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I have a BA (majoring in Psychology), and will be returning to uni this year to undertake my postgraduate year. Then two years of supervision and I'm a psychologist (basically). Hey Rien, let me know how your psych units are going/ have gone!

This is definitely on my TBR list, as I feel that it will describe the feelings that I have toward religion in an articulate and eloquent way that I can't quite manage. If this topic interests people, there was a documentary series made by John Safran a few years ago called John Safran vs...

I think stabbed , as I hear it's a very personal and passionate attack, and then I might have some idea why I'm being stabbed. Make sense? No, it doesn't to me anymore, either... Would you rather eat 5000 lemons, or try to explain the concept of string theory to Britney Spears?

I agree with Monkeycatcher - but not only has Hussein been made into a martyr for those who look up to him and/or share his ideals, but I feel this is a step backward in what the West claims it is trying to achieve in Iraq. I have read some details of Hussein's trial in the past couple of days...

I'm usually reading two at once - one that I haven't read before and have to pay attention to (this I read during the day), and one comfort book that I use to read myself to sleep (e.g. King, Bryson, Tolkien, Hornby, Rowling).

The Witches is quite a freak-out for an under-ten, but I agree with mehastings - I have revisited a few of his stories lately and found them a tad less magical. I haven't read any of his works for adults, Stewart. Any good?

I don't know if I'm cynical. I do say a lot of cynical things, and I don't think I'd go ten minutes without saying something sarcastic, but I think deep down I like to believe in the good intentions that people have. So, maybe I'm not cynical, I'm an optimist (opposite of cynical? who can be...

Noooo! We were late so we missed the previews! My friends missed the first part of the movie because I had a great big sook about missing the previews...man, I lurrrvvvve previews. Now I know that 'The Simpsons' might have been shown, I shall whinge even louder, and insist that next time we...

I will be attending a New Years evening dinner at a local winery/vineyard. I'm going with my two BFs and their boyfriends (hellooooooo fifth wheel!), so I'm hoping that I drink enough to have fun without whingeing about being the only single person there. I'm also hoping that the girls will not...

I've thought about this too, but my idea was that it isn't Harry, but some other person who is the final Horcrux. It would be interesting for it to be someone that they know (Neville, Lupin, Ginny, Malfoy, Snape etc etc); heighten the drama and all that, but I don't see how it could be...

This came out on Boxing Day here, so we chose it as our latest movie-to-replace-LOTR (all of which came out on Boxing Day here, btw). I tok a couple of friends, who were reluctant because they had heard it was a kid's movie. We were pretty impressed. I thought it took a while to get going, but...

Well you've hit the nail on the head, there. Of course if we allow an infinite amount of time, all of these probablilties become moot (monkeys, typewriters and all that). But time (as we measure it, time since the big bang if you will) has not reached infinite status (as it can't). The universe...

I believe that the odds are that there is some form of life elsewhere in this vast universe. What I find it hard to believe, given the astronomical (no pun intended) odds involved, is that any of this life is intelligent enough to have acquired the same knowledge of the universe that we have...

I usually give books as presents to my immediate fam, but I'm the only one who ends up reading them! This year I received a couple of books from my brother's girlfriend (she knows me too well!): On Beauty by Zadie Smith, and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Have heard great things about both, so...

I don't know if I'd go so far as to call myself an atheist, but I suppose I should. It's not that I don't want to believe in God or whatever, it's just that I haven't seen enough evidence to convince me that I should. Aqua, can you explain to me what agnostic means? I'm fascinated by the...

No, it's not that either. Thanks, though!

Okay guys. I need help with the title of a book I read...about fourteen years ago. My cousin gave it to me to read, and she had it from when she was a kid, so I'm guessing this was printed (this edition anyway) in the 1970s. All I can remember of the story is that a young girl goes to live...

I STILL cannot get through Foucault's Pendulum. I picked it up after hearing such great things about it on this forum. The problem is, I find it so hard to absorb the information that I often find myself sitting and holding the book, but my mind is going over and over something that I've just...

None come to mind, but do a search for terms like "cabin fever". There are also various "readalike" sites (in the vein of 'if you liked A you'll like B'). I can't think of any right now, but google the term read alike and you'll find a few. A lot of library websites provide this service. Let us...

I think my longest stretch would have been about ten or eleven hours when I was reading HP6 (which I have just realised I have lent to someone and they haven't returned....oooooooh!).