So...what's everyone reading?

[Master Xaio]

I cannot believe you mention Terry Pratchet as if he was someone you had just heard of....

Terry Pratchet is a good author; for the first 5 books or so.
After that he gets boring and repetitive - most of the jokes get stale.

But by all means try him, but I warn you, You'll prob get over him after a while.

[Spriggan]

Ya I read a few of his books too EUOL.  The problem was that there were so many of them, and they were poorly labled as to order, that it was very confuseing if you didn't start from the begninning.

[Entsuropi]

See, this is what i really hate about Newbies. Their stubborn belief that they know everything and we know nothing.

Outkast - silence. I love Terry Prattchet. The man is a mine of funneh. Plus, he's British. Just because you are jealous of his non-colonial atmosphere...

[fuzzyoctopus]

See, this is what i really hate about Newbies. Their stubborn belief that they know everything and we know nothing.

Yes, like when Gemm 'discovered' They Might Be Giants, and we had to explain to him that he was the LAST person on earth to discover them.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

=P Always last to know and first to find out.

[Mistress of Darkness]

I think that's because there's a disconnect in your brain, Gemm.

Yes, Terry Prachett is very enjoyable to read. And if you think he's only been able to create one character in his entire life, that probably has more to do with your reading abilities than it does with his writing abilities.

Hogfather is still my favorite.

[Fellfrosch]

I think it's safe to say, Entropy, that you are the only one on this site bothered by OutKast's comment. All you had to do was say, "yeah, I've been reading Pratchett for years and I love him." It's easy, and he gets to know you better, thus avoiding similar misunderstandings in the future, 10 posts later he's not a newbie anymore.

[Mistress of Darkness]

I was actually bothered by it as well. It's one thing to say "I don't like this author" or "I haven't really enjoyed any of his books recently" and another thing to  say "This author can't write worth crap."

[JP Dogberry]

I still havn't heard more than one TMBG song, so you could say I'm even later to discover them, having not done so yet.

[fuzzyoctopus]

I still havn't heard more than one TMBG song, so you could say I'm even later to discover them, having not done so yet.

I was going to proclaim that not listening to TMBG was sacreligious....
But then I envisioned a religion based around TMBG and I was weirded out.  

[Entsuropi]

I think the only TMBG songs i have heard are the ones Gemm sent me.

I think it's safe to say, Entropy, that you are the only one on this site bothered by OutKast's comment.

And your point is...? It still bothered me. Should i muzzle myself in the name of the common consensus? Sorry, communism ain't my thing.

All you had to do was say, "yeah, I've been reading Pratchett for years and I love him."

That being what i said anyway.

[Spriggan]

Ah, forum life!

*Spriggen sits down to enjoy the show*

[fuzzyoctopus]

Entropy, if you muzzle yourself, what fun will the rest of us have?

And as for actually reading books, I ordered a few off half.com to celebrate the end of the semester and getting a job!

How's this for catchy titles?  Dr. Laura Schlessinger's book "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands"  

[Maxwell]

soul music, best one IMO

[Peter Ahlstrom]

I just read Cryptonomicon. I liked it. Snow Crash, eh? I'll have to check it out.

Immediately after that I read Conrad's Time Machine by Leo Frankowski. It made me wonder if his other books are as really as good as I remember them being. The writing in this one was just bad. All the characters sounded the same, there were huge stretches of dialogue with no description, and the wish-fulfillment fantasy was at greater levels than ever before.

I opened up one of my boxes o' books to try to find something I felt like rereading, and discovered A Canticle for Leibowitz. It's an old used-book type copy, and I have no idea how it got in that box. I must have acquired it at some point. I never read it before but always planned to someday. So now I'm reading that, about halfway through.