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It is an interesting book, and I'd say well written as well: there are occasions where the characters seem just a little too stereotypical for their own good, but apart ...

Yep :) love 'em to bits: always makes me sad to knock 'em off, especially some of the main ones. Though torturing them a bit, well: it only builds character, ...

I am back! My holiday was glorious and lovely and all that sort of stuff. I left the country with about fou books, came back with probably nearing twenty-five. I ...

Ah! I was listening to a sermon the other day, and they quoted him - "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found hard ...

We actually had this mentioned in the "most disturbing books you've ever read" thread - I've read it before, and it's definitely an excellent and thought-provoking piece of literature. There ...

I never found 1984 all that disturbing, probably because it didn't seem too unrealistic or impossible; having studied psychology and sociology, what was disturbing was how much that kind of ...

Chekhov, true, a genius is Chekhov... but A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ... the master at work!

I'm all for Fyodor Dostoyevsky over all other Russians. Solzhenitsyn for me, all day long.

He's not bad: some of his plays are better than others, and the same for the sonnets. There are certainly moments of absolute genius, however.

Dante, Snoink? The Inferno or the DC? The Inferno does rock, I must say; when I get my cat, I'm calling him Dante.

Tennyson, Heaney.

C.S. Lewis isn't just for children! :) 'Till We Have Faces is absolutely amazing... Well, people have pretty much taken all my names already - I could've copied Caligula's list ...

Yes: it needed more punctuation, but I somehow forgot to tell you. Apart from that, it was extremely powerful.

while it may seem egotistical and pretentious It doesn't. It's worth liking, and taking pride in.

I thought poetry was a complete waste of time - song lyrics 'till I die! - until a couple of years ago, when I got lucky and read this in ...