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Moomins look a little like furry hippos that walk upright (seriously!). The author did all the illustrations for the books as well.

Bunnicula.

A cat trying to pound a steak (not a typo) through the heart of a vampire rabbit...

Just finished "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman (very, very good). About to start " The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"; I know I'm late on that one but it's 600 pages.

Tove Jansson also wrote some excellent adult fiction. "Summer Book" is a series of connected stories about the permanent residents of an island shared with summer vacation homes.

I've started Dan Simmons' Olympos, which is great, but I keep getting interrupted. There have been some fairly unmemorable books, but a recent highligh was Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, which Semi praised highly. It really was an exceptionally thought-provoking book - one that merits re-rereading.

One I'm eagerly awaiting from the library is Arthur and George by Julian Barnes. It's fiction, but based on a true story of Arthur Conan Doyle fighting the wrongful conviction of George (whose last name I've forgotten). I heard in a radio review of the book that it was this particular case which led to the establishment of the British Court of Appeals.

Rereading Watership Downs....
Also about to read a book I found in the Library Im doing some temp work at for the Next 5 weeks..."The Rainbow boys"...and in a Catholic School Library no less.
Nice to see theres resources for the Gay kids these days.

Joe Boy, Watership Down is one of my recommended reads for anyone planning to live.

I plan to live!

I read Watership Down when I was really young, and have to admit that I really didn't "get" it as much as I probably would have had I waited until I was a bit older to read it. It's on my list of books that I want to go back and re-read now that I'm "grown up"...

I noticed that Richard Adams has written a bunch of other books, most of them more recently: Plague Dogs, Tales from Watership Down, and Shardik. Has anyone read any of these?

STU, I read Tales, and it was good for a collection of short stories, but it didn't match the original novel in depth of character.

Simon R. Green's nightside tales. I have read them each three or four times, and each time i do, i find more little nuggets of imagination in them. And they are relatively small books, around 200 pages mostly.

Other than that, right now, i'm reading the ICC building codes for Mechanical and Building. Talk about dry reading. Accounting has a better plot, lol.

Oh, and i have been trying the serenity falls horror series, but i don't know why. I don't really like them, but i can't seem to stop trying, hoping they will get better.

You should be reading about changing nappies! How to make up formula. When to wean. How to deal with new teeth etc.

I bought George R.R. Martin's "A Feast for Crows" on Tuesday. I traveled to Lexington to a book signing Wednesday night and now have an autographed copy! Yay! (I'm reading it too, by the way.)

Nah, ghost, thats what i have a wife to teach me for, lol. She and my mom will teach me, and it will make them feel good to do it.

I'm trying to "skim" Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire before the movie comes out. I kind of read through the second half in a hurry, and there are large chunks of the story that I just don't remember at all.

I'm also planning to re-read "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" again before the movie comes out December 9.

Come to think of it, I'll probably re-read "Brokeback Mountain" again before the movie comes out. I read the story when it was originally published years ago, and thought it was very powerful. It also takes place in Wyoming, one of my favorite states...

Stu. Wyoming. Sheep.

Sheep? I think you've mistaken me for someone else...

Wasn't there a song about being "Wide Legged and Eyeless"?

feast for crows is OUT?!?!

oh great there goes my school work.

i finished knife of dreams, by robert jordan, was good...lots of tying up loose ends (which is good) but not much new....progress.

Yup - came out November 8th. It is good - but I think it is a step down from the first three books. I'm about 80% of the way through it, and am enjoying it, even though nothing much seems to happen.

I probably won't get it for months yet.

Is anybody familiar with the stories by John Saul? He can sure give Peter Straub, Dean Koontz or Stephen King a run for their money.

Arachne, I honestly feel it isn't worh getting excited over. Martin's work seemed to take a serious downturn with this book. Hoping for better next time.

Well this book wasn't meant to be written, as I understand it. Originaly, the series was supposed to skip five years, but someone decided they'd better be covered after all. I'm hoping that that's why this book took so long and that the rest will be out faster.

I'm curently reading Evolution by Stephen Baxter. It's a facintating novel that covers evolution on earth from 65 million years ago to the present, and maybe beyond. (I haven't gotten that far yet.) I've never read anything like it. It's almost like reading a nature documentary. It's brutal and tragic, but wonderous at the same time. He's done a marvelous job meshing what we know and what we only theorize. The only thing I can think of that comes close to this it the Walking with Dinosaurs mini-series that was made a few years ago.

I just finished "the death and life od Superman" which i hadnt read since I was a kid...was neat

now Reading "Mysterious skin" its been on the pile for months but the movie is released here soon so I figured I might as well read it before it comes out. actually made me cry in parts...which is hard.