TheFlyingGerbil

"combi abattoir-wholesale foods place". Jesus. How could anyone pass that by...

I put it in here because I enjoyed it, rather than that it is good. I would suggest it is not going to be most people here's cup of tea. They're a rather strange mix of romantic drama and quite gruesome bits. Imagine A Walk To Remember but you actually see Mandy Moore wasting away... and then getting mauled by a wolf.

Not having much luck with my reading at the moment. Barrel Fever by David Sedaris will not be recommended by me. It's a collection of short stories, but I'm not particularly enjoying the style of it. I'm hoping the non-fiction section at the end of it will live up to the promise.

Your body is ready.

is it from trainspotting or older than that?

I never re-read books as I read so slowly I can't keep up with my backlog, but that is the one book I will definitely come back to.

My favourite book I've read over the last few years is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. It's the story of a man's life from his childhood in Mexico to working for Diego Rivera and Frieda Carlo and Trotsky to the communist trials in the USA. It has a slightly melancholy tone,but it left me a slightly different person after I read it. A brilliant read though not so profound is Carter Beats the Devil. It's about a magician in the 1920s who gets embroiled with the death of the president of the USA. It's got wit, drama and emotion and you will absolutely rip through it. My only word of caution is that the author's seconed book "Sunnyside" isn't half as good.

I've got the books but not read them yet, though I've never known anyone to be disappointed with them. I did just see the trailer in the cinema today and nearly crapped my pants. Pretty intense! Imagine this booming out over the cinema's sound system.

GO TEAM JACOB! I watched Breaking Dawn Part One today. I think I may have started ovulating because I enjoyed it and can't wait a whole year for the next one! Having said that I watched all the first three yesterday so I don't know if that addled my brain.

I feel they would be used in a modern remake of the wizard of oz...

it came out today (18th) in Europe.

ooh. My copy arrived today. Now I just have to forget it's there until 25th December!

I've never understood why there wouldn't be an expansion slot in gadgets. It's what's putting me off buying a WP7 phone at the moment. I can see why apple do it so they can sell their different memory sized models. but in products where there is only one version all you're doing is annoying potential customers. It must be really easy and cheap to shove in a memory slot, and is a real 'quick win'

Yeah, according to Apple's lawyers The App Store is iOS, and iOS only.

I think the only genuine problem among those is the recalibration since all the others are pretty much subjective. e.g. my favourite part of the Zelda games is the fetch quests, so if that is the worst complaint I am a very happy bunny

lara croft and the guardian of light is 69p on on the app store until the thirteenth of this month.

If that's your first Kindle, welcome to the club. I'm sure you'll love it. I've never met anyone who's been disappointed.

well, it's on my kindle so I think burning it would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I read some more on my lunch break today and it reminded me of another problem - the author continually mixes the names of the two main characters up. so Peter would storm upstairs to his room and Rose would go up and comfort Blake. If the characters are so two dimensional and shallow even the author confuses them it has got to be a sad state of affairs.

I'm too embarrassed to give the name of the book I'm reading just now. It is pretty damn awful though. The main characters are kind of unlikable and at three quarters through I don't feel they're deserving of the happy ending they'll undoubtedly get. Add to that the enormous number of gay puns (fairy gaymother, regaytionship are two that stick in my mind) and cringe inducing sexual innuendo literally at least half a dozen to the page. I'm sure the author thinks he's being terribly witty and Oscar Wilde-ian but it's just embarrassingly bad. The only similarity is he should be in jail for his (crimes against) homosexuality. It's just the worst stereotypes of gay people - bitchy queens and self-loathing people who'd rather be straight. It's as crass as those seventies shows with blacked-up comedians. Jesus. I can't believe I'm reading it to be honest and I'm kind of pissed off I've given money to the author and I've contributed to its sales total. hmmm, that turned in to more of a rant than I intended.

I just watched "I Killed My Mother". The lead actor wrote it when he was 16 and produced and directed it too, so from that point it is quite impressive, but it's semi-autobiographical and I'm guessing he was a gigantic arsehole to live with. There was just too much shouting without any real explanation as to why they were angry. I guess that is actually pretty much the teenage thing - unarticulated anger. but it doesn't make for a very satisfying film or sympathetic main character. though I guess it had a happy ending of sorts. I'm guessing it was OK because I'm glad I watched it but I don't fell a desire to watch it again or own it on DVD.

It's in a film I just watched and I rather liked it.

It's for people who haven't worked for two years. Anyone who is vaguely employable will have been able to find _some sort of job_ in that time. I work in an area that has Christmas employees and seriously - if you can walk in without dragging your knuckles across the floor you can get a job. People get paid as much to sit at home doing chuff all as they would to be working minimum wage and some people are not ashamed to be doing exactly that. If they are dossers then they bloody well should be forced to work. I resent working in my crappy minimum wage job to pay for a bunch of lazy arseholes to sit on their lazy arseholes all day. If they can't manage that and are genuinely unemployable by the private sector then why shouldn't they earn some of the money we are giving them by doing government paid work? They wouldn't mind if they have any sort of decency and work ethic. If they are genuinely looking for work and for whatever reason they have not managed even to find a job in two years then why would they mind doing this? They should be the sort of people who would feel guilty for taking JSA so would be glad to feel they are earning it. The only people who should have a problem with this is the people who have some sort of messed up belief that they deserve to be paid to sit at home. Trust me there are plenty of those around. The only reason they want to get off JSA is if it is to go on to incapacity benefit, which is even more of a free ride. If these people put as much effort into finding honest employment as they did into screwing over the tax payers they would probably be millionaires.

Is Thomas the Tank engine narrated by Ringo Starr in the US version? Edit: I really need to watch napoleon dynamite again - I can't decide whether I like it or not.

Oh. I hope it works for my US account as it would be the first money I ever managed to get in there. I always keep meaning to get a USD PSN card but now I can see if buying stuff works OK without wasting my own money. Yay!

How was moby dick? People say it is quite the slog to read. I can't decide whether to start it as i hate to ditch a book once I do.