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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...

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...

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

Is this place still around? I kinda reckoned it'd stop existing once I left. Who'd've thunk it? Proceed, if you must. P.S.: How the hell is everybody?

I've been on a rereading binge this year; at least 3/4 of what I've read this year, I read for a second time. And something struck me as funny. First impressions are, at least for me, it seems, not always 100% correct. While my first impressions of the bulk of the books I reread this year...

This is something I touched upon in another thread, and I was wondering if any of you are familiar with this peculiar phenomenon. I'll use the same example I used in the other thread I linked to, for clarity's sake. I love Jasper Fforde's novels, and sofar there are five of them. I own...

Deadwood is another HBO series I've been hearing good things about. Haven't seen a single episode, though. Has anyone seen enough of this to form an opinion about it? Any good? Cheers

So, lately I've been on the lookout for some good television shows; do you guys have any suggestions? I'm thinking along the lines of Carnivale, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, that kind of stuff, but feel free to recommend anything you think I'd like. Just be sure to motivate your...

After The Last Man On Earth (1964) and The Omega Man (1971), Richard Matheson's classic zombie novel is coming to the big screen, courtesy of Constantine-director Francis Lawrence. Should be good.

It's spam. In the website feedback section. If not kill it, then move it.

Have a great birthday, Ice - I hope Phil has it in him to treat you like you deserve to be treated on this one day of the year. Have a great day, and many happy returns!

Motokid is going to be so pissed off when he gets back.

My efforts to improve this forum (in my opinion) has resulted in me taking quite some shit over in the other thread, and, to be honest, I really don't care. What I do care about is that the thread, which was going places before it got nasty, is being derailed by this nonsense. So, if you have...

What the hell happened to this place over the last six months? Where did it go wrong? Where did the downward spiral begin, and where, if anywhere, will it end? Anyone?

So many birthdays, just too many to mention. So, to all these people ... Happy birthday! Cheers

Many happy returns. Cheers

Otherwise known as bobbyburns - the quintessential anti-hero if I ever saw one. I know your not here anymore, but happy birthday nonetheless. Many happy returns, my friend. Cheers

Due to circumstances, I'll be out for a while. I'll be around, lurking, and posting sporadically, I guess, but you won't be seeing a whole lot of me in the near and not so near future. Hey, hey, don't bring out the champagne, I'm still here! It's been fun, guys. It truly has. In the...