Your secret's safe with us El ... besides, there ARE more embarrassing Heinlein books you could be reading ... the juveniles for example.

I enjoy Heinlein too, but more the golden age stuff. The books he wrote through the 80s and onward weren't as good for me. My favorite thing to do is reread the Future History short stories collection ... those are great.

I've packed for the hospital and may have made a mistake by including Terry Pratchett's The Truth. Laughing out loud following abdominal surgery is often challenging ...

Challenging, painful but probably good for the expansion of alveioli...

Heinlein got almost self-parodying in his final books, but there were notable exceptions. Number of the Beast was a true Heinlein classic, chock full of Heinlein's nutty goodness. Intelligent people having carefree but non-graphical sexual encounters with each other, all while adventuring in a flying car which was bigger on the inside than the outside.

Doesn't get much better than that. I wonder if Heinlein saw himself as the older, wiser, mature but still lusty kindly gent that he wrote about so often, ala Jubal Harshaw?

ssssshhhh! im only on book 5! and perrin is my favourite character. :)

~james

Good Omens is great, i loved carpet people too.
Consistently damn funny and enjoyable writing, churned out once or twice a year, it's great!

I hate lending out books, i never seem to get them back, and it's always my favorites, my list to hunt down at the moment

Fury - Salman Rushdie
Letters from Earth - Mark Twain
About 5 Pratchett books
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Cryptonomicon - Neil Stepherson

No doubt 10 or 20 others as well i'll never seen again, along with around 100 CDs...*sigh*

Where did the Karamazov lover go? I want to know how anyone can finish that book without someone standing over them with a branding iron.

Thieves don't steal books. Friends steal books.

:D

Just picked up The Three Musketeers...

I just finished Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), which is about the damn funniest book I've read since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . It's just well written.

bump -


the bible

Just finished Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. The majority of the book was quite readable and was an interesting exploration of conflicting cultures. But the ending sucked scummy pond water. 'Abrupt' is much too kind a word for it.

The Shaman's Coat, A Native History of Siberia by Anna Reid
picked up for a $1 off of the clearance shelf at Half Price. I'm trying to branch out and read more non-fiction, and so far its working out well.

delayed...LOL!!!

V.S.Pritchett-Midnight Oil

*spoilers*World War Hulk

It's all about:

Rage

People who think they know what's best for everybody.

Rage

Unintended consequences.

Rage

Retribution

Rage

Reconciliation