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Happy Birthday Libre, Have a lovely day :)

What were your best reads of 2006? Mine were: 1) The River of Doubt; Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest journey, Candice Millard. A well written, gripping account of Roosevelt’s journey down the unexplored River of Doubt – a tributary of the Amazon. The expedition is badly prepared for – so...

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto has opened at number one in the US box office. Anyone seen it yet or going to see it? Does Gibson's actions (see HERE ) in the past affect your decision to watch the film?

Happy Birthday!, I hope you have a lovely day :) Be sure to save me some cake!

Here we are Lady C, a nice empty thread to fill up. So how have you been? How is darling AJ and the other kids?

I have an embarrassing addiction to martial arts movies. I don't mean just the er celebrated Kung Fu ones, but also the really over the top cheesy American ones from the late 70s/80s (I'm thinking Best of the Best, No Retreat no Surrender etc). Yes they were rubbish, but gloriously rubbish - the...

The following statements about the Bible were written by children and have not been retouched or corrected (i.e., bad spelling has been left in.): 1)In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, God got tired of creating the world, so he took the Sabbath off. 2)Adam and Eve were created from...

HERE is an article about Britains first Gay fathers. These bits of the article caught my eye: and: So which is it?

Happy Birthday, Look I even got you a present, Obviously you can't open it yet - as I think I'm a bit early ;) . But since it is your birthday over here - I shall have a drink in your honour (so what if it's just after 7am?:D ) Have a lovely day.

What are the top ten things you really want to experience before you're.. er ...dead. Mine, in no particular order... 1) Climb Mount Everest (or more realistically just get to Base camp) 2) See the temples at Luxor & Karnak 3) Go scuba diving in the Red Sea 4) Gamble at a casino in...

A new James Bond book is going to be published. The writer is not being revealed but is apparently 'Very Well known & Highly Respected'. Hmmm... Place your bets, who do you think it is or who do you hope it isn't? Have to wait until 2008 to find out though :D . Link

HERE are the 100 best non fiction titles, I haven't even heard of most of them before. Are there any you would add/takeaway from the list?

Happy Birthday Lenny, hope you're having a great one. :)

Peder, Steffee, Pontalba, StillILearn & everyone else reading along, I've done the hard part and created the thread. All you have to do now is the um..easy discussion/analysis/solving the puzzle bit.:D

I stayed up last night and finally finished this. Book reviews aren’t exactly my forte, but I’ll have a quick go. Somersault centres on a doomsday cult which is referred to only as ‘The Church’ and is led by two men named Patron and Guide. Initially it was Patron’s mystic visions that gave...

I've just been loitering around the guiness world records site ( yes I don't have anything better to do). Which record would you most like to break? Furthest Spaghetti Nasal Ejection is rather appealing, Kevin Cole from New Mexico is the title holder. What a talented man.

My head is full of strange, useless bits of information, and i'm always looking for more :D so i thought i would start this thread - whoever correctly answers the question below first would then post a question of their own and so forth - and this way i will pick up even more obscure bits of...

Hi all, I can't seem to find a thread for this, so thought i would start one here. I was just wondering who among us are poetry lovers? what/who are your favourite poems/poets?

Okay I just realised that I never actually 'introduced' myself in this thread - just kinda sneaked in through the back door whilst you guys weren't looking :o So ummm about two months too late and after some 150 posts i thought i would say Hi to everyone, and thank you all for your warm...

Okay I know this is a really dumb thread, but what the heck. this halloween i'm going to a big party - where the costume theme is characters from books, I gotta prepare early as i go away at the end of sept for a good few weeks but i have no clue who i should dress as - any ideas? Plus feel...