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I like to read in my breaks at work, at the moment I'm reading The Increment by Chris Ryan

It's a pretty good read and I think it sucks you right into the story which is what I need at the moment

Sooooo, are you reading anything decent at the moment? 

I like to have a few on the go at the same time (missus), much like games, or the music I'm listening to, and stuff.

Stasiland by Anna Funder, is the top of my 're-read' pile currently, and deservedly so.   It's terrifying and brilliant, all the more for being true.  In Brown's increasingly Orwellian Britain, the need to have read this has never been greater.

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris.  Collection of dry, quietly ludicrous & waspish anecdotes, supposedly biographical, from the 40-something Gay New Yorker.  Really, that is necessary info.  It's good, but if what I've said so far doesn't interest you, you won't like it at all.  It's good.  Not great.

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.  So good that I've had to stop hardly any way in, because I want to save it for when I am next on holiday, so I can just sit by the sea all day and read it.  Absolutely staggeringly awesome, the first thirty or so pages are. Extremely teensily tiny


A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.  It's about a fat, self-important Momma's boy who thinks he can see how the world should work, and all the faults of the world, and that everyone is an idiot.  It's fucking hilarious, though I recommend reading that Wikipedia entry for an overview of it, first.  But it's probably the funniest book I've read since...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, which is the next on my 'to re-read' pile, quite possibly my favourite book ever, and almost certainly the funniest book I've ever read (the second being the first Hitchhiker's Guide book).  I love it completely.  Just be aware that it becomes intensely depressing mid-way.  Stick with it.  Other than perhaps American Psycho, there's no other book I've read where actually reading the whole book to the end is so urgently important.

I keep trying to read Mother Tongue (Bryson) and the Dirk Gently novels (Adams), but never getting more than a chapter or two into them. Dunno why; both authors I love.

Bad Science should turn up tomorrow, so I'll be starting on that.

Did anyone ever read the trilogy of books the Ring films were based on? Now THEY have a great, insane twist.

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, but in very small chunks at breakfast, and it's slow going for me.

I haven't been into anything since I studied the West murders. I'm currently reading Drop Shot by Harlan Coben, it's ok, but I think I prefer real life crime.

Still reading Snow Crash.

I'm the slowest reader EVER.

Very good, though.

I intend to st art rereading the original DragonLance Trilogy yet again as I am a geek like that.  Thay have been my favorites since early teen years to be fair and I haven't read them for five years or so now.

I FUCKING LOVE YOU MARC!

I have them all ^^ I was obsessed when I was about 12!

Great aren't they?  I read the bunch as a kid, but I'd admit the only the original 'Dragons' and 'Twins' trilogies stand up these days.  Probalya touch of nostalgia involved but I find them really touching, some really fleshed-out and involving characters in them.  I was always a Raistlin fan myself, probably says more about me than I should admit to   

Oh God and me! I loved him!! I liked Tika aswell though

Did you

  It's been a while, I've read the stuff with the Cleric and the whole time-travelling cataclysm thing... I tend to get them all a bit mixed up, next week or two should sort that out.  I've just dug out my big 'Dragons' trilogy comp and will be starting this weekend.

I've read the Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends (or Dragons and Twins if you prefer) trilogies at least 10 times each. They never get old to me.

I tried some of the other Dragonlance books... shite.

Yeah, the first ones are fab! I looove the way they are written. Also my cat was called, 'Kitiara!'

KIT & KAT! That wasn't planned obviously, oh nooo heh

I have just finished reading Watchmen, I have mixed feelings

How so?

I heartily recommend that anyone with even a passing interest in comedy and laughing buys Mustard magazine, and indeed all of the back issues. A funny grin-mag, with full length interviews with the likes of Palin and Linehan.

You really will not regret it.

I imagined it to be better than it actually was. A lot of hype has followed it, unjustly so imho as I wasn't overly gripped by the comic itself. I am a big comic reader and it just wasn't doing it for me at all. Some bits were good in it admittedly, but some characters were badly fleshed out and I felt there should have been more of that. I was also 'unmoved' by the bits that were 'clipped' into the comic which revealed the past lives of some of the characters, without actually really telling me anything.

Not a bad idea, just not an extremely good one either. I shall watch the film though, I'll give it that much

There have been the odd decent ones here and there... I just get them all so moxed up it's hard to know what to recommend.  Weiss and Hickman have written some brilliant non DragonLance trilogies as well, I've got two at home but again their names escape me for the time being.

Hang on, shouldn't all this Dragonlance chatter be in "guilty pleasures"? 

Ouch, low blow! 

THAT KID IS MEAN!