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There is a good Oxfam book shop near me, and I also look at Amazon for the 1p books. Other than that I rack up points on my Waterstone's card.

Just a sample of his views It appears that even in my 40s I am not old enough to read Goodkind's books, and you have got to love the evil chicken

Is it Judge Dredd?

My problem is with Goodkind himself he has an odd attitude at times http://www.usatoday.com/community/chat_03/2003-08-05-goodkind.htm

Loved the Agaton Sax book, really enjoyed Kenneth Williams reading them on Jackanory

That was the US not the UK

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100119/en_nm/us_books_parker_2 http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-robert-parker20-2010jan20,0,7693157.story?track=rss http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/showbiz/50309-robert-b-parker-creator-of-spenser-dead-at-77 Sad news indeed for crime fans

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante- 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 80 Possession - AS Byatt - 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I make it 31

Anyone read this? Its a book that is meant to be have written by Richard Castle, a character played by Nathan Fillion in the series Castle. As crime stories go it's not too bad, to be honest I have read worse. There are little details in the book that only mean anything if you have seen the series, but it does stand alone too. A good buy for fans of Castle but worth a look if you want an undemanding read.

I'd forgotten Rankin, his books are a must.

It seemed to me that someone decided to make a British Buffy and to hide their lack of originality just reversed characters Buffy became male Xander became female Giles became an American in Britain It even had a friendly vampire although it was female.

The last episode of season 4 of Babylon 5

A while back I had a major sort out of books etc. To my surprise I discovered I had six copies of Frederick Forsyth's Dog's of War, now one copy was in very good condition and I remember buying it along with Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, but the other copies were all a little tatty, they look like I had picked them up at car boot sales or jumble sales. Now has anyone else discovered multiple copies of books but don't remember buying them or is it just me? My wife has started to make to comparisons to Mel Gibson having to buy The Catcher in The Rye in Conspiracy Theory

May I suggest Space Captain Smith God Emperor of Didcot and Wrath of The Lemming Men all adventures of Captain Isambard Smith of the British Space Empire written by Toby Frost

I started A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess put it down one day and just haven't gone back to it. Maybe I'll start it again someday.

I always make a point of saying no ice when I order my drink.

What did those that liked TTM think of Stephen Baxters sequel The Time Ships?

You should have seen them in the 70s.

As a parent School closures aren't as much fun as they were as a child

I can reccomend the Bryant and May books by Christopher Fowler

Try Kathy Reichs for one.

Twenty Songs of The Chosen Surfer - Meshugga Beach Party

Really hated the Schwepps adds that were on over christmas, so annoying.

It is sad that such a good doctor had to have his final story written by RTD

Did MacBeth at school so have seen a few versions of that, I enjoyed the film Richard III with Ian McKellen set in a fascist 30s England, and the latest Shakespeare production I saw was Romeo and Juliet at the Globe theatre. If you ever get the chance I suggest you go there as it adds a whole new depth to the production.