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I'm not sure if I do really want to see this turned into a film; The Hobbit is my comfort book, and somehow seeing it turned into a Jackson epic (replete with slow-mo, deadened voices, dramatic music death scenes), wouldn't feel right.

Expression of jubilation! s4|<4\|/ (unknown, sorry) is amazingly skilled at unauthorised computer access! How droll! * 3 rings were given to the elves 7 to the dwarven lords 9 were given to mortal humans, unskilled in management of the ways of the world, and therefore whose abilities leave...

Oh, forgot to mention horror; Edgar Allan Poe's Fall of the House of Usher

Trollope, however, is someone whose work I have no desire whatsoever to serialise. Over here, the BBC occasionally serialise some of his works (latest one was a radio adaptation of The Palacers, I believe), and that's been enough to put me off. I think I should add some St. Thomas Aquinas and...

Some more Dostoevsky, definitely; Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot are both high on my list of priorities as far as the 'classics' are concerned.

Watch Haibane Renmei, you blinkered fools! It must be done, for my will commands it. Why? It really is, hands down, the best anime series I have ever seen. Beautifully drawn, convincingly constructed plot, wonderful imagery and exploration of Judaeo-Christian themes and mythology, heavy on the...

I generally dislike sports (well, more the supporters, particularly football fans; it's a combination of old-fashioned supercilious elitism and left-wing anti-nationalist rhetoric), but rugby is an exception. I'm a prop forward, but unfortunately am no longer as short and fat as I once was; I...

Late, as ever, but happy birthday anyways.

Birthday. Hope. Had. You. Happy. A.

http://forum.orenjonion.net/cgi-bin/YaBB.cgi?board=jayuz;action=display;num=1089891015 The Fellowship of the Ring just went l33t on us...

I'm going for something utterly different to the previous recommendations; Permutation City by Greg Egan. Hard-science fiction (NOT space opera), with some pseudo-philosophical musings thrown in, an intriguing web of interconnected storylines, even romance of a kind (even if it's not very...

Sci-fi: Isaac Asimov's The Robots of Dawn, despite it being the last of the Elijah Bailey trilogy. Asimov's one of my favourite authors though, so it must have done something right. Fantasy: The Hobbit or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Obviously.

Biggles! Though my real favourite would probably be His Dark Materials, with the Edge Chronicles coming a quite-close-but-not-very 2nd

Thanks all. Most kind.

I tend to read mostly sci-fi, philosophy and history, though I will read anything that seems appealing - never a good idea to restrict yourself.

Why are HHGTTG and the Foundation Trilogy so low down? Definitely skewed to fantasy readers' tastes, I would say. Interesting, nonetheless.

Anyone seen 'All the Great Books' by the Reduced Shakespeare Company? Hell, anyone seen anything by 'em? Funny stuff.

Shan't. Can't make me! I've EARNED this hour or so before afternoon lessons start, so I have.

Depends. When you're ordering stuff from America that takes 4 weeks to arrive, you have to start somewhat sooner. As I did most of mine at Jinx and Thinkgeek, that very factor had to be taken into account and thus I'm done. Bar family, natch.

I thank ye, one and all. Even if I did have to hiss like Smeagol at Freya to remind her...