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A quick search on ebay shows there's quite a few copies up there at the moment. I'm not sure where you're based but you might want to grab one. Look here...

Blimey :( Full story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4282865.stm

Kookamoor - I couldn't resist. I put down what I was reading and picked Round Ireland With A Fridge down off my shelf yesterday and blasted through it in a day or so, broken up. The guy is as mad as, well, a fridge, but damn, it's a funny book. Thoroughly enjoyed it. How does Playing the...

After a reminder from Kookamoor on the "Hilarious Reads" threads, I just gave Tony Hawks - Round Ireland With A Fridge a whirl. Been meaning to get to it for a while, and I'm glad I did. Insane (and yet strangely satisfying), and very, very funny.

Yeah, it was a six part series here on the Discovery Channel. I'm not quite sure I'll ever forget the sight of Tony dressed up as a pixie wandering accross one of London's bridges (can't remember which) making the video, or dragging poor old Norm across to Albania to plug the song to the...

I'll second that - I read "The Eyre Affair" over Christmas and it's mad as pants. (I wish I could say I'd invented that phrase, but sadly I have to defer to Mr Fforde). But a well written, fun read. I'm looking out for the rest in the series but I'll leave it a while since I don't tend to read...

Hi Ron, No, not at all - I love reading. There just aren't enough hours in the day to get through everything I want to, sadly.

Location : Surrey, UK Age/Gender : 32 (yikes!), Female. Hobbies : Music, and, um, more music. Football, occasionally (watching, not playing!) Books I like : Short stories, contemporary fiction, some classics, Victorian history. A book that has touched me inside : Murakami's "Norwegian...

"If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be that when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head." - The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall "Afterward, he tried to reduce it to abstract terms, an accident in a world of accidents, the collision of opposing forces...

Thanks Sally, I'll probably give it a whirl when I've finished my current read.

Gosh, if only my memory was that good. Sadly, it isn't, but as I recall one of the first things I was blown away by as a kid was "Danny The Champion Of The World". Whether this was my first chapter book or not, I have no idea, but it obviously left a big impression on me; I still remember...

Like my tastes in books, it changes like the wind for me. Right now it's: Basil Hallward from "Dorian Gray". Can't put my finger on why. Edgar Mint. A fighter who laughs in the face of adversity and all the crap that life dishes out to him. Always a good quality. Midori from "Norwegian...

Going back a few pages: I read this a couple of years ago. To me, it wasn't hugely disturbing, more sensationalist. But then I've read alot of Ripper material and seen it all before and I guess I've become pretty immune to the shock value of the subject, although the photograph of the Mary...

I have this, but haven't read it yet. I bought it mainly because a friend of mine has a son with Aspergers, a little younger than the main character, and I thought it might be interesting in that respect. I'll get around to picking it up one day.

Thanks, Novella! I've been meaning to look into subscribing to the Paris Review for a while, this has pretty much made up my mind for me. I believe this is an exerpt from "Kafka On The Shore" - I have this, but haven't read it yet. Nice to see what I've got to look forward to. As a...

Hmmmm....sadly, pretty accurate!

You mentioning first editions has put me in mind of something else I'm pretty attached to - a US first edition of "The Book of Jones" by the illustrator Ralph Steadman. One of the few things I've ever gone silly over having.

Occasionally I'll stop by dictionary.com if something comes up that I really don't know, although like Halo I can usually work it out from the context. I do make good use of the internet though, if I'm reading something and I come across a "term" that I'm unfamiliar with, rather than a word...

The main reason I don't use our public library here is because I'm so damned disorganised and forgetful, that I forget to take things back. Not only does that inevitably wind up in large fines and late fees and sometimes being charged the full price for the book (ouch!) but it's unfair on other...

"Elephant, and Other Stories" - Raymond Carver. Jaw-droppingly (is that even a word?) good.