Suzanna Addison

Just had a delivery of ten Jeeves and Wooster stories. Timely.

I agree with you lovesreading06. It's time people left her alone. She HAS got a talent so it's not like she got through on false pretenses. And the fact that the media turned on her during the final week mustn't have helped her confidence or her moods. I hope that she will recover and, though I never watched BGT - I do like her. Her relationship with the media sharply reminds me of a real life Rita Skeeter - at first she was lauding Harry Potter then, when it seemed he was doing nothing scandalous, she went towards the Slytherins and started slagging him off in the press. It put me in mind of that - don't forget media hypes things to absolute nonsensical proportions and, therefore, not to be trusted as reliable source material. I reserve my judgement - but my instincts tell me to give Susan a cuddle and for being brave enough to do the damn thing in the first place - in spite of what people thought of her!

Hmm if we can go for ANY author alive or dead ... Well ... Charles Dickens followed by C S Lewis then failing either of those ... Dean Koontz. The last one would have to get rid of his golden retrievers though ... not a big fan of dogs higher than my knees.

If you can count your own works in this: I am a jewish girl heading towards her mid-aged Nazi lover who has a surprise for her though she is innocent of the shock she's going to get - also she has given her heart to another young man but they can't as both are, strangely for her, loyal to the midaged Nazi. BUT if you can't count your own works of fiction ignore previous paragraph and scroll down to the next: Currently I am a group of children stumbling upon a wonderful discovery in Edwardian or Late Victorian England - where one of the adventures is a ring that makes people invisible ... (hmm wonder where I read that before! lol.)

I could never like Legend! It scared me as a kid - and still does... couldn't get into it and Tom Cruise ... no ... not my idea of a feel good fantasy flick. Hmm ... Peter Pan - Jason Isaacs as Mr. Darling and Captain Hook. Absolutely beautiful and almost faithful retelling of the JM Barrie classic. I love this version and I'm picky... lol! Oh, and it's Rachel Hurd-Wood's first film too, and now she's since starred in Perfume with Alan Rickman and was in a Sherlock Holmes (though didn't like it as they completely ruined the characters and it wasn't even a Arthur Conan-Doyle story!) But back on topic - Peter Pan. Loved it! Water Babies - Okay, it's a seventies film and some of the animation and songs are a bit dodgy but I think it's absolutely lovely. It always makes me feel good anyhow. Five Children and It - Eddie Izzard voices the Psammead and not really in true line with E. Nesbit's vision I don't think but Kenneth Branagh playing an eccentric uncle (shortly after playing egotistical Professor Lockhart in Chamber of Secrets). Still a very sweet film nonetheless and mostly in line with the wishes and the disastrous affects that they caused. Shame they didn't do the follow up shortly after of the Phoenix and the Carpet. And the most recent one .... Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, Witch and Wardrobe - I love this cinematic masterpiece and more lighter hearted than some fantasy films being made today (I am finding the lighting and colour palette on Harry Potter too drab - certainly not the colourful world Rowling describes!) so, for me, this is the breath of fresh air - it proves a story can be told without steeping it in too much atmosphere, but I think I'd have preferred someone with dark hair portraying the Queen as that is how she is described in the books after all! Might be picky because she played the part very well but, for me, it is important - doesn't distract from the actual telling and, like I said, it's just me being anal! lol - the children, though are EXACTLY how they should be! Um ... that's it ... I think ... actually one more: Hogfather - Sky did a very good adaptation and yes it is feel good and a laugh too!

I crumple at the sight of him smiling! ... drooling over those pics - hmm, may have a good long look before I go to sleep hoping they help me have good dreams ... lol!

I preferred the Kiera Knightley film to the Andrew Davies adaptation. Kiera has the body type of the average woman around then (I went to Jane Austens house where she wrote it and I saw some dresses of a typical example of a woman - and Jennifer Ehle is way to big and busty!) and she was exactly how I imagined Lizzie Bennet when I first read her as a fourteen year old. As was Mr. Darcy and Caroline Bingley - (as a red head with green eyes!) Though the Mr and Mrs Bennet in the tv version was more how they are in the book. Also I preferred the Longbourne in the film - it was an old family house that was breaking apart ... The tv version found a what would have been UP TO DATE house where no way generations of Bennets would have lived at ... all in all I preferred the Movie to the TV version but then I will ALWAYS prefer the book to ANY adaptation!

OH WOW I HAVE FIVE SEASONS ON DVD ... okay I'll calm down now. I just LOVE this show. My favourite character is Donald 'Ducky' Mallard! David McCallum is so cute and if I was a young woman when he was a young man I would have had posters on my wall of him. After him my fave is Abby. I can't stand Tony I just want to hurt him for always making fun of McGee whom I want to protect from Gibbs glare!

I didn't like Goblet of Fire - I preferred Order of the Phoenix for film - but then I prefer that Michael Greenberg (?) to Steve Kloves. Personally if I've seen the film before I read the books I don't read the books if I like the movie: example - Bedknobs and Broomsticks - I love the Walt Disney film too much for me to read the book. So I do try and read the book now before I watch the movie. I loved The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I thought that the elongated battle scene was superb and CS Lewis would have loved the Phoenix's setting the baddies aflame I think! And Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was true to the book and I loved the added history of Willy Wonka - also Christopher Lee and Johnny Depp playing father and son - inspired! But - as a general rule - (and because I'm so picky!) I do prefer the books to the movies as there is so much more detail in the book and some of the magic does get lost on celluloid!

Thriller: John Le Carre, Dean Koontz, Harlan Coben Fantasy: C S Lewis, David and Leigh Eddings, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Terry Pratchett. Tolkien but only because of the film Haldir and the way he wrote Eowyn and Wormtongue (his two most convincing characters!)

I am looking forward to Harry Potter, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Sherlock Holmes, and would LOVE to see Wolverine: XMen Origins ... not having seen the rest of them at the cinema. I think I'll have to wait for Alice in Wonderland to come out on DVD... AND Fantastic Mr Fox? Who's doing that one then? Who's in it?