Colin Jacobs

It is shown on TV programmes that Suffolk Norfolk and Brummie accents are associated with thick, simple people. Essex folk esp the women under 40 are associated with being Thick too.Remember "EAST ANGLER!" from Jade? This typecasting is unfair Also I have never heard a proper Norfolk or Suffolk accent on TV and the series. "Kingdom" was especially cringeworthy.

Oysters, sweetbread and Tongue. Also human meat, never really fancied human meat:tong:

One for the GF I think it will be too soppy for me to read

Oh no her humour is not my thing at all she is one of these so called alternative comedians, any way there wont be much room with her in it anyway

Well it will be breakfast for me as it is past midnight. so Chicken Burgers in a roll with peanut butter. followed by Turkish Coffee and a fag.

Oh I get asked that I was born in Norfolk but lived in Suffolk and when I was in Kenya they all thought I was an aussie. The Suffolk accent does get confused with the australian accent

I would buy new if I was not unemployed but only if the library did not have that particular book on the shelves or through the ordering web site

http://www.bookcrossing.com The Library both counties for more selection, the library 2nd hand shelves of books for sale. charity shops. Car boot Sales before the book traders buy them all. I never buy new and dont do 2nd hand book market stalls as they are too expensive. I never buy a 2nd hand book over

Well "Washer Woman" Cockney means she swears profusely and is well.......... common.

Shirley Conran and Rosamund Pilcher:readingtwo:

Sorry

It's that Nerd mentality. I get all gooey over an identification book on Western Palearctic Gulls. One can soon get obsessed with a book:)

Stephen Hawkings book on the black Hole. I can imagine the aliens laughing at his theory just like the Smash Aliens in the TV advert.

Ok back to the lift. Another day you are at a writers conference and the lift is stuck. in that lift is yourself and one of the writers, who would you like to be stuck with?. I will start by having James Herbert so I could ask him why his last few books have been such hard work on the reader?

Ok you can have a Takeaway, a cushion and any comforts you want as I did say anything could be passed through that gap. The loo? oh well this is only a hypothetical question.

As the forum gains momentum I have found that by reading this thread that forum members have really opened up and used the thread as an place where they can outpour those feelings that have been hidden within the mind finding nowhere to let them go. I hope you all agree there have been some moving stories amongst the forum members, almost enough to produce a small book on the subject. I have mixed feelings about starting this thread, Have I encouraged people to tell us their stories that they found hard to tell ? or have I given people a thread where they feel happy to release their personal triumphs through reading?

I Like Cross stitch too. It also helped me through my depression BTW I am very pleased that this thread I started has been so successful

I am broad Suffolk and my GF is from up north and she dont understand my Suffolk Squit. My sister is very common. She talks like a Suffolk Cockney. a bit of Suffolk and a lot of washer woman Cockney

The Good News Bible a passage is read Daily.

Oh er missis. the films of his books are just so different from the story Watchers was made into a film and it was rubbish,

Ok you suddenly meet an alien from outer space. they say "Take me to your bookshop" What would you buy the alien to help him learn about the Human Race? My choice would be The Downing Street Years, By Margaret Thatcher. so when the aliens take over the world they will not make the same mistake as she did:roll:

Ok the lift has jammed and it will take eight hours. there is a gap big enough to pass through food and drink and a book. So what would be your one choice of book you would ask for. I will start with.The Great Escape by Anton Gill But seriously it would have to be a Sci Fi, long and big enough to last eight hours, Probably an Alistair Reynolds. this would take my mind off the incarceration.

In light of the new Tv advert looking to encourage employers to treat Depression fairly I wondered if reading has helped you through illness I used to suffer depression but what helped me through it was the amount of reading material I was given by friends and family. From music mags to Readers digest and National Geographic. The books I was given were never "Self help" books but they were it seemed, carefully chosen to cheer me up and help me through the illness. has reading helped you recover from an illness?

Clive Cussler's new character Issac Bell, a Detective from the Van Dort Detective Agency in the 1900's is my current favourite. I hope Cussler will write more books starring this blonde haired Hero. Look out for the review in a day or so.

my nephew started reading at ten he is now 15 and still reads. My Niece who is 14 going on 30 says books are un cool and boring. As with my parents i joined my Nephew in the Library and would always buy him story books rather than toys and he loves them. My dad says my nephew will never get a job where he gets his hands dirty, he will find an office job where he can sit and read books. Even now when I visit he always has his head in his book. I introduced my 68 year old dad to reading books as he never read books until then, now we visit charity shops together. At last MY dad and I can bond by doing something together after all those years.