Oh yes, one of my all time faves. That one is pretty much the pinnacle of the whole war book genre. The black and white movie is very powerful as well.

Currently a third of the way through The Night Prowler, about Richard Ramirez...what a fucking nutcase!

I'll be starting 'Scepticism Inc' tomorrow. Looking forward to it.

Oh yay, a book club :D Not sure anybody on here would like the kinda books I read enough to know what the hell I'm on about but hey...

I've just finished reading When Daddy Comes Home by Toni Maguire which is a true story about how she coped after her dad got out of prison (It's a continuation of another book she released a couple of years ago called 'Don't Tell Mummy', which is about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her father from the age of six and her mother pretty much took her father's side in the whole thing).

Now I've just started reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, about a son that was being bullied at school and ended up going crazy and shooting a load of his classmates (I'm presuming it was written somewhat based on the high school shootings in America a couple of years back). Anyway, she then has to struggle with her own moral judgement as well as trying to find clues about her son's secret life, and is left wondering if she ever really knew him.

In between that I'm also reading a lot of books and journal articles about psychopaths, serial killers and how good people can commit evil acts in the right circumstances for my dissertation next year.

Also, I was wondering what people thought of The Catcher In The Rye? I read it not so long ago because it was a 'classic' and I really wanted to get into some classic literature, but I ended up finding the whole thing rather slow, uneventful and - I hate to say it - quite boring. I mean, I get the book and everything but I suppose I was just left disappointed as I was expecting to read an amazing book, based on the fame surrounding it, but I didn't really see what the fuss was about, in all honesty.

Im a way into it now, and it's a really good read. I agree with what he's trying to say about being stuck in our ways about making new theories and perhaps the answer lies somewhere else. I'd recommend reading it if you're into that sort of thing.