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Under the Skin by Michel Faber. :stars4: Loved the ending. Seems Faber likes to leave his readers hanging.

Ah, right. Bugger - I'd talked my partner into buying me one for Christmas :innocent: Glad to hear it!

I thought Bob Magness was outside of the U.S.? Can you not just order it from Amazon.com and they'll ship it to you?

Under the Skin by Michel Faber. I bought this one at the Uni bookshop because I realised I'd travelled all the way in without a book to read on the way home (a 2 hour bus ride - I'd studied for an exam on the way in). I'm only 100 or so pages in, but I'm already completely hooked.

You should :P

I agree that it can be very dull if the culture-clash is the main focus of the book. It can be quite interesting if they use someone from another culture as a narrator in a familiar setting to Westerners, as long as there's something else driving the plot. I like to learn about new things while...

For some reason I just can't get through this book. I've read through to about halfway around 3 times now, have really enjoyed it, but have found myself turning to another book every time. I just think that there's too much going on all the time - it tires my wee brain out.

I've just finished this, and I'd have to say that it's probably the best book I've read so far this year. The odd grammar and spelling did throw me off at first, and it did seem a bit strange seeing as how the whole premise was that these tapes were being translated by an English speaker (I...

The Clothes on their Backs - Linda Grant The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga As you may have guessed, I've been in a Booker mode recently. I want to read both 2007's and 2008's shortlist, and then I'll see where it goes from there.

Burritos. Either chicken or mince. Gotta love burritos. What's your weirdest habit?

If they're that unwanted by their parents, I think that they are better off out of their care. I can't even imagine how they are being treated at home if the parents are okay with dropping them off at a hospital and never seeing them again. Hopefully now these kids can become part of a more...

Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon got me into Historical Fiction, and I think it must have been The Hobbit that got me into SFF (I couldn't choose between the two as to which is my favourite genre).

Animal's People -- Indra Sinha I Capture the Castle -- Dodie Smith

I started reading this, but gave up at about the half way mark. It started off brilliantly, but I got bored very quickly with the political debates. Knowing that politics was the basis of this novel, I decided to give up rather than force myself to wade through it - too many other books out...

GTAIII / GTA IV (still can't make up my mind). Favourite gaming console?

I just finished The Know-It-All by A.J Jacobs. Really interesting book, and Jacobs is a very funny man. I loved how he intermingled facts from the encyclopaedia with an ongoing story of his life and attempts to conceive - I think it might have been a bit dry otherwise.

I listened to Slaughterhouse 5 as an audiobook, and I thought it was okay... it was only later when I properly read it that I actually enjoyed it. The narrator on the tape was horribly boring and spoke far too slowly. I've been looking for more of his books ever since, but they seem to be hard...

When I was little I went to the premeire of ROTK in Wellington, and all the stars came. Arwen is just as unimpressive IRL as she is in the movie. I do have a replica of that necklace she wears though >.<

Like many of us, I think, my father spent the measure of his life piecing together a story he would never understand. -The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason.

I'm on the Princeton University campus during the weekend of Good Friday, 1999, struggling to decode the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.