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

I've just finished the first book in the Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snickett. I can't find book 2 or 3 anywhere now!!

Are there any other adults reading these books or am I the only one?

have you tried Amazon?

Right, Finished Jennifer Government (Max Barry), which I can recommend to anyone. It's a satire on globalisation and privatisation, and is really very funny.

Currently on Pratchett's Maskerade.

RF

footbacon.
i want to read them just havent got round to them yet like so many other books!
im 19 so i think im classed as an adult reader!

Read the first chapter of Jennifer Government and can't wait to read the rest of it

Maskerade is awesome!

Finished Maskerade (boy, I'm getting through a shed load of books at the moment!).

I find Pratchett an interesting, enjoyable read, but I think he's getting a bit repetitive now.

Struggling my way into Philip K Dick's Dr. Bloodmoney now.

RF

I think that the Discworld series is close to running its course. The newer stuff is still good though

I've just read 'le pavillon des enfants fous' = 'the villa of the mad kids'by valery valere
she's speaking of her terrible experience in a psychiatric hospital when she was young and anorexic
just a great book to read

Stasiland by Anna Funder was extremely good. Personal accounts of people who had either been affected by or were members of the secret police in the old DDR. After reading it I wached the extraordinarily good film, 'Goodbye, Lenin' set around the collapse of the DDR.

Currently browsing The Kenneth Williams Diaries while decididing whether to start Philip Roth's The Plot Against America or Anthony Burgess' Malayan Trilogy.

Hi Edward the Bonobo
I didn't read Stasiland but "goodbye Lenin" is one of the best movies i've ever watched !

Footbacon, have you tried abebooks? Ebay is worth a try, too.

Finally bought the Da Vinci Code

I got the first three Lemony Snickett books as an all in one. Didn't think they were that great (but I had just finished Philip Pullmans trilogy) May try them again due to the fillum.

Currently working my way through Terry Goodkind's 'Stone of Tears'. It is as good as the first (Wizards First Rule) but I think I'm more in TV watching mode than book reading.

Zantic

I've jsut started on the second of Lemony Snicketts. It's ok, not brilliant. I'm looking forward to seeing the film thought, I think Jim Carrey will make it more appealing

I'm currently working my way through Bill Bryson's Short History....

I have just started Pullman's trilogy, starting with Northern Lights. Only one chapter in, but, I'm enjoying it.

let meknow how that goes sheep, i tried it a few years ago and got confused half way through then the library wanted it baack do not read it all the way through yet!

im going to start reading madonna by andrew morton as im half way through so going to pick it up again!

Stephen King - The Dark Tower. Was sorely disappointed with the ending, especially as its taken him 34 years to finish the whole story!

I finished Dr. Bloodmoney, didn't think it was that great. Any Philip K Dick readers out there who can point me in the direction of a better book, or are they all like that? (in which case, I'll drop him from my list of authors to read.) I'm now halfway through You Shall Know Our Velocity, by Dave Eggers, and I'm considering whether to continue to the end. I read A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius a coupla tears ago, and that was quite good, but this one's getting a bit tedious.

RF