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Supernatural 7x10. Nooooooo! I can't believe they did that

That one's going to come back to haunt me, isn't it? Make the most of this: I think you're right, Frankie. There, I've said it. I shall attempt to do this over the weekend and add it to this thread. I'm also going to make sure that the next book I read is a treebook off the TBR pile. I've taken two off it so far this year. Mind you, I've added about five more I bow to your multi-tasking skills, pickle I don't know how you do it - I'd have trouble remembering all the plots and sub-plots and keeping the right characters in the right stories. But then I have trouble remembering what happened last week The other thing that would happen with me is that I'd get more interested in one of the books than the others, so I'd end up concentrating on that one, forget the others and probably never finish them. It's a bit like my writing: I currently have four potential novels on the go, plus multiple short stories, and the chances of me actually finishing even one of them seem to get longer by the day I must at least finish one of the short stories. Maybe this weekend. Oh wait, I'm going to be doing my TBR list this weekend. Procrastinate, procrastinate ...

Good job, too! This is the one you want if you can find it cheap or rent it - it's got the original theatrical only-one-that-should-be-allowed version included along with the horrible Lucas-ified cgi'd-up-the-wazoo version: http://www.amazon.co...7423143&sr=1-12

Okay, so I'm confused. I don't know how other people decide upon which book they're going to read next but I normally have a fairly set method: I'll take several books that interest me off the shelf, read the first page of each, and the one that makes me turn the page and keep reading is the one I'll go with. However ... The Kindle seems to have thrown all this up in the air. By my reckoning I've currently got about 30 treebooks and a similar number of ebooks to read. I've been trying to come up with a plan for how to choose from now on. I kind of want to make some in-roads into the books I already own before I buy more (shyeah right, like that's going to happen!). So now I'm thinking Kindle for the days when I'm at work, treebook for the days when I'm at home. But I hate reading more than one book at a time. I'm a man - I can't multi-task like that! Consider me confuzzled Note to self: must make list of TBR pile

Season 5 talks underway: http://screenrant.com/fringe-season-5-rene...led-aco-147981/ If it were to get cancelled I hope they know in time for them finish the story off properly.

Glad it's not just me! All brilliant "What we've got here is a failure to communicate."

Funnily enough, I was listening to In Absentia this morning. That was the album that really got me into them. And now I'm listening to this, which is one of my faves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lfQDpkA1Oc

The word 'them' in that sentence worries me greatly Please, please, please only watch the original trilogy (that's A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi). Episodes 1, 2 and 3 are dire beyond belief. Ugh, I hate even calling the original film 'A New Hope'. It was just called Star Wars when I was a kid. And yes, I have issues with this Ben, I hope and pray that you can get hold of the original versions, the ones that existed before George Lucas went and ruined them. If you can't, let me know and I'll sort them out for you.

Finally got to the end of Merlin season 3, just in time for season 4 to land on the doormat. Thought the last couple of episodes were brilliant.

Good grief! Who are these people? Why were they born?

Ana Ivanovic got knocked out earlier on today. Pointless watching any more of this tournament now.

Definitely not a children's story. The basic premise is about a little girl called Ophelia who goes to live at a military outpost when her mother remarries - and she's so unhappy in her new home that she starts to live in a fantasy world as a way of escaping. I guess it can be quite scary in places, but it's a marvellous film.

Eddie Redmayne was in the recent adaptation of Pillars of the Earth as well, and he was poor in that, too. Mind you, everyone was poor in that

Supernatural 7x09

Don't encourage me to buy more books, Kylie! I've ordered three or four books in one go from them and they've all arrived separately - I guess it depends on the overall postage costs.

Thanks, Ruth, I'm sure I will, especially once I'm through the opening stages I highly, highly, highly (highly!) recommend Hyperion - providing you like science fiction, that is

Book Depository is great, Frankie My only problem with them is that they just stuff the books in bubble envelopes, so they can get a bit knackered in transit.

Started S J Watson's Before I Go To Sleep this morning. At the moment, I am having trouble disassociating it from the 'Scholar's Tale' in Dan Simmons' Hyperion. In that particular story, Sol's daughter returns from a scientific expedition to the Time Tombs on Hyperion with a strange disease that, every time she goes to sleep, causes her to age backwards, losing her memories in the process. It's an absolutely brilliant story, heartbreakingly told. I know Watson's novel will go in completely different directions, and I'm only about 16% into it, but at the moment it seems so similar that it is suffering in comparison to Simmons' masterpiece.

Martyr by Rory Clements An assassin, sent by the Spanish, is on the streets of London, his target: Sir Francis Drake. The year is 1587, Queen Elizabeth contemplates whether or not to execute Mary Queen of Scots, and her men stalk the streets hunting Roman Catholic priests. A brutal murder (and it is quite horrific - be warned) leads Secretary Walsingham's intelligencer, John Shakespeare, into a battle against time to both stop the assassin and solve the crime. I drew the immediate comparison with C J Sansom's Shardlake novels even before I started reading this. It's got a suitably convoluted plot, involves real people from history and uses real events as a backdrop. It's quite gruesome, but very exciting, quite amusing in places, and has lots of twists and turns. I particularly liked that it didn't end up the way I thought it was going to, which was a nice surprise. I also liked that it was written in third person. Sansom uses the first person and, as a result, he has had to come up with more and more, to be frank, ludicrous ways to get Shardlake into the situations he needs to in order to progress the story (Heartstone was particularly guilty of this). Clements, on the other hand, switches between characters, settings and events as the story requires, and it makes it fast-paced and full of suspense without tipping the balance and taking you out of the experience. In fact, in his hands, 16th century London is a scary place indeed. For a debut novel this is top stuff. I'll definitely be checking out more of John Shakespeare's adventures. And yes, he is related! 8/10

Don't know if this has been mentioned before: "CBS has picked up a new detective drama pilot, described as a modern-day take on Sherlock Holmes. Elementary will transport Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective to present-day New York." http://www.digitalsp...lmes-pilot.html Oh dear ...

Source Code - it was pretty good ... until the last five minutes

I dread to think how many people have done that after seeing the advert

Very true. To be fair, the plot of The Stand is pretty thin - it's only because the characters are so good that it can get away with being as long as it is. And laws yes, Tom was my favourite.

Careful what you say about Rake, else he'll turn into a dragon and eat you

Sounds intriguing.