What's new
45 new posts in the past 24 hours

  • Hey there, welcome to  IDLE CHATTER!

    If your talk is pointless, your speech lacks purpose or depth we're the place for you. Enjoy the general chatter and forum banter on a wide range of discussion topics and features

    Engage with others

    Interact with others in our forums

    Discuss TV shows, movies, video games, music, sport, technology and everyday topics

    Show off your cooking skills

    Food heaven or food hell?

    Share your recipes with other Idle Chatter members

    Sportsbook & Pickem

    Think you know your sport?

    Engage with other members in our virtual bookies and prediction leagues and join in discussions from the world of sport

    Social Groups

    Power to the people

    Create and manage your own public or private clubs and social groups

    Picture & Video Galleries

    Share your pictures and videos

    Create your own albums and share images and videos with other members

    Waste some time in our arcade

    Compete against other members

    Play over 100 HTML arcade games and aim for the top of the leaderboard

    Game Streaming & Matchmaking

    Play the game!!

    Link to your game streams and team up with other members to play games.

    Blogging

    You own personal space

    Create and maintain a diary/journal that you can share with other members or keep private

    Why not join Idle Chatter today?

books

  1. Emma

    Favourite Dystopian Books

    For me, it would have to be 1984. I read and studied it at school and have re-read it since. Some heart-breaking/gut-wrenching stuff. I wonder if the first Dark Tower book by Stephen King qualifies as dystopian? It's not our future, but it's a pretty bleak picture of a world that has moved on...
    • Emma
    • Thread
    • books dystopian books dystopian novels reading
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Book Club
  2. Gemma

    Most Overrated Book You've Read?

    What is the most overrated book you have read and why? For me it has to be Beatlebone by Kevin Barry. I don't know if it is the worst book I have ever read (it may be) but I say overrated as it has won awards and garnered a lot of praise. I thought it was a self-indulgent load of nonsense -...
    • Gemma
    • Thread
    • books overrated books
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Book Club
  3. Gemma

    This Week I'm Mostly Reading

    What books are you currently reading? I've just finished John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath. Great book, don't really know why it has taken me so long to read it.