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Far darker than I thought it would be. From te write up I thought it would be like a Fortean version of 2 Pints...

I just finished The Book Of Lost Things, very good I thought. Im rubbish at describing books so http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Lost-Things-John-Connolly/dp/0340899484/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200081101&sr=8-1 Edit: Link size reduced. P_M

The great thing is you dont have to. Your future kids can read and possibly enjoy (or not) both.

Why does a kid’s book have to say anything anyway? Why can’t it just be fun? I loved Blighton as a kid but it would be impossible to do the same kind of stories now. At the age I was reading about the Famous Five were having yet another adventure, I wasn’t allowed to leave my house as I was...

This may contain a small spoiler, its not very important but I dont want to offend anyone I got the impression that the whole reason for Tonks and Lupin dying and leaving their new born child was a sort of parallel for how Harry was left when his parents were killed. Remember he was made...

I actually thought that was a lot more interesting than the way it is described in the book. It certainly looked better.

I actually quite enjoyed it. Yes there were problems due to the fact there is too much to fit into the 2 hours or so a film lasts and its a shame a lot of the more interesting teachers have little to do but I have found this the same with all the Potter films. Agree that some of the visuals...

Sorry just realised this guys is on a load of other threads and people are warning not to reply!

That doesn’t make sense. You can’t prove that any religion is false really as there will always be some argument for its existence. I’m assuming you don’t think all religions are true so what are you talking about??

Saw it to day and mostly enjoyed it. The Venom story line would have been better as a film in itself however.

I don’t know if it needs to be said but the Dark Materials books take place partly in today’s world and other versions of it. I settled on the Orcs omnibus in the end, not strictly a stand alone novel. Its not high fantasy but there’s been a couple of decent battles already and I’m only a...

Why didn’t they take Janet away from the house and conduct the same studies without her there? And if they did why wasn’t this mentioned once in the whole programme? (Or did I miss it?) It also would have been nice to have seen the sceptic fellow would explain how Janet was able to describe...

Ive got to go away for a few days soon so can any suggest a decent fantasy novel that is not part of a series, trilogy etc? The good read threads suggests a few but again a lot of them seem to be in a series. Cheers :)

I liked the first episode, although at one point the badly done cgi flying lizard brought back horrible memories of watching Surface to the bitter end, only to be bitterly disappointed. I think if this program was shown week nights on BBC1 before Neighbours, a slot which used to have some great...

I just picked up Pig Island by Mo Hayder, cheap from Tescos for a bus ride. Checking the net just now it has bad reviews but it has been ok so far in a cheap thriller kind of way. It centres on a journalist who specialises in exposing supernatural hoaxes and so far has talked about how he has...

Why?

Which is probably more likely :)

There may not be pictures but actors have been credited for the speaking roles of the daemons and non human characters. I expect the reason pictures haven’t been shown is to keep us all in suspense.

I think so as she tends to believe everything the church says but that’s also true of the Daily Mail so probably not a great example to use. :wink:

This is sort of what I have been trying to get at. If the 25th of December has, in reality nothing to do with the birth of Christ then many Christians I know are actually unconsciously breaking a religious law and this would be important to them. I know my grandmother, who is too set in her...

I didn’t say it was stealing that was mentioned in a quote I took from Ghost Dogs post. My point was that I was under the impression that Christmas in particular had begun as a Pagan festival, which Christianity had assumed into its own practices and used for its own means. It doesn’t...

I won’t pretend I know much about this but I thought that even in the church they admitted that Christmas at least is of a Pagan origin? This site is only from a quick Google but these Christians http://godkind.org/pagan-holidays.html seem to see celebrating Christmas and Easter as a...

Why is it silly? If people invade your personal space to try to convert you to their faith they should be prepared to answer any questions you may have and they often cant. I cant answer all the questions concerning my own belief but then I would never try to force it on someone anyway and am...

Where I live we often get people knocking on doors or stopping you in the street to tell you what they think you should think. (Ive noticed this a lot while being out of work) They dont have their facts straight, if anything what they have to say is largly based on faith not fact. Athiests or...

The with setting Torchwood in Cardiff means that a lot of the same places appeared in Who as London. I thought this episode was good fun and I didnt miss Rose at all. The problem with Tate is she is a victim of her own success in many ways like Little Britain. The first series was good and...

My favourite one so far though, its about time there was a bit of action.

I think the last film was good, mainly due to the fact Jarvis Cocker turned up though. I dont have Sky so was sorry to have missed this. I know Nigel Planer played a wizard but not being a big Prachett fan I dont know who it was. Was it Rincewind as I always thought Planer would be great in...

An award winning journalist I read somewhere. You wouldn’t have thought so from this piece of rubbish. Regardless of the subject matter it was just a poorly made piece if television.

It was for me. I started out reading Harry Potter recreationally, you know as all my friends were doing it, next thing I knew I had a £6.99 a book Dark Materials habit.

It was ok but when my mum starts picking out the plot holes you know they must be obvious. A number of bits just didn’t make sense and I didn’t quite see the happy ending? If his friends hadn’t played a nasty joke on him and subsequently attacked him in the cafe he wouldn’t be dead. I suppose...

And what exactly were Jack and Ianto going into the office to do with the stopwatch :shock:

Yeh I know that but I was talking about the actual quality of the writing. Although I agree, Davies must be blamed for taking his finger off the ball I think.

I dont think Davies, or infact many of the other writers from the current Dr Who series have written many of the Torchwood episodes. IMDB doesnt have complete details of it but so far only credits one episode to Davies and none of the other credited writers have written for Who.

I know, I was only having a little rant, it sometimes feels like a promotional film for Wales rather than cutting edge British Scifi. Its actually quite cool to walk down the street and see these things being filmed (Even if I never seem to be there when they are roping extras in off the...

It’s not neat for people living in the Cardiff area! Well, maybe at first but then when you begin to realise that every universal event featuring aliens happens within a stones throw of the Millennium Centre or Millennium Stadium, Cardiff’s main attractions, it spoils things a little.

The story about the couples in France was featured on Strange but True, presented by Michel Aspel in the mid 90's. Does anyone know if any research was carried out to see if there was ever an inn on the site in the first place?

Surely it is impossible to have politics completely free from religion? When making decisions you are inevitably influenced by your beliefs be they religious or otherwise. Completely separating church and state still couldn’t stop this.

I saw it today and thought it was very funny. The scripted stuff is good and the bits where he plays on the Americans prejudices are, perhaps, less shocking than they should be. It was actually a lot more scripted than I thought but with the likes of Peter Baynum (writer for Alan Partridge)...

PS: Moores section, for those who look it up is in part 5.

Here is a radio interview that Moore did with Stewart Lee http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/whatis2.html#2005 A documentary on blasphemy that he also did with Lee can been seen on You Tube if anyone missed it. Just put in Stewart Lee - dont get me started.

I imagine the reason it was panned so much in the press was due to the fact it had a build up which most other films dont have. Personaly I was so hoping it was going to be great and just found it very boring. Ron Howard has taken a good cast a reasonable story and made somthing thats just...

It is a bit lovey towards Cardiff which I can sort of understand as everyone here seems to love having Who and its spin offs filmed here but it really didnt need so many over heads. Also and as I live in the area I feel I can say that I find it really hard to take anything said in a Cardiff...

Is the crypto episode avaliable anywhere? I think that the CFZ who were featured in the episode took it all in stride and had a laugh whilst making some money from the show.

I dont understand this criticism of Rowling. If I had the option of A: working all my life at a job I hate, knowing that at the end of it im going to get a rather crap pension or B: wright a book that is successful, that people enjoy and court as much publicity as possible in order to secure my...

My mum thought it was the best episode ever. I liked it, the childish arguments between darleks and cybermen were great but by the end I was completly depressed. Until Tate turned up however, I thought that was brilliant just as the episode got really sad they made it funny again. Great...

I can see Christian Bale as the Tony Stark from the Ultimates.

Id still love to see an episode that had no mush in it though. I havent seen many of the old Dr Who episodes but I dont remember them all having a cuddle and a cry at the end of Weng Chi Ang (sorry spelling) or even after the proposal after the episode set in the Welsh mines when the Doctors...

Yes but i was just assuming for the moment that these things were definatly real and were regarded so officialy etc.

I really cant say I believe in these things but im trying my best to keep an open mind. Surley then this should be somthing which is quite easily testable? If a number of people on this board have acomplished it then how hard will it be to do so under scientific conditions? Or at least...

In regards to Richard Freemans attempt, he described repeddly seeing the shadow of a large spider in the room in which he carried out the experiment. (he was attempting to create a tulpa of a fictional spider god if i remember correctly) He also described an out break out spiders in the area at...