» This book changed my life

Iain Banks
The Crow Road, a pretentious smart-arse (but ultimatley lovable uni student) slowly uncovers dark family secrets. I read this at a time when I had just moved to a new town for uni, and everytime i went home my mum (recently divorced form dad) seemed to start telling me all these tales about her life with my dad when they first met, my dads side and her quaker side of the family . It turns out i have a more interesting family than i thought. Its still probably my favorite book of all time, the whole tone and pace of the book is perfect.

Look Windward and all the other culture novels. It turns out reading books set in a futuristic galaxy spanning utopia makes you sick of being stuck here living a short brutal life on a planet where human life doesn't seem to be valued very highly. Sounds stupid i know but they have kind of turned me into abit of an anarchist.
(Thu 15th May 2008, 17:27, More)

» Turning into your parents

'Whitby'....
As a kid many an evening was spent with the family watching classic TV such as heartbeat. The main reason for this was we lived in the area where much of it was filmed so spent the whole time trying to spot places we knew.
My dad was always the best at this as he spent alot of time driving around Yorkshire for his work so knew most of the settings straight away and would always say where most scenes were filmed as we were watching.
Fast forward to afew months ago and me and my sister were sat watching an old episode of heartbeat, one particular scene was by the sea and without even thinking i turned to her, nodded knowingly at the screen and said 'Whitby'.
Thats when it hit me I was turning into my dad... I'm only 23.
(Thu 30th Apr 2009, 22:43, More)

» Eccentrics

Fondez vos téléphones
I once had a french teacher who used to melt telephones.
Only the old fashioned circular dialing type ones though, apparently newer ones just don't melt in the same way.
(Fri 31st Oct 2008, 12:07, More)