story. His Grandfather (a German Jew) was also interned on the Isle of Mann during WW2, and I think that the personal nature of the subject shines through in Baddiel's writing.

Ok, no one, apart from Michelle a long while back

Yay! Now I have 2 friends!

Madcow, I thought you were 23 and just started very young?

I went to the live tour of Googlewhack and it was great, plus I got my copy of the book signed! That tattoo was so much worse in the flesh! If you want to borrow 'Are you Dave Gorman?' just let me know (no ones wanted to borrow any of my books so far )

'Are you Dave Gorman?' is funnier, IMO. Also, I got funny looks reading Tony Hawkes 'Round Ireland with a Fridge' and 'Playing the Moldovans at Tennis'.

I think this is a great book although, for some reason, it's not made it into my favourites list. I wonder if it's because I haven't read it in so long (I found bus tickets in my copy that suggest the last time I read it was in 2001 and was still commuting into London for work - I only did that for 3 months!) that I had forgotten those little clever bits (like the fire hose) that make King such a good writer.

Right. I'm a bit lost. I like to read books in the order that I buy them, but I've got so many recently that I've got to get the order straight: The Secret Purposes - David Baddiel (just in time to miss the reading circle - I'm reading so little at the moment) Maid of the Mist - Colin Bateman Turbulant Priests - Colin Bateman Kathy Lette - Mad Cows Kathy Lette - Girls' Night Out The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Tess Gerritsen - Surgeon Flight form Deathrow - Harry Hill Black Angel - Graham Masterson Death Dream - Graham Masterson Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell Miracle In The Andes - Nando Parrado The Stars Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry It's Different For Girls - Jo Brand A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby Sick Puppy & Skin Tight - Carl Hiaasen omnibus Native Tongue & Striptease - Carl Hiaasen omnibus Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K Dick That's like, 18 books in my TBR pile (if you count the omnibuses as 2 each)! And this is the first year I've asked for books for Christmas! What are you people doing to me?!?!?

Man And Wife - Tony Parsons

One For My Baby - Tony Parsons

Broken - Kelley Armstrong Well, after being introduced to Kelley Armstrong earlier this year by Michelle, I've become a bit of a fan. I really enjoyed the first 5 books in the series, and was really looking forward to reading her 6th, Broken. I wasn't disappointed. With Elena pregnant, I had worried that the book would have lost some of the pace of the others, expecting that pregnancy would have slowed our werewolf heroine down some. I was please to discover she was just as feisty and strong willed as ever. There was an extra bonus in this book for me. I used to be quite interested in the whole Jack the Ripper thing (I had to be - my ex was obsessed!) and have read a few books, seen copies of the letters (those thought to be hoax and those thought to be real) and I had some knowledge of the From Hell letter. I was impressed to find that Kelley had stuck to the original legend quite closely (as far as I remember), and only embelished when she brought in the supernatural

I forgot to include the Hitchikers books (I read them when I was 13, half my life ago so forgetting is forgiven) and the Jack Parlabane books by Christopher Brookmyre (which I read this year and have no excuse for forgetting)

There was silence for five minutes. Danny was still beneath his hand. Thinking the boy had dropped off, he was about to get up and leave quietly when Danny said from the brink of sleep: "Roque." The Shining - Stephen King

I loved this book when I was young, I had a 'leather' bound version too (it was part of a set that included The Water Babies), but I only read it a few times before it vanished! I have a sneaking suspicion that it was given away to my younger cousins (along with many of my favourite videos) when I was deemed 'too old'

I've read it before lots of times, but not recently, and I also have the Kubrick film on VHS. If anyone wants to borrow my copy (book or video, actually) you're more than welcome, just let me know. It will be explained in part 4, chapter 26, but if you really can't wait

We did have a wee discussion on this book here. I really enjoyed it. Such a simple book, yet remarkably touching. I really enjoyed

Bag of Bones was just OK, in my opinion - certainly one of my least favourite King books. It just seemed a bit slow and meandering for my tastes. I really enjoyed High Society by Ben Elton - changed my opinion on the legalisation of class A drugs. I really diodn't like: The Hobbit Moby Dick I'm sure there are others.

I always wondered who actually read the Mills and Boon books.

It's a chilled compilation album called Into The Blue

Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series The K-PAX trilogy The Dark Tower series - Stephen King Maybe a few others. They're all very good.

I had trouble learning how to spell my middle name (well, I hardly used it) and I really struggled with the surname of my Dad's sister's family. Her (soon to be ex) husband is Czech, so they had different surnames for the males and females, plus it's all p's, v's and k's.

I'm not sure how old I was when I started to read, I just text my Mum to ask. I do remember standing in the lunch line when at infant school and talking to someone about how silly the 'Look' books were. In my last year at junior school I rememeber writing a book (which I still have) called 'Where's Suzy?' - a kiddy book that was basically a rip off of the Spot books.

Just Wikied the village I grew up in and it's actually there!! Chiswell Green I'm so sadly excited. I worked in The Three Hammers for 3 years (and there weren't 2,800 living there when I lived there - damn urban sprawl)