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

Perhaps s/he is a frustrated English student or something?

dunno...I would have been Dean Moriarty though: he's more interesting.

Why frustrated GD? Why not content, well-adjusted and successful? But anyway, I'm not an English major... and I'm a 'he', if that helps your pronominalisation

Ah fwt, that's the thing! I'm much more like Sal, the observer, the writer... okay, so I can't go too much further in depth, I've only read the book once But I found Sal much more interesting than Dean; Dean was just charismatic, mysterious and exciting, and where's the fun in that?

I suppose I am too...dagnabbit!

What, charismatic, mysterious and exciting?

how did you guess

It's just a vibe you give off

On a random note, What did you think of the Catcher in the Rye?

I read it, and thought it was absolutely...pants

To tell you the truth, I've never read it... nor been especially tempted to, really.

it wasnt that good ....

Any recommendations?

erm....random recommendations include enders game or enders shadow by Orson Scott Card, To kill a mockingbird by harper lee, Margaret Atwoods Handmaids Tale, or her newest one, I like some of the 'young adult' stuff as well, including Philip Pullman, Harry Potter, and William Nicholson.

Anymore...I'll have to have a think.

Recommendations of your own?

Hmm... well, I tend to read authors rather than just books, so I'll give you a couple of those... John Irving, though I've grown rather tired of him lately (and 'The Fourth Hand' was, I thought, very ordinary), P.G. Wodehouse is simply outstanding, Kurt Vonnegut (though I've only just started reading him), and I must confess to being quite a fan of Dickens, despite the fact that everyone seems to rubbish him these days.

These are just starters with authors: because I often don't know which book to read first: so was being helpful!

I want to read some Dickens...its on my to do list...I like some classical poetry like Emily Dickenson and Wilfred Owen: his war poetry is phenomenal!

Oh for sure, and I must admit I haven't read any of those authors... so little time! My favourite Dickens would have to be David Copperfield I think, Pickwick papers is good too. Oh, and E. A. Poe - absolute must-read!

Have you read Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, or Macbeth?

I love them!!

No and yes... I must say though, my favourite Shakespeare would have to be The Merchant of Venice... I don't really know why, just because

I havent read that one: the other class did MoV whilst we did Macbeth...I love that one!

DoM is fantastic as well: plenty of murder, intrigue and incest

Indeed, what a combination

I'm between books at the moment... I have Vanity Fair lying around, but I'm a bit hesitant about starting on that at the moment...

It is!

I'm reading 'the silent takeover: the death of democracy and global capitalism' at the moment...it's a happy little number