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

Finished Monstrous Regiment - great stuff, well up to standard.
Now started Robert Rankin's Knees Up Mother Earth, but had to go to the smoke today and didn't want to lug a hardback around so took Amin Malouf's book about Mani (as in Manichean) but I can't remember what it's called. From the ridiculous to the sublime, but at least I'm unlikely to get the plots mixed up!

Going Postal by terry Pratchett (for the 4th time)
and i still don't get the parrot reference

Finished 'The Long Dark Tea Time of The Soul' enjoyed it muchly... Then I read 'Preludes and Nocturns' > Neil Gaiman and have now started on the only Robert Rankin novel to have evaded me, 'The Greatest Show Off Earth'.

currently reading Sharpe's Triumph (more about Sharpe in India) and The Tears of the Giraffe.

I'm not reading *all* of these at the moment...but these are what I've acquired in a brief spending spree (fortunately, some in 2nd-hand shops) and are now piled up, waiting for spare moments:

A Peoples' History of the United States by Howard Zinn (very good!)

The Rise of Mumbo Jumbo by Francis Wheen

One of Patrick O'Brian's books about 19thC nautical adventures (I forget the name . There's about 20 in the series. The one after 'Desolation Island', which is the only other one I've read)

Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess (Author forgotten. The biography by the guy that hated him)

The Attack on America by Philip Roth (I'm really looking forward to this one. It had excellent reviews)

The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford

Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard

The Illuminatus Trilogy ( pirate .pdf download ! )

What a great selection, Edward! I am about to start Good Omens, by Gaiman and Pratchett, which I found in a carton of my brother's books...
That is, after I finish a wonderful novel by David Gemmell, that I got for 0.50c in a library throw out sale, never a dud by David Gemmell, though I have never read a whole series by him.

You'll love Good Omens, Adelaide

Just finished Picnic At Hanging Rock. What a thoroughly good book.

RF

I was going to start on Brighton Rock but I've bloody lost it!

Not actually that typical of Greene in many ways. It's worth reading, but not (in my opinion) Greene's best book. He divided his own work up into 'serious' books and 'diversions'. I actually think that many of the diversions are better than the serious ones. I really loved 'Our Man In Havana'

I *did* Brighton Rock at University - what a downer, and how brilliant! At the moment, I have too much to read! Two Phillip K Dick books (why do library reserves all come at once?) Good Omens, the David Gemmell, and a few more. Frustrating!

I think 'The Power and the Glory' is my favourite of his.
Made a mistake and went into Waterstones yesterday and left with 6 books (with my b'day and Xmas coming up too). Been dipping into 'Love all the People', a collection of stuff by Bill Hicks, a wickedly funny man.

Fatal Harvest

It's a book about the impact of the industrealization of aggriculture on our eco and social systmes. WOW thats a mouthfull. There's alot of propaganda in it but there are a few good points mixed in so I've kept reading it.

i've just finished the curious incident of the dog in the night time. for some reason i thought it was going to be rubbish but it was actually really good. i ended up finishing it in 2 days! i would definately reccomend it if you havn't already read it.

DUNE- THE BATTLE OF CORIN ; and LAROUSSE GASTROMONIQUE; well I am a chef!

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and The Myth of Solid Ground - he wrotes a whole book about earthquakes without once mentioning anywhere outside the USA. How is that possible? (Okay, he mentions Japan in passing, in the context of nutcases who believe they can predict 'quakes, but nowhere else!)

Finished 'Greatest Show Off Earth' damn fine!
Also finished 'Stardust', 'The Sandman: The Doll's House' and The Sandman: Dream Country' all by Niel Gaiman.

I love the Sandman novels, Neil Gaiman has a fantastic talent

Indeed, I find reading him, his style and his ideas, they touch me or connect with something deep inside. His works are soul-food.

Has anyone read any Neil Gaimans non-Sandman stuff. American Gods and Neverwhere are fantastic.