what are you reading right now? - Page 53

jellyfishannah · 11-21-2003, 12:41 AM

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I know what you mean. money+bookstore=$0.00

No, worse!

It could be $00,000.00!!!!

I am still reading The Brothers Karamazov. It's getting really exciting. I just can never get down to opening the blessed thing nowadays!

So many things to do!!

sun-star · 11-21-2003, 06:40 PM

I'm re-reading Northanger Abbey - one of the greatest pleasures in life! - and I think I'm about to start Bleak House, but I haven't decided yet. Dickens is such an investment of time

Silme*Christian · 11-23-2003, 01:19 PM

I just read C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Two days after I read it I heard that my church is having auditions for TLTWATW play! I hope to be the White Witch, (Lucy was taken) but we have a CRAPY director who shooses her best friends (who SUCK at acting) to play the major roles.

**crickhollow** · 11-23-2003, 01:35 PM

Audio books are the way to go for me right now. I spend so much time in my car, and I'm not stupid enough to try reading and driving. So, I just finished Pride and Prejudice, and am starting HP and the sorcerer's stone.

BeardofPants · 11-23-2003, 05:02 PM

I'm halfway through Good Omens.

Radagast The Brown · 11-23-2003, 05:20 PM

Did you like it? It's a bit weird; you get used to that.

I'm reading Reaper Men, by Terry Pratchet.

Falagar · 11-23-2003, 06:13 PM

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Originally posted by Radagast The Brown
Did you like it? It's a bit weird; you get used to that.

I'm reading Reaper Men, by Terry Pratchet.

Read that one some time ago myself...Good, although not my favorite Pratchett-book. What do you think so far?

Finished His Dark Material a week or so ago, not reading anything right now (that his, i have yet to finish the Illiad and Hamlet but not reading on them).

Lady Tinuveil · 11-23-2003, 08:26 PM

I just started the 'Smith of Wootton Major' and 'Farmer Giles of Ham' by JRRTolkien.
They are only 60 pages, very short stories. Has anyone read these before?

**crickhollow** · 11-23-2003, 10:17 PM

both. I like 'Smith' best

BeardofPants · 11-23-2003, 10:40 PM

RE: Good Omens:

It's okay so far. Not Pratchet's best piece of work. And I've read better by Gaiman as well. The humour just isn't quite up to Diskworld level, is it?

Falagar · 11-24-2003, 08:57 AM

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Originally posted by BeardofPants
RE: Good Omens:

It's okay so far. Not Pratchet's best piece of work. And I've read better by Gaiman as well. The humour just isn't quite up to Diskworld level, is it?

Nope, agree with you there. Or perhaps I've just gotten so used to the discworld-humour that I didn't notice it as much as I used to...

Linaewen · 11-24-2003, 09:04 AM

Rereading TTT, and have read a few chapters of Peter Wright's beginning Visual Basic 6. Both are fun.
Then I'm reading the English texts for next year. The Great Gatsby, Medea, MacBeth, First They Killed My Father. And then all those books on my shelf that I bought but haven't had the chance to read.

Thank goodness it's the holidays tomorrow!

[Edit] Falagar, how did you like His Dark Materials?

Starr, read Sabriel yet?
BoP, how did you like Abhorsen? Still haven't read it yet. Hope it's as good as the first two. (Though Lirael just seemed a bit too lengthy IMO)

***Earniel*** · 11-24-2003, 10:33 AM

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Originally posted by BeardofPants
The humour just isn't quite up to Diskworld level, is it?

Nope, Good Omens was a lot less funny IMO but I quite liked the finale.

I have just finished The adventures of Tom Saywer which was surprisingly endearing. Am now half way in The talented Mr. Ripley. Man, what a crook! Am also still reading HoME 5 and savouring it. (The Lost Road would have made such a great book!)

Falagar · 11-24-2003, 12:41 PM

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Originally posted by Linaewen
[Edit] Falagar, how did you like His Dark Materials?

To be honest: Loved it!

mithrand1r · 11-24-2003, 09:54 PM

Currently I am re-reading LOTR.

BeardofPants · 11-24-2003, 11:29 PM

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Originally posted by Linaewen
BoP, how did you like Abhorsen? Still haven't read it yet. Hope it's as good as the first two. (Though Lirael just seemed a bit too lengthy IMO)

It was good, I think. I can't really compare how it was compared to the earlier two books because I read a couple of other things between Lirael and Ahhorsen. It's a lot... darker... I guess, than the earlier two books, not that those two lack in being particularly dark! Hmmmm... I'll have to ruminate some more and get back to you on that one!

You think VB is fun?

zinnite · 11-25-2003, 12:37 AM

I'm reading 'More Than Human' by Theodore Sturgeon right now and, damn, is it ever good. Next on my list is 'Perdido Street Station' by China Mieville, though the Kurt Vonnegut thread has given me an urge to do a marathon binge of his novels. Decisions, decisions...

Shadowfax · 11-25-2003, 08:27 PM

I've just started Tales from the Perilous Realm. It's a collection of Tolkien's short stories and poems that includes "Farmer Giles of Ham", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "Leaf by Niggle", and "Smith of Wootton Major".

Silme*Christian · 11-28-2003, 07:10 PM

I am reading Encient Egyptian Legends and Stories and I love the tales in it! It has a lot about the Mistress of Magic and Speaker of Spells [Isis], King Khufu, Re, Pe, Hatshepsute (Hat-Sheep-Soot), Osiris, Horus and Seth. Then there are stories about things that REALLY happened (like the capture of Joppa) and those are the best! I am FULL of legends to tell.

***Rían*** · 12-03-2003, 01:23 PM

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Originally posted by Shadowfax
I've just started Tales from the Perilous Realm. It's a collection of Tolkien's short stories and poems that includes "Farmer Giles of Ham", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "Leaf by Niggle", and "Smith of Wootton Major".

Oh, let me know what you think of the last two! I love Leaf, and Smith is very interesting but rather sad. Giles is funny!

I picked up Bros. Karamazov and Don Quixote and am looking forward to reading them soon

but could use some advice for this: I also want to read Dante's Inferno & etc. - I hadn't realized how many types of translations there were. There was everything from straight prose to full-on poetry to kind of a semi-poetry. Does anyone have any recommendations as to a particular translation or style of translation?

11-21-2003, 06:40 PM	#1042
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I'm re-reading Northanger Abbey - one of the greatest pleasures in life! - and I think I'm about to start Bleak House, but I haven't decided yet. Dickens is such an investment of time __________________ 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.

11-23-2003, 01:19 PM	#1043
Silme*Christian Lady of Lamedon Join Date: May 2003 Location: Somewhere in the USA Posts: 621	I just read C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Two days after I read it I heard that my church is having auditions for TLTWATW play! I hope to be the White Witch, (Lucy was taken) but we have a CRAPY director who shooses her best friends (who SUCK at acting) to play the major roles. __________________ "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." Jesus scares the "hell" out of people! He rocks! http://linwe.proboards19.com/index.cgi

11-23-2003, 05:02 PM	#1045
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	I'm halfway through Good Omens. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

11-23-2003, 05:20 PM	#1046
Radagast The Brown Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Israel Posts: 6,975	Did you like it? It's a bit weird; you get used to that. I'm reading Reaper Men, by Terry Pratchet. __________________ Lalala... poof! AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

11-23-2003, 08:26 PM	#1048
Lady Tinuveil Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Oregon Hills Posts: 257	~ I just started the 'Smith of Wootton Major' and 'Farmer Giles of Ham' by JRRTolkien. They are only 60 pages, very short stories. Has anyone read these before? Last edited by Lady Tinuveil : 11-23-2003 at 08:28 PM.

11-23-2003, 01:35 PM	#1044
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	Audio books are the way to go for me right now. I spend so much time in my car, and I'm not stupid enough to try reading and driving. So, I just finished Pride and Prejudice, and am starting HP and the sorcerer's stone.

11-23-2003, 10:17 PM	#1049
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	both. I like 'Smith' best

11-23-2003, 10:40 PM	#1050
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	RE: Good Omens: It's okay so far. Not Pratchet's best piece of work. And I've read better by Gaiman as well. The humour just isn't quite up to Diskworld level, is it? __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

11-24-2003, 09:04 AM	#1052
Linaewen Fair Dinkum Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,319	Rereading TTT, and have read a few chapters of Peter Wright's beginning Visual Basic 6. Both are fun. Then I'm reading the English texts for next year. The Great Gatsby, Medea, MacBeth, First They Killed My Father. And then all those books on my shelf that I bought but haven't had the chance to read. Thank goodness it's the holidays tomorrow! [Edit] Falagar, how did you like His Dark Materials? Starr, read Sabriel yet? BoP, how did you like Abhorsen? Still haven't read it yet. Hope it's as good as the first two. (Though Lirael just seemed a bit too lengthy IMO) Last edited by Linaewen : 11-24-2003 at 09:23 AM.

11-24-2003, 09:54 PM	#1055
mithrand1r Cyber Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Left of Rock, Right of Hard Place Posts: 986	Currently I am re-reading LOTR. __________________ Sincerely, Anthony 'Many are my names in many countries,' he said. 'Mithrandir among the Elves, Tharkûn to the Drarves; Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incánus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I go not.' Faramir What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? Cicero (106BC-43BC)

11-25-2003, 12:37 AM	#1057
zinnite Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Posts: 195	I'm reading 'More Than Human' by Theodore Sturgeon right now and, damn, is it ever good. Next on my list is 'Perdido Street Station' by China Mieville, though the Kurt Vonnegut thread has given me an urge to do a marathon binge of his novels. Decisions, decisions... __________________ A citizen runs to the fire department yelling that he's spotted a roaring blaze from his car. "WHERE IS IT?" the fire department asks, pen ready. "It rises like some brooding , glaring trail of cosmic fury from- " "WHERE? WHERE?" "Oh. Well, it blazes up from a crimson-sheathed visage brooding darkly above the haunted towers of impotent indignity which, like melons hovering unhappily over lifetimes of empty meaning which-" "THE ADDRESS!" "Oh. Oh, I didn't notice. But look for a brooding, glaring trail of cosmic fury rising from a crimson-sheathed visage-" They lead him back to his car, and send him on. -- Philip K. Dick "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Diderot

11-25-2003, 08:27 PM	#1058
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	I've just started Tales from the Perilous Realm. It's a collection of Tolkien's short stories and poems that includes "Farmer Giles of Ham", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "Leaf by Niggle", and "Smith of Wootton Major". __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

11-28-2003, 07:10 PM	#1059
Silme*Christian Lady of Lamedon Join Date: May 2003 Location: Somewhere in the USA Posts: 621	I am reading Encient Egyptian Legends and Stories and I love the tales in it! It has a lot about the Mistress of Magic and Speaker of Spells [Isis], King Khufu, Re, Pe, Hatshepsute (Hat-Sheep-Soot), Osiris, Horus and Seth. Then there are stories about things that REALLY happened (like the capture of Joppa) and those are the best! I am FULL of legends to tell. __________________ "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." Jesus scares the "hell" out of people! He rocks! http://linwe.proboards19.com/index.cgi

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