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Thought I'd give this a bump and see if anyone's read it yet. I'm a big fan of Mayall (mostly his Young Ones related stuff), but I'd never heard of this. Love the title, btw ;)

Mysteries are just that, they involve a puzzle or a series of puzzles top be deciphered by the protagonist and/or reader. These include detective stories, etc. and are designed to provoke thought and logical problem solving in the reader. Horror is a lot of the time based on primal instincts...

This happened to me last night. I bought "Carrie" and got so into it that I looked up and saw it was 3am. Quite tired this morning, but the coffee's keeping me nice and awake.

Tartan, this is freaky, I've also read 16 of the 1001. I wonder if they're the same ones...:)

I found HP6 to be a page turner, but this didn't really have as much to do with the story as the fact that I had invested my time in five previous books. I think it's the extent to which you are drawn into a world created by a writer that determines if you will keep reading non-stop. It also...

Wow guys. I don't know if BB is more intellectually stimulating in your respective nations than here (Australia), but how can you watch this crap? I watched the first two here, when the people going in were actually interesting and the conversations were of a social/political/IQ over 80 bent...

I believe I may have said this somewhere before (but who can be bothered checking, am I right?) but I think that King's "Night Shift" collection is the scariest collection of stories I've read. It has prompted me to change my bedtime behaviours in a number of ways: 1. close cupboard doors...

This actually is the same for me when I'm studying. If I'm reading for pleasure, then background noises will distract me. But since I developed the nasty habit of studying through my entire Year 12 with old eps of "The Simpsons" and "Friends" in the background, I have needed some kind of noise...

I also use google home. It's great because you get to see all your links, inbox, news and heaps of other content on the same page, plus you get google search, which I'm always using. Highly recommended! PS Apologies if this sounds a bit like an ad for google! I just really like it.

potatoes!!! i'm a little bit obsessed. what is your fave food, and could you give it up if you had to?

I also read in bed before going to sleep. It's often the most quiet time in our house. I can't actually go to sleep now without a book in my hand!

Um, that's exactly what I would have said! I also enjoyed Paul Jennings, Enid Blyton, the Babysitters Club Series (is it Ann M. Martin?), and some classics that came with a weekly magazine series, including "Heidi" and "The Secret Garden".

I prefer paperbacks, for a couple of reasons: 1 – much easier to handle one-handed whilst the other hand is occupied with a spoon, spatula, coffee cup, pole on a bus, dog, treadmill, steering wheel (just kidding :) ) 2 – they hurt less. If anyone has ever fallen asleep with a book over...

I have tried many times to read a couple of the Bronte sisters’ novels, including “The Tennant of Wildfell Hall” and “Villette” (I have read “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights”, had to for uni). My interest was sustained until about halfway through both books, but I found that the characters...

I'm resurrecting this thread because I read "Down Under" (or "In a Sunburnt Country") yesterday. I had previously read "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and "Notes from a small island", both of which I was very impressed with. "Down Under" failed to please me as much as the others. I...

Many of my faves have also been mentioned (Blyton, Dahl, Marsden) I'd like to add Graeme Base, whose books captivated my brothers and I from when we were very little until...well, I'm still captivated frankly! The Eleventh Hour is an excellent way to get kids to sit still for a while (never...

Please forgive a very long post but I couldn't decide out of all these! Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL? HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that...

You could trawl through some readalike sites to see what others recommend. They throw up some crap sometimes (I didnt mean for that to sound so gross, btw), but are worth a look, I think. This site has some good ones.

I bawled from that point in HP6 until the end (possibly because I, too, had stayed up the entire night to read it). It's quite hard to read when your eyes are blurred with tears, but I'm a stubborn mule :) Others include: - LOTR (whenever, mostly for Boromir) - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's...

Purely subjective ones :) When I disagree that King is shit, I disagree based on how I'm judging his writing. In this case, it is whether or not I felt what I perceive to be the 'horror' experience whilst reading his work. I did. I will concede that his writing is, at times, not...