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

I have just finished 'The Bone Woman' by Clea Koff (non-fiction about a forensic anthropolgist working in Rwanda and Bosnia) and am reading 'Going Postal' by Terry wonderful Pratchett...

I loved Vanity Fair myself.

I am currently reading the Song of Ice and Fire books on a permanent rotation and Patrick Hamilton's Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky.

>>>Terry wonderful Pratchett

Funny I always assumed the 'W' stood for w****r. But that is a reflection on the man rather then his works.

Year Zero by Jeff Long

I have just finished "Harriet Said" by Beryl Bainbridge. It went in the direction I had expected and then turned off somewhere else very suddenly at the end!

currently rereading 'Good Omens' by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, very funny
also reading 'Simon de Montfort' by J.R. Maddicott as research for an article I may eventually get around to writing

"The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" by Mark Haddon - and before I go down the pub, a quick dip into: "A short history of nearly everything" by Bill Bryson.

oooh "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" is an awesome book, I hope your enjoying it. I am currently reading the Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake, which comes highly recomended.

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I just read that in about March, Blackberry, it's one of the books my brother had.

Mervyn Peakes Trilogy. The melancholic Muzzlehatch deserves wider recognition, as does Peakes artworks that adorn some of the Penguin editions. As for the curious dog book, well my son is A.S.(thats Aspergers Syndrome for you non-Aspies out there) and he could give you an entirely different review of a book written about an A.S. person for obviously general consumption. My son and other Aspies seem to get a chuckle out of the whole thing! Cheers

A Clash Of Kings- George R. R. Martin

I loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - enjoy!

My current reading is that I've just finished His Dark Materials and have just started to re-read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix so that I'm reminded of where the story is before the next book arrives in July.

Just started rereading 'Sunset Song' by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Do so every year or so but I think I may reread the whole trilogy this time which I haven't done for about 10 years.

This weekend I have read 'The Bad Mother's Handbook' by Kate Long. Verdict, good but not great.

I've just started Dan Simmons' Hyperion, and my son just bought me (as a very early birthday present) Simon Brown's 'Fire and Sword', second in the Keys of Power series. Yay!!!!!

Dan Simmons is a good read, try his Song of Kali as well.(Fall of Hyperion is ok too)

"The eyes of the overworld" by Jack Vance. Love this book. (It's the same moth-eaten paperback version I bought in the sixties) Sardonic, witty and imaginative, it's never lost it's appeal for me. I'm thinking of re-reading the Gormenhast trilogy again, but have to get myself in right frame of mind, will have to do it soon, before summer finishes as I find that reading it in the winter is not the same. Why is that? Hated what the BBC did to it. It's either that or that Jonathan Srange book by Susan?/Suzannah? Clark

Reading Trace by Patricia Cornwell. Usual sloppy writing that makes me wonder what on Earth I'm reading it for, but I read it anyway! Go figure.

Also reading Architects of Eternity by Richard Corfield, which is a sort of history of the fossil and palaeontology. Just finished Bones of Contention by Paul Chambers, a lovely book on the controversies surrounding the Archaeopteryx.

Andy

Jack Vance is awesome! Have you read the Demon Prince books? I read all five in a weekend, back in 1980.

Only the "The Star King" but most of the Dying Earth series. Cugel the Clever rules!

Jack Vance is the master of style!