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I hated Dickens for years after trawling painfully through Great Expectations at school. Then we had to do Oliver Twist at uni and it totally changed my opinion. Though I have to say Oliver is the most useless protagonist ever. He never does anything - as soon as something remotely interesting...

I don't know that I've ever really cried at a book, but I definitely welled up a bit for 'If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things' by Jon McGregor.

I have an SD card for my Kindle and all my files are backed up on both my hardrive and a USB stick. The only thing I'm not keen on with my Kindle is that it doesn't support different file types, so since I use it a lot for reading research papers that download in PDF I've had to find a...

I have an e-redaer that I got for my thirtieth and, whilst it's very cool to keep in my bag or by the bed so that I don't have to plan in advance what sort of book I'll be in the mood for when it's just not practical to carry all my books about, I wouldn't ever converts wholly to it. I like to...

Hmm, it makes my next two terms sound really tame. Autumn Term: Post-Modern American Old Norse Spring term: Satire Parody and Play Old Norse. To be fair, though, each term requires around ten texts to be bought and plenty more borrowed or looked up...

I had to read this for one of my modules. Personally, I loved it, but quite a few of my class mates didn't. The thing that I found most maddening was the index, if you follow the reference to the crown jewels (I think, it's been a while) you end up going backwards and forwards in through the...

I would definitely not wnt to be a Brett Easton Ellis Character... they're all seriously disturbed, or get horrific things done to them.

Hi everyone, This is a great forum! I'm Kate and, apart from being an avid reader (which I have a sneaking suspicion is THE common factor for memebers here), I am a mature student, taking my BA in English Literature at the grand old age of thirty. Balancing it around two young boys can be...