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I watched the first of Stage School tonight. What puerile rubbish! I had thought it was going to be a proper documentary series about hopefuls at a real stage school

I am reading this right now!

I only just heard about Love And Friendship, which is based on Lady Susan by Jane Austen. It's coming our way later this month. Has anyone in the US already seen it? Any good?

I am watching series 1 of The Book Group again, this time with Thoughtful Daughter. She loves it.

Are you sure he has ADHD? Another thing is he may not appreciate your wanting to help him, has he asked? If he has achieved a management level job he is presumably dealing with his own problems. I am just throwing this in. Read a book by all means

Don't know it but sounds like it must be a fairly recent book. So most likely has been published as an e book. A trawl though Amazon should find it, as they usually have a bit of blurb which would help identify it. Even if you don't want it as an e book, at least you will find the author/title.

Yes by David Mitchell. I heard the book is supposed to be good but I have lost interest in reading it because the basic premise of the story doesn't interest me now .

Hi Domozo welcome.

I saw Cloud Atlas. It was awful , just rubbish

I purposely won't watch any more superhero movies, and haven't for a couple of years now

He is a bit of a mumbler sometimes isn't he...

Books are such a personal thing it is difficult to know what someone else may like. A very good WW2 book (memoir) I read is The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer. He is a half French/half German boy of 16 who joins the German army and is sent to the Russian front. A couple of good exciting history books: Rubicon Tom Holland (Romans) and Batavia's Graveyard Mike Dash (about an 17th century shipwreck and mutiny off the coast of Australia) Personally when I read fiction books about a historical period I like to read books that were actually written in that period rather than modern authors setting their stories in that period. However, The Crimson Petal And The White by Michel Faber is a fantastic exception. Hope this helps.

Just saw The Hateful Eight. I can't even say it was OK. I actively disliked it as a thoroughly nasty, upsetting and pointless piece of film. But that's just me so what do I know?

Hi MissLiss this is a great place to talk about books make yourself at home. Fellow Bill Bryson fan but my favourite authors are Jack Vance and George Gissing.

Welcome Souhail what sort of books you like to read?

So It's true If you have books still to read you can never die?

Well I have been completely pathetic this year. Haven't been updating this at all. I have even forgotten some books I have read because I didn't note them down here. This week I had a purge and took about 30 books to the charity shop. However most of those had never even made it to be written down on my official TBR plie so it hasn't made much difference there. Also I bought about 15 second hand books on holiday ( I showed commendable self-restraint in my opinion !) Best find of all was a Jack Vance novel I had never read! As far as I know it's not even available as an e-book! . The Last Castle . I consumed it in a day.

I had to sit through My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 on DVD Could not wait for it to end. A more tedious unfunny movie has never been made I am sure.

Only thing I am waiting for now with any hope it will be any good is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Been disappointed with most every new film lately.

Jason Bourne. It was OK but I think I am going to leave the series there now. It was a film too far, very samey-same, it adds nothing new.

Good to hear. I am watching this on friday

George Gissing. He did a respectable body of work- about 35 novels I believe- but he caught a cold in 1903 and that was the end of him

I think the direction and camera work was excellent. Like when Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston go out on the meadow to fight the camera zooms right out till they are like ants and shows how insignificant their disagreement really is. Nowadays that would be shown in ultra violent close up. Loads of marvellous camera scenes like that that really manipulate the emotions and pull you along with the story.

Anything by Jack Vance

The Big Country. Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck and Burl Ives. Was very good.