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

At the moment I am (re)reading...

'Catch-22' - Joseph Heller.

Not really a book, but...

'Selected poems' - WB Yeats

It must be about ten years ago when I read Catch-22. (It was birthday last weekend so I'm feeling old...)

I was reading 'Black House' by Stephen King and Peter Straub wasn't getting into it. It's supposed to be a sequelt to 'The Talisman', but like must sequels doesn't appear to be as good as the original.

However, I've moved on 'London Irish' by Zane (what sort of name is that?) Radcliffe which I'm quite enjoyig at the moment. When I've finished it I may have another stab at 'Black House' or I may move onto 'Altered Carbon' by Richard Morgan.

I'm trying to finish Raskolnikov - Crime and Punishment

Great book, but kinda depressing

'Down Under' by Bill Bryson. A friend finally bullied me into buying a Bryson-book, and I'm delighted

Alastair Reynolds - Chasm City.

Could ol' Bryson. The only problem I have with him is that he made me laugh out loud on the train.

Liam.

The Hobbit is sat by my bed preparing to be read, and I'm damn well going to get through it this time

Finished Down Under the other week...

Started something Iris Murdoch...... but I'm ashamed to say that I can't remember the title

It's an original Penguin edition though, with really hard cardboard cover, very awkward to hold in bed

I decided that reading Catch-22 again was a bit of a waste of my limited reading time, as I've read it before. I'm reading 'the catcher in the rye' instead.

Hey , I just finished that one.

Which one, Catch-22 or The Catcher in the Rye?

What did you think of it?

'The Cather in the Rye'.

I knew absolutely *nothing* about that book before I started reading it except for that it was 'the great American classic' which sounded really pompous. So before I opened the book I had this image of a pompous book about agriculture.

Thus I was very surprised about how good it was. I loved the style; that whole inner monologue thing is magnificent, and the spelling is just what it ought to be. Mostly I was just amazed at how everything about the book was so modern, and discreetly shocking.

And Holden Caulfield is simply ingeniously pictured. I loved him.

Read and enjoy!

Well, I'm back from my holiday and I managed to read four of the books I took with me - all three by Simak and 'Marie Antoinette'. I'm about one-third of the way through 'Sarum', so I've got that to finish off (having spilt coffee over it while on holiday! )

I'm also reading "Sharpe's Fortress" by Bernard Cornwell, "A Test of Time" by David Rohl and "The Pickwick Papers" by Dickens.

The Sharpe books are great. I just read another one of Bernard Cornwell's about Arthur 'The Winter King' but I think it's part of a trilogy and I have no chance to get the others right now.

Perhaps I'll give Catcher in the Rye another go. I thought it was a load of poop. Or was that The Bell Jar?

I'm on page 19/192 of 'The Catcher in the Rye' and am enjoying it so far. According to my maths, I'm 9.9% of the way to finishing it already

I enjoyed reading 'The Bell Jar' too, by the way Sho. We must have very different tastes

hope u enjoy the hobbit em. i gotta reread it again sometime. keep 4gettin the dwarves' names!

rereadin red dragon b4 the film comes out. got a new book in oxams 2day (for only 50p cuz they r closing down that store soon!), 'the dragon in the stone' by alan scott. any1 know it?

omy

I put down Alastair Reynolds Chasm City for a bit because it was going very slowly.

I've just started reading The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum. I had read the Prometheus Deception and Sigma Protocal recently and thought I would give it a try.

Liam.

An Italian book: "L'ultimo dei Vostiachi" (The last of the Vostyaks). So far, strange and complicated and often obscure, but promises well.

Sounds interesting Greta! Multi-cultural..

I'm reading a *very* tedious book on parapsychology by Richard Broughton, and I"m still reading 'Wolf Speaker' by Tamora Pearce. Not so bad!

i got referenced to a 1989 book by one clifford stoll called 'the cuckoo's egg' about a hacker-tracker that explains about compu-protocol, networks and the like. i'm not re-reading it now, but 'soul of a new machine' by tracy kidder is about compu-design (how the early machines were made, and by who.)