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

hello!

i'm reading Castle Terror by Marion Zimmer Bradley, it's great!

i loved those books by Pillip Pullman, i thought they were brilliant!

Assassins Apprentice, Robin Hobb. Having problems reading this, as I have already read it before, and I don't like the bit that comes next, so have abandoned it for the more tedious task of reading backlog

Assassin's Apprentice is a good book. What part are you at at the moment, that you don't like?
I'm reading Ship of Destiny, also by Robin Hobb. First time round, though, so I don't know what's going to happen next.

The Time Machine by H G Wells with the H2G2 Reading Group and The Olive Farm by Carol Drinkwater.

Am at the bit where Fitz has been framed by Regal for the murder of Kettricken's brother. Have you read the entire farseer trilogy? They're all good books I couldn't get into the liveship books for some reason, might give them a bash again over the summer, and am eagerly awaiting the fools errand to come out in paperback it looks like the start of another good trilogy, linking to the farseer books *bounce*

They're up in the Mountain Kingdom, then? It is a kind of rough part of the book, from Fitz' point of view, being as he almost gets drowned and stuff.
Yes, I have read all three books, and I'm looking forward to Fool's Errand as well. Just need to finish the Liveship trilogy, and then I've got a bunch of books that I really should read before getting into another trilogy...

Let me know how the liveship trilogy goes, might give me added incentive for the summers reading *grin*

Three Hands in the Fountain by indsey Davis (I'm getting through her books).

I'm up to my usual trick of reading several books 'at once', as it were.

Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Mary Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (No, I didn't see the BBC adaptation. It's my 'Book at Bedtime'.)

I also set myself the task of reading a few chapters of the Bible every day, which can be tough going. I've reached the Book of Joshua.

i also ocassionally read The Lord Of The Ring & at mo am also tryin 2 re-read The Hobbit & read Unfinished Tales (tho my boyfriend stole it) & the Lays Of Beleriand. I also have a couple more that were lent me that i have to read asap! argh! so much to read so little time to read it in!

(hey, must use that as my new statementy thingy!)

Just finished Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Just started Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

Just finished reading Trilobite by Richard Fortey, written by an enthusiastic expert, to inspire the amateur paleontologist in me.
Just started China Mieville's Perdido Street Station - dark and descriptive so far...

Just finished 'The e. before Chrismas' by Matt Beaumont the follow up to e. Both books are simply the inter office email around the events in an ad agency hilarious.

Back to an old favourite.... Pyramids, Terry Pratchett

Big Bad City by Ed McBain, a novel of the 87th precinct (probably the series is quite famous, but I'd never heard of it - The cops presumably stay the same from book to book, so he doesn't introduce them very well).

i've had no time to read recently

but i am currently browsing the Private Eye annual '95. it's very funny!

I am proudly reading a trashy thriller! I love 'em. Decipher by Stel Pavlou.

I was sold on the tag line which reads...

"Mankind had 12,000 years to decipher the message. We have one week left..."

*sighs in happiness*

I have just read:
Tunnel Visions, by Christopher Ross. -An amusing set of thoughts and incidents from the summer he worked at Oxford Road station on the tube. Its very funny, and it has me looking at advertisements in an entirely new light...

I nearly read all of but not quite, on account of getting impatient, skipping to the end, and then reading some of the middle before deciding to drop it all together:
The Love of Stones, by Tobias Hill. -I think its a good book, but I didn't really get on with it as well as I'd hoped. Hill's writing style seems a little to many steps away from me than I'd like. I'm sorry, I can't think of a better way of putting it than slightly distant.

I am about to read, when I have daytime rather than nighttime:
The Diceman, by Luke Reinhart (sp?) -Prompted by h2g2's very own Lucinda, because his username used to be My Red Dice because of this book, and when I saw it in the bookshop I thought, why not?


My housemate's just finished the Liveship Traders. He liked it, but he says he's in Robin Hobb mode regarding everything and expects a bad ending to practically any fiction he reads or watches still. This, however, should not be taken as a spoiler for the end of the liveship traders, though, because it was more about the Assasin's trilogy, I think.

I'm reading 'Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution' by Glyn Moody. Interesting read. Richard Stallman is still an annoying git, though.

Pratchett: Small Gods... I really am trawling throught he old favourites...

Am also reading three books on the reformation... by Haigh, Jones and Duffy respectively... Joy