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Pretty much! I adore Professor Emanuel from Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853).
Also Winnie the Pooh.

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Fuscia Groan from Gormenghast!
(My grandmother read me King Arthur books when I was little: been a sucker for the damsel in distress thing all my life )

Have you ever read a book after seeing it a film adaptation and been disappointed?

Film first? I can't think of a time I've seen the film first.

I seldom even see film adaptations after reading the book. The only times I did that were Charlotte's Web (meh), one version of Jane Eyre including my avatar (very disappointing), and The Book Thief (major meh).


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Starship Troopers The film is an overlong sci-fi satire of fascism, okeyish and it amused me but not one I’d actually recommend: the book is basically one long love letter to Mussolini, with spaceships...

Do you keep books you know you’ll never read again?

Of course. I keep nearly all of my books unless I know someone who would enjoy them. I have occasionally put some in a library drop box (lol), and once I put some textbooks at the curb in a lovely box - someone took them. I wouldn't just recycle.

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Yep: I have them all organised by my own filing system, and every time I run out of space a bag goes to a charity shop.

Do you like people deciding they have to lend you one of their books?

No. A friend bestowed a bunch of books on me once, and expected feedback. It was really annoying.

Do you read all the forewards?

Unless it's really trash, no I don't throw out books.

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No: I prefer to misunderstand them for myself.

Are biographies interesting or a hard slog?

Yay! Second pile-up of the day!

Mars bars all round!

I love literary biographies and literary history.

Mars Bars sound good too.

Do you like black beans?

LOL - I love who active this thread can get, you find out all kind of interesting things about people.

It depends whose biography - I've read some great ones, but I have no interest in reading David Beckam's

Did it again - I'm ok with beans once in a while, like butter beans the most

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They have their appeal.

(“Give the kid a mars bar” is a British expression of approval, think it’s a quote from an advert)

How about artichokes?

* I'd even read biographies of my favourite biographers *
(cough, Stevie Davies, cough Nick Holland, cough Steve Whitehead, cough Juliet Barker).

Yes I like black beans and artichokes.

Do you have a tennis racquet?

More than one and I use them too.

What's your favourite desert?