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

Tom Sharpes Indecent Exposure & Life @ the Limits by some guy whos a professor in new zealand

Nearly finished Wanderers & Islanders by Steve Cockayne. Then on to a little physics with The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene and I'm still determined to read the Silmarillion from cover to cover sometime soon...

i found it helped to write down how was how on a scrap of paper when reading the silmarillion for d first time

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'We Can Build You' by Philip K. Dick.

Guards! Guards! PTerry

Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy. Does exactly what it says on the tin without any of that Is a chair a chair? malarkey.

yeay! a TP fan!
come & say hello @ Pratchetts Anonymous A640360 some time!

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I'm reading "The Physics of Immortality" by Frank J. Tipler. This book is written by a physicist who claims to have found scientific proof of the existence of God and the inevitability of resurrection. (Al)mighty interesting, to say the least.

So does his argument make sense? Is it that one about how life, the universe and everything is so incredibly unlikely? How does he argue resurrection is inevitable scientifically? Perhaps I should try the book myself if I'm that bothered.

I'm reading "Sanctuary Sparrow" by Ellis Peters. It's one of the Cadfael novels - I'm getting a bit into historical detectives at the moment.

'The Crying Of Lot 49' by Thomas Pynchon, 'A Journal of the Plague Year' by Daniel Defoe and 'L'Étranger' by Albert Camus...the joys of being a literature student!

And I would like to recommend an author too - Jorge Luis Borges, he writes amazing metaphysical fiction that will really get you thinking

"Count Belisarius" by Robert Graves. Rubbishy cover but great book

Just started Burnt Offerings by Laurell Hamilton.
Almost finished with The Fifth Elephant by Pratchett.
Getting ready to start Lord of the Rings (which I received at Christmas and haven't gotten to yet, but that was okay because I hadn't seen the movie either until two weeks ago. And I've got you beat, Abi, I'll be 31 in a few days ) I hope it goes faster than the Hobbit, which took me nearly a year- I just couldn't stay with it for some reason.
Also recently finished Good Omens which immediately became my second favorite book; and now I hear they'll be making a movie?

Oh, and I almost forgot -
I haven't been to this thread since last August, so I've just read 6 months of backlog (and picked up some great suggestions too, btw!)

I noticed occasionally people mentioning books that had been hard to find or out of print. In the US there is http://www.half.com which is an incredible source for out of print books super cheap. Since it is not a warehouse but many individuals selling from private collections I'm not sure if they have the ability to ship overseas, but there may be similar sites in Europe. Amazon also used to have an out-of-print book-finding service as well, but it's quite a bit more expensive and takes longer. I don't know if they still do this or if it's available on their UK site, I haven't been back to Amazon for anything other than research purposes since I found Half.

I'm currently reading 'Last and First Men' by Olaf Stapledon, its the first book that I've reread in years. Its basically the history of the human race through a two billion year period.

I'm also reading 'Jesus Freaks' by DC Talk, its all about people who died for their religion. It's very interesting and it has a greak cover.

I just finished an English literature course called Apocalyptic Science Fiction, so I've been reading some pretty heavy stuff all term: "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells, "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller Jr., "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "This Is the Way the World Ends" by James Morrow, and "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. Le Guin, plus a pile of short stories. I'm reviewing them all for the exam in a little under two weeks.

Other than that, if I need lighter reading in between studying for exams, I'm reading "Warlock" by Andrew Cartmel, and getting started on my Doctor Who fanfic.

i'm reading Dragons of a Winter something or other. or was it Autumn?

i give up

Currently reading "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"

Me Too

i read that last week