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Grey_Wolf · 09-09-2004, 06:21 PM

Sorry, minor twisting around of the name there.

I've just aquired Lawrenc James's The Rise And Fall of the British Empire and Warrior Race: A History of the British At War.

Grey_Wolf · 11-26-2004, 10:19 AM

Just aquired parts 1,2 and 7 of HOME.

Grey_Wolf · 12-06-2004, 01:22 PM

Just aquired Churchill's Second World War Parts 2, 5 and 6. The sixtology is finally complete!!

RÃ»dhaglarien · 12-07-2004, 04:00 AM

Churchill... |squeals| I loved reading about Churchill. Did you ever read his autobiography... herm... My Early Years, meethinks. Very informative, but humourous, too.
As of now I am reading |ahem|: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare, Big Fish, The Canterbury Tales, and some criticisms of James Baldwin's works, as well as criticisms of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and some assorted Douglas Adams. I've been a reading fiend lately, went to B&N for the first time a long while... you know how it is....

Beren3000 · 12-07-2004, 08:00 AM

The Philosophy and popular culture books just got in (thanks to inked for recommending them!)

Grey_Wolf · 12-07-2004, 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RÃ»dhaglarien

Churchill... |squeals| I loved reading about Churchill. Did you ever read his autobiography... herm... My Early Years, meethinks. Very informative, but humourous, too.

The only other Churchill books I have is the "A History of English Speaking Peoples"-quartet. Have you read those?

No, I haven't read his autobiography.

Nothing · 12-08-2004, 03:15 PM

Today I began to read The Da Vinci code.
Anyone here read it?

inked · 12-08-2004, 04:34 PM

Nothing,

The Da Vinci Code is a great read for a detective thriller if you like speculative
historical fiction intermixed and it happens to be about purported family trees of Jesus! I enjoyed it.

Embladyne · 12-08-2004, 04:57 PM

I just aquired American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. So far, it's really interesting.

About Tad Williams. I love *almost* all of his books. I REALLY liked Otherland, until I got to the last book. I read it three-qurters through, and just couldn't bring myself to finish. I really must do that.

BeardofPants · 12-08-2004, 05:32 PM

Ugh, not the Da Vinci code.

Now there's a badly written POS. I much prefer "The name of the Rose", by Umberto Eco. Beautifully written, imaginative, and it even has fully developed characters as opposed to the cardboard cut-out cliche ones from DVC.

**Nurvingiel** · 12-17-2004, 12:44 PM

I got "The Cantebury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Hopefully I can at least read the General Prologue and The Knight's Tale on the plane and train.

Grey_Wolf · 12-20-2004, 02:51 PM

I just got Lawrence James' The Savage Wars: British Campaigns In Africa 1870 - 1920, Raj: The Making of British India, The golden Warrior: The Life And Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.

sun-star · 02-11-2005, 09:01 AM

I got The Daisy Chain (Charlotte Yonge). I've read the sequel so I know what happens to them all, but it's cute to see the characters as little kids

ElemmÃrÃ« · 02-11-2005, 12:57 PM

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Bits of writings by Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume (what can I say? Philosophy class.

)

Was given the Odyssey.

The Letters, UT, PoMe (sort of

)

Does indefinitely taken out of the library (it's called continuously renewing) count? Morgoth's Ring, The War of the Jewels, and Nietzsche's The Will To Power.

Mercutio · 02-11-2005, 10:03 PM

I received Miniatures and Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen by Peter Leithart for my birthday. It's quite excellent. There's a link in the Jane Austen thread I believe for an excerpt.

Grey_Wolf · 02-15-2005, 02:29 PM

have just aquired Conn Iggulden's Emperor I: The Gates of Rome and Emperor II: The Death of Kings.

ElemmÃrÃ« · 02-23-2005, 05:36 PM

Just went crazy and started picking up interesting books at the local bookstore that were $5 or less...

Ended up with 8 of them...

1. Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea
2. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
3. Dante's Inferno
4. Dante's Divine Comedy
5. Thomas More's Utopia
6. Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
7. Othello
8. Hamlet

Beren3000 · 05-12-2005, 05:28 PM

I recently bought two very intersting books. St. Augustine's The City of God (can't wait to start that!) and Dante's La Vita Nuova (poems he wrote in his youth, inspired by Beatrice)

Grey_Wolf · 08-16-2005, 08:42 AM

I have just aquired Conn Iggulden's Emperor III: The Field of Swords and the first eight parts of W Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's The people-series

Falagar · 08-16-2005, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElemmÃ*rÃ«

Just went crazy and started picking up interesting books at the local bookstore that were $5 or less...

Ended up with 8 of them...

1. Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea
2. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
3. Dante's Inferno
4. Dante's Divine Comedy
5. Thomas More's Utopia
6. Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
7. Othello
8. Hamlet

Jealous. You wouldn't be interested in selling any of those again for, oh, say, a buck? Am a bit short on money at the moment...

Just borrowed Wizard's First Rule by..can't remember his name, and Look To Windward by Ian M. Banks

12-07-2004, 04:00 AM	#44
RÃ»dhaglarien Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 288	Churchill... \|squeals\| I loved reading about Churchill. Did you ever read his autobiography... herm... My Early Years, meethinks. Very informative, but humourous, too. As of now I am reading \|ahem\|: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare, Big Fish, The Canterbury Tales, and some criticisms of James Baldwin's works, as well as criticisms of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and some assorted Douglas Adams. I've been a reading fiend lately, went to B&N for the first time a long while... you know how it is.... __________________ I have a very expensive pen.

12-08-2004, 03:15 PM	#47
Nothing Hobbit Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Behind you Posts: 25	Today I began to read The Da Vinci code. Anyone here read it? __________________ "Nobody else calls us hobbits; we call ourselves that." -Pippin-

12-08-2004, 04:34 PM	#48
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Nothing, The Da Vinci Code is a great read for a detective thriller if you like speculative historical fiction intermixed and it happens to be about purported family trees of Jesus! I enjoyed it. __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

12-08-2004, 04:57 PM	#49
Embladyne Honourary Elitist Inklette Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: between the mountains and the sea Posts: 704	I just aquired American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. So far, it's really interesting. About Tad Williams. I love almost all of his books. I REALLY liked Otherland, until I got to the last book. I read it three-qurters through, and just couldn't bring myself to finish. I really must do that. __________________ Even on the pinnacle of a palace a crow does not become an eagle. My DA page

12-08-2004, 05:32 PM	#50
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Ugh, not the Da Vinci code. Now there's a badly written POS. I much prefer "The name of the Rose", by Umberto Eco. Beautifully written, imaginative, and it even has fully developed characters as opposed to the cardboard cut-out cliche ones from DVC. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords Last edited by BeardofPants : 12-08-2004 at 05:34 PM.

09-09-2004, 06:21 PM	#41
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Sorry, minor twisting around of the name there. I've just aquired Lawrenc James's The Rise And Fall of the British Empire and Warrior Race: A History of the British At War.

11-26-2004, 10:19 AM	#42
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Just aquired parts 1,2 and 7 of HOME.

12-06-2004, 01:22 PM	#43
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Just aquired Churchill's Second World War Parts 2, 5 and 6. The sixtology is finally complete!!

12-07-2004, 08:00 AM	#45
Beren3000 FÃ«anorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	The Philosophy and popular culture books just got in (thanks to inked for recommending them!)

12-20-2004, 02:51 PM	#52
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	I just got Lawrence James' The Savage Wars: British Campaigns In Africa 1870 - 1920, Raj: The Making of British India, The golden Warrior: The Life And Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.

02-11-2005, 09:01 AM	#53
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I got The Daisy Chain (Charlotte Yonge). I've read the sequel so I know what happens to them all, but it's cute to see the characters as little kids __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

02-11-2005, 12:57 PM	#54
ElemmÃrÃ« avocatus diaboli Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Himring Posts: 1,582	Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Bits of writings by Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume (what can I say? Philosophy class. ) Was given the Odyssey. The Letters, UT, PoMe (sort of ) Does indefinitely taken out of the library (it's called continuously renewing) count? Morgoth's Ring, The War of the Jewels, and Nietzsche's The Will To Power. __________________ ~ I have heard the languages of apocalypse and now I shall embrace the silence ~ Neil Gaiman

02-11-2005, 10:03 PM	#55
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	I received Miniatures and Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen by Peter Leithart for my birthday. It's quite excellent. There's a link in the Jane Austen thread I believe for an excerpt. __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

02-15-2005, 02:29 PM	#56
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	have just aquired Conn Iggulden's Emperor I: The Gates of Rome and Emperor II: The Death of Kings.

02-23-2005, 05:36 PM	#57
ElemmÃrÃ« avocatus diaboli Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Himring Posts: 1,582	Just went crazy and started picking up interesting books at the local bookstore that were $5 or less... Ended up with 8 of them... 1. Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea 2. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson 3. Dante's Inferno 4. Dante's Divine Comedy 5. Thomas More's Utopia 6. Marcus Aurelius's Meditations 7. Othello 8. Hamlet __________________ ~ I have heard the languages of apocalypse and now I shall embrace the silence ~ Neil Gaiman

05-12-2005, 05:28 PM	#58
Beren3000 FÃ«anorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	I recently bought two very intersting books. St. Augustine's The City of God (can't wait to start that!) and Dante's La Vita Nuova (poems he wrote in his youth, inspired by Beatrice)

08-16-2005, 08:42 AM	#59
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	I have just aquired Conn Iggulden's Emperor III: The Field of Swords and the first eight parts of W Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's The people-series

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