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The debate is about males and females. My profile should tell you what you want to know about me. Throughout my life I have always found time to do lots of different things but have always found time to read as well. your specific comments about men and women were charicatures, and not...

That's my experience. I was forced to endure the trials of William Golding's The Inheritors and Evelyn Waugh's Scoop. I really resented this utter crap infinging on my personal reading time and most guys and girls I knew felt the same.

And that's absolutley ridiculous. Teachers and common sense eh?

Maybe he likes his friends. Intellectual snobbery cuts both ways.

No all teachers are great and many of them have a lot to answer for.

Luckily no excuse is required.

Galileo managed to find time to read and that was in the "olden days". In the "olden days" men were the scientists and authors and inventors, not women. In the "olden days" the majority of men AND women were illiterate. But more women were illiterate than men. There may be no excuse for...

it's wrong.

Why have you picked up on Moto's sweeping generalisations. There are plenty more on this thread before Moto's but you havent mentioned them.

What? :confused: You'll have evidence to support this of course. I think this is an incredible claim.

Really? Boys only read about stuff they are interested in? Well I never. I think the same goes for females. I havent seen many women on the train reading books about boxing, that's for sure.

Wrong. I have never met a single girl or woman who would attribute their love of books to such a trite and overused cliche as "I'm reading to better myself for womankind. Girl Power!"

You'll be able to back up that the majority of males prefer building models (!) to reading of course. It's just that I have never met a single male who prefers making models to reading.

This thread is without doubt the most ridiculous I've ever seen on this forum. I'm actually going to take the trouble to go through it shortly and point out all the nonsensical comments. Some absolutely incredible remarks on this thread. I was sitting here shaking my head in disbelief as...

Yep. The Vampire Lestat was a fantastic piece of work. Queen of the Damned, wasn't quite so good. And things progressed downhill from there. Vittorio the Vampire was one of the worst books I've ever read.

English is it not? but that seems to obvious of course. Was there not a decision taken between English and German way back in yesteryear?

Well done Motokid! :) Iberian Peninsula Nigeria

no Stewart, not Botswana. Funnily enough folks, it's not France or Germany either. :)

The common tongue is English.

Alas, neither. Would you like a clue?