I love LOTR, but again, I first read it at 13 or 14. My brother first read it when he was 21 and liked it, but he's not a book person generally - he got into it after the films. He doesn't read much - I've got him into Christopher Brookmyre and, recently, Harry Potter.
And even though I love LOTR overall, there are stretches of TTT that I skip when I re-read these days. I'm going to re-read it properly soon, once I've read all the new ones I have...

I've got Miss Smilla, but I've never read it - maybe the first two or three pages.



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I read/watch shallow books/films such as Bridget Jones' Diary...

Which, incidentally, the film is better. Purely because it has Colin Firth in it.



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He was very good in that play about the Wannsee Conference; Kenneth Branagh played Heydrich, and he was brilliant, and very, very scary.



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Dunno, scary films scare me (oddly enough) so I don't tend to watch them. He was very good also in the Importance of Being Earnest. Sadly it never made it to DVD over here, which really is a crying shame because I loved it...

Anyone who's seen the film, the rendition of 'Lady Come Down' is priceless...



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Oh, I read shallow books too. I have a large collection of chicklit - Wendy Holden, Jane Green, Jenny Colgan, Freya North, Lisa Jewell etc.



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Own a copy of "Bridget Jones' Diary" (v.b.)
Got dragged to the film by my sister.
Laughed.
Forgot most of it in about five minutes.
Haven't any great inclination to see it again. Sister has seen it at least four times. Question sanity of sister.
Do not go weak at the knees over Colin Firth. Suspect I am abnormal.
Saw copy of sequel to "Bridget Jones' Diary" and decided it didn't look interesting enough to buy (v.g.)
Bought another book instead (h'mmm...)

That's been my one sally into the field of chick lit. BJD is pretty funny, the kind of thing you might take on a boring train journey, but I am not in any great hurry to read it again.



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Have not read BJD, watched it on video while on phone to friend watching it on her video 150 odd miles away, she CRIES at that bit in the beginning! This is what chick lit does to your brain.

*giggle*

I have only succumbed to the Colin Firth thing since watching Bridget Jones. That film is the first time I've actually seen Hugh Grant in a good light since 4 Weddings (everything else seemed like him reprising the same role).

Read the book of BJD after seeing the film - I think that is the only chick lit I've read, but I will eventually pick up the sequel for 'completeness'.

Is that the Bluebottle I think it is? I was wondering when you'd turn up. Make yourself at home. Mind the puns.



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Welcome to the fforum, bluebottle. If you like Hugh Grant in that, he's even better in About A Boy.

For the first time in my life I quite envied a Hugh Grant character...



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I've tried one or two chick lit novels, but mostly as research because I've got an idea for writing a satire of that kind of thing. Picked up 'Does My Bum Look Big In This ?' now and again when I've seen it in charity shops, but never been able to cope with more than a couple of pages.

I bought Sarah her copy of BJD, I'm sorry she didn't like it as much as I did. I went to the cinema on my own to see the film, felt v. strange to be at pictures by myself on a weekday morning with only six other people there. Laughed myself silly. Loved the film. Loved the book, and the sequel.

Definitely nothing to do with Colin Firth and Hugh Grant (see other posts for reason why).

Might have something to do with the amount of Chardonnay consumed.

Hic!

And the weighing out of 100g of breakfast cereal using a chocolate bar to balance the scales (only because I have done this myself) lol.

I've read the book and have the film queued to watch after several rave reviews from blokes. However, there's always the book>film thang that's worrying.

It is I, Leclerc. *raises glasses*

The only annoying thing is having to scroll past old posts to find the new ones.

Buggrit.

You have shiny balance scales? I've always wanted one of them for 'oooh shiny' reasons (am too lazy to use them otherwise).

How often do people need to weigh their balances? Mine's always pretty heavily overdrawn, but I'm not going to weigh it.



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I watched 'The Importance of Being Earnest' just the other week, and I agree with you Sarah B. Lady Come down was birlliant. Mind you, the whole movie was good. I tried watching the original a year or so ago, decided the movie itself was brilliant but I hated the acting in it and on saw the first 1/2. Was delighted when the new version was released. Not only can I perve on Colin Firth, but rupert Everett is pretty easy o the eye, too. Shame about the gay thing...

The *only* annoying thing? Have you met PSD?

(It's a joke, GSDdammit!)



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Dammit, just when I've learnt not to leave myself open for a comment like that, somebody sets it up anyway...



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Teamwork, old boy, teamwork.



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