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

I am reading Jules Verne's 'Around the World in 80 Days', its great!

1984 is something I've always wanted to read really bad, but I've never been able to get past the first twenty pages or so I'm planning on giving it another try, soon.
Alas Babylon is sort of about the Cold War, and the country gets all bombed really bad, and it's about these people in this little town in FLorida, and they have to survive with out electric, and things like that. And there's hardly any gasoline and and money is worthless, so everyone has to trade things ie liquor.

That sounds cool, 42! Maybe I should check it out.

If you can make it through to about the middle of 1984, it starts to get more interesting - though I confess I was hooked from the first page.

Yes, I expect so. Some books are like olives. Or...hummus. Or Marmite. You know, at first you don't like them very much, but then later on they're really good.

I bought yet another PG Wodehouse book yesterday.

Which one?

It's this really big one called the Most of PG Wodehouse, and it's got some short stories about Drones members, and then some about Mr Mulliner and Ukridge (I've never read any of those stories before) and one about Lord Emsworth and some golf stories. And all of the Jeeves stories that are included I've already read, so I'm disapointed about that. Oh, and its got the novel, Quick Service. So far, all I've read from it is 'Fate' about Freddie Widgeon, and 'All's Well with Bingo' or something like that, about Bingo Little.

Oooh, sounds !

Yes, i like it a lot. It was also relatively cheap-only $16 for seven hundred pages. Considering that PGW is always really expensive, since they're tresured pieces of English literature, so that's a good excuse to charge a lot for them

Today, I *finally* finished Catch-22. Has anyone else read it?

Someone should write a story called Catch-42!

Catch-22's on my list of classic literature that I have to read at some point. Right now, I've started in on The Great Gatsby, which is interesting so far.

i have heard about catch-22 but i have never read it

by the way i am new HELLOOOOO!!!!!!

*waves* Hi! Welcome aboard!

You will soon learn that I have a bizarre fascination for classic literature.

well i just read war of the worlds and am reading the time machine and there from a lloonngg time ago

Ah, yes... I haven't read War of the Worlds, though I'm relatively familiar with the Orson Welles broadcast that struck panic into the hearts of so many Americans...

I can vouch for The Time Machine's greatness, though.

You'll find I'm really the only one up at this hour. This being a UK-based site, so many Britishers are asleep right now.

that explains it

it is only 8:45 here in california

Wow, Echo, you and me are on the same page! oops, that wasn't really meant as a pun, but still, because I also just recently made a huge list of books like that to read! Great Gatsby is on it, also, along with 1984 like you mentioned, and about 47,000,000 others.

Hello, jjcard, nice to meet you!

nice to meet you to
to be honest i would have never read a book like those if i didnt see war of the worlds the movie