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A few suggestions can be found in this thread. Regards, K-S

"non-fictional autobiographic novel" is a rather clumsy phrase, but if you mean you want to mix an autobiography with elements of fiction then that is indeed possible. I'm part way through "The Astonished Man" by Blaise Cendrars (Switzerland's greatest one armed novelist) at the moment, and the...

The word "Robot" was first used in the sense you mean by Karel Capek in the play R.U.R. (Rossums's Universal Robots). I can only really recommend it for historical value, as, like many of Capek's plays, it is pretty dreadful, and not a scratch on his writing in other forms. Regards, K-S

The Hunting Gun - Yasushi Inoue The Red Laugh - Leonid Andreyev The Compromise - Sergi Dovlatov The Doorman - Reinaldo Arenas

This is my favourite post on the board for ages. I haven't got a f@#king clue what it means, and I'm not going to read the rest of the thread to find out, I just like it. Perhaps Novella can move over from the therapy thread to help out? Yours in confused admiration, K-S

My new next door neighbour drives a white car with a red stripe, flashing lights on the roof and the word "police" written down the side. That tells me something very important. I need to stop tipping my rubbish over the fence. K-S

If Peter Crouch had the metabolism of Ronaldo, you’d have someone rivalled in size only by Oliver Kahn’s mouth: I bet you could get an entire melon in there, if you patted it in with a baseball bat. Time well spent too...

Agreed, differing tastes are what make the world go round, and trying to sort the wheat from the chaff is a laudable thing. However, and this is a general point not aimed at anyone in particular, if we get to the point where we think that better taste in books means we're a better person...

Surely trying to crush each other to death with our egos is more appropriate. btw, I'm gunna have to special order "Skipper Worse", apparently Waterstones (large UK bookshop chain) have never sold a single copy of the book. You and your mainstream suggestions!

Thanks for the invitation but I'm happy being one of the peons.

Now I'm confused as to which gang in the playground I should belong too. If I mix in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Boris Akunin with my Ibsen and Andrei Platonov does that make me bi-curious? Oh well, if battle lines must be drawn up, put me down for whichever side likes to read whetever they want...

The clue is in how the rankings are worked out. The only weighting factor used is in regional strength.. ...and there's not much difference at that. No account is taken of the actual quality of opposition, so a 1-0 win against Italy is rated no higher than a 1-0 win against San Marino. Edit...

Technically breasts are only designed for young children too. Anybody feel too grown up for them?

Are you crazy? You're talking like someone who has a life outside online forums...this is life and death to some of us...

?? Edit: That was as butch a photo as I could find...

Sweden have been one of the most successful national sides throughout history. Ignore the title, these are stats from 1872 to the present day.

The FIFA rankings have always been dodgy. Mexico is another example of a country that are much higher than they should be, in thier case this has happened for years. I agree that the Czechs looked impressive btw.

Except for his children's books perhaps.

Owen is a player who needs to be fully match fit to be effective, when he's not he can look pretty ordinary.

They're probably the best side we've seen so far, and looked excellent on the break. The defence was well organised, but seemed to depend as much on quantity as quality at times; that didn't stop Brazil four years ago, whether Argentina can do the same thing this time we'll have to wait and see.