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

did ya like catch22?
just read it this past summer...great fun!
-saffire

Me too! Actually, I've never finished it. It's the kind of book that loses you if you forget to read it regularly. I had checked it out from the library twice, but can't remember where I was in it because of all the back and forth. Maybe someday...

totally...
its pretty darn worth it to finish though...except that youd probably have to start all the way from the beginning and reread a couple hundred pages...ah well! sometime when youve got all the time in the world...
-saffire

How do you make those fishes?

its so much fun:
type > < > (without spaces in between)
-saffire

Cool! Thanks.

no problemo
bytheway, need smiley faces?
: - ) =
; - ) =
8 - ) =
and if youre down,
: - ( =
-saffire

I could get really annoying if I kept learning these silly smilies!

If I ever get a cat, fish , dog or such, I will call it Yossarian.
Catch 22?
On my high 5 list.

hey look irving washington weve got another visitor!
shall we give him some welcome fishies?????? here ya go flymba
-saffire

Just out of curiosity, what are the other 4?

Just out of goodwill - here are the other four:

"Jack" by Ulf Lundell - swedish artist and writer
"Sult" (I think the english title is Hunger - anyway, that's what you get if you translate Sult) by Knut Hamsun
"On the road" by Jack Kerouac
"The Prophet" by Kahil Gibran

... I think.
Maybe a long-titled book by D. Adams should be among the above listed. Haven't made up my mind yet.
Some fishes for you too

Quite a list. I've actually only heard of two of them (including Catch 22). The other being Jack Kerouac's contribution. Maybe I should look into those...

Being just out of High School and having had most the books I've read over the past four years force fed to me, it's hard for me to come up with a list of 5 I actually liked, but I'm working on it...

Thanks for your interest!
If I should recommend any of the books on the list, it would be "Jack" by the swede Ulf Lundell. It's about a guy in his first twenties who has a deep and cincere interest in parties.
He just loves going to them, and he loves to describe what happens there.
After a few chapters of this book you feel a sudden urge to go out and celebrate life on the first and best bar.

My bookreading career also started out with forcefeeding, bur after a while I realized I liked what I was doing, and now I find myself quite often just sitting in my sofa admiring my bookshelf. It has grown over the years - Im not 30 yet and I guess it will grow even more in the years to come
Maybe I'll write one myself one fine day.

I like your diary!
Wish I were able to write English like you do.
Being from Norway and all, Im not that good.
Yet!
Keep up the good work
....so long, and thanks for all the fish.

thanks for the compliments flymba!
irvwash--i hear ya about those force-fed books...catch-22 was one of the few that i liked!...blagh did you ever have to read 100 years of solitude? it wasnt too fun at all
but on to more pleasant things, here are some MORE smileys
-saffire

I've never read 100 years of solitude. The reading that I did enjoy in high school was mostly dramatic -- although plays really are meant to be seen and heard, not read. Favorites include Hamlet and The Glass Menagerie, both required, then Waiting for Godot, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, both on my own. By far the most boring book I've ever read was Nectar in a Seive. By the way, who wrote 100 years of solitude? , , .

Irwwash!
Allow me to be your littarature teacher for a while:
100 years of solitude was written by the 72 years old Columbian Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
His nickname - formed by his much yonger wife - is Gabo, which to me sounds like an
aquarium fish.
This novel is his most famous, and goes under the genre "magic realism".
For the time being Gabo is in hospital in L.A under the diagnosis "General exhaustion".

Impressive, or what?

Very impressive. I've known some people who should probably be hospitalized if "General exhaustion" is a viable maladie. Mostly my father and my highschool drama teacher. Right now I'm reading The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara for my Anthropology class and Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros for my English class. Oh yeah, and the French text of La Lesçon (The Lesson) by Eugene Ionesco for my French class . Whew! At least it's all more entertaining than "Madame Bovary".

did sandra cisneros write house on mango street? ... that was one of the few books ive read on my own...
so flymba have you read 100 years of solitude? its all about sex and incest and its really not pleasant at all
-saffire
ps - sounds like youre hard at word irvwash - - dont overword yourself or you might end up in the hospital with general exhaustion!!!!!