Sue Denim..

Book 7 of the Robert Jordan Wheel of Time books.

Why did I start this series? It goes on forever!

Definately go for China Mieville. The Bas-lag novels (Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council) are good but personally I'd start with Embassytown or The City and The City.

Just finished 'Railsea'. Supposed to appeal to the teenage market but It certainly appealed to me.  

Should be a nice quiet affair I should think.

I've read these too, one says 'God will Die'. They are everywhere. I reckon God did it.

DIY Razor.

Things I'm going to miss about Bruce Millers;

They did a damn fine breakfast in the cafe.

They sold lottery tickets.

They sold mandolins.

The clock cheered me up when waiting for a bus.

All the music was layed out. Unlike most music shops where finding a music book is like digging through your old LP collection.

What's worse for your health, cigarettes or rolling tobacco? If it makes a difference, I put filters in my rollies.

Please note, I didn't ask for a lecture on smoking. Just answer the fucking question

Roll-your-own cigarettes: how dangerous are they? Cancer Research UK – Science Update

If you can't be arsed clicking on the link, the general gist is that they are about as bad as each other.

I was just wondering if there is any good arcade games at codonas right now ?

I can't think why in this day and age of Xboxes, PS3s etc someone will still want to put 1 or more into an arcade machine for less than 2 minutes of gameplay.

Arcades were great in the '80s. Now they're shite.

Son: I had sex with the girl next door.

Dad: I hope you were wearing something son?

Son: Yes, a balaclava!

Son: Dad, I got a wank from a girl at school today.

Dad: Son, keep this up and you're going to lose that teaching job.

Read the first book in 'The Hunger Games' trilogy by Suzanne Collins. People keep banging on about them so I figured I'd give them a read before the films came out next year. It was pretty great for a book aimed at teenagers. Really fucking dark in places, well written and the characters are a LOT more rounded out than anything you'll find in that Twilight shite. 1984 meets Battle Royale.

I finished the third book in the series last week and must say that right up to the end I was hooked. (I can' t wait to see how Haymitch is portrayed in the film. To me, he outshone the main characters.)

In the middle of reading some Kafka for the first time. (Short stories) I was hoping to finally get to the bottom of the meaning of 'Kafkaesque' but I'm still none the wiser.

Not the distopian nightmare author I was expecting. Not altogether bad either. Think Edgar Allan Poe without the horror.

Reading "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins. (Trilogy)

Don't be put off by the 'Teen Fiction' tag on these books. They are a pretty (if easy) good read.

About a dystopian future where kids are put into an arena to fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses. Think running man / battle royal.

Apparently, it's being made into a film for next year.

It was actually an invention MJ made himself and he got it patented:

Method and means for creating anti ... - Google Patent Search

If that works, I'm going to try it.

How did Michael Jackson do that trick where he dances around, leans over forward 45 degrees and then leans back and carries on dancing?

I think it was on the Smooth Criminal video.

Do they still make Aberdeen Monopoly ?

Worse still was an Aberdeen related game called "Walkin' the Mat".

It was shite to the nth degree.

The answers to pretty much all the questions were "The Aberdeen Tram system", "Kelly's Cats" or "Union Terrace Gardens".

Just finished the above book.

Pretty good. All about a monk trying to prove the existance of God on a fucked up planet where visions come to life.

... ends up Satan is God. ... there, ruined it!

Dunno, but i hear they really dig them both in Nigeria.

If you stick them both into Google trends and look at Britain, it looks like Gumtree gets a lot more hits.

Just finished "Iron Council" by China Mieville.

It's the third Bas-Lag steampunk novel, no where near as good as the last two but there is a rather cool monk (Qurabin) who can call in favours from his Gods.

Candide is such a wonderful book.

Never read Don Quixote and like you I've heard varying reports from other people as to whether it is fantastic or turgid.

Candide is indeed funny... if a little tragic as I recall.

Don Quixote is awful. It's like watching a bad comedian, you know it's supposed to be funny but you just cringe.

Good call..... I've just defaced this page!

How do you say "Cheers" in Italian?

Thanks, I've jumped the gun and beaten my dog to death to be on the safe side.

Terry-Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thank you. I feel suitably stupid for not knowing that.

I feel a bit of a mong for asking this but who is the actor in Frosty Jack's Avatar?

I am now going to tackle 'Moby Dick', it's been sitting in my pile of unread 'classics' for far too long, like, years.

Oh dear. My better half had to study Moby Dick as part of an English degree and I never heard the end of how bad it was.

You'll be reading a lot of descriptions of whales apparently.

Would people be more likely to believe in God if we found out it/he wasn't sentient?

Imagine God as some kind of Universe creating machine, kind of like a photocopier spewing out universes because that's all it can do.

Create Universe, Uncreate Universe, Create Universe, Uncreate Universe.

If only science could prove God was a non-sentient creation machine I think people would have no need to 'worship' it/him.

.... after all, you don't worship your photocopier.