Is that just the science books? Wonder if that's a creationist thing in certain areas.

Barnes & Noble in Houston certainly had the full set last time I was over there..

Ditto!

And Fudgecake, I know just what you mean about Susan!

It's the Science of Discworld books, and I lived in New York City, the liberal stronghold of the U.S. (next to San Francisco, I guess) so it wouldn't be a creationist thing. However, the last time I checked, you couldn't get them on Amazon.com. Then again, that was before Darwin's Watch was published. I never even knew they existed till people mentioned them on the Harper Collins site.

I couldn't agree more, this was one of the set books when I did my Eng. Lit. exam and I hated it, bed wetting and fleas, eugh.

At the moment I'm reading King Solomons Ring by Konrad Lorenz, to paraphrase the blurb on the cover it's, A treasury of observations and insights into the lives of various creatures. Also reading Spanish Steps by Tim Moore, he decided to follow the pilgrims trail to Santiago and compounded the error by doing it in the company of a donkey and I've finally got round to reading Darwins Watch.

Yeeeeessssss I finally finished Angels and Demons last night! After reading tiny amounts of it for about three weeks now I have finally finished it.

So now I'm reading digital fortress

Have you read The Moonshine Mule by Tom Fremantle? He travels from Mexico to Manhattan by foot, with a mule.

No, this is just something I that caught my eye in the book shop whilst I was in there shopping for a present, I'll keep it in mind though.

Actually, a recent survay found that the most liberal city in the country was Detroit (followed closely by berkeley). San Francisco came in ninth. NYC wasn't on the top ten.

By the way, i have just started THE SYSTEM OF THE WORLD, the final instalment of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

Thank you! Phew, I was starting to think I was the only one...

The Eisenhorn trilogy (omnibus) by Dan Abnett, quite good sci fi in a war torn future detailing the fall of a inquistor from grace.

Everything you have been told is lies*

Also, symmetry and spectroscopy, colloid and surface chemistry, and various other chemistry texts and journals.

*Plot hook

I havn't seen darwins watch yet in person, I won't purchase discworld books over the net as I want to be sure of which cover I am getting.

I heartly recomend the books to all who havn't read them.

I finished re-reading Night Watch this morning, in preparation for Thud! coming out next month. I've decided not to buy the US version (ew! ugly covers!) so my boyfriend is sending me a copy. Though I'm hoping he doesn't get so far into the series he'll keep it for himself.

I also read a few manga books I bought yesterday, which was entertaining.
But I'm also slowly working my way through The Science of Discworld (first one) and a big book of American History.

Unfortunately, both are being stifled by my reading of the Nebraska driver's manual. I'm taking my theory test on Wednesday. Fun...

I've just started reding 'God of Small Things' it's very poetic.

I'm rereading "Kafka on the Shore" while also trying to finish "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle." I'm on a bit of a Murakami craze.

Read Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, and Something Rotten over the weekend. Delphine, I was mistaken when I said the second book in the series was the JurisFiction one. It is, in fact, the third. Apologies. The second book is only where JurisFiction make their first appearance.

Anyways, the second in the series was good, the third not all that good, and the last one was very good indeed. I even noticed two Star Wars references that were very well executed in it.

Reading the 2000-01 BOFH articles at the moment, and I'll start reading Shogun soon.