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One for bobby http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Friedrich_Nietzsche

But if it's a popularity contest, surely you're second bottom, with Raven and Novella at the top (since they won't be podded with the death of personality etc)?

Indeed. The original was a classic (and I still go back to it). Why does it need yet another crap remake? :rolleyes: As an aside... King King and the Invisible Man. Both made in 1933. Both still manage to put a lot of modern movies to shame in terms of effects

This is all your fault Freya Well I quite like this one: http://www.isc.ro/download.html Is there somewhere I can get a list of 2 letter words (the big words I come up with only come up with 9 or 10 points, whilst the annoying 2 letter words come up with 20-30 by intersecting with multiple...

It's not her fault she's so popular :D OK I'll change it back

Huh? I was forgotten again :( I'm going to have to reconfigure the personality altering laser so someone will remember me. Thank you

if it is authorised (ie through Darren, who often lets long standing members post links), then generally it's allowed. Otherwise, feel free to shoot away (though shooting seems a little too quick -we're always open to new suggestions with regards to what to do with them).

How many people use second hand bookshops? And where'd they all disappear to? The closest I've seen at the moment seems to be ebay (though I guess the Oxfam shop qualifies although the selection isn't always great).

It's good to see somone enjoying a decent read. I see where you're coming from with the spoonfeeding aspect. I'm wondering why books marketed at the mass populance assume their readers have a short attention span and need to explain every nuance? How many people here have also read the...

When I was in Malaysia, I went into a few bookshops looking for something new. I wasn't too happy seeing that a significant proportion of the books were imported from the UK, some (eg Irving's work) with a smaller booksize. Granted there were a few from the US (eg that newsagent-like place...

It's under science fiction (as are most of Silverberg's works). One of the 2 to die must be willing to commit suicide, and the other will be murdered by the others. It's quite interesting trying to work out who lives and who dies, especially if you look at it from a philosphical kind of view.

I'm reading Silverberg's Book of Skulls. One question- what exactly is existentialism?

Sorry to see you go. Best wishes

Good point. There are so many anti-heroes out there in this day and age that the honour system seems to have become the exception rather than the norm. How well do you think the concept of 'natural justice' would have held up if the book had been written by a modern author for today's audience?

I guess we'll just have to confiscate (sorry ban) the 144 jars of tasty looking cherries ;)

I guess it must be me. Downbelow Station just didn't engage me. Cyteen was better, though a little confusing at times. I'll admit I haven't read her fantasy work. Cherryh and Le Guin (Left Hand of Darkness, Earthsea)- 2 authors I'd really like to enjoy, but for some reason I just seem to...

All that praying for a mod sounds like hard work. Have a doughnut. We could tell you but then we'd have to do that Men in Black thing with the neuralizer. Say cheese If you want the serious answer, I guess it's done on a case by case basis, normally involving a number of warnings.

At risk of going off topic I predicted that one from the start :D It did help that WB did release it into the cinema here about 10-15 times (no VCRs, no TV reruns -just rerelease it next yr. In fact it's just been put on limited release in the cinemas now). I was surprised that...

Top 10 Hardback fiction according to the Sunday Times (also prepared by the Bookseller). Take a look at no 9 which has only just entered the top 10, and will make its way up in the coming weeks 1) The Graft - Martina Cole (another one of those trashy authors I can't stand) 2) Going Postal...

And who's buying the Danielle Steel books? Noone even borrows them from the libraries. Ah well, I'm sure most people take the bestseller list as seriously as I take the pop charts. That 'international bestseller' label seems to be applied to too many books out there anyway.