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

I'm reading far too many books at the moment:

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
"Time Travel in Einsteins Universe" (A bit of a contrast from Jane Eyre!)
"On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored" A psychoanaltical book - did you know that agoraphobia is deep down a fear of castration? Possibly this book is to be taken with a pinch of salt!!
"The Foundations of Arithmetic" by Gottlob Frege - all about how you can't actually prove that 2+2=4 - lovely!

Dead Air by Iain Banks

Currently rereading both The Hobbit and Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness books.

The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde

Can I suggest to all and everyuone that you read this series ('The Eyre Affair', 'Lost in a Good Book' and the above novel) To steal a quote fromt the Scotsman, DNA would be proud..

Zantic

A Matter of Degrees--Gino Segré
Interesting look at temperature and its measurement and relevance to our existence.

Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson - Very relaxing & somewhat boring book with no plot about English country life in the late 1800s
And, finally, Harry Potter and the Order of Pheonix .

Magician by Raymond E feist - not a great work of art, but pretty damn gripping all the same

Trying Little, Big again - John Crowley and Magician has one of the best chapters of all time when Milamber does his thang Until later.....
BCNU - Crescent

Where to begin....

Giancoli physics book edition 5

The mathematical universe - william dunham (really good)

Brief history of time - stephen hawking (well not reading as using it as refernce sometimes)

Black holes and baby universes and other essays - stephen hawking

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Two at the moment:

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Prelude and Foundation by Isaac Asimov (Fairly certain that the title - my mind has gone blank again!)

Going through Black Boy by Richard Wright. It's one of the few books I was forced to read in high school that I liked, and I saw it cheap at a book fair recently and had to pick it up. Can't figure out why I like it, I just do.

Recently finished:

High Society by Ben Elton
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington

Straight by Dick Francis
War for America by Jeremy Black (American War of Independence)

I've just finished The Well of Lost Plots too, Fab, read the set.

1) What would have been the outcome of Cavisham Heights

2) Did Miss Havisham break the landspeed record

3) Will Aorin Hades be back in Pt 4

Wow... I've read so many books since I last posted here... I'm not sure how many people read the little book reviews in this thread anyway...
I'm currently reading 'The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived' by Robert Rankin

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers

I recently rediscovered "Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers", which is about paranormal / parapsychology. The foreword starts, "At a generous assessment, approximately half this book is nonsense. Unfortunately, I don't know *which* half; and neither, despite all claims to the contrary, does anybody else."

It's refreshing to see such honesty in a book of this kind. So many take themselves and their subject far too seriously.

Well, I'm still reading 'Aunts aren't gentlemen' by P.G. Wodehouse, but I'm also dipping into 'The ring-leader's daughter' by Jostein Gaarder (a fellow Norwegian), a collection of horror novels by Roald Dahl (a semi-Norwegian) and '1985' by George Orwell (not Norwegian whatsoever) to see which one I'm going to read next

Any suggestions?

Foggy, how are you liking Lark Rise?
I bought it yonks ago, in the book sale that was held here in Germany when the guys came back from the previous Gulf war. I just took a box and bought all the Penguin classics and Penguin modern classics, and that was in it. It's a lovely book, and a real eye opener about life back then.

Currently reading: The Silmarillion (just got to the interesting bits about Elrond, thank goodness) and LOTR in parallel (LOTR is a paperback, so I can read it in bed)

I'm also reading the Comple Idiot's Guide to Classical Mythology - a cracking good read.

Graham Greene - The Power and The Glory.

It's good... but I'm getting slightly impatient with it and want to move onto something else quite quickly. Still, nearly done.

deemikay