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>If you want a real hoot, pick up a copy of
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fford (not a typo). And then read the rest of the series. This guy is right up there with Douglas Adams and Tom Holt.
YESYESYEYESYESYES!!! What is not to love about a pet dodo named Pickwick!
Also,
Lost in a Good Book and I am just about to start
First Among SequelsWould also interject that SM Stirling and Neil Stephenson are required reading. Stirling does brilliant alternate history ( better writer than Turtledove ) and Stephenson is one of those people who makes you realize how shallow most other writers are. I'm about half way through The Baroque Cycle and have read
The Difference Engine,
Diamond Age,
Snow Crash and
Cryptonomicron at least twice. Better than Gibson ( and I don't say that lightly as Gibson - who coined "The Web" is God. )
If you don't know Stephenson - do yourself a favor
http://www.nealstephenson.com/George RR Martin's
Song of Ice and Fire is great literature and a cracking good read.
http://www.georgerrmartin.com/
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
