Fobble, oh, yeah. Funny, I used to know that... thanks.

About the Galactic Milieu, I wouldn't know. I'm talking about early as in when written, not its setting.

I used to really love F&SF novels and would read that genre almost exclusively, enjoying the imagination of it all.

I'd like to see movies of Keith Laumer's works, still -- though I think Retief would have to be more deeply written than he usually was to make an intelligent SF movie, and likewise his Groaci opposition reworked into at least a little more than a straight-up parody of Soviet Russian foreign service and foreign aid. One gets the impression (a big impression) Laumer found a lot to dislike during his time with the State Department's foreign service in the early Sixties, and took his creative revenge on it all in his Retief stories.

We'll probably see an Elric movie first, though. Like many 20th-century writers, Michael Moorcock's writing is quite cinematic -- it should translate well.

Mercedes Lackey would, too. Even the novels full of unicorns.

Testosterone v Estrogen. I was under the misapprehension that it was a chick book.

I loved The Time Traveller's Wife. I recommended it to everyone I know who reads. It was equally enjoyed by male/ female readers I know - but the men did have eclectic tastes and didn't need explosions and espionage in their books.

Also loved the Sandman series - I have some of the original comics, most of the series in reprint form and the graphic novels so I can read them in bed and generally not worry about damaging fragile (relatively speaking) comics. I remember my work collegue being amazed that I wasn't embarrassed about reading graphic novels on the Tube. Or children's books (this was before Harry Potter hit the public consciousness). I turned him into a Sandman fan :)

Just finished re-reading about half the Tintin series.
Pure classics. I love 'em.

Now let's all imagine Carl Sagan saying billions and billions of blistering blue barnacles...

Read a beach book over the weekend...so not like me. It was silly but it got my mind off stuff.

For a laugh, I recommend Bob Newhart's I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This...his memoirs. He's a funny guy and has some great stories about other comedians in it.

Up to Book 2 of The Dresden files, Fool Moon.

Also reading Sex Appealed: Was the U.S. Supreme Court Fool - Judge Janice Law

Oh, wow!
 

Ice and Fire on HBO!

*gasp*

Oh man they'd better not make it suck. I wish they'd put a date on when they might start filming!

i like hbo's track record. this should be effin awesome.

i wish they'd do the ender books

I don't think HBO has made a show that sucks yet. What I'm worried about is that they'll make a show that is awesome, and then cancel it abruptly, like Carnivale, Deadwood, and Rome.

I'm about halfway through The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon and so far it's great. Maybe this is old news but for those that don't know, it's a "murder mystery" about the neighbors dog told from the view of an autistic boy. It's really interesting and gripping. I suggest it to everyone.

Downloaded Scott of the Antarctic's diaries last night (can't remember the official title). I've been looking for it for ages in book form - don't know why I didn't check the internet before.

I dovetails nicely with one of my favourite books - The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Gerrard who was a member of the expedition.

Every now and then when I really need to get things back into perspective, I read either astronomy or geology -- popular works, that is. ATM, it's John McPhee's Annals of the Former World -- dipping (if not striking ;) -- hammerheaded geologists' joke [geoke?] ) into its five books in no particular order, just here and there, finished Rising From The Plains last night.

Five books, about rocks, almost entirely about rocks -- and he makes the formations and the rocks sing.

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