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I'm really surprised to read that people enjoyed Fellowship the best - this was my least favourite. I didn't like the slow starting - it took me about 4 tries to actually get past the first 100 pages or so. This was the bit that I always gave up on. I found it so boring, and was glad to see he...

So did any of you guys end up reading it? I'm about halfway through and I'm loving it. McGegor manages to make the average lives of a block full of people so intriguing, yet entirely realistic. I love the uncertainty, and the possibilities, that results from his way of only convering part of the...

Where do you live? We're paying NZ$1.93 a litre in CHCH :(

Nanking

I'm living in a shack propped aganist a rich man's wall in early 20th Century China (specifically the city of Nanking).

Congrats :D I know you'll both do a great job.

Just try it [IMG]

I'm voracious at heart, but Uni work renders me a moderate reader (at least during term-time).

No problem... I have a way with monkeys, as you can see. [IMG]

Ha no one wants to stalk you cause you're Danish and smelly. Please note: I did not visit your profile to stalk, but to jeer and feel superior.

One Book that made you read it More Than Once: The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 2) One book you would want on a desert island: The Encyclopædia Britannica 3) One book that made you laugh: Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 4) One book that made you cry: none 5) One book that made you wish you had...

I'm on a small island in Greece following the Axis invasion of WWII

-- Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Could the fuss not also have arisen in response to a novel where the main character was depicted as being something other than happy to be obeying her husband? Perhaps some of the males were disturbed by the idea that their wives would take lead from the "independence" of Mm Bovary.

Roald Dahl (my favourite was The Witches) and Enid Blyton were my favourite authors, I think. I especially loved the Famous Five books.

If movies are getting a lot of hype, then I usually try and read the book before watching the movie. I usually enjoy books much more than the corresponding movie, so I'd rather be suprised when reading than when watching.

I've always had troubles with this one too - it's definitely the accent that makes me give up on it.

-- Wizard and Glass - Stephen King

I really didn't like the ending. It was too much of the ol' cliche happy ending - I felt that Harry actually dying via self-sacrifice was a much more fitting ending. I thought that Harry coming back was much too convenient - and is it just me, or did Voldemort die in an unusually unimaginative...