Nellie

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I know what you mean about the Harry Potter children't editions. I rather like these: I like Tom Adam's covers for Agatha Christie books too.

How exciting! When are you going? Come and tell us all about it! Say Hi to Mr B for me

Does Wilkie Collins count as classic? Good spooky stuff, especially the Woman In White.

I don't mind so much if books look well read, but if people are careless with my books then I get upset, As I said here I have secret meeting place with a colleague so we can swap books away from the prying eyes of people who damage books!

I feel better about my 16!

I hadn't counted how many were in my TBR pile, then I saw this thread and though perhaps I should. It's 16. Is that too many? My husband joked that should keep me going until the new year!

I know we shouldn't judge a book by it's cover and all that, but when I was reading Roxis's post about which versions of a book to buy based on the cover, it got me thinking. Are there book jackets that are so well designed, they really sum up the book for you? For me, the Everyman Editions of the Wodehouse books do it for me. They are lovely hardback books, and the dust jackets seem to sum up the period in which they are set along with the atmoshpere of the books. The Pratchett book covers are wonderful too, I think Josh Kirby (I think thats who drew them) really sums up the complete chaos of the Discworld! On the other end of the scale I though the UK jacket for the Deathly Hallows was awful, and didn't really get over the peril that the wizarding world was in. Do you have any favourite book covers?

The Penn State University Library has this as a free e-book! Fantastic!

I've heard this quite a lot, but I am not sure why people think e-books should be significantly cheaper. The still need to be written, edited etc, and although there isn't any paper involved there will be a lot of folks running the coomputer systems to ensure copyright protection. Seems fair to me. FOr those that missed it I wrote a Review of my SOny E-reader. I still love it, and it gets good use.

Thats the beauty of the SOny E-Reader, the screen isn't backlit, so it doesn't hurt your eyes. It's just like reading paper which is a bit of a shock when you first start!

I was watching Merlin last night and realised I have never read the legends of King Arthur and his knights. A quick look on amazon showed me a whole heap of books, but I couldn't work out what was a history of the legend and what was a book of actual stories. Can someone recommend a book which has the legends in it?

For a seasonal offering try Hogafather. Death is great in this book. HO! HO! HO!

I'm not at all surprised by this. By nature of being on this forum I love reading, and read alot. And I love the fact that others have read things I haven't, it means new ideas for books to read! However, when I talk about books with some of my book loving colleagues, others do look worried that they haven't read much, and I am sure many of them lie about what they have read, espcially if they realise up fornt that you havent' read it either. It's the book equivalent of keeping up with the Jones. By the way, not only have I read Emma and A Brief History Of Time, but last night I read War and Peace twice, once in English, once in Russian. ;-)

The ending is very odd, but not as odd as the ending to Perfume!

I've finished it. I wasn't expecting the ending. To be honest I am not sure what to make of it. I did enjoy it, which makes me uncomfortable as the story is so disturbing. I think I might read something a bit lighter next!

I've just found out what made Eric mad... That was terribly shocking.

Amazon has a Wish List?? How on earth could I have missed that??

Oohps! I didn't think about that when I typed it. Sounds like the chocolate biscuit type of Penguin doesn't it?

I did a quick search, but couldn't see that anyone had posted about this before. So.... You can read the first chapter of any Penguin book here Enjoy!

I really enjoyed The Curious Incident, I thought it enabled the reader to get some understanding of what it is like to have AS. I didn't enjoy A Spot Of Bother at all.

I do like John Wyndham very much and would suggest that you give him a try.

I am about two thirds of the way through this book, and I am not sure what to make of it. I am enjoying it, in a slightly uncomforatble sort of way. It really is a very strange story and I was wondering what others thought. This is the first Iain Banks book I have read. Are they all this strange? Below is a summary taken from Amazon: Through much of this impressive first novel, almost up until the awkward and misguided finale, young Scottish writer Banks achieves that fine British balance - between horrific content on the one hand and matter-of-fact comic delivery on the other. The narrator, whose cool prose is sometimes a bit too sophisticated for credibility, is 16-year-old Frank Cauldhame, living outside a remote Scottish village - a cheerfully insane lad who tortures animals, imagines that he gets instructions from the "Factory" (the room upstairs where he cremates wasps), and fondly recalls the three grisly/farcical murders he committed from age six to age ten.

I have just finished the latest Artimis Fowl book, and I have to say its the best yet. Very clever and very funny.

I just recieved an email from my local library. It's a newsletter, looks like it might be monthly. They reviewed some books, and made suggestions for different genres. It was excellent, what a great idea!