what are you reading right now? - Page 12

markedel · 04-03-2002, 09:44 AM

I'm waitng for the newest Harry Turtledove novel! Go harry go!

Imladris · 04-06-2002, 02:26 PM

At the moment I am reading nothing as I am typing on my keyboard.

Lets see...
The Amber Spyglass (PPullman)
His Last Bow (Sir. A.C.Doyle)
Mort (T.Pratchett)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco).

FrodoFriend · 04-07-2002, 12:23 AM

The Amber Spyglass! I just re-read that.

Am now reading Interview With the Vampire (Anne Rice).

**crickhollow** · 04-07-2002, 06:12 AM

I read A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennesee Williams) a couple of days ago

BeardofPants · 04-18-2002, 08:01 AM

Currently reading the first Wheel of Time book.

Earenya · 04-18-2002, 12:11 PM

Quote:

I read A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennesee Williams) a couple of days ago

(crickhollow)

One of my FAVORITE plays, did you enjoy it?

I seem to have a habit of reading several books simultaneously. One inbetween work, another in the evening, one in the morning... anyone else do this??

Elfmaster XK · 04-18-2002, 12:14 PM

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Originally posted by FrodoFriend
The Amber Spyglass! I just re-read that.

I love that series!! I just read them all and have the copy that's one big book called 'his dark materials'

Now i'm reading 'the hobbit' and 'Stonehenge' by Bernard Cornwell.

I try to read several and do other things as well Earenya, but i tend to get easily distracted and it takes me twice as long to do any of the things!!

sun-star · 04-18-2002, 02:27 PM

I always read more than one book at a time. I start them, then I think I should wait to finish one before starting another, but by that time I can't stop. Then I get confused.

At the moment: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy and something by PG Wodehouse I can't remember the name of.

TwirlingString · 04-18-2002, 11:34 PM

Currently I'm rereading on A pale horse and Have started the Dark Elf Triology.

Jadera · 04-19-2002, 05:01 PM

I just started Nicholas Spark's The Notebook. It's pretty good so far. I've never read anything by him before, so we'll see how it goes.

TwirlingString · 04-19-2002, 07:39 PM

Finished what I was reading before, now reading David Eddings Tamuli Trilogy

**crickhollow** · 04-21-2002, 11:30 PM

"do you know what I shall die of? I shall die of an unwashed grape!"

I enjoyed "streetcar", but I really haven't had a chance to sort through it all yet.

I don't usually read more than one book at a time, b/c I pick one, and don't let it out of my sight until I've turned the last page. I take it with my on the bus, at lunch, in the breakroom at work, I can't rest until I've finished it.

I started Our Mutual Friend by Dickens yesterday.

viggosbeard · 04-22-2002, 11:53 AM

Ive just finnished 'the bible code' which is very scary indeed - dont know how true it is but there are lots of very dodgy coincidences in it, and the way things are in the middle east makes it that bit more frightening - i think i need a session of the hobbit next

Lelondul · 04-22-2002, 12:31 PM

Crimeny, I'm always in the middle of about three to five books. Right now, let's see...

1.) The Two Towers - The Road to Isengard
2.) Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
3.) Always some part of the Bible.
4.) The 4th Harry Potter book (kind of lost ineterest lately)
5.) Bulfinch's history on the Age of Chivalry and the Knights of Chalrlemange

Whew! so many books, so little time. Wish I was in school again, so I'd be forced to read - and have time to do it

Tell me more about this 'Bible Code' viggosbeard. Is it one of those rapture-esque theory books? I always find those interesting...

elf_princess · 04-22-2002, 04:47 PM

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Originally posted by Lelondul
Bulfinch's history on the Age of Chivalry and the Knights of Chalrlemange

I just read those... aren't they great? I really liked them...

Anyway! I'm currently reading The Education of Mary and one of the Redwall Books (Legend of Luke I think... I seem to always be reading one of these... lol).

Cirdan · 04-23-2002, 11:06 AM

Will and Ariel Durant, "The Age of Revolution"

Napoleonic Era - Facinating, extensive detail, must love history

Robert D. Kaplan, "The Road to Tartary"

Follow up to "Balkan Ghosts" some repeat material but great on current affairs, politics, human nature

J. W. Rowling , "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (to the boy)

entertaining, even though somewhat predictable.

J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Lost Tales (Vol. 1)

Some repeat from Silmarillion, but the commentary is interesting.

John McPhee, "The Annals of a Former World"

Interesting less as a geologic reference than as a geologic "narrative"

Lady of Darkness · 04-23-2002, 03:25 PM

Right now I am reading 'The secret of Sarah Revere" by Ann Rinaldi. It's really good. She writes that Paul Revere tell Sarah who shot the first shot but you never find out even though you think you will

. Poor me. Otherwise it's REALLY good!!!!! unless you don't like books will a little of everything in them.

elf_princess · 04-23-2002, 09:18 PM

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Originally posted by Lady of Darkness
Right now I am reading 'The secret of Sarah Revere" by Ann Rinaldi. It's really good. She writes that Paul Revere tell Sarah who shot the first shot but you never find out even though you think you will . Poor me. Otherwise it's REALLY good!!!!! unless you don't like books will a little of everything in them.

OMG!!! I love this book! Actually I love all of Ann Rinaldi's books! Have you read any others??

***azalea*** · 04-24-2002, 07:50 PM

I'm not reading them right now, but wanted to recommend to those of you who like fairy tales:
These are by James Thurber and very short/ easy to read but are geared to adults and children alike --
The Wonderful O
The Thirteen Clocks
The White Deer

Radagast The Brown · 04-25-2002, 02:14 PM

the last book I read was the 5 book of Amber!! I didn't find the 6 in the library (sorry on my spell mistakes, I don't know so good English)

04-03-2002, 09:44 AM	#221
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	I'm waitng for the newest Harry Turtledove novel! Go harry go! __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

04-06-2002, 02:26 PM	#222
Imladris Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 146	At the moment I am reading nothing as I am typing on my keyboard. Lets see... The Amber Spyglass (PPullman) His Last Bow (Sir. A.C.Doyle) Mort (T.Pratchett) The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco). __________________ "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." Last edited by Imladris : 04-07-2002 at 06:57 AM.

04-07-2002, 12:23 AM	#223
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	The Amber Spyglass! I just re-read that. Am now reading Interview With the Vampire (Anne Rice). __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

04-07-2002, 06:12 AM	#224
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	I read A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennesee Williams) a couple of days ago __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

04-18-2002, 08:01 AM	#225
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Currently reading the first Wheel of Time book. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

04-18-2002, 02:27 PM	#228
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I always read more than one book at a time. I start them, then I think I should wait to finish one before starting another, but by that time I can't stop. Then I get confused. At the moment: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy and something by PG Wodehouse I can't remember the name of. __________________ 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.

04-18-2002, 11:34 PM	#229
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	Currently I'm rereading on A pale horse and Have started the Dark Elf Triology. __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

04-19-2002, 05:01 PM	#230
Jadera Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Somewhere out there Posts: 205	I just started Nicholas Spark's The Notebook. It's pretty good so far. I've never read anything by him before, so we'll see how it goes. __________________ Whaaaaaaaaaat?? ~Chivalry isn't dead, it just transferred to women~

04-19-2002, 07:39 PM	#231
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	Finished what I was reading before, now reading David Eddings Tamuli Trilogy __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

04-21-2002, 11:30 PM	#232
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	"do you know what I shall die of? I shall die of an unwashed grape!" I enjoyed "streetcar", but I really haven't had a chance to sort through it all yet. I don't usually read more than one book at a time, b/c I pick one, and don't let it out of my sight until I've turned the last page. I take it with my on the bus, at lunch, in the breakroom at work, I can't rest until I've finished it. I started Our Mutual Friend by Dickens yesterday. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

04-22-2002, 11:53 AM	#233
viggosbeard Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey Posts: 247	Ive just finnished 'the bible code' which is very scary indeed - dont know how true it is but there are lots of very dodgy coincidences in it, and the way things are in the middle east makes it that bit more frightening - i think i need a session of the hobbit next __________________ You cant resist her Shes in your bones Shes in your marrow And your ride home You cant avoid her Shes in the air In between molecules Of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Only in dreams

04-22-2002, 12:31 PM	#234
Lelondul Swan-buggerer Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: The rainy, grey north Posts: 69	Crimeny, I'm always in the middle of about three to five books. Right now, let's see... 1.) The Two Towers - The Road to Isengard 2.) Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) 3.) Always some part of the Bible. 4.) The 4th Harry Potter book (kind of lost ineterest lately) 5.) Bulfinch's history on the Age of Chivalry and the Knights of Chalrlemange Whew! so many books, so little time. Wish I was in school again, so I'd be forced to read - and have time to do it Tell me more about this 'Bible Code' viggosbeard. Is it one of those rapture-esque theory books? I always find those interesting... __________________ - Lelond, your friendly neighborhood Adan

04-23-2002, 11:06 AM	#236
Cirdan Elf Lord of the Grey Havens Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: somewhere else Posts: 2,381	Will and Ariel Durant, "The Age of Revolution" Napoleonic Era - Facinating, extensive detail, must love history Robert D. Kaplan, "The Road to Tartary" Follow up to "Balkan Ghosts" some repeat material but great on current affairs, politics, human nature J. W. Rowling , "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (to the boy) entertaining, even though somewhat predictable. J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Lost Tales (Vol. 1) Some repeat from Silmarillion, but the commentary is interesting. John McPhee, "The Annals of a Former World" Interesting less as a geologic reference than as a geologic "narrative" __________________ There exists a limit to the force even ther most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences. -Muad'dib on Law The Stilgar Commentary

04-23-2002, 03:25 PM	#237
Lady of Darkness Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: the wild or my home Posts: 733	Right now I am reading 'The secret of Sarah Revere" by Ann Rinaldi. It's really good. She writes that Paul Revere tell Sarah who shot the first shot but you never find out even though you think you will . Poor me. Otherwise it's REALLY good!!!!! unless you don't like books will a little of everything in them. __________________ Conform Consume OBEY!!!! I am Morwen, Lady of Darkness. Her head was bowed, from all the tears and pain, but she would rise again

04-24-2002, 07:50 PM	#239
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	I'm not reading them right now, but wanted to recommend to those of you who like fairy tales: These are by James Thurber and very short/ easy to read but are geared to adults and children alike -- The Wonderful O The Thirteen Clocks The White Deer

04-25-2002, 02:14 PM	#240
Radagast The Brown Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Israel Posts: 6,975	the last book I read was the 5 book of Amber!! I didn't find the 6 in the library (sorry on my spell mistakes, I don't know so good English) __________________ Lalala... poof! AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

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