[aldo_14]

Originally posted by pyro-manic


What? Has Watterson stopped doing Calvin and Hobbes then? I didn't know that...

Calvin and Hobbes is my favourite comic strip of all time. It's intelligent, incredibly funny and at the same time conveys some very serious messages. Fantastic stuff. If what you say is true, then I'm gutted. I started reading the books when I was the same age as Calvin (6), so I kinda grew up with him (even though he stayed six forever, and I didn't).

Oh, man - hearing that has actually upset me. Damn....
 

Uh-huh.  I never knew till recently, but apparently the last one was made & published on '95.  Apparently he (Bill Watterson) is pretty much a recluse nowadays.

This was the last one; it's kind of touching if you grew up reading the strip & come back to it years later.


EDIT; image fixed with other link

Originally posted by Col. Fishguts


Is that the one with the dinosaurs sitting in a coffehouse on the cover ?

Oh, that one.........

[Clave]

Tolkien>Jordan

Oh and:

Swallows And Amazons series - Arthur Ransome

I had completely and utterly forgotten reading those, they were great.

[Blaise Russel]

Robin Hobb and her trilogy of trilogies.

[Ransom]

Diamond Dogs by Alastair Reynolds
The Redemption of Althalus by David Eddings
Raft by Stephen Baxter
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

[Deathstorm V2]

Anthing by:

David Baldacci (but esp Saving Faith )
Patricia Cornwell
Jeffrey Deaver
Jonathon/Faye Kellerman.

And all Poirot.

[pyro-manic]

aldo - I've got all the books up to It's a Magical World. Shame about Watterson - he's a great talent....

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by PhReAk
Operating System Concepts 6th ed.  Silberschatz, Gilber, Gange.

oh wait this isn't a least favo(u)rite books thread.

For Operating System junk I found the Minix OS book to be very cool...

Speaking of programming I'm reading Software Tools by Brian Kernighan. Great book (writing all the utilities in C though, the book uses Rational Fortran).

[Clave]

Err, don't give away the ending....

Right now, I'm reading The Dark Tower by Stephen King - the whole Gunslinger idea kicks ass.

I just wanted to mention Fearie Tale by Raymond E Feist, which is awesome...

[Flipside]

Ummmm....

Playboy.. March '03
Fiesta .. June '02
...

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
aldo - I've got all the books up to It's a Magical World. Shame about Watterson - he's a great talent....

Magical World was the last one...

..and i notice that image has been swallowed by the demon spawn Tripod, so I guess it only worked for me first time round because it was cached or something.

Poorer quality version; http://home.eol.ca/~dord/caltob02.jpg

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Rama series - Clarke
Foundation series - Asimov
Prelude to Space - Clarke
Dune - Herbert
I, Jedi - Stackpole
Player of Games - Banks
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