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The Sport of Queens by Dick Francis Profiles of the Future by Arthur C Clarke Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! by Richard P Feynman Last Chance to See. . . by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine The Vanishing Hitchhiker, Urban Legends and their Meanings by Jan Harold Brunvand Inside Dope...

The Demon Haunted World, by Carl Sagan? Not quite philosophy, more a collection of essays on thinking.

I've recently finished Ex Libris by Ross King. Set in the 1660s, the main character is a middle-aged, over-weight, asthmatic, club-footed, short-sighted bookseller, one of the least likely heroes I've ever come across. The story itself is a mystery, but not quite a thriller.

Unfortunately, it is only available to those people who live in the United States, as I found out.

Withnail and I, Brassed Off, Bend It Like Beckham, Calendar Girls, Dr Strangelove, A Fish Called Wanda, Guest House Paradiso, Quadrophenia, Shooting Fish, the Comic Strip series such as Five Go Mad in Dorset, Supergrass, Mr Jolly Lives Next Door etc.

If you want to read another of his stand-alone novels, I recommend The Gods Themselves. The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel are not so much a series as two novels with common characters, so you may want to consider those as well.

I'm only half-way through my bible, but I'm not a heavy smoker.

The Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child, maybe? Reacher is an ex-Military Policeman travelling around America and gets mixed up in all sorts of nasty situations.

A friend dropped round last weekend with a dozen LPs (old 80s stuff) under his arm, among them Models 'The Pleasure of Your Company'. I've had crashing drums and 'No Shoulders, No Head' going round in my brain most of the week. The hell with it. I'm going to listen to the album again.

Thanks for the pointer, I'll keep a lookout for it. It seems to be so new that my local library doesn't have it. I read Charles Seife's Zero:The Biography of a Dangerous Idea last year and found that rather intriguing. One of the appendices was the mathematical proof that Winston Churchill...

Given that I tend to annotate textbooks, and highlight specific pages, an electronic version would be much handier and would prevent me from being lynched by people who see printed and bound material as something to be revered. I don't sniff books. I don't know what sort of germs and toxins...

I thoroughly recommend Charles Stross's Accelerando. After reading that he went into my top 10 of favourite authors. It's like Gibson's stuff but on speed and steroids. Pat Cadigan writes some good books as well.

I've looked at the Sony reader specifications. It seems horribly expensive, and the special Sony book format puts me off. I have also looked at iRex Technologies iLiad. This looks like just the thing I want, it can handle multiple formats and has wifi, but it is incredibly expensive and...

Would it be Senseless by Stona Fitch? Apparently being made into a movie with Jason Behr.

At time zero minus nine minutes First Officer Carlyle Deston, Chief Electronicist of the starliner Procyon, sat attentively at his board. Subspace Explorers by E. E. 'Doc' Smith

humour, cartoon strip I was doing a bit of tagging on Listal.

I'm reading There Shall Be Wings by Max Arthur. It was released in 1993 for the RAF's 75th anniversary, and is 500 pages of personal accounts from 1918 to 1993. This is one of my non-fiction months, so I have also read The Real Rule of Four by Joscelyn Godwin, and Fire Trap by Sean Flynn.

Ripper by Michael Slade. A number of people are invited to an island mansion, and get killed off in various gruesome ways. The dwindling number of guests race against time to figure out who is killing them and why.

My catalogue is here - http://www.librarything.com/catalog/letterHead It seems that books by Douglas Adams are the only ones I have in common with anybody here so far.

Keith and Marty's Campfire - That's How She Dun Me I found it on music.download.com and it appealed to my grubby sense of humour.