Ooshie

I enjoyed Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, too, and I'm currently waiting impatiently for the third book to come out in paperback.

Anita Shreve

She's The One - Robbie Williams

I've just had the flow of my reading interrupted by the word "glad" being wrongly spelled "gald". It is trivial, I know, but it jarred me right out of my reading world and will take me a wee while to get back into it.

Mild. Tulips or daffodils?

Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

Karin Slaughter

* Blushes proudly while feeling a bit isolated*

Helen Forrester

I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder

Pepsi Fruit or veg?

Long. Flat (apartment) or house?

Herman Wouk

Summer Holiday - Cliff Richard

William Gibson

Autumn. Noisy or quiet?

All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

That's a relief, vodkafan - I was a bit nervous about posting first and was stressing that nobody would agree with my conclusions and I would look really daft! But I had been really late reading last month's book and joining the discussion, so I was determined to take part from the very beginning this time.

Wise. Glue or Sellotape?

Anne Rice

Man Child - Neneh Cherry

Actually, I should have thought a bit more carefully about question 4 - the bits I struggled with most were the bits in German; I could get the gist of some of them but not others, and didn't look them up. 6: How do you think the title reflects on the book? What is its meaning The book refers to a quote in The Bible, "through a glass darkly", which I think refers to humans not perceiving the world entirely accurately; I think it may refer to the confused thinking of Fred/Arctor watching what was recorded through the scanners fitted in the house. 7: What did you make of the unreliability of Arctor/Fred as a "narrator" (in the sense of, how did you view his experience as being worthwhile) I felt his unreliability added to the way the reader saw his mind unravelling as the book went on. 8: Do you feel that the ending was at all redemptive, or did you see it as unremittingly bleak? And, either way, why is that? I felt that the ending gave some hope for Arctor's recovery, as he did recognise the small blue flowers, which made me think that he could recover slightly. 9: How does the book relate to your experience with drugs/druggies? I certainly know people whose lives and health have been totally ruined by drug addiction, but I also know people who have totally turned their lives around and are now successful after living lives very similar to those depicted in the book when they were younger.

Guitar. Smiling or serious?

(Sitting On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

Philip K Dick