what are you reading right now? - Page 13

Grey_Wolf · 04-27-2002, 06:19 AM

At the moment I'm reading the third book in Timothy Zahn's three-bookseries: The Last Command.

Am still only at the beginning of Harry Turtledove's World War: Upsetting the balance.

Am thinking of continuing reading Kim Robinson's Red Mars.

TwirlingString · 04-27-2002, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imladris
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).

Ohh, love Mort. I'm reading small Gods and have finally gotten my hands on Ranma 1/2 number 12

Grey_Wolf · 05-06-2002, 02:30 PM

Taking a pause in my reading of Star Wars novels, I have just begun reading Arthur Hailey's Airport and will continue to read all of them. I'm also reading Kim Robinson's Red Mars and the third installment of Harry Turtledove's World War-series.

BeardofPants · 05-06-2002, 04:46 PM

What's red mars like? It's a series right? I've been meaning to read them for ages...

TwirlingString · 05-06-2002, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Grey_Wolf
Taking a pause in my reading of Star Wars novels, I have just begun reading Arthur Hailey's Airport and will continue to read all of them. I'm also reading Kim Robinson's Red Mars and the third installment of Harry Turtledove's World War-series.

Warning: Stay AWAY from NJO, it will bring you nothing but heartbreak.

Grey_Wolf · 05-07-2002, 11:22 AM

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Originally posted by TwirlingString

Warning: Stay AWAY from NJO, it will bring you nothing but heartbreak.

Thanks for the warning. The killing off of main characters and the destruction of the New Republic doesn't exactly endear me to the NJO, so I'll stop buying them.

Grey_Wolf · 05-07-2002, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BeardofPants
What's red mars like? It's a series right? I've been meaning to read them for ages...

Red Mars is the first book in a trilogy. The second is Green Mars and the third is Blue Mars. There is also an antology called The Martians.

**crickhollow** · 05-07-2002, 05:18 PM

my apologies to everyone, when I said that I can't read more than one book at a time b/c it's too distracting. It would seem that I lied, albeit unintentionally.

now that school has ended, I find myself waist deep in:

The Problem of Pain~~C.S. Lewis

Boxen--this is a collection of stories about an imaginary land called Boxen that C.S.Lewis wrote when he was young. I mean really young, as in, age 8.

I'm still plugging away at Dickens's Our Mutual Friend

Just finished a short story by George Macdonald, and the title is something like: Son of the Day, Daughter of the Night. very interesting symbolism in that one.

Last night I started Molder of Dreams, by Guy Doud

have I got my plate full or what? I've also brought home a copy of Les Miserables, and my sister has promised me access to her copy of the Silmarillion...the list just keeps on getting longer.

viggosbeard · 05-10-2002, 10:54 AM

Ive just completed the Chung kuo series by David Wyngrove - absolutely fanatastic , I cant rate them highly enough . If you never read more than one more book in your life , please make it this one ( actually there is about 8 of them ) - whats it about ?

the quick version - future earth - everybody ( not quite everybody ! ) lives in giant domes over each continent - ruled by chinese emperors ( Li Yuan main man ) battles between expansionists and the emperors and some really nasty bad guy - Devore - maybe the most evil sadistic bad guy ever - tons of other stuff about mars and love and art and marrying your sister in law etc it really is a top read , go forth and purchase pronto.

Eldanuumea · 05-28-2002, 11:11 AM

I'm fixing to start the fourth novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender series. I am enjoying those immensely.
I am also reading through the Silmarillion again....homework for the Inklings forum! Got to keep up with all those elves!!

Garina · 05-28-2002, 01:25 PM

I'm reading all my LOTR books, my David Eddings books, and I'm just starting to reread the Vampire Chronicles.

BeardofPants · 05-28-2002, 02:53 PM

Am starting on the Silmarillion now. Wish me luck! Have been having a bugger of a time trying to get through the first few chapters, it's like trying to transliterate hieroglyphics, for eru's sake!

sun-star · 05-28-2002, 03:11 PM

I've just started the first Book of Lost Tales, after waiting for months for it to get to my local library

. It's a bit hard going so far!

viggosbeard · 05-29-2002, 05:22 AM

half way through a George Best autobiography and just finnished Billy Connolly's biography anyone else read the Chung Kuo series by David Wyngrove ? well you should !

Grey_Wolf · 05-29-2002, 11:43 AM

Am halfway through KSR's Red Mars. The first time I read it I thought the latin/greek placenames a bit difficult to pronounce, but I 've gotten over that. It's a very good read.

Am in the beginning of Arthur Hailey's Hotel. Also very good.

Andúril · 05-29-2002, 12:01 PM

Oxford History of Early Medieval Philosophers (I think it's called...)
Fun in the sun.

***Earniel*** · 05-29-2002, 01:25 PM

Starting on 'The rise and the fall of the dinosaur"

Starr Polish · 05-29-2002, 04:44 PM

Tolkien: A look behind The Lord of the Rings, by Lin Carter, and then I'm going to start Unfinished Tales: Of Numenor and Middle-Earth

Eldanuumea · 05-29-2002, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BeardofPants
Am starting on the Silmarillion now. Wish me luck! Have been having a bugger of a time trying to get through the first few chapters, it's like trying to transliterate hieroglyphics, for eru's sake!

My first attempt to read the Sil was a bit discouraging. I couldn't keep all those similar-sounding names straight! But I still found the very beginning one of the loveliest things I'd ever read. The second time through, things made more sense and names started to come together with personalities. I'm on my third read right now, and the thing is actually making total sense! So, give it a chance.

Andúril · 05-30-2002, 10:06 AM

I read "Temperance" by Plato last night. The english translation.

05-06-2002, 04:46 PM	#244
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	What's red mars like? It's a series right? I've been meaning to read them for ages... __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

05-07-2002, 05:18 PM	#248
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	my apologies to everyone, when I said that I can't read more than one book at a time b/c it's too distracting. It would seem that I lied, albeit unintentionally. now that school has ended, I find myself waist deep in: The Problem of Pain~~C.S. Lewis Boxen--this is a collection of stories about an imaginary land called Boxen that C.S.Lewis wrote when he was young. I mean really young, as in, age 8. I'm still plugging away at Dickens's Our Mutual Friend Just finished a short story by George Macdonald, and the title is something like: Son of the Day, Daughter of the Night. very interesting symbolism in that one. Last night I started Molder of Dreams, by Guy Doud have I got my plate full or what? I've also brought home a copy of Les Miserables, and my sister has promised me access to her copy of the Silmarillion...the list just keeps on getting longer. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

05-10-2002, 10:54 AM	#249
viggosbeard Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey Posts: 247	Ive just completed the Chung kuo series by David Wyngrove - absolutely fanatastic , I cant rate them highly enough . If you never read more than one more book in your life , please make it this one ( actually there is about 8 of them ) - whats it about ? the quick version - future earth - everybody ( not quite everybody ! ) lives in giant domes over each continent - ruled by chinese emperors ( Li Yuan main man ) battles between expansionists and the emperors and some really nasty bad guy - Devore - maybe the most evil sadistic bad guy ever - tons of other stuff about mars and love and art and marrying your sister in law etc it really is a top read , go forth and purchase pronto. __________________ 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

05-28-2002, 11:11 AM	#250
Eldanuumea Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Mississippi Posts: 123	I'm fixing to start the fourth novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender series. I am enjoying those immensely. I am also reading through the Silmarillion again....homework for the Inklings forum! Got to keep up with all those elves!! __________________ "Queen of Sweetness and Light!" - Mordomin

05-28-2002, 01:25 PM	#251
Garina Elf Lord Join Date: May 2002 Location: Tring, Herts, England Posts: 582	I'm reading all my LOTR books, my David Eddings books, and I'm just starting to reread the Vampire Chronicles. __________________ Entmoot Resident Bard #2 Wielder of the shiny fire extinguisher Worshipper of the divine cheesecake Hamsters and Rangers everywhere, rejoice!!! Minsc, Baldur's Gate 2 Children, don't take drugs. Become a pop star, then people give them to you for free!!! - Billy Mack, Love Actually. While I'm sure the nice people from the local archery club meant well, a moment's consideration would have made them realise that giving my friend and I lethal weapons was probably not a good idea! Dammit, eyeliner and dreadlocks should not be that sexy!

04-27-2002, 06:19 AM	#241
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	At the moment I'm reading the third book in Timothy Zahn's three-bookseries: The Last Command. Am still only at the beginning of Harry Turtledove's World War: Upsetting the balance. Am thinking of continuing reading Kim Robinson's Red Mars.

05-06-2002, 02:30 PM	#243
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Taking a pause in my reading of Star Wars novels, I have just begun reading Arthur Hailey's Airport and will continue to read all of them. I'm also reading Kim Robinson's Red Mars and the third installment of Harry Turtledove's World War-series.

05-28-2002, 02:53 PM	#252
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Am starting on the Silmarillion now. Wish me luck! Have been having a bugger of a time trying to get through the first few chapters, it's like trying to transliterate hieroglyphics, for eru's sake! __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

05-28-2002, 03:11 PM	#253
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I've just started the first Book of Lost Tales, after waiting for months for it to get to my local library . It's a bit hard going so far! __________________ 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.

05-29-2002, 05:22 AM	#254
viggosbeard Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey Posts: 247	half way through a George Best autobiography and just finnished Billy Connolly's biography anyone else read the Chung Kuo series by David Wyngrove ? well you should ! __________________ 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

05-29-2002, 11:43 AM	#255
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Am halfway through KSR's Red Mars. The first time I read it I thought the latin/greek placenames a bit difficult to pronounce, but I 've gotten over that. It's a very good read. Am in the beginning of Arthur Hailey's Hotel. Also very good.

05-29-2002, 12:01 PM	#256
Andúril The Original Corruptor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,881	Oxford History of Early Medieval Philosophers (I think it's called...) Fun in the sun.

05-29-2002, 01:25 PM	#257
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Starting on 'The rise and the fall of the dinosaur" __________________ We are not things.

05-29-2002, 04:44 PM	#258
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Tolkien: A look behind The Lord of the Rings, by Lin Carter, and then I'm going to start Unfinished Tales: Of Numenor and Middle-Earth __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

05-30-2002, 10:06 AM	#260
Andúril The Original Corruptor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,881	I read "Temperance" by Plato last night. The english translation.

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