book 6: The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde. This is a great book with a dull chapter in the middle. The plot has been ripped off and spoofed so much that it's overfamiliar but there is plenty of witty dialogue and some beautiful descriptive writing ( Read more... )

When I first joined lj a couple of years back i joined some group that aimed to read 52 books in a year and quickly fell behind and gave up ( Read more... )

I have a lump on my arm. It's been there a while and failed to go away so I decided to get it checked out ( Read more... )

I am still in a sodding miserable mood. I went to get a haircut today and they took too much off. I no longer have long hair. I love my long hair. From what they tell me, those few girls that fancy me love my long hair. I want my long hair back ( Read more... )

Better than Dr No in the sense of being more balanced but the bond girl wasn't as good and there was an awful long time spent on a train. Goldfinger next. Supposed to be the pick of the bunch ( Read more... )

Now has 4, count 'em, 4 lines down the screen. Not sure what that means but it can't be good! I have £500 to buy a new one but the website I've been looking on seems to only have one suitable laptop that isn't a factory rework. And that one has a screen of just 14 ( Read more... )

Yeah, so, Dr No seems to be a film of two halves. the first hour or so is quite a straightforward spy drama, guns, double-crossing, fighting, detective work. Then the last half hour it all goes mad. Undersea island lairs, megalomaniac super-villians with metal hands, side-kicks in bikinis. This last part is a lot more fun but its been parodied so ( Read more... )

I have only actually seen about two James Bond films ever but now they're reduced to just £4.99 at Borders I've decided on a whim that I must buy them all. Chronologically ( Read more... )

I first tried to read a Charles Dickins book when I was in year 5 and picked up A Tale of Two Cities. I rather quickly found myself getting bogged down in it and gave up. I was supposed to read Great Expectations at uni but I had two much else on and the book was huge but I did watch a five hour BBC adaptation. I've enjoyed films of his works( ( Read more... )

Well, after my fussing I read Kill your Friends by John Niven on the train on my way home for holidays. On the way back I finished The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks and then moved onto Blind Faith by the deeply uncool Ben Elton. This book caused the man who was checking the tickets to engage me in conversation. Apparently he is a fan of ( Read more... )