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I recently acquired Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood, the sequel to Oryx & Crake which is one of my all-time favourite books. My question is this: Will it be necessary to reread Oryx & Crake before cracking the spine of The Year of the Flood, or could I do without? Not that...

This is the book I am currently reading and I am positively flying through it. I immensely enjoy Fry's fiction (Making History and The Hippopotamus come to mind) and I adored Moab Is My Washpot, the first part of his autobiography. This, The Fry Chronicles, is the second part, chronicling...

The book is a bit of a challenge but I would say it is well worth it.

Let me stress that while I vastly prefer American Gods over Anansi Boys, the latter is still a pretty darn good book. A Gaiman that is (in my opinion) not on top form is still better than most of the rest. And yes, HBO is supposedly turning AG into a series; Gaiman co-writes and the guys who...

While I like Goodreads I don't love it, and this is mainly due to aesthetics. It simply does not look as good and slick as it could, which bugs me. So, with that in mind I might have a gander at Library Thing even though switching seems unlikely simply because I do not want to manually input all...

I recently reread American Gods and I genuinely loved it, still. The depth of his mythology and his subtle mixture of (American) pop culture and the Norse pantheon are quite impressive indeed. I am very glad to hear that HBO is going to turn it into a TV show. I think that (if done well) it...

I should have known it was House Of Leaves, I love that book. It did flash through my brain as I read your description but I could not remember the copied newspaper clippings you mentioned so I dismissed it off-hand. Now that I think about it, those clippings are definitely in there. Well...

I think we did overlap, if only briefly. I do intend to stick around, one can never have enough book discussion, but I am shamefully bad at keeping something like this up. We'll see how it goes, no?

I have no idea what book you are referring to but I can offer an alternative as a gift for your strange-book-loving friend; give Jonathan Safran Foer's book Tree Of Codes a gander. It is as much a book as it is a sculpture with a different die-cut pattern on every page. Good luck on finding...

I tried watching this the other day and didn't manage to get past the 25-minute mark. It looked pretty enough (Seyfried especially) but, as mentioned above, the Twilight-isation of the classic tale is so noticeable to take all the enjoyment and/or thrill out of the film. When even...

For me, I'd say that it's the content that determines whether I like/love a book or not, but as I'm a very visually oriented person it's often the cover that determines whether I pick it up in the first place (assuming I'm browsing the shelves of a book shop). This is of course not always the...

I'll watch anything that Fincher does, even if it is a movie adaptation of an overhyped series of books. While Rapace did a great job in the original films I had the nagging feeling that she was slightly too old for the part. Mara Rooney feels better, in that respect, though it has to be seen...

Ordered a few books from Play.com (free shipping ftw): The Passage; The Year Of The Flood; The Great Perhaps; The Ice Age; Miss Wyoming; Beatrice and Virgil; The Omega Force ; The Death of Bunny Munro; The Angel's Game.

Does anyone here use Goodreads.com? It's a website with a social networking element that allows you to catalogue the books you own or want to own, lets you create lists of any type and write reviews of books you've read, along with many other features. I find it quite useful myself.

How lovely that this place is still around and brimming with activity. It must've been a good three years since I last logged in and several years more even since I was an active part of this here community. I just noticed that it's been almost nine years since I registered here. Seems a...

Ah yes, her outing me definitely ruined me. It's not like, since then, I've travelled the world for a full year. Or got married. Or found a dream job. Oh, hang on ... Novella. I liked her, too.

Your PM actually drew me back in. I'm not staying, just reminiscing.

All too familiar indeed.

Hey, thanks for the welcome.

Hello all. I'm Martin. Some of you may remember me, most of you won't. Anyway, hi.