currently reading?

[negative1]

Originally Posted by Deckard

Yup, I'm going to read 'em back-to-back, followed by The Salmon of Doubt.

(Btw, the recent Last Chance to See BBC series was very enjoyable - Carwardine and Fry shared a good chemistry.)

oops..maybe i shouldn't have started a new thread..

glad you're enjoying those..

i'm reading the latest 'and another thing'... in the hitchhikers series,
but its by another author, since douglas adams passed away..

later
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[froopy seal]

Originally Posted by negative1

i'm reading the latest 'and another thing'... in the hitchhikers series,
but its by another author, since douglas adams passed away..

Haven't read it yet, but certainly will. What do you make of it? I'm always highly suspicious when someone is appraised to "write like Douglas Adams" or "hit Douglas Adams' sense of humour", so that DNA fans "will surely love it".

I did read the first installment in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series and was rather underwhelmed.

[negative1]

Originally Posted by froopy seal

Haven't read it yet, but certainly will. What do you make of it? I'm always highly suspicious when someone is appraised to "write like Douglas Adams" or "hit Douglas Adams' sense of humour", so that DNA fans "will surely love it".

I did read the first installment in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series and was rather underwhelmed.

well i just started reading it.. and yes, it emulates douglas adams
pretty well..

i don't know if he'll be able to sustain it though. i''m a fast reader..
so i'll let you know once i finish the book...

i was fortunate to meet douglas adams in LA for an E3 gaming convention,
for the 'starship titanic' game, and talked to him for a little while. he signed some books/laserdiscs, and the game for me. he was looking forward to the 'hitchhikers' movie coming out..

yes, he was very tall.
and yes, he was really kind, and funny!

i'll always remember that day..

later
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[Andrea]

I´m still in my "discovering MJ" era so I just started to read J. Randy Taraborrelli - Michael Jackson: the magic and the madness.

The book seems to be a quite detailed screening of the Jackson family not only MJ.
Interesting is the author´s rendering of situations, people and their behaviour in a way like if it was the matter of fact, nevertheless the book is MJ friendly so far.

[m.g.]

Just finished "Blood's A Rover" by James Ellroy, which I loved...

And reading now "By Reason Of Insanity" by Shane Stevens, which makes "The Silence of The Lambs" looking like a fairy tale

[grady]

Finishing
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
(a reread in prep for his new novel, a sequel to Less Than Zero, Imperial Bedrooms)

Midway through
Although of course you end up becoming yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallce by David Lipsky

Coming up
Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin

[unwound floors]

A million Philosophy texts, and 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' by Haruki Murakami.

[Andrea]

Reading poetry out of a memory book about Ruth Randall Edström (1867-1944), bellowed wife to Mr Electricity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigfrid_Edström

nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
can be retentive to the strength of Spirit

[King of Snake]

just finished the first Temeraire book, which I think was recommended earlier in this thread. Really good stuff, definitely gonna continue with the series.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

FINALLY finished 2666. Golden. Page 609(I think) is one of those occurrences where I get pissed that someone said it before me...

Also:

S. King's last set of short stories. Cat From Hell started good, but the last few pages got stupid. Final sentence rocks. LOVED "Mute", the priest bit is hilarious.


G.D.T. and someone else "The Strain". So/so. Not a bad read.

Some book on gardening too.