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

I've just started The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. I've read one of his others which I really enjoyed - I'm taking a while to get into this one but I think it's going to be a good 'un!

Has anyone ever read "The Best A Man Can Get" by John O'Farrel?



Taz

A new Jasper Fforde? Fantastic! Another one for the list.

Riddley Walker by Russel Hoban.
Now here is a book to test the casual reader! I wonder if anyone here has heard of it, let alone read it?

Finished HP6, aaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! It was DAMN GOOD.

I've always felt that every HP book is slightly worse than the previous one, but this was definitely better than the fifth. This was excellent.

Guess I should return to grown-up books now...

Jim Lynn's comment seconded. Funny...I haven't seen any reviews. But it does explain why he's popped up in a couple of unusual media places lately...like the Grauniad computer section. Viral marketing an' a' tha'.

Presumably this his his promised non-Thurday Next book about Humpty Dumpty?

"Presumably this his his promised non-Thurday Next book about Humpty Dumpty?"

Apparently so. It's nice to see a new one so soon after Something Rotten.

Now reading Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker, who I sort of lost interest in some years ago. It'll be interesting to see how this one keeps my attention.

Now reading Iron Council by China Mieville, also Philip K Dick's "Minority Report" and other short stories.

MC
(Another avid reader looking forward to a new Jasper Fforde - when it's out in paperback..)

Yes, the new Jasper Fforde book is the Humpty Dumpty one. It includes many other childrens story characters popping up all over the place, and centres around a Detective called Jack Spratt who works in the Nursey Crimes Division! I'm definitely enjoying this one.

The truly horrifying but still hilarious 'Don't Eat This Book!' by Morgan Spurlock.

As well as being an expansion of his marvelous 'Super Size Me!' (ie it has the scientific bits in that don't make for such a good movie), it also has a great deal of general information about the selling tactics of fast food chains and other such goodies.

i am about to start eradin g a series of spoof books including:

"Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody"
"The Soddit OR Let's Cash in Again" by A.R.R.R Roberts
and
"The Matewix"

I'll let u know the results

I've just discovered that the Russian poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, died on 18th July. Coincidentally, I'm unpacking boxes of my books from someone's loft at the weekend, so I'll be able to retrieve my signed copy of one of his collections.

Well... I am very ashamed of what I did today! Never thought myself capable...
I started reading the "Digital fortress" by Dan Brown.


What can I say... After not being impressed by the "Da Vinci code", after hating the "Angels and demons" I did go back to the same author?

I don't know about you, but I call that kind of behavior plain stupid...

Well... That's what a rainy Saturday does to people I guess

well, Night-eyes, all I can say is: that's what happens to people who don't read the backlog!!

sorry, you will get over it. But you have to promise that like me, you will not waste one more second reading any of Dan Brown's output.

An, Yevtushenko. I had to study Zima Junction for my Russian A-level, all those years ago, and we did a bit of some of his other stuff (leading up to and covering Babi Yar in some detail)

I'll have to have another look at his work. Very interesting and moving.

Dan Brown is rubbish. Stop reading his books, they'll make you stupid.

Currently reading Seventy Two Virgins, by Boris Johnson. Ooh, topical!

RF

I'm reading this thread - like that joke hasn't been done before!

Terry Pratchett - Soul Music.

Yes I ditched the Dan Brown!
Unfortunately Sho, I have to confess that I have read the back log Including your criticisms about the "Digital fortress"
It's just that... I am a nice person, I don't doubt my friends! And when this friend of mine, whose taste in reading I value a lot, insisted the book was good I... took her word for it!
It just comes to show that even the best have their moments of weakness, I guess
So I started re-reading Terry Pratchet - a much better substitute even if I know it by heart Good choice Auntie!

I just finished High Fidelity, and for something completely different, am starting Past Continuous by Nguyen Khai

Current bedtime reading - Changing Planes: Armchair Travel for the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin

Current commuting audiobook - Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

Just finished the Virgin's Lover by Phillipa Gregory - Liz I is characterised as a cross between Blackadder's & Glenda Jackson's portrayal - enjoyed it anyway.

Don't shoot me - I have, afterall, begun the ... dare I say it ... Da Vinci Code: my daughter had read it & wanted to compare notes. I'm only 10 pages into it, but already it reminds me of something I have either read or seen before. Is this a case of deja vu?