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

Your name caught my attention and reminded me that tomorrow (Thursday!) I will also have been 8 for 13 years. I'll have to remember that and tell everyone that. Basically I'm bouncing around people's pages this morning and wanted to say hi to someone with an interesting name. So hi

Hi Daydreambeliever - great name, by the way - reminds me of a Monkees song .
So, you were born on 18th January 1980 too??? It's a small world!

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Happy Birthday too! Maybe we're long separated twins...hmm, maybe not but may your day be wonderful. Mine will be once I get the song "It's a small world" out of my head

Well, as long as you didn't spend the weekend with some friends on the Isle of Wight, we should be fine

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Not that I recall....I remember there being lots of snow. I think we're safe. I hope you had fun

I did, thanks - and I hope you did too. I didn't see any snow at all
So, you like science fiction, then? I've read books by Stephen Donaldson, Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, John Wyndham and Terry Pratchett - how about you? What authors do you enjoy reading?

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I'll give you some of the snow here....we had about 8 inches in 24 hours. Quite lovely, but bad when you wish to go some place. Now that you've mentioned authors I think I lean more in the direction of science fiction/fantasy. The ones that I can remember right off my head are Ursula LeGuin, Madeline L'Engle, and some Clive Barker. It's been so long since I got to read an actual book that I wanted to instead of one that was assigned to me that I've almost forgotten what it is that I like.

I'd like to see that much snow - just for the experience
I've read a little of Ursula LeGuin - "The Word for World Is Forest" and "The Left Hand Of Darkness", I was quite impressed. I plan to read the "Earthsea Trilogy" one day, once I get the last book. Stephen Donaldson's not bad for fantasy as well as science-fiction - a lot of what he writes as short stories are better than his novels - if you can find his anthologies "Reave The Just" and "Daughter Of Regals" cheaply, I recommend them. I've always needed to read a book - I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't read something each day!

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