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I did like Code of the Woosters, and have since purchased 'Hot Water', 'Jeeves in the Offing' and...um...another one - I forget which. :) Mxx

The 'official' top 21 is as follows: Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres Catch 22, Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell Harry Potter and the Goblet...

Hi John, welcome to the forum. No, it's not sad that you read before sleep - I do that all the time (and I am actually in bed as I write this with a book and a cup of coffee besides me - heaven). Well done on your edition of Vernon, although I can't tell you whether or not it has increased...

Exactly - his father taught him that there is no one animal more dangerous than another, or one less dangerous than other - so why should he find one religion more fulfilling than another - or less fulfilling? This is why Pi is content to follow three religions. The Japanese transport...

I also very much like Charles Dickens - which is your favourite of his? Mine, so far, has to be Great Expectations featuring the hateful Pip and the wonderful creation of Miss Havisham. Mxx

Holes is a childrens book written by Louis Sachar, and is currently featured in the BBC (UK) Top 100 of the 'Nations favourite books'. It follows the story of Stanley Yelnats who is sent to 'Camp Green Lake' - a detention centre for youths. Camp Green Lake is an ironic title though, as it's...

Likewise, read the book a few times - it's fabulous, and should see the film next week. From the clips I've seen I'm glad I read it first, because the characters in the film do not look how I imagined them. I just gave the book to my housemate to read and, although he enjoyed it, it was...

I've just read this for another book group and thought I would copy this which I had written for it... Contains Spoilers and Questions My first thoughts about this book were that it was going to be a Dr-Doolittle style event with a sweet little Indian boy stuck in a boat with talking...

Just Finished: Life of Pi - Yann Martel Currently Reading: Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman Next Read: Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood Mxx

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (Everyman's edition) Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood Mxx

I will be reading Atwood's Oryx and Crake for another book group next month. It will be the first of hers that I have read and am very much looking forward to it. Mxx

Hi Linda, welcome to the forum. What are you reading just now? Who's your favourite author? Mxx

Hello Lyra, welcome to the forum. What are you reading just now? Mxx

I haven't read it yet...although it's quite near the top of my 'to read' list. I need to read Dracula and Life of Pi this month for book groups, then I will probably read Noughs and Crosses, then next months group read of Oryx and Crake - and then, hopefully, The Lovely Bones. Shall let you...

Oh, what it would be like to show such restraint - I wish that I could show the same amount of level of self control. My Bank must seriously be considering changing my monthly statements to now read, on official headed paper, 'Waterstones Invoice'. I intend my next purchases to be Oryx...

I've only gone up one to 35 since last time I posted. Another 15 on the shelf though. Mxx

Welcome to the foum aldwick, May I ask, which book did you 'release' into the wild and where abouts did you set the little blighter free? Only if you left the latest Harry Potter book resting precariously above a doorway then it could result in a highly serious injury! :D Mxx

That's a great idea your mother had to get you to read. I would pay a lot more than that to read those books again for the first time, books are never the same when you are rediscovering them. The next stage of the Big Read Top 100 is on Saturday 18th October where they are drawing up the...

Welcome to the forum Paimprenelle, I can't think of many French authors that I have read myself, with the exception of Camus, who is brilliant, and Houellebecq, whom I hated. Furthermore, I'm afraid I cannot read French so I am stuck with translations which inevitably lose something when...

'Lord Chesterfield's Advice To His Son' (actually some 's' characters are represented by 'f' and it's a really long title of 'Lord Chefterfield's Advice To His Son, on Men and Manners or, A New System of Education. In which The Principles of Politeness, The Art of Acquiring A Knowledge of the...