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Bliss! Peter Carey's book 'Bliss' is a very funny book about a man who is convinced he is in Hell and thus considers he can get away with anything.

I agree with you, bobbyburns. Eraserhead is the strangest film I've ever come across. 2001 A Space Odyssey comes a close second.

If it's a good book I hardly ever lose my concentration. I can sit in a crowded room and just lose myself in it and block out all the noise. However, with some classics and non-fiction, I do have difficulty and find myself reading the same bit over and over again. Sometimes that tells me it's...

Reading and eating I like to read whilst I'm eating a meal so I have the book balanced near my plate, trying to keep it open, usually by placing the TV remote control across it. It invariably gets food stains and crumbs on it, or one of my cats walks across it with muddy paws when he's trying...

I ploughed my way through War and Peace last year. I'm glad I read it and I'll probably read it again one day. It's one of those books where you don't take it all in on the first read. I found it very long-winded, got the hundreds of characters mixed up, but I did enjoy it. I found it...

Hello, members! I'm gradually finding my way around this site although it's a bit mind boggling at first as to how it all works. There are threads and tags and all sorts of technicalities. I think the best way is to just dive in headfirst and see what happens. Has anyone else had problems or...

Try Stephen Leather's The Tunnel Rats, Hungry Ghost and The Bombmaker. Excellent books that you can't put down.

James Patterson's books are brilliant, particularly the Alex Cross and Lindsay Boxer novels. They are easy to read and impossible to put down. When he writes with other people eg. Peter de Jonge and Andrew Gross the stories are not as good. I have just finished The Jester which is completely...

Love to Read! I love to read every day. Sometimes I would rather read than talk to people! How unsociable is that?! Reading is my way of escaping. Often the book is better than the reality of normal life. If I'm not having a good day I lose myself in a book. If the book is good enough...