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

Hey Della, I'm glad to bring some diversity into the conversation I read a lot of Italian books, of course, and many Italian authors are also translated into English.

Im reading Count Zero, by William Gibson.

Nice bitta Coiberpuuuuunnnnkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Starting to read André Brink's Devil's Valley.

The Joy of TeX
A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AmS-TeX macro package

by M. D. Spivak, Ph.D.

The X in "TeX" makes the same sound as the ch in "loch" and the author is made up.

Reading "Becoming Human" by Ian Tattersal

Just about to start "Interface" by Neal Stephenson & Frederick George. Which has already annoyed me before I've even read page 1 because the blurb plays so heavily on Stephenson's reputation (Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash) and says not one word about Frederick George, whoever he may be. Anybody know any more?

Hi MC - long time no see. I didn't know Stephenson had a new one out - any news on the fabled 'quicksilver'?
Oh, and the George guy? Never heard of him. But I' sure we will.

I'm on The Dragon Seekers, about 18th century proto-palaeontologists, and
On Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri by 'Mad' Thomas Hawkins. It's a copy of hte 1834 publication, and makes for some florid reading.
and
Vital Dust by Christian deDuve. It's all about per-life on Earth chemistry, and is fascinating. No, really...

Hi there Frogbit
Seeing a bit of a (not-surprising) theme emerging in your reading material

Not heard anything about quicksilver. Looks like this one I've got was written a good few years ago in the US but only just published over here. Quote on the cover from the Seattle Weekly "A Manchurian Candidate for the computer age". I'm confuzzled but will read anyway and report back here.

Saturday night's Spikefest on BBC2 has nudged me to finally getting around to read 'Adolf Hitler : My Part In His Downfall'.

Always been tempted by that Pollers, never quite fumbled for the change required. You'll have to let me know what you think ...

Have just finished Mary Shelleys Frankenstein which although decidedly florid in it's style was very good ...

Just cracking into "In Exile from the Land of the Snows" an account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet since the Chinese Invasion ... nothing like a little light reading!

Now onto Robert Rankin's East of Ealing...

I'm gonna get through them all...oh yes I am!!!!

I've just started reading the Karma Sutra (without pictures )

"I"m still reading 'Wolf Speaker' by Tamora Pearce. Not so bad!"

Really? I read that not too long ago Della and I liked it.
I'm on to the Emperor Mage, the third in the series.

"Speaks the Nightbird" by Robert R. McCammon... only just begun today.

"A Garden of Pomegranates" by Israel Regardie (again)

"Jingo" by Terry Pratchett... working my way back through the Discworld

i've started william shatner's "Get a Life" from '99 and i note that Capt. Kirk is having a live interactive audio chat/interview at 2 PM monday 10/14 EDT. goto www.msnbc.com and click on sci/tech, then cosmic log...any of you know a trekkie place on this site, i'm sure they'd like to know...if they don't already.

Yet another ing technical manual, unfortunately. I'll be glad to be finished with all my exams so I can get back to real books... though I do glance at "The Salmon of Doubt" on occasion to make me feel better...

Finshed 'Altered Carbon' by Richard Morgan yesterday and I am now onto 'Bored of the Rings' by the National Lampoon.

several, a/k/a random said:

"i got referenced to a 1989 book by one clifford stoll called 'the cuckoo's egg' about a hacker-tracker that explains about compu-protocol, networks and the like. i'm not re-reading it now, but 'soul of a new machine' by tracy kidder is about compu-design (how the early machines were made, and by who.)"

The cuckoo's egg was quite an interesting read. On the same lines as Soul of the New Machine - Hackers by Steven Levy [sp?] is a good one.

Just finished Chasm City - very good stuff. I'm stuck without a book at the moment.

Liam.

i tried hackers, but it was not a good time and place, i may borrow that again. thanks for the re-post. i'm still trying to find out where the ground and the ceiling are.

im reading (besids the odd passage from compulsory uni books) 'the dragon in the stone' by allan scott (got it dirt cheap from oxfams )
also meanin 2 start dawkins 'the selfish gene'
ooh, got 'last chance to see' by dna & mark carwardine on tape, read by dna & signed by mark

omy

Currently reading 'the silent takeover: global capitalisn and the death of democracy' by noreena hertz

damn fine book... but a happy little number