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I am about a third of my way through this now! Haven't read all the posts on this thread because I didn't want to see any spoilers, but couldn't resist just saying a few words.

I am loving the...

A recent article on BBC Culture named Sebastian Faulk's Devil May Care as the best Bond reboot? Do any of us agree? I have only read Faulk's reboot, but would love to hear if anyone would recommend...

It was because of this man that I love words today. To know that there are yet more of his wondrous creations out there is fantastic news!

I can't post the link, but check 'em out!

Yes, very sad. She did write superbly, and apparently was planning another Adiran Mole book!

Hmm ... personally I'm not sure - but I think The Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls are better than both. Funny, I thought that was a pretty strong consensus. Well, always nice to be...

Sure - but how the hell is the Hobbit in the top 100!?

I think you are certainly on the right track- but I don't think it is such a big leap. I recently watched Apocalypse Now again. It then re-read Heart of Darkness. I think Brando's Kurtz is as good a...

For Charlotte's dreams, desires and unrequited love, we should look to Vilette, not Jane Eyre, a more powerful, more poigant, more tragic book than it's better known sister.

I fell in love with Spain through 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'

“When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they...

Look at that first scene with Theseus and Hypolita and ... Hermia's father - If I remember right there language and rhyme scheme is different to that used in much of the green world scenes. And that...