[Spyder]

For laughs, without a doubt, Terry Pratchett and the Discworld series. What I've always found so funny is how he ties in things from our lives into the stories.

Terry Pratchett is the best. Some of the best satire on the disk, ah, er, planet. He's prolific, too - something Douglas Adams unfortunately was not.

[billbears]

And the thing about Pratchett is that you don't always catch the meaning of a word until the second time. For example in Soul Music, I don't really think I caught the underlying meaning of the lead singer's name until the second go round

[Hegemony Cricket]

RIP Douglass Adams! I got to see him and Ray Bradbury a few years back at a "visiting author series" at Butler U. in Indy. Who would have ever thought that DA would be the one of those two to leave us first, eh?