... anyway I'm off now!  latersss!

Laters Jen!

I've just finished reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman. It was good, but absolutely nothing like the film, I can't believe how much was changed! People moaned about things that were left out or altered for The Lord of the Rings, but Stardust the book is soooo different from the film. Different storyline altogether really!

I still haven't seen the film..might try to find it online.

I've just finished reading Here on Earth, totally not my kind of book but I thought I'd plough through it as it was short. Kind of a rip-off of Wuthering Heights. In fact, the inside jacket says it has 'echoes' of Wuthering Heights...that's a bit of creative underwriting if ever I heard it!!

I know they're childrens books but I've decided to read all the redwall series ... I was scanning my sis's bookshelves and thought they would be cool to read since I like that sort of stuff...

and actually I'm really enjoying them!  It's amazing how interesting mice can be!

I used to love Brian Jacques. I've got pretty much all the Redwall books. But he tends to use the same story lines over and over again, and the same characters just with different names. He's even said himself that he'll never have a 'grey' character, they're either all good, or all bad. No in between. Though he had one 'grey' character once, but he killed him off!! Was a character name Veil, but I forget what type of animal it was!

The Taggerung is one of the better ones by him, as is the first one, Redwall.

I'm reading them in chronological order ... finished Lord Brocktree & Martin the Warrior, currently reading Mossflower - the story lines are repeating, always having the evil character as either a wildcat or weasel of some kind, but I still love them!

Yeah they are good, just repetitive. I've stopped bothering with them now!

I'm reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman at the mo. Only read the first chapter but tis good so far. Very good writer, really funny too.

Currently reading "Three Women" by Marge Piercy. I loved Woman on the Edge of Time and Braided Lives by her, they're set quite a while ago though and they really evoke the time periods they're set in, but this one is set in the 90's and she really captures it too, people starting to use the internet and imagining the possibilities of it. It's about a mother, daughter and grandmother and slowly reveals the complications in their relationship as they're forced to live together. Good so far!

I'm still reading American Gods. It's sooo good! Very odd, but really good and so funny! Was laughing out loud to myself yesterday reading it. Neil Gaiman's ace.

I love books that can make you laugh out loud!

Yeah there's not many that get me. But Neil Gaiman's books seem to work! Neverwhere had me giggling too. Actually Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud made me laugh out loud too.

Some of Ben Elton's books make me laugh, he's a funnier novel-writer than a TV writer I think....and Carl Hiaissen, he's an American writer, creates some brilliant oddball characters!

Not heard of him! There's someone a mate told me to read and I can't remember what it was now! She said the humour in it reminded her of me.

Hehe! Yeah, that's the knd of thing you want to read to see if it's good or bad!

I may have spelled his name wrong actually, that Carl Hiassen guy....it's something lke that. He has this great character that pops up in a few of his books, an ex-mayor who now lives in the wild in Florida and lives off roadkill! The fil Strip tease with Demi Moore was based on one of his books but it was awful, they took all the sarcastic humour out of it, completely ruined it!

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