What are you reading?

[Pachyderm]

Alexander, The Sands of Ammon

Part 2 of trilogy about, you guessed it again, Alexander.

[Aphos]

Stephen King's new book, Duma Key

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Just re-read Asimov's "The Gods Themselves".

I had really only remembered a sketchy summary, which turned out to be not quite correct.

Ahhh, old age does have some benefits after all: me memory's going at last, and I can re-enjoy some classic books as if for the first time.   

I'm seriously thinking about re-reading the entire Discworld set.

[pieces o nine]

Ahhh, old age does have some benefits after all: me memory's going at last, and I can re-enjoy some classic books as if for the first time.   

That is only too true, and no rhyme nor reason to it, that I can tell. I can just glance at some books in my library and have entire passages leap to mind. Others, which I know I have read, seem completely unfamiliar on a revisit. Or even a re-revisit. 

[Swatopluk]

David Blackbourn - The Conquest of Nature

[Pachyderm]

Spike Milligan

Mussolini, His Part in My Downfall

[Darlica]

Un Lun Dun by China Miéville

[pieces o nine]

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

I don't remember that one-- when was it published?

[Aphos]

I just finished David Baldacci's "The Collectors" last night and started the sequal, "Stone Cold", today.

[Swatopluk]

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

I don't remember that one-- when was it published?

It was planned to be the third Dirk Gentley novel but he died with it unfinished.
The existing fragment was published from his literary remains together with other texts a few years ago.
It's on my shelves but yet unread

[pieces o nine]

Thanks, Swato.

I've come up with a set of rules that describes our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

I don't remember that one-- when was it published?

It was planned to be the third Dirk Gentley novel but he died with it unfinished.
The existing fragment was published from his literary remains together with other texts a few years ago.
It's on my shelves but yet unread

Thank you.  I now seem to recall that information as well.

[Swatopluk]

While we are at commemorating Douglas Adams
The BBC has a nice double CD (presented by Jones, the Arthur Dent from the BBC series) in memory of him.
It includes some of his less well-known stuff (he also did scripts for Dr.Who for example)

[pieces o nine]

Yes, he did. And they appalled viewers who did not like their Doctor all slap-sticky.