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Hmmm - off the top of my head I'd say...Stephen Blackpool in Dickens' Hard Times...annoying and miserable. Everyone in Ann Pratchett's book "Bel Canto" - in fact, I don't even know how I finished it! Florentino's lovesick infatuation bugged me so much in "Love in the Time of Cholera" that...

Was convinced by the discussion in the author's forum....and went and bought "The Eyre Affair", Fforde, in my lunch hour yesterday....enjoying it already!!:)

I recently read "Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents" by Prachett and I couldn't stop laughing... it's a "kid's book", but as I find with many books that publishers list in their kid's section...it's a great read for anyone! :D

I don't scare very easily with books - not like I did when I was a wee thing - that's one of the reasons I stopped reading horror. But thinking back, I remember being scared when I read "The Fly" - short story by Langelaan. For some reason that story stayed with me for ages. I have to join...

I'm with you Silly Wabbit, I don't continue with a book that I'm not into...although I may go back to it and try again..life's too short. ;) The only time I force myself to perservere is when it's just the characters I don't like - sometimes that can tell me something about myself. For...

Hi everyone, I'm glad to have found an active forum for book talk. My reading taste is pretty broad. I mainly read fiction - but I'm not completely allergic to non-fiction. Among my favourite books of all time....Sacred Hunger, Unsworth, Midnight's Children - Rushdie, Vanity Fair -...