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Fantasy-wise, I tend to steer clear of the lists of titles about people with ridiculous names going on obscure quests to find cliched items to stop a generic villain, despite loving LotR and indeed all of Tolkien's work. Robin Hobb, however, is a superb author and the Farseer/ Tawny Man...

A belated greeting from me. I know all about the book-buying issue, I just keep finding new books that I feel I have to read straight away, so the pile of unread ones grows larger and larger! Which part of the Midlands are you from? As you can see, I'm from Sheffield, just a bit further to...

So, how did you rate Savage and Low Life? I personally thought that Savage was renewed with excellent timing, and the brick-subtle analogy is nonetheless a very effective one, whilst the script still manages to contain a thrilling narrative. The queen of the Spring Assault, however, is...

How hard is hebrew to learn? How is the alphabet constructed? It's interesting to know, because I find the Greek alphabet very easy to deal with and have no problems recognising it, but I'm also learning Japanese and struggling to even build up a complete knowledge of the hiragana alphabet, let...

Just about anything by REM, they're always excellent at naming their songs. I've always liked "Battle for Evermore" and "Ramble On" by 'Zep as well, especially as I often feel like the latter is what I tend to do quite often.

I've seen Twelfth Night (can't really remember it), Much Ado About Nothing (very funny [despite being a Shakespeare comedy] and excellently cast) and Hamlet (simply wonderful, with an eery, minimalist set and immensely powerful acting) at the RSC. It's something my family does about once a year...

Someone who understands that etymology is actually very interesting, and therefore it's worthwhile studying classical languages! Such a breath of fresh air!

I'm going down to Stratford-upon-Avon to see an RSC production of Macbeth, and then moving on to Cheltenham and the 50th birthday of a friend of my parents. Rather more appealing than the drudgery of last week, it has to be said.

There's something comforting about the background whirring of my PC fans. Aside from that, the old rain-when-you're-in-the-warm, and also the sound of a bath running when I'm lying in bed, I think it comforted me when I was younger because it showed that my parents were both in the house, so it...

I agree, I'm even younger than you and practically live in front of my PC, but I still, as I said above, feel the same way about eBooks.

My dad read Aristotle's Ethics, and his first comment after reading it? "I'm going to read it again, and see if I can understand it this time."

I hate reading on the PC, it's less comfortable, hurts your eyes after a while and somehow it seems soulless, unlike a conventiona, printed book that you can hold and feel its presence.

I think you should run one of those bible-reading classes bobby.

Or you can freeze them and use them as missiles to bombard those with whom you disagree.

Nietzsche, the comic genius: "Books for everybody are always malodorous books: the smell of petty people clings to them." :D

That was what instantly struck me, along with the Bible not being there. I wouldn't object if no religious works were present, but when the Koran is considered more important in literature terms than the Bible something's just not right.

Again, less mention of the political and moral ins and outs of the situation into which you may be headed, more heaps of good luck. I wouldn't wish being dragged into a warzone on anyone.

Go with the marquis! Go with the marquis!

It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. -W.E. Henley To recognise untruth as a condition of life...a philosophy which endeavours to do so places itself, by that act alone, beyond good and evil...

The final paragraph of "The Grapes of Wrath," in which Rose, her baby newly-dead (or did it miscarry? I can't remember), breast-feeds the old, starving man, giving him new life even from death. It's a brutal, yet moving passage, and illustrates perfectly the human will to survive even through...