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She is definitely my favourite Victorian author and is certainly close to the top of my list of favourite authors ever. I have previously read Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda and Mill on the Floss, all of them excellent. I've just started reading Romola. Middlemarch is one of the best books I've...

I finished Orlando, by Virginia Woolf. I am having trouble deciding if I should continue reading Grapes of Wrath, which I am about 200 pages into, but sick of, or start Romola by George Eliot. Orlando was really great. Highly recommended.

You should definitely read what you enjoy. So go ahead and not like Goethe or Homer or whatever. But it's a silly idea to teach about thrillers in high school English. While entertaining (occasionally) what exactly do they teach you about literature? My teacher made us study a Patricia...

Oh God, how can you people say these things without any comment from anyone else? I really really hope you all went out and planted your crisis garden, now that people with pre-existing conditions can't be denied health insurance. It is sort of Armageddon, after all. WE ALL NEED A CRISIS...

Also, I am very very glad that I am not the only one who dreams about Lost. You don't want to know how many times I've been killed by the smoke monster when I'm asleep.

I really liked Ab Aeterno. It was great! It revealed so much about the island! The night after I watched it I got drunk with people who don't know about Lost and I spent ages describing a half full bottle of red wine as being full of evil and malevolence. Then I invited them to think of the cap...

Heh, yeah. I can't even remember what shit I had to read in school. The only good thing I ever studied (apart from Shakespeare, which everyone everywhere does, and no one really, myself included, appreciates) was A Clockwork Orange, and that was when I got to choose my own book. It wasn't until...

Something like that. 'Nerd' too. Also that lovely word beginning with F used by awful people to refer to gay men, and by Victorian authors to refer to a bundle of twigs used as fuel for a fire. Yeah, whatever, like only gay guys like reading. Have you ever heard of Shakespeare?!?! Oh...

Yeah, it was crazy. My parent's house is about 800 m from a a 2nd hand book shop. I was walking home with said copy of Dune and I got yelled at twice. Two separate, distinct, independent cars thought that the world would be a better place if they yelled anti-intellectual abuse at some dude...

I agree with what everyone has said so far. Reading is great, etc. I sort of wear the epithet 'nerd' with pride. Reading is nerdy, but that's OK. Nerdy things are good. I'm with alliterati, hooray for nerds! I'm from one of the most backward states in Australia (itself a reasonably backward...

Yeah. Don't you feel weird when you discuss the plot of Lost? Everything I just wrote felt perfectly normal and natural as I was writing it. It's only once I look over it that I notice how absurd it all is. GOD I love Lost.

Did anyone watch the most recent episode? Wasn't it great? Hurley next week. Hooray for Hurley!!

Brideshead Revisited is one of my favourite books. It seems to be inexplicably unpopular. It's a fantastic chronicle of that era, has some excellent characters, and the writing is just amazing. I do have a complaint though: Also, the miniseries of Brideshead Revisited, starring Jeremy Irons...

How are you finding it? Despite being not really into crime fiction I really enjoyed it. Although the guy seems to have a bit of a problem with women.

Wikipedia is probably a good place to start. Short of actually reading the book.

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison I recently finished this book and am still deciding what I think of it. How many people have read it? I found it pretty engaging, and never boring, but I think some things went over my head. Being not from the USA, and ignorant of a lot of the history of the...

Excellent. I have already decided that my mid-life-crisis degree is going to be English Literature (I'm 25 and finishing off a Science degree). Are you doing postgrad or undergrad?

Such an amount of procrastination. I wasn't kidding above when I said I resorted to trolling omegle. Case in point, it's just after 1 am on the east coast of Australia, and instead of finishing off this last little bit of work I promised myself I'd get done by the end of today, I'm writing...

Thanks. Well see how my enthusiasm for BAR goes after I finish my PhD and thus don't need a place to procrastinate ;) But I've certainly had fun so far.

I recently bought Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte, based on the strength of the author's name alone. Has anyone read it? I sort of love Jane Eyre, how well does it compare?