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

Well, I'd say you've listed a fair variety. I couldn't list all the books I've ever read!!
The only Neil Gaiman I've read is "Don't Panic" and "Good Omens", buit I enjoyed both of them so I won't object to reading more.
I haven't read any Stephen King, Anne Rice, or anyone else you've mentioned, except C.S. Lewis. I'm trying to collect his sci-fi triology - all I need now is "That Hideous Strength".

I need to read more CS Lewis stuff.

You haven't read a Wrinkle in Time? Oh you should, it's a classic. I think it may have been written for younger people, I read it in 6th grade, but it's still good.

I have Don't Panic, I don't know if I mentioned it or not. It was neat when I got it. I was looking for Neverwhere and they didn't have it, but I saw "DON'T PANIC" (of course in big friendly letters) and I had to pick it up. I was so happy that Gaiman wrote it. You should check out more of his stuff, you should like it.

And you haven't read any Edgar Allen Poe or Mark Twain? That amazes me, but they probably didn't shove American authors down your throats over there, huh?

So, why don't you tell me some books that you like?

No, they tend not to mention Poe or Mark Twain - there are too many English authors already for them to do that! Not that we do Dickens or Hardy, either...

Books I like include mainly sci-fi ones by people such as Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Donaldson, although I also enjoy Chaucer. I really can't remember all I've read... Too many to remember, really. I enjoyed "The Lord of the Rings" though - sci-fi/fantasy is what I read most of, I confess.

I've been meaning to read more sci-fi stuff, I just haven't gotten around to it.

And I think I'm the only person I know who hasn't read any Tolkien.

I wouldn't worry about it - I hadn't read any Tolkien until about 2 or 3 months ago. And I always felt that I was the only one who hadn't.
I now know that I am the only one in the world to not have a mobile phone, though.

No you're not. But the thought of h2g2 on the move has me tempted to get one. And I'm very anti-cell phone. My plan for if I ever totally flip out is to go around knocking phones out of people's hands and stomping them to bits.

I am very anti mobile-phones too - they just annoy me, or what is worse is when you are on a train/bus etc, and you have a group of people on the train/bus near you and they are showing each other all their different dial tones. That's happened to me at least 6 times, and it just gets SO annoying, especially if you have a headache.
If you do ever go round stomping on mobiles - let me know, I'd love to join you.

No, problem, I could use all the help I can get.

Don't worry - I'm sure that if all the world united, we could rid ourselves of the terror of mobile phones once and for all. Let all the Yuppies beware!

Yuppies and rich 12-year-olds!

That said it.
I remember once on a train journey seeing a 7-9 year old sitting on a chair dressed in a suit, with snobby glasses, with a laptop and a mobile phone on the desk in front of him typing away, and looking very arrogant. His career-woman mother sat opposite him, with her own laptop and mobile, and both of them were staring at their screens. Now, I don't know if the kid was playing a game or what, but it was the scariest thing I've seen.

That sounds really really scary. Seriously, I'm scared just reading it. I probably would have run away screaming if I'd have been you.

You really need to read 'A Wrinkle In Time'. It's by Madaline L'Engle. I think you would really like it.

The rich 12-year-olds around here aren't as refined. They're just your typical adolescents, except they all have pagers and mobile phones. There's one mall here, that's on the rich side of town, and probably 3 out of 5 of the kids hanging out there have mobile phones.

I was scared - just as I get scraed and worried by every 12 year old who has a mobile. Although I haven't actually seen that many children with mobile phones - definately less than 5. I just have seen this child on a train, but he and his mum got off at Oxford, so that may explain it.