This is nothing to do with books but I must have a quick rant about the God-awful McDonalds advert my eyes were subjected to last night. The pain of having seen this thing is still very fresh.

The premise is, an inner city block of flats where an old man in high trousers and some young men with their arses hanging out, walk though a threatening unpleasant urban environment and all end up at McDonalds, where the old man and one of the young men exchange a smile, before they drop on us the slogan 'We all have McDonalds in common'

So essentially what McDonalds are saying with this piece of unmitigated shit, is that being outside one of their restaurants is a dangerous and nasty place where you will almost definitely be murdered, but McDonalds itself is some kind of peace-loving neutral zone where you will definitely not be murdered, because your potential murderers get hungry too and they eat in McDonalds, and they never murder anyone while they're eating.