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depends on the woman. food and shopping hold no joys for me. this woman likes scifi and fantasy books and computers, and techie toys.. action and scifi movies... action figures.. quiz, puzzle, and weird stuff websites.. you can't generalise about this! we are all different.

i've always liked Dymocks here in Australia.. but a HUGE Borders opened not so long ago in a shopping centre near to me, and it's something else! pity about Gloria Jean being the coffee shop inside tho, i've never liked their coffee.. great choice of books, good sale prices, and good...

recently celebrated our 13th year of blissful marriage! and he has always encouraged my love of books... :) he passed one of the 'tests' the first time he stood in front of my bookshelves with a look of total awe on his face.. :D

yes, i tend to skip the sexy bits myself.. i remember enjoying JD Robb's Eve Dallas series, but always skipped the sex.. it was totally unnecessary! i don't want to sound like a prude, i have enough of the real thing to not need to read about it in a mystery novel..

the magician has to be strong and smart and not too old and doddery, have a dry sense of humour and live in an old stone tower with lots of books and cobwebs....

if i am skimming, it's time to find another book, or just give up for the day and do that which i have been avoiding, usually housework! :D

both my glasses are small half frames, so i can wear them down my nose a bit, like an old schoolmarm... lol.. but i only need glasses for close work, and the computer monitor, and a stranger pair for reading.. but if i look at the tv or anything in the distance with my glasses, my stomach...

yep.. i'll raise my hand here, in favour of larger print rather than smaller, and i don't mean LARGE print books.. i already have to use a stronger prescription pair of reading glasses for books.. starting to consider going to ebooks, for lots of reasons, not just being able to adjust font...

watched and purchased all the movies.. :) a few times over at that, thank goodness for DVD :rolleyes: have read a few of the books.. some are good, some are not.. problem with them, as with all the star trek books too, is the number of authors who bend their writing around the same...

news to me that 'people' look down on those who read mysteries.. i love them! i seem to only read scifi/fantasy, or mysteries.. i don't like non-fiction! i read purely for entertainment.... same reason i watch movies.. bubble gum for the brain.. i've had it to the eyeballs with being...

talking about ruining series...... can i add Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind to this discussion? i love both the WOT and SOT books, but i am really wondering if both of these authors will have finished these series before they die.

i once met CJ Cherryh at a booksigning... i listened to all the fan questions, on her books, her writing etc, as i waited for my time, and i watched her eyes glaze over... finally it was my time, and i asked her if she liked Australia, and my city of Sydney most of all - her eyes did not...

do you watch them? marketing ploy? both audio and visual quality alone would be enough to make dvds more attractive, add to that less storage space required, a much longer life span (how many tapes just 'go bad' sitting on a shelf?) and the 'special features' most of them have, and the old...

by genre, then by author.. with the lesser favoured stacked behind the others, as practically all my shelves are double stacked...

it's all been said already... i have loved the Gormenghast books for such a long time now.. it's not been so long since i replaced my worn set of three books with a nice new all in one version... the BBC production of the series for tv was brilliant also!

i thought about this thread today as i picked up 3 books for $AU12 as i wandered past the newsagency.. (chuckle)

i always knew i was not alone in this... :D i am a compulsive book buyer.. i tell myself that one day i won't be able to buy books, so i best stock up on a few now.. my only problem is remembering if i have a book already, if i haven't read it yet, chances are i'll forget i already have...

christian religious themes. enough said perhaps.

and i had my sig line there before i read this thread.. :D

BALLADE OF THE BOOKWORM. Far in the Past I peer, and see A Child upon the Nursery floor, A Child with books upon his knee, Who asks, like Oliver, for more! The number of his years is iv, And yet in Letters hath he skill, How deep he dives in Fairy-lore! The Books I loved, I love them...