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I'm the same. And if I read a series, I tend to remember the name of the series, but can never remember the names of each indiviual book.

Ours is now up to $1.35 a litre. What is bothering me more than anything else is that surely this will have to affect the prices of everything else. Truck drivers will have to pay more for petrol and therefore boost their prices and as the saying goes, "Sh*t flows downhill," so it will all...

That is one thing we haven't had happen yet, but that's not to say it won't. Generally I don't answer the phone anyway. I let the butler (answering machine) get it and then decide whether or not I want to talk to the person calling. However the last few afternoons I have actually answered...

I use any piece of paper I can find and if I can find none, I admit to being one of those people most booklovers hate, I turn the corner of the page over.

I have never actually had to put a book down from being too frightened to continue, but then again, I don't often read scary books. However, when I was a teenager I read Amityville Horror (sp?) and at one point I was at home alone. I had to go outside in order to keep reading because I was too...

And they always call you right when you are about to sit down and eat dinner and they don't give you a chance to get a word in for the first five minutes, so if you don't want to be rude, you're stuck listening to them prattle on until you get the chance to say you're not interested. They...

Hehehe, I did the same thing. :) I guess after I joined I realised just how much stuff I hadn't read. Welcome Gem. It's always better late than never. ;)

:D I'm so glad I'm not alone. When I was little I always dreamed I was off adventuring with Peter Pan and the Lost boys. Oh, what I would have given to be Wendy. Mr Darcy is not too bad either. And I have to admit to always being in love with Legolas, even before the movies came out.

I agree with what you have said here. I was disappointed in the book because of my own expectations. So, if you just read it without any expectations you may find it a good read. However, when it was first written it was probably the first speculative fiction type book to appear. That's...

One book I really had trouble with and didn't end up finishing was Tess of the D'erbevilles (sp?). I forget who the author was, but I think it was Thomas Hardy. I just found that there was too much that was unsaid. I did try to read it many years ago, though, so perhaps if I tried again now I...

Monkeycatcher, I liked Animal Farm better as well. I suppose because I had studied the period in history that it was about and so got a lot out of it. As for Dickens, I know what you mean. I was supposed to read Bleak House for uni, but I just couldn't finish it. What really turned me off...

I agree with you here, I think I would probably be about a 4 as well. As I was reading this I wondered why I had never had Arutha pegged as a bad guy then I remembered. :rolleyes: I read A Darkness at Sethanon first. :) Yes, I know it's backwards, but at the time I didn't know it was...

I liked Oliver Twist. Have you tried that? It is pretty depressing, but I liked it beter than the others. I didn't mind Heart of Darkness, but I found it pretty confusing at first. I guess that Conrad has a similar style to Dickens in the sense that they both rave on for pages...

I was a bit disappointed with 1984 by George Orwell. I think I must have expected it to be a bit more exciting or something. I had heard heaps about it and was looking forward to reading it. I'm not saying it's not a good book, but I have to admit it wasn't what I thought it would be.

I would love some kind of 'find a text'. I seem to waste so much time searching back through books and reading whole chunks again because there is something I just know was important there and will shed light on what is going on further in the story. The problem is I often get side tracked in...

LOL, that is so good. :) Mothers have such power! The people who aggravate me the most are those who have no idea what they're talking about, but think they know everything anyway.

Pyjamas and definitely socks in the winter. Actually in the winter all that can be seen of me when I go to bed is my face and hands. Everything else is covered. I get cold. :)

Here, in Australia, we have had periods where it was compulsory to be a part of a union. That is not the case now. Now we have ads on TV telling people they can say no to joining unions. I don't think this is a good thing. To answer your question, Moto, no I don't think all employers are...

The Deverry series by Katherine Kerr is excellent. The first book is Daggerspell.

I'm a bit confused when you say gender perspective, Self. Do you mean that because Jem is female and you are male the difference in appreciation of character development occurs or do you mean that female writers tend to explore their characters more than male writers? I enjoyed Feist's books...