Reading any good books? - Page 13

Falagar · 04-13-2005, 07:46 AM

In addition, there's a short story named Zaphod Plays it safe.

Since the last post I've also managed to start Baudolino by the aforementioned Eco.

Last Child of Ungoliant · 04-13-2005, 08:14 AM

it is five, yes, but the title was 'a trilogy in four parts'

Pytt · 04-13-2005, 08:31 AM

Yes, I remember that. Hilarious

Spock · 04-13-2005, 12:57 PM

Just finished Trevanians "Loo Sanction" after rereading "Shibumi". I love the detail.

***Rían*** · 04-18-2005, 08:52 PM

Finished King Lear, and also "The Nine Tailors" by Dorothy Sayers. Loved the former (Oh, Cordelia!!), was not wild about the latter. I'll give her another chance, because of Inky, but it was just too much detail about those darn bells and just not enough human interest for me.

Still working on (and enjoying) the Iliad ...

Spock · 04-19-2005, 11:13 AM

Wow, heavy duty reading there. I'm just catching up with Dilbert

Actually re-reading The Return of Merlin by Deepak Chopra. It's a new twist on the legend and legacy.

***Rían*** · 04-19-2005, 12:14 PM

Dilbert's great!

I want to get a Far Side anthology - I only have 2 small books that I keep by the "throne"

- I need MORE! MORE Far Side, precious!!

**Nurvingiel** · 04-19-2005, 04:43 PM

I love Far Side! I'm pretty sure I have read every single Far Side comic.

I'm reading "Pigs in Heaven" by Barbara Kingsolver, which is a sequel to "The Bean Trees". Needless to say, it's completely fascinating and brilliant.

inked · 04-19-2005, 05:55 PM

MEMPHIS 7.9 by Sam Petty. A realization of the impact of the New Madrid fault earthquake zone and what will most like happen in the event of another set of quakes like those in 1811-1813! A hard science-fiction book that is quite enjoyable...and thought-provoking for someone living 20 miles from New Madrid, on the fault!

But, hey, Rian, I have never felt a temblor yet? How about you?

***Rían*** · 04-21-2005, 04:29 PM

But of course! I live in California

I was around for the Sylmar quake in the 70's. That was the biggest one I've been in. We were very near the epicenter. I remember waking up and trying to run out of my room and you can't run well because the ground keeps moving! You pick up a leg and put it down, but the ground was either closer or farther away than when you lifted it up. Very weird feeling! And the noise was like a freight train, or a big roar. Weird.

My younger sister ran down the hall, screaming, "It's a tornado!" She had just seen "The Wizard of Oz"

We were in the path of the water from a dam that had been damaged, so we had to evacuate for a few days. I can still remember the police cars going up and down the street, telling people to leave.

There were lots of aftershocks. At first, we would leave the house at each aftershock. Then we would stand under doorframes at each aftershock. Then we would just kinda look up and stop what we were doing until they were over. You would usually know within a few seconds if it was just a smaller aftershock or if it would escalate to where you wanted to move somewhere safer (like away from under things on the wall). Some of the aftershocks would have been earthquakes in their own right.

I also was around for the quake back in the mid 90's. Most of our friends lived over a small mountain range from us and had extensive damage - tons of broken glass, block walls down, etc. We only had a few pictures fall off the walls, tho. My best friend and her husband had to leave their apartment because it was damaged beyond repair. They lived with us for awhile.

There have been other quakes, but those were the two major ones I've been in.

Spock · 04-21-2005, 05:08 PM

all the more reason I left.

Adonai Dragonwagon · 04-23-2005, 02:51 AM

Yesterday I was reading Dante. Today, it's something else. Anyone know any nice, looong books I can read? Ones that are still interesting, at any rate? I tried Le Mort DeArthur, but it put me to sleep. I plowed right through Atlas Shrugged, and Le Miserables, so does anyone know any books along those lines?

Last Child of Ungoliant · 04-23-2005, 08:09 AM

War and Peace by Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
is a book i always enjoy, if you have a few months spare for the reading

inked · 04-23-2005, 11:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adonai Dragonwagon

Yesterday I was reading Dante. Today, it's something else. Anyone know any nice, looong books I can read? Ones that are still interesting, at any rate? I tried Le Mort DeArthur, but it put me to sleep. I plowed right through Atlas Shrugged, and Le Miserables, so does anyone know any books along those lines?

So, what do you think of Dante. I assume you meant the Commedia. Which translation? I am of the unalterable opinion that you should read Dorothy L. Sayers' translation and notes for a full appreciation. I could recommend some great Dante sites if you are interested.

Adonai Dragonwagon · 04-23-2005, 06:09 PM

Yes, I read the Divine Comedy. Actually, just Inferno so far. I'm not sure which translation I read; the book is currently somewhere among the bazillions of similarly sized paperbacks in my house, and I am unsure of the exact location.

I think I did read Dorothy Sayers' translation, however, as I remember that over half the anthology's size is due to the notes at the end.
I really loved Inferno, and finished it in less than 48 hours, neglecting to pay attention during such mundane school subjects as math, and I even forgot to eat my lunch.

Purgatorio, not so much. It's been a week, and I've misplaced it. I really like Dante's writing style, but he seems to be overly concerned with Italy in the second part of the Comedy.

Hmmm...War and Peace ... I will read it! I think I've got it somewhere in my house; my mom collects random books. Thanks for the suggestion!

***Rían*** · 04-25-2005, 04:41 PM

Just gave Dorothy Sayers another try, and liked her "Whose Body" very much (Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel)

inked · 04-25-2005, 08:35 PM

PREFACE TO PARADISE LOST by CS Lewis. (again) Perhaps even in preparation to completing Paradise Lost (again - I am about 1/2 way through!)

trolls' bane · 04-29-2005, 04:05 PM

I read:
1984
War of the Worlds
and I am currently reading:
I Sing the Body Electric! (and other stories)
A Clergyman's Daughter

1984 is by far the most frightening book I ever read. I automatically bumped it up to second place: LotR is first. I'm still afraid.
But that would be Thoughtcrime, wouldn't it, comrades? I better also practice newspeak. 1984 Doubleplusgood and doubleplusscarey andyet plusreal. The ending is not bad, it's just ungood.

Last Child of Ungoliant · 04-29-2005, 04:59 PM

i am currently re-reading My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography, by Leon Trotsky

Adonai Dragonwagon · 04-30-2005, 01:24 AM

I finally got a hold of 1984, and it's a really good book. Of course, right when I decided I wanted to read it, all the seniors in the city started doing reports on it. Grr. But it finally came to me, and I am happy now. I haven't finished it yet, but I will.
Probably after Old Man and the Sea. Next year I'm going to be assigned it on the first day of school, since we're not allowed to have required summer reading anymore. We have to have it read by the next class. So I'm going to read it now.

04-13-2005, 07:46 AM	#241
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	In addition, there's a short story named Zaphod Plays it safe. Since the last post I've also managed to start Baudolino by the aforementioned Eco. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle. Last edited by Falagar : 04-13-2005 at 07:51 AM.

04-13-2005, 08:31 AM	#243
Pytt The Supreme Lord of The Northern Eagles Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: trondheim, norway Posts: 1,388	Yes, I remember that. Hilarious __________________ Don't Panic!

04-13-2005, 12:57 PM	#244
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Just finished Trevanians "Loo Sanction" after rereading "Shibumi". I love the detail. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

04-18-2005, 08:52 PM	#245
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Finished King Lear, and also "The Nine Tailors" by Dorothy Sayers. Loved the former (Oh, Cordelia!!), was not wild about the latter. I'll give her another chance, because of Inky, but it was just too much detail about those darn bells and just not enough human interest for me. Still working on (and enjoying) the Iliad ... __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

04-19-2005, 12:14 PM	#247
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Dilbert's great! I want to get a Far Side anthology - I only have 2 small books that I keep by the "throne" - I need MORE! MORE Far Side, precious!! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

04-13-2005, 08:14 AM	#242
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	it is five, yes, but the title was 'a trilogy in four parts'

04-19-2005, 11:13 AM	#246
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Wow, heavy duty reading there. I'm just catching up with Dilbert Actually re-reading The Return of Merlin by Deepak Chopra. It's a new twist on the legend and legacy.

04-19-2005, 05:55 PM	#249
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	MEMPHIS 7.9 by Sam Petty. A realization of the impact of the New Madrid fault earthquake zone and what will most like happen in the event of another set of quakes like those in 1811-1813! A hard science-fiction book that is quite enjoyable...and thought-provoking for someone living 20 miles from New Madrid, on the fault! But, hey, Rian, I have never felt a temblor yet? How about you? __________________ 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

04-21-2005, 04:29 PM	#250
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	But of course! I live in California I was around for the Sylmar quake in the 70's. That was the biggest one I've been in. We were very near the epicenter. I remember waking up and trying to run out of my room and you can't run well because the ground keeps moving! You pick up a leg and put it down, but the ground was either closer or farther away than when you lifted it up. Very weird feeling! And the noise was like a freight train, or a big roar. Weird. My younger sister ran down the hall, screaming, "It's a tornado!" She had just seen "The Wizard of Oz" We were in the path of the water from a dam that had been damaged, so we had to evacuate for a few days. I can still remember the police cars going up and down the street, telling people to leave. There were lots of aftershocks. At first, we would leave the house at each aftershock. Then we would stand under doorframes at each aftershock. Then we would just kinda look up and stop what we were doing until they were over. You would usually know within a few seconds if it was just a smaller aftershock or if it would escalate to where you wanted to move somewhere safer (like away from under things on the wall). Some of the aftershocks would have been earthquakes in their own right. I also was around for the quake back in the mid 90's. Most of our friends lived over a small mountain range from us and had extensive damage - tons of broken glass, block walls down, etc. We only had a few pictures fall off the walls, tho. My best friend and her husband had to leave their apartment because it was damaged beyond repair. They lived with us for awhile. There have been other quakes, but those were the two major ones I've been in. __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

04-21-2005, 05:08 PM	#251
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	all the more reason I left. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

04-23-2005, 02:51 AM	#252
Adonai Dragonwagon Hobbit Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: If you ever want to find me, look in the clouds. I'll probably be there. Posts: 28	Yesterday I was reading Dante. Today, it's something else. Anyone know any nice, looong books I can read? Ones that are still interesting, at any rate? I tried Le Mort DeArthur, but it put me to sleep. I plowed right through Atlas Shrugged, and Le Miserables, so does anyone know any books along those lines? __________________ "The world is held together with sheets of paper!" -A very wise person. Me! Although I'm not really wise. Too bad.

04-23-2005, 08:09 AM	#253
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	War and Peace by Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is a book i always enjoy, if you have a few months spare for the reading

04-23-2005, 06:09 PM	#255
Adonai Dragonwagon Hobbit Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: If you ever want to find me, look in the clouds. I'll probably be there. Posts: 28	Yes, I read the Divine Comedy. Actually, just Inferno so far. I'm not sure which translation I read; the book is currently somewhere among the bazillions of similarly sized paperbacks in my house, and I am unsure of the exact location. I think I did read Dorothy Sayers' translation, however, as I remember that over half the anthology's size is due to the notes at the end. I really loved Inferno, and finished it in less than 48 hours, neglecting to pay attention during such mundane school subjects as math, and I even forgot to eat my lunch. Purgatorio, not so much. It's been a week, and I've misplaced it. I really like Dante's writing style, but he seems to be overly concerned with Italy in the second part of the Comedy. Hmmm...War and Peace ... I will read it! I think I've got it somewhere in my house; my mom collects random books. Thanks for the suggestion! __________________ "The world is held together with sheets of paper!" -A very wise person. Me! Although I'm not really wise. Too bad. Last edited by Adonai Dragonwagon : 04-24-2005 at 10:30 PM.

04-25-2005, 04:41 PM	#256
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Just gave Dorothy Sayers another try, and liked her "Whose Body" very much (Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel) __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

04-25-2005, 08:35 PM	#257
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	PREFACE TO PARADISE LOST by CS Lewis. (again) Perhaps even in preparation to completing Paradise Lost (again - I am about 1/2 way through!) __________________ 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

04-29-2005, 04:05 PM	#258
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	I read: 1984 War of the Worlds and I am currently reading: I Sing the Body Electric! (and other stories) A Clergyman's Daughter 1984 is by far the most frightening book I ever read. I automatically bumped it up to second place: LotR is first. I'm still afraid. But that would be Thoughtcrime, wouldn't it, comrades? I better also practice newspeak. 1984 Doubleplusgood and doubleplusscarey andyet plusreal. The ending is not bad, it's just ungood. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

04-29-2005, 04:59 PM	#259
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	i am currently re-reading My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography, by Leon Trotsky

04-30-2005, 01:24 AM	#260
Adonai Dragonwagon Hobbit Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: If you ever want to find me, look in the clouds. I'll probably be there. Posts: 28	I finally got a hold of 1984, and it's a really good book. Of course, right when I decided I wanted to read it, all the seniors in the city started doing reports on it. Grr. But it finally came to me, and I am happy now. I haven't finished it yet, but I will. Probably after Old Man and the Sea. Next year I'm going to be assigned it on the first day of school, since we're not allowed to have required summer reading anymore. We have to have it read by the next class. So I'm going to read it now. __________________ "The world is held together with sheets of paper!" -A very wise person. Me! Although I'm not really wise. Too bad.

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