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responsibilities and smells I read it long time ago. I remember that I did not have any patience for that book, but yet I managed to finish it. It was curious to see what happened in Chech Republic - I mean how the communism started there. I also agreed with the observations on smells in that...

Good thing it is, this Wikipedia, isn't it? God bless whoever had this brilliant idea of its creation!

Good but depressing I read the "Fine Ballance" just after I got back from India. I was full of Indian smells and amazing tastes. So it seemed to be like a good idea to read a book about India. But it came out to be so depressing! Once it seems that the life becomes a little bit better for...

Cool Russian SF Ok, here is something completely undiscovered yet but really good stuff Sergey Lukyanenko He has also one of his REALLY good books online, called "the boy and the darkness". (go to Texts in English in this page). I found it much much better and exciting than Paolini's...

Well. man, with such an attitude I guess you could be a good prototype of a Shade :D Or are you an avatar of Drakula or something?

I just wonered - is "The Bartimaeus Trilogy" scary? Or is it not scarier than Eragon or Hobbit (which are completely not scary on my "scary scale") ?

"Inkheart" vs. Fforde's "Eyer Affair" I am thinking to buy the Inkheart, and since everybody here compares it with Paolini (whom I like) and Stroud, I guess I will like it. But here is the problem - I read the Jasper Fforde "The Eyer Affair" and I am afraid that if the "Inkheart" will be of...

Scientology Wow, "The global warming" episode was amazing! But the Scientology ("Trapped in the Closet") was the greatest! I laughed sooo much! I also read that in US it run into some kind of problems, this Scientology episode, eh? OK, I did not expect Tom Cruise to have any sense of humor...

Isaak Asimov: The complete Robot- 10 Fforde: The Eyre Affair - 9 J. R. R. Tolkien: Hobbit - 10 Orson Scott Card : The Worthing Saga- 7 Orson Scott Card : Ender's Game - 8 Larry Niven: Ringworld - 10 Terry Pratchett : Small Gods- 8 Christopher Paolini: Eragon-9...

Classics Mine favorite is "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" by José Saramago.

It reminded me very vividly about the Harry Harrison's "the stainless steel rat". It was very adventerous and exciting when I read it some 10 years ago!

Defending classics You should define crap. As I told you I also like classics (Jules Verne - does it count? It is old enough to become a classics :D ). You also told something about "defending classics". I do not believe in it. Trully good books will defend themselves, and will never get...

Classics The problem with classics. Hm. That they were wtitten too long ago in order to become a classic. I broke my tongue and my head on Silas Mamer. I read it in English language in school when my English was still terribly poor. I've got the idea, passed the exam and was happy. Some...

After the Günter Grass discussion I was just wondering which of Hannah Arendt's books you would advise to read first?

You should have told what you already read and what you liked. For detective stories, the classics would be "Sherlock Holmes". But I guess you already read it. Jasper Fforde wrote a completely different detective story, it is a wild fantasy but there is a real detective inside it. She is a cool...

I was wondering about Manga... I love comics. My favorite is Asterix :D . Basically nothing compares to it. Great quality, very funny, you can't stop reading it. Well, I decided to try Manga. I love those manga-faces that one sees all over in illustrations. But then when I decided to buy...

The naked chef What about the naked chef - I mean Jamie Oliver? Every of my male friends has it in his kitchen. Not necesseserely using it. But it is normally on a bookshelf :)

Small surprises in 2006 My greatest 2006 movies were: Teeth Dasepo sonyo - Korean movie and it was sooo funny! Really extraordinary! It is based on comic strip, includes animation, music, and it was really fantastic to watch it on a big cinema screen. I doubt that many people here would...

I read the book. I was impressed. When I read a good book, the writer manages to read me into it ( a reader of Jasper Fforde would know what I mean :) So at times I felt Lolita. I felt desperate little girl, with nobody around me, with dirt all over, with no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel. I...

Well, I red Tom Soyer as a kid. I am not American, at those times I probably would not even know where to look for US on a map. I saw black-colored people only on a TV - we did not have any in our country. And yet, I was sure that what he writes about is happening just around the corner. That if...