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ATTWN is pretty awesome. I need to re-read it again.
I love the Hitchhiker's series quite a bit. I go through them every year or so, and marvel at all of the things I missed on previous readthroughs - though the new one by Eoin Colfer is rather subpar and I felt that it lacked a great deal of Adams' original humour.
Currently reading through a bunch of novels by Haruki Murakami, because he's a hallmark figure in the transition between post-modernism and post-post-modernism and that's a big ol' deal both in the literary community and in the grad school essay I'm writing on that very subject. Currently reading some Vonnegut as well - though it's not going well. He's postmodern in the extreme, if "postmodern" means, "so deeply into frame narrative that the very idea of a plotline gets lost all together."
Other recent reads include:
Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx
Petropolis by Anna Ulynich
Out by Natsuo Kirino
We The Living by Ayn Rand
I just moved into Robette's place, so all of my books are stacked in milk crates, but my intention is to go through them all and catalogue them, more for the curiosity of finding out exactly how many books I have, as well as how many of them have any actual literary merit. (I'm guessing not terribly many, if you don't count the set of old-edition Dickens and Dumas books that I got for free and haven't opened yet.) | Just finished "The Giver" for an introductory novel study.
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| I actually completely agreed with the dystopian society's rules and thought Jonas made the wrong call. But that might be because I hate the name Gabe and was perfectly okay with him dying. |
Next up is "The Wild Children," a cheery romp through poverty-stricken Soviet Russia. | 
