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

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Loved the fish joke

Just read it- beginning to wish i WAS him ! xxx

You mean you're not ~ its not good to get a girl all excited like that and let her down.

I hang my head, Oh she who walks through walls

(LOVED that book- but 'Job' was a close follower)

It was a Princess Of Mars that got my attention a long time ago, and Heinlein who carried on the tradition. love his stuff (Number of the Beast was a bit strained, though) My favourite is probably Glory Road

Number of the beast wasn't the best but i was still a kid when i read it and loved the idea of being able to go to all those books i'd read.
I was too young to pick holes in the science then.
First one i read was I will fear no evil.
Job's actually one of my faves along with time enough for love

And it ties into Sail Beyond the Sunset very neatly; I like the whole Lazarus Long cycle

Yes it works really well.
Where you located ~ i'm UK and have had a hard time geting copies of all his stuff over the years.
Usually stuffed suitcases full of books when on holiday in the US
most of his work seems to be out of print here.

UK too. Where about are you ? I come across his stuff quite a bit !

Near swindon ~ i think i got most of them now ~ second hand shops aren't bad and i can always resort to amazon.
Funny thing was back when i was in high school they had a bunch in the school library ~thats where i first found them.
Don't supppose they knew what they had.

Let me know what you're short of; My mate is the manager of Forbidden Planet Bookshop. Bound to be able to sort you out

Have to check the bookcases ~ but i think it in one of the ones downstairs and i can't be bothered to move right now.
Its terrible i keep finding books i like when i'm overseas then i get home and the ing stuff isn't published here ~ when i went away last year i came home with nearly 30 books.

Where do you keep going ? is it bizniz or pleasure ? 30 books in a suitcase ! What about your duty free ?

The states ~ i've family out there.
buy the duty free after you've got rid of the suitcase ~ its when they want to weigh my handbag or handluggage i'm in trouble.

If you do find your missing titles, i'll be glad to help ?

~ a real gent.A rare find these days.
So presumedly you've read all the Heinlein so what are you reading these days?

Anything Everything.

Read all of the Discworld, Drenai, Dan Brown, I can find, as well as anything else I can get my hands on. Currently reading 'The Rule of Four'

Are the Drenai Gemmel?
Never been able to get into his stuff.
Just finished Deathstalker Coda ~ simon Green and picking up a little light relief with Robert Asprins Myth-Inc Link

Yes, but the Drenai tales are an easy read- a much different style from his other stuff. Give it a go, start with Waylander or Legend.

I'll read anything ~ i didn't think his stuff was difficult exactly ~ it just didn't engage me.
But my stepfather has everything gemmels ever written so i'll borrow some next time i pop up for a visit.

Problem with the Drenai stuff, some think it a virtue, is the timeline. For instance, in Legend, the hero is killed at the end. In the half dozen sequels, we start from an earlier time, and work forwards. Happens a lot. Waylander is set several hundred years before legend, Winter warriors about a hundred after. It makes sense once you have it all under your belt...... or not !