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

quicksilver - by Christine Dickason

and jingo, terry pratchett, after that, due to the Terry Pratchett vs DNA thread making me reconsider my old resolution to stop reading TP after buying every single one up to jingo

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Dracula is good if you don't expect the kind of 'horror' they dish up for the films. There's no blood dripping all over the place. The horror is 'psychological' - suggested rather than told.

SALMON OF DOUBT By some strange person I know not what of!

also The Antipope due to the weird looks when I try and read S*O*D on public transport..

About to start Travels With My Radio by Fi Glover.

"Faith of the Fallen" by Terry Goodkind. Not deep and meaningful: strictly for entertainment - quite good fantasy. Seven or eight out of ten.

Pattern-chaser

"Who cares, wins"

I have finished Bram Stoker's Dracula in, wow, exactly three days , and I've just started on "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice

I remember I read it a couple of years ago, and now that I stumbled upon my battered old paperback, I suddenly wished to read it again I'm suddenly very fascinated with vampires in literature...

i wanna get 'salmon of doubt' but have no money
am reading 'Myths & Legends of the British Isles' (Richard Barber, tho tales from many sources) tis quite cool

omy

I've several on the go at the moment.

Firstly there is James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me" which I'm reading as part of my trip through alternative and left wing analyses of US history. When I've finished this one I'll be on to some other parts of the Howard Zinn cannon.

Then there is the final part of Tony Benn's parliamentary diaries, "The End of an Era - Diaries 1980-90". Well I've read the five so I might as well finish the series.

And Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta" just for fun.

Magician-Raymond E Feist (yet again...)


Jesi

'V for Vendetta' just for FUN?? Not exactly the most light-hearted of books!

Songs of Enchantment by Ben Okri - it's the sequel to The Famished Road, but not quite as stunning.
and then there's a huge pile of books next to my bed.

Yes, 'V for Vendetta' just for fun As the other two are a bit heavy going you see

Joe Haldeman-The Forever War

The Francis Urquhart (spelling?) books by Michael Dobbs - House of Cards, To Play The King, The Final Cut. I saw a bit of House of Cards while visiting my mum, and realised I hadn't read the books for a while.

~bookmarking~

In praise of Celtica! I've just finished it and it is awesome!

To please Jimmy, I am reading the second book in Tamora Pearce's series. I have to say, I don't like it much - it's too American, the faux-mediaeval thing Americans love in fantasy. Pearce's heroine Alanna spends all her time 'passing' as a boy, and she's more *boy* than many real boys I know. She sneers at every girl she meets, for one thing, because they're dainty girly-girls or because she resents that her 'fellows' are growing up and at - 16-18, getting interested in these girls (as you do.) Alanna resents losing their attention. I don't like her. She wants to be a warrior - well, three cheers. She doesn't help the cause of women/girls, by passing as a (very sexist, nasty) *boy* boy.

I used to enjoy Tamora Pierces' Alanna books....

Joe Haldeman-Forever Peace

The Alanna books used to be my very favourite - I could just about recite the first book

Just finished 'The Truth' (Prachett) - worked my way through every single Discworld book up to this, and now I can't find Theif of Time! I know my brother has it somewhere, but his room's more of a bomb site than mine - I'd be lucky to find anything in there!

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh - read it at school sorta but felt like revisiting Llanabba Castle and the reprobates therein ...

Sprout Mask Replica by Rankin - not his best - bit too scatterlogical, but okay.