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Monstrous Regiment started off well, and I loved the vampire's 'Nam hallucinations, but he definitely took it too far-(SPOILER)Jackrum being a woman was simply stupid(/SPOILER). Other than that, several of the jokes were recycled from other titles, which made it a slightly disappointing...

War and Peace, I think, does in fact deserve its reputation of greatness-and not merely due to its physical dimensions! The character development is excellent, the portrayal of Russian society immaculate and of course the background against which it plays out is very dramatic. Tolstoy's...

Maus is haunting but excellent, the art is simple and harsh, the text brutally honest, the content disturbing. The creature analogy works perfectly, and it is quite possibly the most moving account of the horrors of the Holocaust that I have read.

There's not a doubt as to what my favourite manga is; Hayao Miyazaki's Kaze no Tane no Nausicaa. He is an artist par excellence and his stories are always, without fail excellent, but Nausicaa takes it just that bit further. A science-fiction epic, ecological poetry, a pacifist magnum opus, a...

My first prog was the special Christmas Prog 2003, and I've been hooked since then. Highlights of my time? Judge Dredd vs. Aliens, Judge Dredd: Brothers of the Blood, Caballistics Inc., Leviathan, and currently Savage is excellent, whilst Low Life is absolutely enthralling.

I'm not altogether sure that I understand that comment. In fact, scratch that, I DON'T understand. Care to enlighten me?

Code Book's excellent, very interesting and well-written. It's by the author of 'Fermat's last theorem.'

The brief was to write a short story with limited scope-perhaps just a conversation or an utterly unimportant scene in someone's life. So, naturally, I write a piece that spans the entirety of human history and then some, and isn't even really a story, but more a collection of images. Anyway...

Oh dear, Oliver Twist-not my favourite of books. Anyway, my take on the question would be as follows; They are bad because they are directed that way by the social status quo either conditioned by their position in society (Noah and to a lesser extent Nancy,) by what society demands of them...

Ack! Hayao Miyazaki is so incredibly superior to the hacks that produce FOTNS and the like! ;)

He was so innocent and never intended that anything bad should happen, shooting him is like killing a puppy that can't help itself, coupled with the fact that I was only 11 years old. My take on the issue was that George had realised that although it might be possible for them to escape, all...

Thanks for all the guidance-I've heard good things about Ender's Game before, and Adam Roberts' works sound very interesting, so I'll have to add them to my ever-expanding to-read list.

The Jewess Rebecca from 'Ivanhoe' is one of the most admirable characters in western literature, for her stoical, phlegmatic outlook on a world which hates her and her race contrasting with an admirable pride and self-value, for her tenderness even to those who would wish her harm, and for her...

Thanks all for the warm welcome!

I'm hunting for some recommendations in the market of intelligent, clever sci-fi, in the vein of Asimov's 'Foundation' series, Ursula le Guin's 'The Dispossessed,' Evgenii Zamyatin's 'We' et al. So, suggestions?

Name Alistair, age 15, location Sheffield UK, interests reading, writing and gaming, favourite books Brave New World, The Silmarillion, Crime and Punishment, came here because few of my peers read at all and I wished to discuss literature with someone other than my English lit teacher, hello.

Grapes of Wrath is definitely up there, but Of Mice and Men wins the accolade for the book that has made me emote the most-I cried when Lennie died...

I don't mind, although the mirror technique can sometimes leave things looking a little out of place.

It's hardly fantasy, but it's certainly medieval, and it's a darn good story to boot-the book to which I refer is, of course, Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. A classic yarn of gallant knights and dastardly would-be usurpers, it's definitely worth reading, though be warned-Scott can veer towards the...