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I agree. The missus has read the books, and has got herself caught up in the hype. She is the same with bloody Harry potter! Anyway, I havent read the books, but the films are actually not bad, much better than the usual teenage nonsense.

The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson 10/10 Fantastic, an absolutly stonking book. I've been meaning to read this for ages, and finally picked up a copy last week. I read Fear and Loathing when I was 15 or 16, it didn't really do anything for me, but this book blew me away. The writing style is superb, and Thompson manages to create such a strong, vivid image in your head that you really feel the heat of the sun on your back and the rum sliding down your throat. This book is basically a fictional account, although it's easy to see that it is based on Thompsons own experiences, of a travelling journalist who finds himself in San Juan working for the local English language paper. Drinking rum from breakfast into the wee small hours, watching stunning women on the beach, fighting with the police and diving for lobsters for lunch. God, I wish I was there! Read it. Now. What are you waiting for?

Don't Say a Word - 6/10 Predictible but watchable "thriller", albeit in a paint-by-numbers style. Fairly flimsy plot line that was see through within 5 minutes, but for some reason managed to bowl along nicely. Maybe it is the fact that Brittnay Murphy nearly, oh yes nearly, flashes a nipple in one scene!

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Team Roxy. Ronnie is a psycho biatch who would run the salon into the ground just trying to plaster over her chacket face.

Obviously I know what a spirit is, gin, whisky, vodka, rum etc. But why does this collection of totally different drinks all come under the header of spirit, is there a particular type of distillation process that makes a spirit a spirit, or if not, then why are they different to wine, beer or cider?

feck all cos the lazy whore of a wife of mine won't get off her arse and pour me a beer. She is asking for a slap, I tells ye!

No, but my inlaws went last summer with their grandkids. Total rip-off apparently, lots to do to entertain youngsters but boring as feck for the adults. Be prepared to wait in line, sometimes up to 2 hours for the rides. Take food in with you, or remortgage the house if you buy lunch there. Or, just don't go!

I didn't know Spot Goes Camping had chapters?

Thank God for subtitles. I'm really struggling to understand the language the youths in the show are using just now. Maybe it's cos I is old, innit!

It has always amused me that one of the greatest authors this country has produced, and in some peoples opinion, one of the finest ever of his genre, is almost seen as something you should be embarassed to admit to enjoying. I read Porno on my meal break at work, and my gaffer took me aside later and suggested that I find "something more suitable" to be reading at work. As an experiment, the next day I bought a copy of Maxim, read it at lunch, and no issue whatsoever!

I don't understand what it is with Dan Brown. He has shown that he has reasonable literary talent, and has produced a series of books that are essentially fairly good beach reads, but for some reason half the world is jumping up and down hailing him as the next Messiah. I consider myself a fairly well-read bloke, and I will read more or less most books, even if it's only the first few chapters to get a feel for a book. I have read a couple of Browns books, and have to be honest, they aren't bad, just over-hyped. Having watched the film adaptations, which are fairly good, I have to wonder what the critics/publicists/award-hander-outers see in his work.

This reminds me of being back at school, gathered round in a circle, chanting "fight, fight fight"!

Abortion is exactly the type of thing the producers would get stuck into at the moment. The show has tackled some excellent stories recently, and it wouldn't surprise me if jane kept it from Ian, and this was another angle to the story. Long live Eastenders!

Taxi Driver - 6/10* *Rum-induced coma whilst watching. Good film, well deserving it's cult status. Unfortunatly I partook in far too much rum during the film, so that has soured my score.

It's completely impossible to compare authors of such a different time. That would be like comparing a bow and arrow back in the wild west compared to the stopping power of an Apache helicopter in Afghanistan today. If that is your criteria as to literary worthiness, then there isn't an author writing today that could match Dickens or Wilde, Austin etc, and there won't be in the future. each generation creates a few distinguished authors that stand head and shoulders above the rest, and that and only that, is what litarery merit should be based on. Personally, I much prefer the likes of Mist and The Long Walk to It or the Shining. If you haven't read them then I urge to do so, particularly The long Walk.

You have to post a spoiler after releasing this little tidbit.

Stephen King lacking literary merit? Are you serious? What types of books do you usually read? Each to their own, but I certainly think that even if you are not a fan of King, you cannot honestly believe that he is not one of the few modern-day masters.

Green Street - 6/10 Not bad, but not great. Probably one of the better football hooligan films that have come out of late. Elijah Woods as an American student, extremely green around the gills, adds a bit of (unrealistic) added interest. The film features some really well scripted fight scenes, and a couple of slow-motion and shaky camera fights add to the atmosphere. Best character has to be Bovver, the dark, moody second in command. Towards the end, when he is standing on the bench with a bottle of Vodka and crying his heart out is a good piece cinema. The guy who plays the leader of the firm, I forget his name, overacts so much it's actually funny. Best scene - when they leave the pub and walk down the street singing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles". I challange any fan of any club to watch this scene and not want to be in the middle of the crowd.

Apparently Wheels was meant to have a big role tonight, but they couldn't get him on the roof.

Well done to all the actors. jack messed up, and a couple of dodgy camera zooms, along with Staceys mike getting caught in her jacket, but these aren't live actors, they are used to having several takes if they messed up. I don't know how I feel about it being Stacey, but it was a heck of a good finish to the storyline.

I'm sticking with Roxy. To be honest, looking at any of the main suspects could be responsible. But Roxy in a prison shower, dropping the soap? It's got an Eastenders Late Night special written all over it!

All time classic- "No thanks, we're already friends of Jesus"!!!!!!

Malice in Wonderland - 0/10 Watched the first 20 minutes of this crap last night and turned it off. It was so wierd that the only way you could possibly watch it and enjoy it was to be on some concotion of Ecstasy and/or Acid. Has anyone else watched this and what did you think?