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Charm your spoiler tag didn't come out right, so I just added a tag to it. Tristan: I second 'The Historian', Charm sent me a copy along with Dracula and I read the two fairly close together, they definitely inspire a mutual appreciation, and The Historian is one of my favourite books now

I read maybe 90% for pleasure, and then read 10% on topical interests (e.g. events, people, sections of history, sciences. Atm my obsession is dinosaurs ). That said, the books I read for pleasure are hardly mindless and they often challenge my mind to think about different ideas as well as include things I previously knew nothing about, so I learn something too.

Went to Waterstones. They don't have Flowers For Algernon. They also don't stock Brom, and they have all of M. Crichton's books except the Jurassic Park ones. Is there some kind of law stating that Waterstones isn't allowed stock good books or something? It's rubbish. I hate Waterstones.

Oh it's a great read, no doubt about it! Definitely worth checking out

If it's not in 2-D I'm not going to see it. I hated 3-D before Avatar and now I despise it. You need a fantastic cinema, excellent glasses and a projector dude who knows that the brightness must be turned UP on a 3-D film to compensate for said glasses, none of which seem too common round here going by other people's reports. And I'm pretty sure 3-D would still give me a headache ANYWAY. I hate 3-D. If I want to see 3-D, I'll look anywhere but at a flat screen.

I'm trying to get back into Something Wicked This Way Comes after a brief and unintended hiatus from reading, but it's not an easy book to get back into. Plus I mostly just want to watch 'Angel'.

God no. I've only 60 pages left and I'm dying to get onto my other books. I love SWTWC, it's a really 'pretty' book, and I've quoted half of it in a .doc anyway. His way of describing ordinary things is amazing, he puts an unusual spin on everything, and I think the best words to describe said unusual spin would be 'cynical' or 'true'. It's virtually always both, but it never fails to be the latter.

I AM loving it, but it IS utterly senseless, it's all about metaphor, philosophy and atmosphere, all of which I murdered by abandoning the book for several days.

My reading has been crippled lately by tv, illness and not being at home. It's terrible! I should have finished Something Wicked This Way Comes some time last week, and I still have another 60 pages to go, which, due to the interval of several days between reading sessions, I've completely lost the run of. It's a book you get swept away in, and, to extend that metaphor, I found a lifeboat, rowed home and am now metaphorically sitting on the shore and looking at the plot going crazy way off the distance. Still haven't finished Jonathan Strange, but at least that's easy to pick up and get back into.

More Angel

I'm poor-ish, but I buy books at the expense of food. Like last week, I was sick Mon-Wed and ate nothing, therefore did no shopping and spent an extra twenty quid on books. I also just spent three days at my parents, which cost me nothing, so I might get another book or two this week. Other times I might go a month without buying any.

I just had two double choc mochas X_X They're rather addictive.

I just picked up yet another great quote from the show, from Lorne: "The wheel keeps turning. You can't stop it, sometimes things get worse, sometimes they get better. It's like a song. Now, I can hold a note for a long time. - Actually, I can hold a note forever. - But eventually, that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after and the one after that. That's what makes it music." I love this show.

I had a brief moment the other day where I thought Wesley was hot. It lasted about 5 seconds. I think it was the glasses and pretty accent.

I wouldn't be, had I not read other books deemed 'disturbing' and remained unaffected. I want to see if I CAN be affected

I know! I reeeally want to read it now! DISTURB ME! Books don't disturb me, that's why I'm hunting down the One which will finally scar me for life

Gah I'm reading all the IT spoilers and I haven't read the book

I'm a Daniel fan. Or as my bro calls him, Danny-J I love Jack to bits but I fancy the pants off Michael Shanks.

It's based on the kid's cartoon isn't it?

Last few episodes of Stargate

Hahaha it's pretty funny to watch alright

It does, because it smoothes the surface, reducing friction. The less friction, the further an object will travel.

I don't know how people can watch that. I guess it's a bit like when I used to watch 'My Super Sweet 16' or whatever it was called, the show with spoiled brats requesting world famous entertainers for their personal-invite only red carpet parties I just don't understand how ANYONE can have such a sense of self-importance!

I had a Jewish friend when I was a bit younger. He didn't mind that I wanted to read it, he expressed some interest himself. I don't think it's fair to judge someone simply reading a book if they're not racist themselves - no book is going to make me feel like racism is justifiable, and it's pure curiosity that makes me want to read it. I'd probably hate the man even more after reading it, actually.

Welcome! Trivial info is always good! Manga is awesome, do you watch much anime? We have a thread for both somewhere around the place. I love History, Philosophy and Art too (studied Philosophy in Uni). Also, all those gothic classics are awesome, Frankenstein is probably my favourite but I pretty much love anything gothic by default