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

King Rat - by China Mieville

( Abi, but I think your beer money is safe.)

"Shackleton" by Roland Huntford, my best purchase from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England...

Can be used as a doorstop when I've finished... I'm on p 337 of 697

Still haven't been to a book-shop. Still reading the Terry Pratchett series.

"The Code of the Woosters" by P.G. Wodehouse. This is the first of Wodehouse's books I've ever read, and I'm allready laughing my socks off

I finished King Rat and it was brilliant. (Hope you are enjoying it Metal Chicken.)

I have now moved on to a James Herbert novella - Haunted. I must say I thought I had given up reading James Herbert but it appears not. He seems to have dropped the full on gore in favour of more subtle chills.

Just finished King Rat too Thoroughly enjoyed it, great mix of myth, music and urban reality. Can't wait for his latest ("The Scar") to come out in paperback but that'll probably not be till next year sometime.

Rereading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency now. Felt the need for something familiar and light hearted.

Helm-S Gould

Will have finished the Anita Blake books by the end of tomorrow night

A well known high street bookstore that has a black and gold livery has a special offer on at the moment... You can get the box set of the hitchhikers novels in pb as well as a bunch of other things, all at 2 for £20... They have Salmon of Doubt as well, so you could do a bit of collection completetion

Finished the James Herbert last night and was thoroughly disappointed in it. Perhaps horror is different when you are old but i felt the plot was badly constructed and the whole thing felt rushed.

So I am dipping in and out of Mrs Dalloway until I pick up Perdido Street Station which is China Mieville's second book. It is quite chunky so that should keep me going for a while.

Re-reading Dune by Frank Herbert. Still awesome....

Iread Dune when I was 15 I'm now in my 40s I loved it then and I guess it's time to re-read it now Thanks for putting it back on my mind's shelf. At present, I'm re-reading Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Brilliant! I also recently re-read On the Beach- Nevil ShuteItt seemed poignant, given today's political climate.

I couldn't find Perdido Street Station so I am reading Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold

i've just read 'theif of time' (Pratchett) & am now reading 'it came from on high' (Andew Harman) which ive borrowd from my boyfriend (cheapest way 2 get em! )

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The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337 -1453 by Desmond Seward. Read this and you'll understand why the French hate the English so much.

Heavy! (History I mean). I'll make a note of it...

My current three -
The Jesus I Never Knew Phillip Yancey
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Studs Terkel
Celtica Robert Holdstock

Robert Holdstock is good, but very dark..

Just been out and bought Salmon of Doubt, and the new Earthsea book by Ursula Le Guin (this is a series i started to read when naught but a child.....ho hum... )

On holiday managed to read 'The Northern Lights' on the plane out and 'Our Man In Havana' on the way back.

Both very enjoyable.

Have just finished Wodehouse's "Code of the Woosters" and have just started on "Dracula" by Bram Stoker An awkward leap, I agree, but I had promised myself I should read it sooner or later

Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor. It's supposed to be 'humorous', but I'm finding the humour a little obscure.

Mrs Chippy's Last Expedition. The story of the Carpenter's cat on board the Endurance during Shackleton's Antartic expedition.