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I'm 20 turning 21 in September

I love Royksopp's What Else is there video clip. And if you want to see a weird clip watch Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

Have since finished 2001 Space Odyssey and am half way through the second. I did however see the 2001 movie before reading but both are great! After reading this one I'll have to try to get a hold of the 2010 film.

The drought has lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. 2001 Space Odyssey

Finished Valley of the Dolls last night I'd give it a 5/10, it did start off okay, got interesting then dies down in the middle and at the end I felt 'oh nooo!!!' and felt like shaking some of the characters to get some sense into them. It wasn't what I expected, wasn't a bad or good read really. Have just started 2001 Space Odyssey which means I get to go book shopping as I have no new books ready waiting in line from my TBR pile!

I have quite a small TBR list at the moment compared to everyone else here, so I've decided so as to prevent from buying all the books on my 'Yet to Buy' list and having them sit on a shelf, forget about them then keep buying more. Wait until I have one book left on my 'Next to be Read' list only then go out and by 2-3 on my 'Yet to Buy' list. I hope that made sense

- North by Northwest - To Catch a Theif - Princess Mononoke (Pretty much all Studio Ghibli movies)

BUMP!! My absolute favourite books when I was younger where a series called 'Teen Power Inc'. by Emily Rhodda (I think they're called Raven Hill Mysteries now). She also writes those Deltora Quest books which I remember flicking through and absolutely hated them along with Rowan of Rin. I loved the Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Salem books too. One book I loved not so much childhood but as a teen was 'Raw' by Scott Monk.

I always read on the train to and from work with an hour each way so I get a nice chunk read each day. My favourite place to read is in bed.

I used to love Harry Potter I read all until the first big book 'Goblet of Fire'? came out, I read the first few chapters but couldn't solider on through the rest.

I was fine with American Pyscho for the first half, but read to a certain point which I don't think I want to continue anytime soon! Valley of the Dolls, I didn't think I'd like for the first few pages but it has gotten quite interesting.

I read three books last year. Three. Appalling I know, what made it worse was they were trashy receptionist by day, high class escort by night. In My Skin by Kate Holden was the most bearable of the lot. Having not read 'properly' since High School I think it's time to get stuck into it again. So far so good. Books highlighted in this colour I absolutely loved and highly recommend! Other Books - Read Quite a While Ago: Harry Potter 1-4 - JK Rowling The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez Reverte Animal Farm - George Orwell In My Skin - Kate Holden Sugarbabe - Holly Hill Belle De Jour - Belle De Jour 2009 - Have Read So Far: Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey American Psycho (Half Read) - Bret Easton Ellis Zodiac - Robert Graysmith The Nightstalker: Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez - Philip Carlo Helter Skelter - Vince Bugliosi Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay Valley of the Dolls - Jaqueline Susann 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke 2010: Odyssey Two - Arthur C Clarke Cujo - Stephen King 2061: Odyssey Three - Arthur C Clarke Nightwork - Thomas Glavinic Dracula - Bram Stroker The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas 3001: The Final Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall 1984 - George Orwell Twilight - Stephenie Meyer New Moon - Stephenie Meyer Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer The Beach - Alex Garland Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris The Birds & Other Stories - Daphne Du Maurier No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Seance - John Harwood And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie Lord of the Flies - William Golding The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie The Thirteen Problems - Agatha Christie* Have abandoned Paranoid Park - Blake Nelson Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Blindness - Jose Saramago Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Currently Reading: Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Next to be read: Next to be bought: The Blood Countess: Erzebet Bathory - Valentine Penrose Body Copy - Michael Craven Countess Dracula: The Life & Times of Elizabeth Bathory - Tony Thorne December - Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop Earth Abides - George R Stewart Familiar Scars - Christy Stewart Heart of A Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov High Rise - J.G Ballard House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski How Late it was, How Late - James Kelman Janet Frame: An Autobiography - Janet Frame Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy L.A Candy - Lauren Conrad The Little Friend - Donna Tartt Little Girl Lost - Drew Barrymore Madapple - Christina Meldrum Marching Powder- Rusty Young Metropole - Ferenec Karinthy My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier Parasites Like Us - Adam Johnson Post Office - Charles Bukowski Procession of the Dead - D.B Shan The Quiet Earth - Craig Harrison Queenpin - Megan Abbott Shantaram - Gregory Davis Roberts The Shining - Stephen King Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed,Chunked and Spewed - Lance Carbuncle Sorceress - Celia Rees Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith To Catch A Thief - David Dodge Vertigo - Pierre Boileau The Voice Imitator - Thomas Bernhard Watership Down - Richard Adams Witch Child - Celia Rees We - Yevgeny Zamyatin Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman To be continued...

Right now I'm using a hot pink post it or any other scrap of paper. I really need to get a proper one.

I can think of a few books I've given up on, earlier this year not having seen the movie, I started reading American Psycho. Got half way and I don't think I'll be picking it up again anytime soon. Memoirs of A Geisha, started reading this years ago but couldn't get into it at all. Lord of the Rings, my book was all three squashed into one book with small writing, I skimmed quite a few chapters and gave up on the Two Towers. The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez Reverte, can't remember why but will give it another chance.

Birthday: september Age: 20 Starsign: virgo Single/Married/Other? bf Children? not for a while Where do you live? An hour from Sydney Do you work? in insurance claims admin, boring yes, but I do get lots of reading time to and from work! Favourite author? Am yet to come across. Favourite book? I don't have that many to name but I enjoyed Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey. How did you get here? Google Search

Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling all through breakfast from the loquat trees outside the dining-room windows and bees murmuring above the pansies outside the drive. Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay