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

still reading the BFG (it's fab)

still reading Fellowship of the Ring (still fab)

just started Eats, Shoots and Leaves

after that, it will be The Brothers Karamazov

Also just started "Lucky Jim" by Kinglsey Amis.

The backlog makes my current distraction seem a bit insubstantial .

Gods Above by Peter David

Several at the moment:

Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux - travel writings

A Test of Time by David Rohl - Egyptian/Middle East archaeology

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocaylpse by Robert Rankin - murder and mayhem in Toy Town.

Well I did finish Lucky Jim but I have to read it again.

I've just read 31 songs, which is the most expensive book I have ever purchased.

Not the cover price, you understand. Just the couple of dozen CDs that Nick Hornby has just persuaded me to go out and buy.

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I'm starting Life of Pi for my class, and so far I'm enjoying it; it's better than a lot of the books I've had to read so far for that class.

Life of Pi is *awesome*! enjoy, it'll blow you away! The names (Pi, Richard Parker) are brilliant, but only the beginning of weirdness!

The only problem is, I'm into math, so whenever I see the name Pi I think the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, and it drives me nuts!

Right now I'm reading:
Into The Silent by Paul Broks, a neuroscientists philosophical musings

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

Just finished The Eyre Affair trilogy now reading Hot Six by Janet Evanovitch

Oh, that's right, the third book is out now! I found The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book in the library a few weeks ago and read each one in a day, but I'll have to find The Well of Lost Plots as soon as I finish Life of Pi.

Just started reading "Travels round Ireland with my Fridge".

Very funny.

What I'm reading now:

Poland by James A. Michener

Interesting for me since it was written before the fall of the Communist system. Has a nice flow to it.

"On the banks of the River Piedra I sat down and cried" by Paul Coelho.

I've liked a couple of Coelho's others but I've just started this one and already there's a bit too much God in it for me. Reading it in French though which is fun!

Recently finished "Lost in a Good Book" by Jasper Fforde and like others in this thread am looking forward to reading the third book in the trilogy before too long.
Now reading "Shadow of the Hegemon" by Orson Scott Card, one of his series of books following on from the events of "Enders Game"

finished Eats, Shoots and Leaves. very

Still reading the BFG to the Gruesomes, plus various Ladybird early readers

Now well into The Two Towers - it's still my favourite part of my favourite novel.

I thoroughly recommend the Thursday Next Trilogy, I've just finished What A Lady Wants by Jennifer Crusie, a Chandleresque novel but it's good, I've never read a bad book by her

Leezen vary carefully I shall say zis only once.

The War Diaries of Rene Artois

I weel now dissappear up ze back passage like a phantom out of the night

Good Moaning

I'm mid-way through The Well of Lost Plots, then I'm going back to re-read the other two!

Then on to The Illiad to re-read that before 'Troy' comes out and massacres it.