what are you reading?

[F-ZeroOne]

Pratchett?

[guythp]

In hospital I read the first five parts of The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, for the first time in years.

Not as many years as me: I didn't even know there was a fifth!.. Is it better than 'So Long..'?

[venusian]

Thanks for the suggestions. Opted for Snow Crash, Dirk Gently 1, The Cyberiad and Rendezvous With Rama. Will keep him going for a bit.

[venusian]

In hospital I read the first five parts of The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, for the first time in years.

Not as many years as me: I didn't even know there was a fifth!.. Is it better than 'So Long..'?

"So Long" is the one with Arthur and Fenchurch isn't it? Thought Mostly Harmless was about an inch better than that but still another episode rather than anything startlingly new.

[F-ZeroOne]

"Snow Crash" does have, from memory, one sex scene in it but I don't think it counts as "kinky", though it ends a bit... oddly.

[venusian]

"Snow Crash" does have, from memory, one sex scene in it but I don't think it counts as "kinky", though it ends a bit... oddly.

I think that's true of sex generally.

Thanks though. Not too bothered about the sex myself but could do without him asking the teachers to explain something out of the ordinary.

[Orava]

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century. Since I already live in an medieval English house, might as well learn something about it.

[merman]

In hospital I read the first five parts of The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, for the first time in years.

Not as many years as me: I didn't even know there was a fifth!.. Is it better than 'So Long..'?

Fifth is Mostly Harmless. Douglas admitted he wrote it at a pretty bleak time in his own life, so it does come across quite downbeat. But it is full of familiar Douglas touches.

The sixth, And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer, was commissioned to mark the 30th anniversary of the original book. I liked it better on my second reading.

[NorthWay]

Local book chain had 3-for-2 deal so I got 3 more of Lee Child's books on Jack Reacher
-A Wanted Man
-61 hours
-Gone tomorrow

The first one felt a bit like a number of ideas made into one book, while the last one was very solid.

[zip accident]

I was given this for Xmas:



I dunno, it's started, but it's definitely not finished by the end of the book.

[Daniel]

I was given this for Xmas:



I dunno, it's started, but it's definitely not finished by the end of the book.

That is part one of the King Killer Chronicles. The second part is called "The wise man's fear". I really liked the first two. I haven't read "The slow regard of silent things", but it is more like an intermission than part 3 of the chronicles. No news about part 3 yet...

[merman]

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

That's right, it's the title of a book from the MIT Press Software Studies series. Analysing a single line BASIC program for the C64. And from that idea, exploring mazes, randomness, the origins of BASIC and the C64. Great fun.

PDF available online
http://www.10print.org

[Deckard]

I was given this for Xmas:



I dunno, it's started, but it's definitely not finished by the end of the book.

That is part one of the King Killer Chronicles. The second part is called "The wise man's fear". I really liked the first two. I haven't read "The slow regard of silent things", but it is more like an intermission than part 3 of the chronicles. No news about part 3 yet...

Funny enough read these back to back in December = really liked them but couldn't define why.

[k345y]

Book 4 of The Wheel of Time.

[zip accident]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783 ... ge_o00_s00

There are about twenty short stories in it for £2.

The protagonists aren't all rogues but most are, if not always exactly in the D&D sense.

It's a thick book, very good vfm at the current price.

The GRR Martin story is a hundreds of years prequel, and very much feels like a history, which was the intent, but there's little to emotionally connect to in it, but all the other tales are at least middling.