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Remind me. Which of the Simpsons is he? I can't believe it's Carl. Carl's great...

The actress who plays Solitaire is probably the one most likely to set the hearts of teenage boys racing. Which goes to show you what they know about women. The first scene with Eva Green, not an actress I knew much about, had me thinking 'ok, sophisticated looking girl, not sure why Bond would...

I don't have time to write a long review, so I'll just throw down a few quick thoughts for those thinking of going to see the new bond film 'Casino Royale'. Firstly, this is the best action film I’ve seen for a long time, probably the best bond film by some way, and Daniel Craig may end up...

Half a dozen more Bond books: Live and Let Die Diamonds are Forever Dr No Moonraker Thunderball Goldfinger The General of the Dead Army - Ismail Kadare Selected Stories - Julian Maclaren-Ross

Bought, and read: Casino Royale - Ian Fleming Are you stalking my 2006 reading list?

So you didn't like 'Ham on Rye' then?

I’ve got a few Bukowski books on my shelves and I’m sure I’ll add more over the years to come. I like his work, but with a few qualifications. The sparse prose is a big draw for me; it’s the writing style that chimes best with my taste. The subject matter is also a plus, and this seems to be...

The Oxfam in town has a separate literature section. I found ‘Silence’ in there and 'The Idiot' which was in good condition and only £1.49. Also a six volume complete works of Shakespeare: Histories, Tragedies, Comedies, Sonnets, Limericks and shopping lists, or some such. But they weren’t in...

Yup. I read 'The Sea and Poison' last month, and liked his style more than the execution - if that's the right phrase to use for a book about human vivisection. Saw 'Silence' in a charity shop today and decided to give it a go. Aparently Graham Greene thinks it's "One of the finest novels of...

Can't being doin' with all that foreign stuff

Silence - Shusaku Endo The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky

After completing two books in three months, I somehow got back on tracks again. Not hitting a bad book all month probably helped… 1) One Man's Justice by Akira Yoshimura – 8/10 Review here. 2) Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich – 7/10 Review here. 3) Corksucker by Dan...

Watched Team America again on DVD last night. Spent most of the day saying 'Maaatt Daaamon' to people for no reason. It even annoyed me, and I think I'm great, normally...

??? The only bookmark I got was a Foyles receipt slip.

Not much time to add more than I did in the 'Olympic Challange' thread. I've read all the Boris Akunin books translated into english so far. The four 'Erast Fandorin' books, of which 'Turkish Gambit' is the best. Also the first of the Sister Pelagia Mysteries, 'Pelagia and the White Bulldog'...

Thanks for the link, there is some interesting stuff on there. I'll have a further browse when I get chance. The last I heard about Akunin was seeing the start of an interview with him on, I think, Newsnight, which is BBC TV's flagship nightly news show. He was talking about the difficulties...

It's a looooong time since I saw them, must have been late 80's. I was going to see everything I could back then, some of which, enduring an entire Loop gig for example, proved to be a very bad idea. Anyway, I've wandered... From what I remember, your description isn't too far off the mark...

Trying to cut down on book purchases but..... Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit - P.G. Wodehouse

Ah, Laibach. Happy memories of rushing out to buy 'Let it Be' from Red Rhino records in York, not so happy memories of the times I caught them live, they were dreadful. Perhaps I caught them on a rare bad day, both times...

I've read "All Quiet on the Western Front" but can't remember a bloody thing about it (I have a bad memory). However I can recall having positive thoughts about it, just not what they were exactly.