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Hi Makavelli1988 Can I direct your (and everyone else's) attention to another thread, which is very similar and has a more extensive list, rather than having two similar threads? You can read all our responses to various titles in this thread and yes, I would recommend Coldfire as well. The thread is here.

Can I also just say that thanks to Ceinwenn on this forum I have the most beautiful edition of Dorian, the leatherbound Penguin Classics edition. They're selling in most places cheaper than the RRP as far as I can tell, and whatever about the other five in the set the binding is just perfect for Dorian, it's a really gorgeous book If anyone loves this book and wants a really nice copy of it, I'd recommend that copy.

Delighted you enjoyed it Janet, not everyone does and it's one of my favourites!

Might have pizza today? Not sure yet...

I'm afraid of being ID'ed when I go to see Tim Minchin, I always worry about things that are 'over 18's, ID required', because they only ask people they think are under 18, but no one seems to think I look nearly 22! And I have no 'valid' ID

I agree, The Golden Compass was atrocious compared to the epic philosophical genius of His Dark Materials. I have a feeling in a few weeks I'll be coming into this thread and screaming 'DORIAN GRAY!!!'

I'm not consistant, but the maximum I'd read in a week is 3.

Have you read the Canterville Ghost? It's a short story, available on Gutenberg, and there's a wonderful movie adaption featuring Patrick Stewart as the ghost (when he's not being a starship captain, he does some wonderful classic/Shakespearean adapations both on the small screen and on stage.)

I don't usually set times for reading but my mojo has just been so all over the place that I think I'm going to have to make myself set aside an hour or so each day to focus on reading, and try to make a habit out of it.

It is a pity, but his plays and short stories are wonderful too!

That's fair enough but all I'm doing is staying at a hotel and paying cash. No numbers, cards, nothing involved. All they need to do is send me a reservation number to my email and tell me to print it off and bring it. Hey presto, proof of reservation. Aditionally, I've had my student ID which has done me for the last three years (in uni) which is why I've never needed any other ID - I do everything by cash and I don't leave the country, anything within the country is content with a student card. I'm GOING to get a new passport, but it IS €80, and you know as well as anyone I can't afford €80 on something I'm not going to use again until I go to England sometime next year. I third it.

I haven't read it yet, I started it and lost my mojo, I'm only about 80 pages into it

Also, everything in this word requiring either a passport or driver's licence. How about those of us who don't drive, and can't afford to spend €80 renewing something that expired 4 years ago because it's owner is too broke to leave the country? I don't NEED to drive a car or leave the country, all I want to do is stay in a hotel.

I don't know, go check them out. I only ever use Amazon, try there.

Uh, the obvious solutions would be a second hand shop or second hand on Amazon or a similar website.

That's what I love about them! Cheap and tacky screams eighties sci-fi - If I had the money I'd buy a load of old sci fi movie posters with the god awful artwork, I just love it

*squee!*

They're gorgeous aren't they? Like I say, I paid a lot for them, and they came from America, but it was worth it coz I really love them.

Well, the books do have a lot of swords and sorcery in them

They're nice, but they make me think Garth Nix or something, not nearly 15-20 year old sci-fi. These are mine:

Being stuck in my parents house all week. I hate being here.

Oh you got the new modern covers. I got a revised version of the original covers.

I was just rooting through my room in my parent's house (which is basically a storage room with a bed) and I found my Leaving Cert poetry book (exams done in Ireland at 17/18 years which determine entry into uni). It's got a selection of poems from Emily Dickenson and William Wordsworth as well as various Irish poets I love (Seamus Heaney, W. B. Yeats) and critical commentaries on each poem at the end. I'll have fun reading through these again I got an A1 (95-100%) in Honours English in my Leaving Cert, so you can imagine I was really really into it

Duck Spring Rolls

Apparently, chips, chicken nuggets and a salad my mummy made.