I just finished Equal Rites again. I love Pratchett.

Im not much of a reader... quite illiterate really... :P nah jokes... but ive only read The colour of magic and the light fantastic quite a while ago...

wut do u recommend as best stuff?

arg... "as HIS best stuff" not "as best stuff" :P told u i was illiterate :S

Move aside BFG here comes the cat in the hat! :D

// If anyones interesting,

We are _all_ interesting around here - why do you doubt it??

the virgin suicides is a really good movie, never read the book thou...

I read The Virgin Suicides in December. Loved it - haunting, sardonic, lyrical and tender. It's a novel that haunts you long after you've put it down - helped in part by Eugenides' hypnotic prose. I can't wait to read his latest offering - Middlesex.

theres actually a book written about that???.....

haha go the Atari! I remember playing Double Dragon wen i was lil... :P

by Steven L Kent. He has been reporting on the industry for yonks.

So with all this talk about Neil Gaiman I've pulled out Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes and am also going to try and finish Slanky, a book of poetry by Mike Doughty.

Ben Elton's great!!! I loved Dead Famous more than inconcievable...i found it got a bit boring in parts.
I really really recommend dead famous...i had withdrawl symptons after i had finished the book cause i missed reading it!!! :P

:) :) :)

Havn't read the plague, but really like camus... interested to hear if its worthwhile...

oh and I just re-read Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul too.. (after I read a pretty dumb novel on ebola called The Hot Zone. I was sick at the time and it made me all ooky.)

Wow, I just started Uncle Tungstein last night. I won it at my prizegiving last year. So far it seems ok, only read 1 chapter.

Oliver Sacks books about his patients are pretty amazing. Some of the most unfortunate, and hence weird (because unfortunate tends to equate to being missing a piece of your brain) but fascinating things ever.

completely off the topic. Disasteradio can you stop reading and make some more electronic midi goodness mp3'sssss?

the one we all look at on the tv and papers and movies and computers and and and and and and

Have just been to a photographic exhibition curated by John Pilger at the Melbourne museum.
The pictures were horrific: sweat shop workers living and working conditions, napalmed Vietnamese children, Korean women getting raped by American soldiers etc etc.
Each photo had a little caption that explained the visual. One of the photos had two American parents holding their dead sons picture and the medal that he was awarded for bravery in the Vietnam war - ‘shot in combat’ – ‘died valiantly for his country’ the medal said. The caption under the photo said that the parents had later found out that he had died while sitting on the toilet because one of his platoon had accidentally fired a gun at the out house not knowing any one was inside!!!! It then went on to say that 41% of Americans killed in the Vietnam war were shot by ‘Friendly fire’ i.e. they had been killed by their own men!!!!!!!!
Anyway the exhibition had plenty of great photos and facts especially in reference to the ill treatment of the Aborigines, a section which seemed to have the least interest from the Australians at the exhibition…………..

this is the first time i've ever read any of his work. reave the just is another collection of short stories, i believe its quite recent.

i love short stories. i'm the type of person who can't put a good book down, neglecting sleep and food (among other things) until i get to the end. with short stories i usually read an entire story before going to bed. problem solved.