Silly and fun - there's so many ideas in his worldbuilding I don't see how you could get bored. It's sci-fi for those into the humanities.

15 years after quitting I'm now constantly craving cigarettes.

Wait - you told me you were a wallet inspector!

Self-enslaved system developer.

Drink heavily but *don't* call in sick.  Be at your desk a half hour late and screaming drunk.

I read the series and enjoyed them.  If you liked the first you'll likely like the rest.  There are diminishing returns as you get farther in though.  The Nursery Crimes books are pretty good too.

I really enjoyed The Eyre Affair too.  It's got the highest silly-idea-to-page ratio of any book ever.

Gummy Dinosours eat Gummy Sharks for breakfast.

School days == afternoon delight

INTP.  I worked at a place that did corporate training and lived by this crap.  There were a bunch of neo-Mithraists running the place, it was like something out of Focault's Pendulum.

Make sure you use the right blade though - the regular demolition blades are terrible at cutting green wood, especially sticky stuff like pine.  The pruning blades do work well.

It looks like a "zee"?

Or too small - nothing worse than trying to chop a springy narrow limb with an axe. It's like chores meets Russian Roulette.

@TheTuckPendletonMachine:disqus I've got a double-bited axe with a three pound head.  Looks incredibly metal, but not that useful.

That's why they call me "8 toes Trurl".

Get a bow saw instead of an axe - easier for dealing with limbs and you're less likely to lose a toe when you inevitably get tired from swinging the axe.

Who is Jar-Jar Galt?

You mean Bloomberg?

@avclub-5dedb42b34e50082065a783265ce28a8:disqus  When the Wind Blows is definitely of its era.  When I was a child back in the 70s our city would regularly test the air raid sirens, and whenever they went off everyone would look up.  There was a constant sense of the immanence of nuclear war, especially in the…

I recommend "Grave of the Fireflies".  It's like "When the Wind Blows" but more depressing.