I have just started And Another Thing......, the new sixth part of Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
I am about one hundred pages into it, it has its funny moments, but naturally it is missing that brilliance that Adams was able to put in his stories.
I hate the idea of a non Adams installment but just had to buy it. I need to read it so I have the right to criticize it.

So, I just came back from a book fair, and got a lot of really nice books! (Like "THe Silver Bride", "Beautiful Dreamer", "The Summer King" ... )

I've just read "Bloodline" by Sidney Sheldon. I'm beginning to be accurate at guessing who's the culprit. ;) It's a nice book.

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I just found three HUGE volumes containing the Icelandic sagas on my mother's bookshelf. She didn't tell me she had them!!! Even after I asked her if she had something for me to read...
Two weeks ago, I had no idea of what to read next and now suddenly I have almost 40 books I can't wait to sink my teeth into...
I just borrowed a Swedish series from a friend of a friend that concentrates on myths originated in the Prose and Poetic Edda and I'm really excited about that, but I'm one of those people who always take things in the right order, so I want to read the Eddas first and of course then I have to read the Eddas before I read the sagas, because it's older... So as you can see my nights are going to be occupied :)

I also borrowed The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, from that friend of a friend. Anybody read that?? I figure I can get through that before I get my hands on the Eddas...

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - JRR Tolkien

"Too bright were the eyes of Arien for even the Eldar to look on, and leaving Valinor she forsook the form and raiment which like the Valar she had worn there, and she was as a naked flame, terrible in the fullness of her splendour."

I have finally been able to get around to finishing Eoin Colfers ‘And Another Thing…’, and I am not overly impressed. To get to the point it wasn’t in Douglas Adams’s spirit. I’m not saying the story was terrible, it just wasn’t a Hitchhiker book. Of all our favourite characters, the book focus’s more on Zaphod, in my view reinventing him significantly. The storyline revolves around a character that was always my favourite, but was only a cameo character, and making him the storyline and a developed character was really disappointing. And the ending was disappointing, and sillier than the ending of Mostly Harmless.
For some reason (I may delete this later as it is mental), while reading this book I was reminded more of Feist’s universe and storyline than Douglas Adams’s saga.

I really hope no more of these books are written, why can nothing good be left alone.?
As for Eoin Colfer, I will read his other books if and when I find the time to do so, and look forward to more ‘adult books’ he may produce.

Now, I think I will start on Monty Pythons latest, and god I hope not last, offering:
Monty Python Live



P.S.
Eoin Colfer seemed to go out of the way to drop a couple of swear words in this book so as to be able to call it an adult book. People of all ages enjoy Adams’s books (I read them at a young age), but they are adult, or more appreciated by a more mature reader. However Colfer’s work seems somewhat 14 year old immature adult.

Eoin Colfer is a very good teenage writer, you should consider reading some of his more well known novels, Artemis Fowl for one. Then, you may not be into fairies and teenage criminal masterminds rolled in together...
I've even got the first three Artemis Fowl books in German :)

At the moment I'm reading Janathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand the first book the the Bartimaeus trilogy.
I don't know if it's because I'm reading the Danish translation or what, but it haven't really thrilled me yet, despite being somewhat suspenseful.

Has anybody read the trilogy, because I'm really doubting weather the finish the trilogy or even the first book.
(I always try to finish my books by principle, but I have a lot of books to read!)

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - JRR Tolkien

"Too bright were the eyes of Arien for even the Eldar to look on, and leaving Valinor she forsook the form and raiment which like the Valar she had worn there, and she was as a naked flame, terrible in the fullness of her splendour."

I've been reading Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer, but I didn't really take to it. The style is too simple, and compared to Tolkien, it's just ... (forgive me) childish. But who am I to judge? There's probably some attraction to it - there's obviously some attraction to it - that I simply can't see.

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finished brisingr by christopher paolini before one month and i have to say that it was really good!i also fiished the book little nicolas and the red ballo n by rene gosini xD yes,i like those crazy little adventurer's, they remind me of my own little adventure years!

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I think I've put them down for good.
Think I'm moving toward more adult books at the moment.

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - JRR Tolkien

"Too bright were the eyes of Arien for even the Eldar to look on, and leaving Valinor she forsook the form and raiment which like the Valar she had worn there, and she was as a naked flame, terrible in the fullness of her splendour."

Well, you certainly have done more reading than I can boast. Lately, I have only been able to go through books for my Bachelor's degree this summer. Though one of them, while clearly not a novel, still proved very interesting and only remotely related to my field of study (which is strategic management). It is called 'Multiple Intelligences', by Howard Gardner. It's a book in psychology, which sheds new light on how we should see intelligence and intellect, and how it should be measured.

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Tolkien maniac collection! - Amazon (a list that I made for people much interested in Tolkien works and studies)