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"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. Unusual, with an interesting authorial style and an unusual and highly original method of introducing the enigmatic Mr. Kurtz that works perfectly considering the themes of the book. I found it quite haunting, and it certainly offered food for thought. Worth...

Rathergood is so 2002. It annoys me.

Time to pimp Blade of the Immortal, methinks. *pimps BotI* There we go. It's a manga. About a kengo. An immortal one, naturally. It's superb, and beautifully illustrated as well.

I read 'Only Forward' last week, and I have to say that it was absolutely brilliant. It started off as a future-detective story written by a more streetwise Douglas Adams, but took a thoroughly surreal turn about half-way through. Incredibly funny, and an excellent read, if rather foul-mouthed...

The Forbidden Planet in Sheffield sucks. It's manga collections are patchy at best, other graphics novels are ridiculously overpriced and too much of it is devoted to action figures and stupid Buffy posters and the like. Must try harder.

I have a barely-concealed loathing, as you do, for those individuals you so aptly describe as hype-monkeys. It's not that I have an objection to people receiving and acting upon recommendations, far from it, but when the hyperbole exceeds the interest in the actual content of whatever it may be...

I'm coming up to London tomorrow to research the rise of conscientious objection and the changing public opinion of "conchies" in the inter-war period at the IWM Archives. I personally would hate to live in London, but it's nice to visit once in a while!

"Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche was my last read. I actually burst out laughing at one point because I'd found a passage that I even remotely agreed with... I've just started "Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon, and it's completely different to anything I've read before, but...

That's because you live in London! Come up north where we have hills and moorland rather than tower blocks and congestion charges, then you might not be so ready to swap.

I prefer to call mine the "where my money's going when not on anime and video games list." My problem is that the last three books I've bought have not even been off the list, but instead were pure impulse buys, so it's growing all the time!

As opposed to just, I don't know, watching them whilst stood out on the street ? I hardly think that people will be too concerned over a single individual in a crowded city centre, and you couldn't follow them if you were in the toilet anyway.

Oh yes, Ivanhoe belongs up there of course, but be prepared for some marathon sentences constituting truly titanic descriptive passages - I didn't know it was possible to achieve so many clauses in a single structure!

Sorry, all my recommendations pretty much are older stuff, but here goes anyway: Watchmen by Alan Moore (Film coming soon, if rumours are correct, it does have superheroes [well, masked vigilantes], but you will be missing out on so much if you do not read it.) Maus: A Survivor's Tale by...

Yes, in my edition there was included a most illuminating article by Chesterton that he wrote for a newspaper a while after writing the book itself, which made me think again of my interpretation. Nnnngh.

What? I can scarce believe it! No JOHN BUCHAN as of yet! The Richard Hannay books are wonderful classic adventure stories, real enjoyable yarns. The Thirty-Nine Steps and The Three Hostages are my personal favourites, but Greenmantle's also well worth a read.

I know that certainly among my peer-groups at least, reading is no longer deemed 'cool' (or whatever word is used in its position at present), and television certainly assumes a far greater role. Books are seen as uninteresting, time-consuming and too laborious to gain anything from, more work...

:eek: RUN AWAY! If he was Musashi, I'd be Manji from Blade of the Immortal. May not be the best kengo around, but he does have the whole kessen-chu thing going for him! As for the question itself, I really admire Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, and I think that world-wise...

Agreed, it was an excellent book, but hardly set in the future.

Classic rock (Led Zep, Jimi Hendrix), newer rock (Hives, White Stripes, REM), blues (Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker), jazz, j-pop (Yoko Kanno), romantic (Satie, Einaudi), classical (Orff, Holst, Bach, Wagner), OSTs (Escaflowne, LotR, Star Wars, Any Studio Ghibli film), game music (Zelda, Grim...

Funnily enough, I thought that the criticism of cliche applied more to Chopper than Savage, but obviously it was always a tongue-in-cheek strip and I loved the ending, utterly suited to Marlon's character. I abhorred the Judge Dredd 'comedy' shorts at the start of the spring, but the latest...