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Terry Pratchett has the same mix of imagination, quirky British humour, witches and wizards, and stories with more depth to them than you realise at first reading, but having said that, the Discworld novels aren't all that much like the Harry Potter ones. For books with youngsters at the...

Well, one could, except that history (especially in monarchies like Britain) tends to deal with people anyway. You can get through an entire science course at school without realising that there are some interesting personal stories behind some of these discoveries and that laws are named after...

His book Wyrd Sisters is an amusing update on Macbeth too, so you might want to check that one out while you're at it.:)

I love the histories, and I agree that Henry V stands out. Even knowing that Shakespeare was biased toward the Lancastrian side and did such an awful hatchet job on Richard III, I still love the histories. Of the other plays, I think King Lear is brilliant. I've never understood why Hamlet is...

This afternoon I was in Montana, but now I'm on Easter Island.

Mimosa made with champagne that's been used to marinate strawberries. The strawberries are pretty good too.

I didn't like the fourth book - to me the plot didn't make sense, and it was far too long a book to be part of the one-book-a-year timetable that she was trying to stick to. I think it would have done better if she'd taken longer over it. I don't agree that all the bad guys are predictable and...

Was his mother concerned that the books would be too difficult, or was the subject matter bothering her? I've seen a few discussions of this series where people have said they wouldn't let their children read them because of the anti-religious messages. I really liked the books, and I wanted...

That certainly helps...

It's my sparkling personality...;):D

That's cos you were chasing sparks.

No, but it looks interesting. Have you seen it? I remember seeing a TV programme about her years ago.

He did, actually. For a while, at any rate.;) Anyway, it doesn't matter how many people buy this Lexicon book. Apparently JK Rowling has a bunch of sketches she did of the characters in the books. If she publishes a dictionary or lexicon or encyclopaedia of Harry Potter and it's advertised as...

It's the American way. Wonderfully Pavlovian reaction. USSR equals godless communism equals socialism equals liberalism equals Democratic equals evil. America equals God's own country equals democracy equals capitalism equals Republican equals good.

No they aren't. Her universal health care plan isn't a government plan, it involves private insurance but simply makes provision for people to be covered who aren't covered now. Your points 2 and 3 are basically the same thing, and increasing taxes isn't a socialist policy in and of itself...

I grew up in England when there were some fairly left-leaning Labour governments. Her policies are nothing like that. If you can come up with some information about where she says (as opposed to Bill O'Reilly saying) that she's in favour of nationalising the airlines, the steel industry, the...

I also had problems with The Silmarillion. I think the early parts of it are beautiful, but there are so many characters being introduced so quickly that I've never managed to keep up.

I was interested to find out that she was also a fairly well respected scientist and had done some groundbreaking work in the field of mycology. I've often wondered what she could have achieved if she'd been educated and allowed more leeway to develop her intellect.

Maybe if it's a how-to book about creating deadly microorganisms or nuclear devices or something. I know there are controversies about publishing certain scientific papers that might give enough detail in their Experimental Procedures sections for terrorists and criminals to use to create some...

I can certainly find a lot of quotes from people saying that she's a socialist. I can't find any quotes from her saying that she's a socialist. Apparently she isn't that open about it. But if you can find a quote of hers where she says she's in favour of collective ownership of the means of...