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Happy Birthday! Hope you're having a wonderful day :) .

Ell, I was really looking forward to talking to you, ah well, another time - for sure :) .

I say shite, I'm not Irish or Scottish. To cover up the spaminess of this post; I read the first 30 odd pages of Lisey's Story and then put it down. I usually quite like meandering reads, but this just sort of dragged very very slowly and couldn't keep my interest.

DS you know about my background, but for those that don't - I am from a Punjabi (Northern Indian) family. When I started school, we lived in London - about two roads away from Brick Lane, and the primary school I attended was made up of 100% non white students - in fact all of them were...

It's fine when I'm having a one to one conversation or a conference call, but i'm not sure whether the skypecast thing will work for me. We'll see. I'll be online Friday for most of the day - so I'll probably catch you then and we can test it out :D . Sofia & lady.cordelia, I'm looking...

Showgirls. Hilarious.

:D . Perhaps it's a little like the Ring - if they don't keep remaking the same film over and over agin, they're cursed, or haunted or something. you mean lines like 'I'm fighting, for something that's real for the first time in my life!' didn't melt your heart? :rolleyes: :D

Thank you for taking the trouble to set this up again DS :) . As long as Skype doesn't give me any trouble, I'll show up.

The Da Vinci Code - (well it was Halloween a few days ago :rolleyes: ) what on earth was Ron Howard thinking? How strange (and uncomfortable) does Tom Hanks look? Who'd have thought Amelie was from Christ's bloodline. I think I preferred the book. That is just one long film really isn't it.

I'm afraid I didn't actually like The Gospel According to the Son. I picked it up because the subject matter interests me immensely, plus I hadn't read any Mailer beforehand. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I found the book to be dull, it lacked zest and wasn't in the least bit...

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Waiting - Ha Jin The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory The Rice Mother - Rani Manicka The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy The Gospel according to the Son - Norman Mailer England; History of a Nation - David Ross The Women in Cages -...

Hello WriterJohnB, welcome to the forum :) .

Yes, you do make sense, always :). I do agree that Faulkner, although impressive, isn't very reader friendly.

Libre, So it all boils down to free speech? Is it okay to say whatever you want or should Free speech come with a responsibility, especially if you work in the public eye? - I'm not sure what the men in your list were fired for exactly, I'll look them up later if I can.

Not so much a liking for challenges, it's more a fondness for punishment I think. I adored As I lay Dying, because the story was so simple, but the characters so complex. It made me work, I had to sit up and concentrate and the only way to make sense of anything was to analyse everything. Both...

Oh yes, Ignatius and his love for the dog :rolleyes: :D . It's set in the early 1960's, and it is for sure worth a reread. Tabula Rasa? I never thought I would meet someone who would use that term so fittingly in everyday conversation - it's nice to meet you Flor :D .

Hello Ashlee, Welcome :)

Ah yes Mrs Levy - you can't fault her though - after all she took a psychology course, so she knows what she is talking about :D . Without Myrna and her views on sexual liberation, there would be no motivation for Ignatius to commit the follies he does. They do make quite the pair...

Finally finished it. It is a very amusing read and Ignatius has been duly added to my list of Most Memorable characters. Ignatius trying to identify the naked woman in the porn picture because she happens to be 'reading' his favourite book made me snigger, as did poor Miss Trixie the senile...

Not anymore Occlith :) .