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Crikey, so Google results are now acceptable substitutes for proof or relevance! Google gives 501,000 results for Hitler and Doug Johnson. MonkeyCatcher, for the sake of all our sanity, just stop replying to him.

Think that might fail on the immorality grounds, novella (and possibly language too, I can't recall). Rather a lot of drug-taking, alcoholism, cruelty and taking the piss out of Princess Margaret. I think if you're serious about reading anything worth reading which doesn't have 'immorality'...

The Wincey Willis Book of Wholemeal Pasta? I must admit that to me the notion of judging a book (or rather prejudging it) by the level of 'immorality' within its pages is disgusting. What's the point of trying to explore books in depth - which is presumably the aim of a book discussion group -...

I mainly read fiction. My main pleasure from reading comes from the style of writing, the sound of the right word in the right place etc. I may be wrong in this assumption but my gut feeling is that fiction is more likely to provide this than non-fiction, simply because the main job of...

To quote the accompanying article, by Natasha Narayan: and then Er, so you agree with Byatt then? Limpid prose, eh? Sounds rather good. But where are these dissections of Hampstead marriage which she cites as a reason to disdain literary fiction? Looking over the Booker winners, a...

Good point Thickney; however, I haven't read the rules but I suspect it was for novelists only.

I'd like to express my relief that they were so high! I do wonder how many votes were actually cast in this poll. The fact that there were so many tied places (eight authors tied for the coveted position of 'joint 44th') suggests it may have been only a handful.

I really liked the film and then borrowed the book and found it highly entertaining. Perhaps it is British humour though...

Reading to the end of the article (which I hadn't when I posted earlier), I see he has written a new volume of memoirs, which is something to look forward to. I haven't read any of his fiction though.

Thanks for the link, SFG. I didn't know he was confined to a wheelchair now. I remember being incredibly disappointed when he cancelled a talk he was due to give as part of our local arts festival about ten years ago. Still, physical infirmity hasn't dulled his senses: I'll have to reread...

My bad, as we are now required to say; this should have been in the General Fiction forum. For some reason I can't access the Bookshelves forums from the sidebar on the left - I just get a couple of 'news item' pics but no forum. The only way I get it is by going to the forum index and...

James Wilcox's first novel, Modern Baptists, in the UK has been issued as one of those unreasonably handsome Penguin Modern Classics, and a particularly fine example of the design genius that gives them a good name (well, in my house anyway). And it's really rather good. It should be, given...

Thanks Zolipara. Heheh, hurry here, mystar!

The Robert Stanek comparison is starting to look more and more appropriate. Here is a poll on his forum of "All time greatest real heroes" View Poll Results: All-Time greatest real heroes, so pick one! Abraham Lincoln 5.77% Jesus 25.00% Mother Teresa 0% Moses 0% Shindler [sic] 5.77%...

So are you going to click here and ask why? The last forum I heard of where all real new members were banned, just in case they said anything bad, was Robert Stanek's. And given that all the other members are him, that doesn't reflect too well on Goodkindo. Oh well let's hope (s)he...

I've read the first three, and will probably read the fourth next year (I've been reading them one per year). To be honest I've probably been less impressed with each one as I go along, not least because they start to get ridiculously long, what with Updike's middle-aged word-bloat and all...

Why not make friends with Admin person Emma, Stewart? From her highly intelligent choice of signature quotes* she sounds like a bang-up gal! *er, not to mention the fact that she's an admin on a Terry Frigging Goodkind board...

I'm not familiar with the US media, in print or on screen. Is the Washington Post a conservative paper? This is meaningless unless they say what 'sexual content' means. From the subsequent sentence, it could include two people kissing and the screen fading to black and then them waking up...

In my view, steffee, yes, Atonement is better than Saturday.

Indeed: Muriel Spark's The Snobs is a great example of this. Halo: have you considered the benefits of the mock-misunderstanding? You (casually): "So when are you moving on?" Them (with a matey laugh): "Are you chucking us out?!" You: "Haha, no of course not, I meant when are you going...