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

Recently read the Gibson/Sterling "The Difference Engine" (sorely disappointed), also Jan Bondeson's "Buried Alive" (my favorite non-fiction author) and am currently skimming "Understanding the Enneagram"- something I attempt to understand every 4 years or so. (I am a type 4. Ha!)

I'm reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Timequake" - again. It's his typically skewed take on autobiography and it makes me feel glad to be alive every time I pick it up, which is quite an achievement really.

Guildford, The Changing Face.

Absolutely absorbing looking at old photos of the town, new ones have been taken ins as close to the original postion so that it is easy to spot the changes over the last 150 years.

Although I moved here only 20 years ago, it is amazing how much the area has changed even in that time.

Guy Gavriel Kay - Tigana

Every so often I like to delve back into the technical, so this week I'm expecting from A[wellknownbooksellingwebsite]n.co.uk a copy of

"Russian Ekranoplans"

Just finished Stephen Fry's 'The Tennis Stars' Balls'. This was a cracking good read, a modern version of the Count of Monte Cristo.

Seamus Heaney's Beowulf.

Hard going to say the least.

Liam.

Just finished K J Parkers 'Shadows' and 'Patterns' very good although there were bits I speed read as they were just bumpf.

Currently reading something by chaz brenchly (some horror thing about poly students getting murdered) and Tom Jones (you'd be amazed how many people think it's about the singer....)

Just getting started on Joanne Harris's "Coastliners".
Also "Black Earth City" by Charlotte Hobson about her experiences while living as a student for a year in deepest Russia.

The A-Z of London.

How can you read A-Z of London, that's a reference book, full of maps, not reading book. So what planet are you from?

oh, and this is a bus! There are lots of them in London.

Twelfth Night (W. Shakespeare)

Robert Rankin > 'Website Story'

Just got hold of DNA's Biog, though I have to finish "Russia's Ekranoplans" first.

A London A-Z is always useful for an evening's Mornington Crescent

Small Gods - Pratchett
The Divine Comedy - Dante
Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook.

The Foundation Triology by Isaac Asimov

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by some Scottish woman...

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

Star Trek: Gateways (book 6 of 7) - Cold Wars by Peter David
I probably won't read the other books in the series as it's one of those that crosses all the incarnations of Trek, and I really only like the New Frontier ones. Peter David is one of my guilty pleasures.

At home it's Dr. Fegg's Encyclopedia of All World Knowledge

Lord of the Rings - my copy is falling apart but I'm blowed if I'm buying a new one.

And Kavalier and Clay by ... oh what's his name? Michael Chambon.

And also Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps.