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As ever, I eagerly await your review ! I've (only) seen the movie, and found it to be the most terrifying thing - you're in for a scare, as R.L. Stine would put it. Are they good as well as dark? I have a signed first edition of this (bought on the strength of its prettiness) waiting patiently on the shelf...

Ooooh, what's a tilapia Abby?

No Reply - The Beatles Don't Look Down - The Divine Comedy Love Me Tender - Elvis Art of Dying - George Harrison Love First, Ask Questions Later - Ringo Starr Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say) - Jesus Christ Superstar (London Studio Cast) Auld Lang Syne/You'll Never Walk Alone - Slade Young but Growing - Donovan All Shook Up - Elvis Highway to Hell - Kiss

Not that I'm pressuring you or anything of the sordid sort but do let me know when you get round to it, I was mesmerized by the cover of this when it came out but chickened out of the investment... I want to know if I was wrong! You're a terrible person Ned, reading a series out of order is just unnatural particularly when the last book isn't worthy of tying up the shoelaces of the first four!

@ Ned: Because you're a daftie though I'd stop at vol. 4 if I were you. @ Steve: The Tepeshes, if there's any still around, could hardly have sued poor Francis Ford for borrowing from popular folklore...! @ Noll: is that Vlad - The Last Confession you're on about, and if so is it any good?

It's hilarious that I've always wanted a tat, considering that my pain threshold is non-existent and my family will probably disown me should they ever find out I had one done it'd have to be something related to my craft, I've got a couple of ideas swirling around in the brain but I don't want more than one so I need to be sure before committing to a design. The one I like the most at the minute is a quill dipped in a cup of coffee, I'll scan my drawing of that tomorrow and maybe you guys can tell me what you think... what you really think, as after all this could be on my flesh forever !

Noodles with apple sausages, peppers, dried apricots and prunes with a side of garlic bread topped with halloumi cheese & bacon lardons comfort fooding, moi?!

If Minds Had Toes - Lucy Eyre. Note on Hercules Barefoot: though the magnificently enormous title posted above is the sheer invention of the British translator (the Swedish original only spoke of the Wonderful Love), I thank him for it as it made me investigate what was to become one of my favourite books of all time. Please read it ?

Drama. Meat or Veg?

I haven't seen Ten Things I Hate About You and I don't want to though to be honest it's too loosely based on Shakespeare for me to care too much about how bad it is. She is Julia 'Ruiner of Shakespeare' in my book first and foremost for the most unsympathetically wooden Ophelia I've ever seen in the otherwise bizarrely interesting Hamlet with Ethan Hawke in the title role, and secondly for O - of which I could stomach all of ten minutes, as the whole idea behind it (not just Stiles's lack of acting) revolted me.

Maybe they don't have an independent soul of their very own (note the maybe: as a writer who's seen her work take shape out of her control many times, I am not going to dismiss the possibility that they do), but they definitely preserve a shard of the soul of their author.

The only reason I don't bookcross 'officially' is because I wouldn't want to pick up a book with a big yellow sticker pasted on the front page!

*worships Steve's workplace* how far is Watford from London, anyway? The stickers alone are tempting me, I kid you not ! ... I'd love to see a box that said that! Only, I'd probably take off with the entire box rather than take a single book out:lurker:. On a couple of occasions where I've wanted to get rid of a single book I've abandoned it on a bus seat, they've always bee picked up and stashed away by a fellow traveller a few stops thereafer so 'tis a good method!

I've received Charles De Lint's Dreams Underfoot today, which Lit_Driven_Girl has oh so thoughfully sent me as she knew I was dying to read it . I'll try to make another chapter or two's progress into Eyes Like Stars, which just keeps getting better and better. Thankfully Act II comes out in May as I think I'll be distraight when this ends. The cover of Act II has already tied my heart in knots, which surely is a good sign. Also, as soon as the way is clear I'll unpack my Folio The Once and Future King which arrived yesterday - I'm indeed at the point where I'm smuggling books into the house!

I'd say so, Dave. I also grew up in a house full of books, everyone in my immediate family and nigh on everyone in my extended family is a reader so I didn't have much choice I don't think a couple of years ago one of my cousins (young teenager) was ranting to me about the mess filmmakers had made of Pullman's Northern Lights, it made me proud.

The Horrific Sufferings of Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot, His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred - Carl-Johann Vallgren

This sounds hilarious will definitely keep an eye out for it. No need Zeffirelli's already given us the definitive Jane Eyre. Not Julia 'Ruiner of Shakespeare' Stiles ?! ... the difference being that Natalie Portman knows how to act her way out of a plastic bag . Really need to read the book before this comes out.

The film is nothing short of magnificent, to the rare point that I don't know if the book could measure up to it! It's made me really want to read The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, though.

... DO WANT!, with the pretty covers *drools & hunts with a view to improverishment* curse you, Noll!

Indeed glad you enjoyed Stardust, it's such an enchanting book. Have you seen the film?, it's really good. There's quite a few changes made, but Neil sanctioned them all and they do work on screen so I didn't mind too much.

They also sell uncorrected proofs, which is also technically illegal but c'mon - the money goes to a good cause and the things are madly collectable so they're just responding to a demand that's there. The only complaint I have is about this barbaric habit of defacing books by writing prices in them; I feel like buying loads of peel-off stickers and donating them to the charity shops along with my books!

I've read The Scarlet Letter and A Clockwork Orange. The Scarlet Letter is beautiful, poignant, heartbreakingly believable, and one of the most perceptive accounts of a woman written by a male author I've ever read. A must. A Clockwork Orange is a difficult read - not only because it's written in a made-up English-Russian hybrid language, but first and foremost because it is highly graphic in its frequent descriptions of mugging, rape, murder and torture. That said, it is very well crafted and has important philosophical points to make, so it's worth reading if you can stand it.

Little Women - Louisa Mary Alcott.

Harry Potter. Ben & Jerry's or Haagen Das?

Must... obtain... Coldfire... Trilogy!!!