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

Welcome to H2G2. I am new here too. One of the funnest things about this site is when people respond to your site, so I've been spreading the joy.

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Hi, nice to meet you! You're right, it is fun seeing how people respond to your site - that's why I've been sitting here for a half hour waiting for someone to see it!

Well, thanks for saying hi. It's nice to see that some places on the net aren't mean to the newbies.

Out of curiosity, are you actually a librarian? Or did 'Tomas the Librarian' just sound cool? I ask 'cause I work at my school library for a period each school day.

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Strike that. I just read your page and found the info myself. Cool. (Maybe next time I will actually think before posting things)

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Don't worry about it. I only put that on the page after you posted originally, so it was rather unlikely for you to see it in the first place.

It's great to see other library workers around. Was afraid I was the only one. I only started volunteering at our library so that it would look nice on future applications, but ended up rather enjoying the work. I guess ya never know what can happen when you're surrounded by books!

I enjoy working at my school library. I really don't do much and it helps pay for my tuition. It's kind of odd because I also work at a bookstore. Some students come into the library and see me work there. Then in the evening or saturday the go in the bookstore and do a double take because I am there also. I kind of get the feeling that people consider me a book nut or something.

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Nothing wrong with books, some of my best friends are books

true that.

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Books! Yay. I couldn't do the library thing myself tho' I'm much too disorganised. And I have a friend who works in a bookshop, so double yay for staff disconts!

mmmm... discounts.

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I don't have to worry about friends seeing me at work, considering that this is a small Southeastern American town where people would rather drive around town instead of stay home and read. But I meet lots of neat people while working there, especially the old German fella that stops by on Wednesdays. He's cool.

I'm also exempt from late charges. Gotta love that.

Wow. Exempt from late fees. I wish I wasn't exempt from the fines. At our school if there is library fines they don't send you a report card until you pay. Lucky me, I'm exempt so I can't conviniently "forget" to pay my fines. *sigh*

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Ahh...school libraries, a distant memory. Most of the books in my old school library were falling apart. New books were a rarity, and most of the time it was shut! ( we are talking about the mid 70's here ), as I recall, though my memory is distinctly hazy, probably due to years of abuse in one form or another . I have to say though that my interest in sci-fi/fantasy was kindled when I first read the Lord of the Rings. I've just had to buy my second copy, as the first one disintegrated. I have read it so many times but still go back to it as it is probably the most original work I have ever read. What a fantastic way to fire up the imagination and get into creative visualization. !

yeah... School libraries. Mine is a good mixture of old and new books. The old ones, however are disinigrating (probably 'cause they're from the '70's *grin*!). I'm currently reading the Hobbit for only the 3rd time (or so). This time through I am catching a lot of funny stuff that I missed before because I was trying to hang onto the plot. Anyway.

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Alice in Wonderland was the one that moulded my early imagination. I still sometimes think I can hear flowers talking

I can recall last year complaining that our school library didn't have any Vonnegut, which is who I wanted to do a book report on. I decided to do War and Peace, and decided that two weeks wasn't long enough to read that.

My librarian then recommended Foundation, which I diligently read. The book report day came around, and we were told that the report had to be at least three but no more than seven minutes long. I managed to go for SEVENTEEN minutes on one Asimov book, and ended up losing two points for it .

Foundation WAS good... did you read the rest of the series? If not, I highly recomend it. Although it can get a tad confusing...

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I would strongly recommend reading Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a strange land". It is a very interesting book with some very intriguing insites into human behaviour, and the concept of religion.
This was one of those books that I couldn't put down very easily. It may take a bit of getting into, but once you get the gist of it you will probably find the same. Another book by Heinlein, which I found very entertaining, is "Glory Road". I'll let you draw your own conclusions on that one. Still, I love the sci-fi/fantasy genre and could spout off for ages about it, but I don't want to bore anyone, so I won't. Maybe we should create the order of bookites for any other book reading type people out there. Computers and telly are great, but you still can't beat a good book for providing those leaps of imagination and fantastic mind movies in your own head.
Otter

Tried to, but couldn't get past the second chapter. But that was during a busy time during school so maybe if I tried it now it might click. I have read other Hienlien books which were really good. (I was rather surprised, actually that I didn't get into Stranger...)
But yeah, books are, like, 10x better that movies or technology, ect.

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Yay! Is the pen mightier than the processor? At least in a power cut you can still write a letter by candlelight, it may not be as quick as e-mail but it is private and gets there in the end. Guess I'm old school, I've only recently got into this computer lark but I have to admit it's great fun. Otter.