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 Same with mine! Both the Fellowship and the Return of the King are in pieces. Luckily in RotK it's just the appendices, I spent a little too much time studying them I guess.
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10-05-2007, 01:50 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Los Angeles
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No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. It is a brilliant book, you can't put it down once you start it. I recommend reading this book now before seeing the movie made from the book which has just been released, or is about to be released. This author is a genius, no doubt about it. He's famous for All The Pretty Horses, a book I've yet to read. No Country was my initiation into McCarthy. Next I want to read The Road.
Anyone else here familiar with/ enjoy works by Cormac McCarthy?
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10-07-2007, 11:24 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Reading "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun in norwegian class. Dunno if I like it that much. It's a wellwritten book, but I prefer a good story over the unconscious soullife, I think.
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11-10-2007, 12:55 AM
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In my continuing, but intermittent, quest to actually read the books I was assigned in high school, and took a pass on at the time, I am now almost halfway through...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Enjoying it a lot. Probably appreciating it much more at 45 than I would have at 15! 
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11-15-2007, 12:55 PM
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The one true King of the human race, direct descendant of Adam and heir to the kings of old. "You owe me your fealty." The Tar Minyaturion
Join Date: Jun 2006
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I just started reading the dark elf trilogy...I am finding Drizzt Daermon N'a'shezbaernon intersting. The story seems complex but I am not blown away by anything yet so I will see. The magic I don't find that interesting either: dark elves can do this, some can do that...why? that's my issue right now, "alot of can does" but no "whys." Not alot whys about a great many things.
I will cross my fingers, there is great promise though.
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11-15-2007, 04:24 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden
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Ive just begun reading Conn Iggulden's Emperor: The Gates Of Rome
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11-16-2007, 05:27 PM
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Neuromancer.
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11-26-2007, 09:19 AM
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I'm on Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan now. I started these books ( Wheel of time) a bit late
 ....but they're great  Very original
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11-26-2007, 11:17 PM
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12-01-2007, 01:31 AM
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High King at Annuminas Administrator
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Not really a book... but a story, in the format of a play.
I've been reading King Lear the past few days.
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12-01-2007, 01:38 AM
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I just started "The Icon and the Axe" by John Billington, a cultural history of Russia.
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12-05-2007, 09:41 PM
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The one true King of the human race, direct descendant of Adam and heir to the kings of old. "You owe me your fealty." The Tar Minyaturion
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12-05-2007, 09:43 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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I am reading an exelent book by Jeff Long entitled The Descent. It is a very good read, and if you have the chance pick it up. I highly recommend it.
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One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons |
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12-08-2007, 12:16 PM
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Elf Lord
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I'm reading the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. My family thinks I'm crazy but I'm actually enjoying it.
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12-08-2007, 03:41 PM
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I'm reading the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. Anyone else read them? I'm up to Grim Tuesday - not sure what I think so far, but I'm enjoying them.
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12-08-2007, 09:16 PM
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12-10-2007, 10:31 PM
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Elven Maiden
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I'm finally reading The Brothers Karamazov. I'm about 93 pages into it. It's kind of like an adult taste that is harder to appreciate but all the better when you do. Like dark chocolate. Luckily I'm in the right sort of mind-set these past few weeks to read something like that or I'd have probably dropped it by now, but as it is I'm anxious to read more. The characters are amazingly real. I'm enjoying it so far. I feel another Russian literature phase coming on...
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12-10-2007, 10:38 PM
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Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation
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*waiting for Harriet to release Book 12...*
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12-11-2007, 09:17 AM
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High King at Annuminas Administrator
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Reading my third Jane Austen: Sense & Sensibility
About halfway through, and enjoying it very much!
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12-13-2007, 05:16 PM
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Oh, I like that one a lot! Lucy is truly a snarky rhymes-with-witch! And a really good surprise at the end. The movie that came out a while back with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet was a good adaptation, too.
I'm about a third of the way thru Anna Karenina - my first taste of Tolstoy. Oh, those Russians are sure emotional! So far, I prefer Doestoevsky (sp?), though. Stick with Brothers K, katya - it's worth it
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