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"Galapagos" by Kurt Vonnegut.

Vonnegut is definitely my favorite author. I just finished Sirens of Titan a couple days ago....also amazing.

Yah, I gather the final instalment has been pending for longer than Elite 4. ^^

Also thanks richie for mentioning 1491, I must get a copy. Though I shall go into it in hyper-sceptic mode!

I'm finally reading The Wasp Factory in earnest after picking it up about a month ago.

Man, is it sick and disturbing!! !

Yes. The bit with the metal plate seriously got to me when I first read it.

Believe it or not but XALEPAX IS READING A BOOOOOOOK!!
Its revolutionary really because if you really know me then you also know that Im the last person to read a book.

But I got three books as christmasgift and Im reading one of them a few pages a day:

"A man called Dave" by David Pelzer
If you know him then you also know he had an extremely traumatic childhood

I am working through the Oxford History of the United States series and Lewis Lockwood's book on Beethoven.

Still ploughing through Gargantua and Pantagruel. It's good, and extremely rude, but slow going, which is frustrating because next up are Necroscope and Twilight. The comparison between those two should be fun.

I am currently reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.

G&P went off badly in the third book. Lots of impenetrable legalese in abbreviated Latin which was no doubt funny at the time but baffling now, and it veered heavily into the misogynistic. Shame. It was good while it was Voltaire/Swift-style fantasy. I can't be bothered to read book four, which is done by a different translator, and book five may or may not be authentic. If you're gonna read it I'd say stick to the first two books only.

Snowed off work today so finished Twilight. Two instances of wanton cruelty to the common "of a"; could Stephenie Meyer be a step closer to my goal of finding patient zero of the outbreak? Anyway, didn't see what all the fuss is about, it wasn't very good, but hardly atrocious either; almost wholly unremarkable tat. I suppose each generation needs its "own" vampire story; Rice, Whedon, Meyer? Pfft.

Necroscope next up.

...well I started reading Necroscope and the second chapter made me giggle. The protagonist comes from the fictional village of "Harden"... which is a thinly disguised version of Horden, about a mile or two from where I live, and where it turns out the author is from. I knew he was local, didn't realise he was that local. Not liking the book much so far though!

"2666" by Roberto Bolano

and I am also flicking through

"Waiting on God" By Simone Weil (one of my heroes...) yet again.

that's the big fat one innit? is it any good? I've been thinking of reading that but the size of it scares me (and I love 300p+ books usually)

1901, by Robert Conroy - 'Alternate History', in that the Germans 'invaded' the US in 1901 (fact: they actually considered it...

Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov.

I agree with your assessment of The Great Gatsby. A total snoozefest, that book was.

At the moment, I'm reading The Complete Guide to Asperger Syndrome by Tony Attwood, Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family by Shirley Christian, and A Brief History of Mexico by Lynn V. Foster.

Alien space bats ahoy!