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I am in a Lord Byron phase. I started with his own The giaour, an epic poem about, actually, a vampire. Then I read Tom Holland’s The vampyre, in which we learn that Ld B was – well, more correctly is – a vampire himself. After that John Crowley’s Lord Byron’s novel: The evening land, about the...

Empty your mailbox, dude! Or is it a deliberate tactic to avoid PMs? ;) *mrkgnao*

Thomas Pynchon is (allegedly) coming out with a new novel!!! :D :dance of joy: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_en_ot/books_thomas_pynchon There won't be an author tour... :rolleyes: *mrkgnao*

Which movies could you watch (have you watched?) a thousand times? :rolleyes: :eek: ;) :cool: Mine are: Casablanca, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon Cry-Baby Smiles of a summer night Those magnificent men in their flying machines Blazing saddles The Rocky Horror picture show The...

I've found Robert Browning's Childe Roland, and the fairy tale of Child Rowland and Burd Ellen, but apparently there's also a Scottish ballad about the latter. Do any of ya ken it? *mrkgnao*

Considering my future, I'm curious about what the odds are for having a good boss... :rolleyes: There are four options: Your boss is a bad boss, i.e. bad when it comes to planning, personnel relations etc, and also bad at the job, i.e. bad at the business your company does; Your boss is a bad...

In The Gunslinger, Roland's hat is said to be as gone as his horn. But now in The waste lands, he's taking his hat off for a polite greeting. Who's missed something - me or Stephen? :rolleyes: *mrkgnao*

In the jocular spirit of the day... :cool: Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine. A backward poet writes inverse. A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. Dijon vu - the same mustard as before. Practice safe eating - always use condiments. Shotgun...

What web sites and/or magazines et cetera do you read to get information and inspiration about books? *mrkgnao*

"Director Michael Winterbottom attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman." " (imdb.com) :eek: Well, it's certainly brave to try... :rolleyes: And I suppose it could be done, if it's done with...

Thought I'd try this forum too :) (I've read some of the other posts and will write clever comments when I'm feeling clever.;) ) This is a song I wrote in January and February. It's not bitter at all :rolleyes: Comments welcome. Waiting for the Sun of Spring He's beaten black and blue...

I am currently reading The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips. At first, I thought I'd compare it with books like Dracula and The Historian - historical suspense written in the form of letters and diaries. But this one has a twist... Usually in this type of book the narrators are implicitly...

Time to confess: how much of a book nerd are you? What weird things do you do that make people look at you funny, even if they love books as much as you do – if you dare admit to them? ;) With the risk of being the only one, I’ll go first: I catalogue my books when I’ve read them, in a...

I've just started reading Jasper Fforde's latest book The big over easy, a nursery crime novel :D Not being familiar with many English nursery rhymes, I'm going to need help with some... I've found Jack Spratt and Mary Mary, but what I've found on the Gingerbread Man doesn't quite match his...

I'd like to recommend a series of children's/YA books: Being: a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure upon the High Seas: Piratica - Presented Most Handsomely by he Notorious Tanith Lee, and Being: The Return of a most Intrepid Heroine to Sea and Secrets: Piratica II, Return to Parrot...

I've recently been on a book-shopping-spree in London (list on the Recently Purchased-thread), and I had a list with me when I arrived, but I was forced to abandon it rather quickly: Are there no American books to be bought in the UK? There were quite a few werewolf novels I was looking...

How do you organise your bookshelves? The topic came up in the "Pictures of your book collection" thread, but I felt it deserved a thread of its own (because I'm always looking for new ways...:) ) After trying all sorts of orders (library classification, by colour, by size, alphabetical by...

How do I hide spoilers in a post? *mrkgnao*

My old boss came into the bookstore today and asked if I thought he'd like Hesse's The Steppenwolf... Now, the thing is I've read it three times and I love it, but I'm so emotionally attached to it I couldn't really guess whether he'd enjoy it... He asked (knowing I read some weird books)...

Today in Sweden starts the big, traditional annual Book Sale. Every year, virtually all the publishers put together lists of the books they are taking out of print (and, lately, more and more reprinted bestsellers and classics), and they sell them to the book stores at low prizes. Most stores...