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True but it's everyone's prerogative to dream and hope. With this I can only agree. It reminded me of a small tidbit my Lit Professor mentioned when we read Huck Finn. When writing the book Mark Twain had his wife beta-read it(though I doubt they called it that :p) and she pointed out that even...

I often find that films that start as good novels are disappointing because good novels are hard to adapt to the big screen without changing a lot. I also find that many stories that were created for that exact screen often do very well as films. A good novel as a basis is by no means a...

LMAO, Oh that's the sort of humour I like - I should read some Terry Pratchett one of these days.

Indeed, but old books can have a very yucky aroma depending on where they lived before they came to me, hence I'm always very careful before I buy used books that are in less than VGC. I've just been to the second-hand store in town and there was a book I might have bought had it not smelled...

Hehe, commas are one of my great fears - okay, that's a lie, but they do annoy me :p I sometimes have a tendency to scatter commas randomly throughout a sentence, and when I read said sentence, I can only wonder what the devil I was thinking - my conclusion usually is that most likely I wasn't...

Cool, it did look like something that should go on my TBR list immediately. I just didn't know of the author at all (have spent a bit of time reading up on that now) so I needed to look for opinions. :) Thanks.

Uhhh ehhhm, organise? I do have some organisation though it's not much. One shelf that holds my Forgotten Realms books (except for the RAS Collector's Editions - they're too big). And the rest of that entire books shelf is filled from both sides with mostly sci-fi and fantasy. At least that was...

Ohhh you should see Amélie. It's a fantastic movie, so wonderfully put together. While I haven't read Life of Pi (yet) I'm pretty sure anything directed by Amélie's director will turn out well.

I was very taken with the story "The Things They Carried" (I think that was the title at least). I don't have my anthology with me at the moment so I can't tell you the author yet, but I'll get back to you on that, when I get my book back. Takes place during the Vietnam War. Edit: Nevermind my...

I saw Kafka on the Shore in my local bookshop. It looked interesting. If anyone here has read it, what did you think of it?

Heheh aye, we can hide behind the real names of others that way - how glorious :D I seldom use my real full name on the internet, but it doesn't make me beat myself up less when I find errors. On most other forums I can always go back and edit my posts for spelling errors, and I do that even...

Indeed, Siege had its good moments. Not my stand. I've been rooting for a break-up of the Companions for some time now. You can't keep writing good books with exactly the same char gallery. RAS is proof of that. I had such great hopes for the Paths books where they were all split up - but they...

@ Stewart Dear gods, that's just... wow. I have a brainache after reading that. @ abecedarian I know what you mean. Goodness knows I make loads of spelling errors when in chat. Because of the speed, as you say. That's why my chats usually look like this: me: I ddi see it. Me: did* other...

I've killed him in both BG 1 and 2. No biggie. If you know what you're doing it's not really a big feat. Of course I didn't do it until I'd played through the game a million times so by then I really knew what I was doing :p In BG 2 I killed all the Companions of the Hall, my alignment told me...

Ugh, no thanks. If I hear even the slightest report that he's softening up Artemis Entreri, I swear I'll ritually brun those book while reciting fatal curses over Salvatore's name. I stopped after Paths of Darkness. RAS' writing started going downhill with the Legacy Quartet, and Paths of...

And as an addition to MonkeyCatcher's post: What gender were nurses typically at this time? Certainly not male. The men became doctors the women became nurses, end of story. Had the head nurse been a man the book would not really have been realistic in that sense. I'm not even sure we can...

Bad spelling does annoy me, sadly. I don't lose any sleep over it, but every time I read a word that's mangled I stop, sometimes even for so long that I have to read that sentence over again to get it. Same goes for grammar errors, it slows down my reading speed considerably. On another forum...

Merry meet, Malky. Sounds painful with the collarbone, a speedy recovery to you :) I'm looking forward to seeing you around the forums.

Well that's what we have TBF for ;) Talking to people and based on what people say deciding whether or not we might like a certain book. I read all genres, so when I choose books I *am* participating in the lottery. And admittedly I do at times read books I'm disappointed with, but that has...

Went to my local second hand dealer and found two books I thought looked interesting. Swan's Song by Robert R. McCammon Society of the Mind by Eric L. Harry The first is a post-apocalyptic fantasy/horror thing from what I gather from the blurb, looks interesting enough so I'll probably put it...