my recent reading trend

man this blogging thing is slightly addictive :D well anw.... have u ever noticed how you're taste in the books u read can change? (im working on the basis that u DO actually read, possessing more than the most rudimentary skills necessart to read my blog :D) for me, its been a slow process. wat's funny is that some books which absolutely stumped me years ago have now become addictive. Anyone familiar with The Silmarillion? anw its by John Ronald Reuel (JRR to most) Tolkien. when i picked it up i think i was 12 years old, and it positively stalled me. i couldn't read it at all. (well i got to like page 12 which is nothing worth shouting abt) and yet when i tried again recently (2 years ago i think) i enjoyed it to the max. it was fantastic and i've now read it multiple times. anw since i started reading books longer than 30 pages i've always been a fantasy buff (fantasy encompassing sci-fi and fantasy). cept that recently i've started on more quirky books. i've read The Hitchhiker's Guide (all 5 books thank u:D) which started it all, Red Dwarf (good shit man!) and stuff. Special mention :Rupert Morgan. You've probably never heard of him (he's only written 2 books so far) but its cool. Catch 22 was a mind blower. Good News from Outer Space was a total trip (check out the acid-inspired cover man ). by far the most weird tho was A Clockwork Orange. it was fantastic (u sloshy wat im govereeting chellovecks?). so anw... recently i tho 'lets return to fantasy' so i went and picked up "a cavern of black ice" by JV Jones... it was good. but somehow didnt hit the spot noe wat i mean? fantasy just doesnt get me off anymore. In an entirely literary sense :D so im now reading Ben Elton's "This Other Eden". Good stuff. One last note though: no matter how far i drift from fantasy, Tolkien and Frank Herbert will always exert a pull on me. Kinda like gravity i spose. They're massive heavenly bodies and im a small speck. natural that they should pull me to them when you think of it. :D im gone