h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is a fabulous talking point! I just spent the last 20 minutes making a library list from everyone's conversations.

It would be sooo hard to pick just one book. Some of the ones I read repeatedly: Almost anything by Charles de Lint, but Memory and Dream is probably my favorite because of the artistic theme. The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley is one I read about once a year. I love Orson Scott Card; I read Enchantment by him twice in three weeks, it was so good. Neverwhere and Stardust by Neil Gaiman, but if you want to truly appreciate Stardust you have to read the graphic novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. Sheri S. Tepper for scifi. The classics: Tolkien, Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse.

There's a very, very basic list.

I am glad you are enjoying it.

It is becoming increasingly hard to think of new Talking Points and it is really pleasing to see it so busy 24 hours after we put it up!

I love Neil Gaiman's Stardust too.

Have you tried "American Gods" by Gaiman? It's also a terrific read, and pulls on the themes of the power of belief and what happens to gods. I've noticed thats a theme that seems to run throughout DNA and Terry Pratchett's works as well.

It's also (as are all of Gaiman's works) really well written.

This is a fabulous talking point! My book wish list increases!

I really love Neil Gaiman, but he treads a little on the dark side. I tried to read "American Gods", I had been waiting for it to come out for like a year, and couldn't get past the first sex scene.