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Rupert Psmith.

A few more suggestions: Books written in Prison. Epistolary novels. Drug induced books.

You should see the movie, it's good to see Dev Anand in action before he became creepy.

^Narayan as a person was interesting, his literary voice and cultural experience* are important. I don't fare too well with his work however, its fine while reading but if I put it down for a second or two then oft times I forget to pick it up again. I have seen the Hindi adaptation of Guide...

^ Bradbury has a ridiculous amount of short stories too, here's one: The Veldt - Ray Bradbury Joderu95,the formicium giganteum will be rolling in their amber! As long as we don't forget the Fiction bit, I'm not so fussed with labels. SyFy is special. :|

Science-Fiction is a convenient term. Science covers all manner of activity, from understanding the composition of stars to developing weapons systems to navigating the complexities of our brains. And everything in between. So the word itself conjures up so many ideas and images in our...

Stunning, thank you. I'd been reading The Sorrow Gondola collection. It was written after his stroke, which left him paralysed and took away his powers of speech. The poems are partly about his near death and the general brevity of life, and partly about the speechlessness. Looked, at times...

Just the one, then, The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler.

Were there any particular ones you found more beautiful than the rest? I love how his poetry doesn't really feel like poetry in the traditional sense, the poems come across (imo) as slight stories, thoughtful pondering, and the spur of the moment observations that strike us when we see...

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco The Mind's Eye by Håkan Nesser

Maybe she's waiting for a please. How many proper super stars does Hollywood actually have these days?

Scenes from a Marriage. Terribly intense, felt emotionally beaten up by the end.

Would a kind soul please explain how it works?

Don't know. Wouldn't count on it.

I was at the British Library. They have a working draft of Mrs Dalloway on display in the treasure room. Apparently, writing Mrs Dalloway was the first time she felt like she had found her writing voice. I should have read the additional information, but my attention was on the Beatles display -...

A Fistful of Dollars. The Gunfighter. McCabe & Mrs Miller - not a traditional western, but a darn good film all the same. Tombstone was fun too.

Enter the Void. Gasper Noe is a psychedelic magician with a camera, worth watching for that alone.

For those that care, happy bloomsday. I'm about to tuck into a Gorgonzola sandwich, and a glass of burgundy.

YouTube - ‪Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home [2009]‬‏

I will admit to tearing up a little whilst reading this. However, I hasten to add, that has more to do with me being an emotional pansy than the book actually being genuinely moving. Overall, it was meh. War veteran cum maintenance man arrives in the afterlife and, with the help of five people...