In the last seventeen hours, I read three books.

• Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
• Fish! by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen

The first and the third books, my father gave me to read, the second one I got thanks to a friend.  All three books were fascinating and I enjoyed each one of them.  Each one of these, I read at a stretch (which means that once I started reading, I didn't stop until I'd finished).  Not bad at all, if I do say so myself!

The message I got from the first book was that change is inevitable, and happiness and satisfaction lies in letting go of your fears and adapting.  The third book is about how you can find happiness while working (even if the work you're involved in is something you'd rather not be doing) by having a positive attitude.  Of course, the scope and the issues dealt with in these books are quite extensive compared to the one-line summaries I've written.  They're short and take much less than an hour each to read, but they are really very good and I'd recommend them to anyone!

The second book is the second in Douglas Adams's The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and, like the first one, is a "wholly remarkable book"!  Maybe it's because I read it in one sitting - I think I like this book even more than the first!  The ideas and concepts are very fascinating, the story moves at an ultra-fast pace, and the whole thing is often totally hilarious.  The headline of this post is a line from that book, and it involves something called a "Total Perspective Vortex".