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This was possible until recently, wasn't it? With the 'rate this thread' button at the top of each topic?

Um, they haven't changed for me. They're not underlined even when I hover the mouse over.

Hokay. Stewart's on a time handicap with this one! No answering for a couple of hours, Stewie. He might get it from my postings in another forum...

Now that, surely, is a matter of opinion... I do think it's a problem that at the minute we effectively have no active administrator (Darren was last seen here over two months ago, on 4 July, and has made just 58 posts in the last year. A site owner/admin doesn't have to take an interest in...

Anne Tyler then...

Someone else do one then. I'm heading out shortly and won't be online again today.

Samuel Pepys?

I think that's Lee Child.

It wasn't a Monty Python project as such, it was part of a TV series by Eric Idle called Rutland Weekend Television after the Python TV series had finished. He wrote the songs with Neil Innes I think. I haven't seen All You Need is Cash, which was the spin-off film I think, but I suspect the...

No, Viv Nicholson won the football pools not the lotto - the UK didn't have a lottery until 1994.

I got stuck not far into The Grapes of Wrath earlier this year, and couldn't face more Steinbeck for a while. I only turned to him again when I realised that my list of unread books is diminishing quite pleasingly and that a disproportionate number are by him. And so, in a cowardly fashion, to...

She! I thought it was Ray Winstone...

Stewart, I don't think you will be surprised by the ending of The Driver's Seat. StillILearn, I've read around half of Spark's novels and I think her best period is the early 1960s. Among her best in my view, along with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, would be Memento Mori, The Girls of...

I was enjoying the discussion between StillILearn and chris, and I think that in a thread where only 12 posts out of 74 have been aimed at the original purpose of the thread, it's dubious to accuse anyone of hijacking it if it goes a little off-topic. Indeed, I think chris's points are more...

Yes, I'll try to find my thoughts on it and repost them in the appropriate thread, if they're not already there, Prairie_Girl.

...On the other hand it's not representative of the Discword in full flood. I stopped at about number 12, so I don't know over half of the novels, but I recall enjoying Mort, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards! and Moving Pictures in particular. (That's books 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 respectively...

Thanks for the mention, sirmyk and Ronny, but as the politicians say, I have no personal ambition in that direction. Or as the dragons of Dragons' Den say: I'm out.

Ok, the Stranglers! Does that make a difference??

And a lot of time on his hands, which is even gooder. As an aside, or perhaps to return to the main topic, am I the only one who, every time I see the title of this thread, starts singing "No More Heroes" by the Strangers? Whatever happened to the Halo? No more Halo anymore No more Halo...

Well if we're casting opinions, then in all seriousness, I think Stewart would be a good choice for moderator too. There has always been much weeping and wailing here over the lack of book discussion, and I think a moderator with an active and wide interest in books - the core subject of the...