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

I'm reading 'Sovay' by Celia Rees.

I really need to finish reading Khaled Hosseini's 'A Thousand Splendid Suns', but it was getting hard to see the pages with blurred vision.

I'm currently reading "Moon over Soho" as well. And "Fuzzy Nation", John Scalzi's retelling of "Little Fuzzy". And probably several more books that I have misplaced and will continue when I find them.

The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton - Britain's number one science fiction writer (it says here). I didn't think I'd read it, but it turns out I had. However, it's well worth reading again because it's pretty complex and it'll remind me what's going on before I get hold of the last book in the trilogy.

I really liked "Fuzzy Nation", and it was updated, although not really any more sophisticated in plot. Motivations were about the same, just not as stilted as the "martinis around the camp in the evenings" meme from the original story.

I'm reading Shadow Unit 1, by Emma Bull; it's an ebook from an online anthology series about a Fringe-like division of the FBI. Pretty good; I've already bought the other three books...don't know when I'll finish them,

Finally finished Swann's Way by Marcel Proust. Wish I was capable of reading it in the original French. I'm told there's a good modern translation but I had the old established one because it was free for Kindle and it really didn't do the text any favours.

Next on the list is The Dervish House by Ian MacDonald. Although I should really be concentrating on my OU music course books...

MC

At the moment, I'm reading a fascinating leaflet called "3D Digitizing - [BRAND NAME] 3D Laserscanner: Applications in Medical Science" and trying to integrate it into my paper

Origami - what an interesting pastime

Good title for a

Just finished rereading A Clockwork Orange and to my surprise there is an extra chapter ion this version.
When I first read it it ended with Alex being deprogrammed by the government back to his vicious old self and offered a good job etc in exchange for denouncing the dissidents - it also had a nadsat dictionary.
The version I have just read lacks the dictionary and the final chapter begins with Alex and his new droogs setting out much as in the first chapter but when they attack an old man he takes no part, he is confused because he no longer enjoys the old ultra violence, he wonders off to think and goes to a coffee bar where he meets his old droog Pete who has married and settled down. Alex realises that is what he wants and that he wants children. It ends with him stating he will warn his sons not to follow his example as a teen and then realising they won't understand or listen
Has anyone else come across these two version of the book

I've read it twice, once a long long time ago, and I can't really remember the ending. The one I have on my shelf now is the one you described above.

I'm reading a biography of William Cobbett by Richard Ingrams.

It's brilliant.

Mol

I'm finally reading Snuff.

The Rise and Fall of the Medici by Christopher Hibbert. Also dipping into Homer's Iliad, but that's a college work thing rather than reading for pleasure. (Not that I don't enjoy Homer, I hasten to add, but it's more a 'need to' than a 'want to' right now.)

The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace, by Leonard Mlodinow.

Currently on A Clash of Kings (Ice and Fire book 2) and on t'Kindle I'm working my way through the complete works of H. P. Lovecraft.

Have recently read...

The Thirteenth Apostle: Dan Brownish stuff about stuff that will shake the Church to its foundations if it gets out. Finished it on Thursday, and can't remember the author's name. 'nuff said.

Keynes, Return of the Master, by Robert Skidelsky (I think..). What he thought, why he was right and why it matters. George Osborne should be forced to read it, before being bludgeoned to death by it.

Shit My Dad Says. Dunno who wrote that either, but his dad's really funny

Got the title wrong. It's actually called Euclid's Window. What I gave was the subtitle.

Rereading Captain Corelli's Mandarin

tuc:

You know that in part A Clockwork Orange was written as an exercise in linguistic pedagogy, yeah?

Blolshy great yarblockoos to thy pedagogy