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

Just finished "Widow for a Year" by John Irving.
Enjoyable - but I didn't find it 'comic' as described on the jacket.


For Sharpe fans - W'stones have the entire series of paperbacks on three-for-two until the end of April.

A typical Irving, I'd say. I did enjoy it too

Right in the middle of 'The best of British SF 1', edited by Mike Ashley. It's a collection of short stories.

Current story: 'Jupiter Five' by Arthur C. Clarke, written in 1953
I love old SF!

Just finished "The Finishing School" by Muriel Spark - read it twice in a week and it's fantastic!

Just reread "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch." I could reread it over and over.

"Making Love: A conspiracy of the heart" - Interesting as the narrator is the book.
"The curious incident of the dog in th nighttime" Written from the point of view of an autistic boy. Very very funny, and very sad by turns.


And thirdly (and cunning hidden by the dust jacket of the latter previously mentioned books)the Paul McKenna change your life in 7 days book.......Which is funny, if you know what the cover of "Making Love: A conspiracy of the heart" looks like.

Oh, and HHGTTG - again.


Cheers all.

Just started "Lucia, Lucia" by Adriana Trigiani. Only a few pages into it as yet but hve high hopes that it will be as good as her other stuff.

Am intrigued by "The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time" - heard it reviewed on the radio a few months ago so good to have another recommendation. Will watch out for it in paper-back.

The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory... sucked me right in.

Teuchter! I you!! I've just despatched my to UK with instructions to bring me the next 2 books!! I'll call him and deliver appropriate instructions!

Just started Hitchhikers, which had mysteriously disappeared - only to return on Thursday in a padded envelope postmarked in the States.

Has HHGTTG been off doing its own research round the ?

apparently it's been in Florida. But I haven't finished with Sharpe's Sword yet, so it will have to wait.

oh, I managed to say that without sniggering.

we need a , don't we?

Definitely - either that or an Innuendo Alert Symbol

*wanders back into thread with mop and bucket to tidy up the caused by thinking about Sharpe's Sword

sorry, all, completely off topic, but Teuchter... have you considered the thread at all?

Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie

Christie is the main thing I've been reading the past few weeks.

The Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age by Richard Rudgley - fascinating look at how civilisation started in the Neolithic and Mesolithic area (including the world's oldest known pottery from the Jomon Culture of Japan some 13,000 years ago) and what we actually mean by civilisation.

The Garden of Unearthly Delights by Robert Rankin.

80 Not Out - Patrick Moore's autobiograpyhy.

20 years after I first bought the book, I've finally managed to read to the end of Tolkien's "Silmarillion". Some good tales buried in there, although I still found the timelines of most of it to be so compressed there was nothing left but strings of names.

Now set for some lighter reading. I got Jasper Fforde's "Well of Lost Plots" for my birthday, plus a book of SF novellas along the theme of cities (written by reknowned authors including China Mieville and Michael Moorcock).

Also reading "Ginger Geezer" the Life of Vivian Stanshall by Chris Welch.

Fascinating.

Poppy Z. Brite's new book - "Liquor"

Unlike her first three books, she's now writing in a different genre. If you like food, especially New Orleans food, this is definitely the book for you. I'm loving it - she's a fantastic writer.

to Metal Chicken.

I'm starting that again when I've finished Return of the King. Which isn't going to be any time soon since i appear to be 4 books into the 20 book Sharpe thingy...