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

oh I hope you get better soon.

I think I must be a bit odd. I loved my O-level set books - even Rhyme and Reason. As for my English A-level set books - I re-read some of them, they were great.

Currently reading a comic anthology called "Zombie tales". It's quite good... though I did notice small print inside the title page indicating it's the first volume in what will probably be another series.

K's been reading to me at night from "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash". And I'm also reading "Passing By", a collection of Jerzy Kosinski's essays.

"oh I hope you get better soon."

The raging allergies triggered my asthma, which in turn stopped me exercising (exercise can bring on an asthma attack for me), which further affected my sense of well-being. I'm still not completely better, but I'm dipping into Cromwell from time to time. Still keeping an Agatha Christie in reserve - Murder on the Links, this time.

Thanks for the good wishes, Sho.

It seems that my post about O level/A level set texts seems to have gone astray (I must've clicked on a wrong button.) If anyone finds it in another thread, please let me know You're not odd sho (I mentioned this in the lost post); I enjoyed all of my set texts.

I hope the symptoms of your asthma improve cheerful dragon and anything by Agatha is worth reading. I enjoyed Murder on the Links and an early Poirot is hard to beat, especially for "duvet reading"

As I've said elsewhere, my asthma is controlled by a couple of inhalers at the moment. Thanks for the good wishes.

I'm about halfway through Villette. It's quite an easy read, but Charlotte Bronte has a tendency to use semi-colons instead of full stops. This gives very long sentences that would fail any modern 'readability' index.

Oh I've got Villette on my reading list for this year.

Enjoying The Mill on the Floss - but it's slowed right down with about 50 pages to go, so I picked up Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich for a bit of a light read.

The Right Attitude To Rain, by Alexander McCall Smith(an Isabel Dalhousie novel)

Just finished "Forty Signs of Rain", by Kim stanley Robinson, the first in his climate change trilogy.

Now reading "Holy fools" by Joanne Harris, picked off my sister's bookshelves while staying at her place for a few days.

Just finished "Futureproof" by N. Frank Daniels. Depressing, but quite engaging, novel about junkies and the finer details of scoring fixes, etc.

For tomorrow morning's commute I will start something I found at the record shop (a used, tight, first edition hardcover, no less), Thomas Looker's "The Sound And The Story: NPR and the Art of Radio". A subject very near and dear to my heart; I can't wait to begin reading!!

Bronte. Semicolons.

'Never use semicolons; they are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. They simply serve to show off that the writer has been to college.'

(Kurt Vonnegut)


Kim Stanley Robinson:

Is it any good? I *loved* his Red/Green/Blue Mars. Has anyone read the ones where European civilisation was destroyed by plague in the middle ages and China is the dominant power?


PC:

Reminds me - I must e-mail the details of a site I found which has tons of Peel recordings. Whole shows, as well as sessions.

I'd swear you (or perhaps a mutual friend) sent me a link to some Peel recordings already, but I'd rather receive the same link(s) twice than miss out on anything.

I've only read the first two chapters of my NPR book. Fond memories of the inside of production and editing booths came rushing back... oh, to once again work alone in a soundproofed room.

It does sound like me who'd have sent you a link - but this is a another site I only found last week. Tons of programmes - which isn't something I'd seen before.

Just finished I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

The story's OK but the way she tells it is hilarious. A girl in an odd situation develops the most most charming perspective.

I've just started Tintenblut by Cornelia Funke.

Read 'A Snowball in Hell' by Christopher Brookmyre. I doubt it would pass Ed's literature test, but good clean fun.

Must get round to 'Your Inner Fish' soon.

Got Nudge and Kluge today. Started on Nudge, an examination of why people make the choices they do.

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

Now on to "Fifty Degrees Below", the second of the Kim Stanley Robinson climate change trilogy.
Ed, if you liked the Mars trilogy you might want to give these a go. He gives the impression of having done enough research to get his science right but still makes for a good entertaining story. I think the other book you mention is called somethign like In the time of Salt & Rain? It's on the bookshelf somewhere but I've not read it yet.

I remember reading the first KSR climate change one - I didn't know the second was out now. I can't remember a lot about it now, but I do remember that there were one or two little things that I wanted to see how he would develop them in the next one. Damned if I know what they were now, though.

Ha! Another vote for 'I Capture...'.

KSR - yes, his research and ideas are spot on. It does have to be admitted, though, he's not that good a writer.

Don't the climate change ones do three different versions of the same period, but with different policies?