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 - the guy got paid by the page (or at least I heard that once), and the sections where he was evidently hard up for that month are pretty evident  - I just scan read those sections. But Bleak House is well worth reading. If you get bogged down in a slow part, just skip over it.IIRC, Northanger was one of CS Lewis' favorite novels for just a fun read.
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12-03-2003, 02:27 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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I'm reading Catch-22 for the tenth time. I think it's my favorite book ever.
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12-03-2003, 07:05 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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Originally posted by Zinnite
I'm reading Catch-22 for the tenth time. I think it's my favorite book ever. ___________________________________________ What did you think of the movie? As for reading, if nonfiction counts, I'm reading a interesting nonfiction book that presents an objective (but somewhat sympathetic) account of FDR: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. It's amazing, but the present Republican Party's antagonism to social welfare programs like Social Security, medical insurance, minimum wages, etc. is just a continuation of a 70+ years crusade against them.
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12-03-2003, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: British Columbia
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You want to know about "Farmer Giles" and "Adventures of Tom B."? They're both great... "Farmer Giles" is about a comfortable farmer who ends up having to fight a dragon to save his country. The farmer is sort of like Bilbo, in that he doesn't go looking for adventure, but adventre comes knocking on his door. I really liked it, and it was short and easy to read. Good for children and adults alike. "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" is actually a collection of 16 poems (introduced as from the Red Book ). The first two are about Tom Bombadil, but all the others are about different things: a troll, an oliphaunt, a princess, the man in the moon, a mariner, etc. All very different, but they work well together as a single collection. I really loved these poems as well.
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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) Last edited by Shadowfax : 12-03-2003 at 08:57 PM. |
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12-03-2003, 08:58 PM
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The Fleet-Footed
Join Date: Mar 2002
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As to what I'm reading now...I think I'm going to read some more tales from The Canterbury Tales (I've already read the Miller's, the Wife of Bath's, and the Nun's Priest's). Probably the Knight's, then I dunno.
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12-05-2003, 02:37 AM
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I'm well into crime and punishment now....
i'd say its dostoevsky's next greatest after the brothers k.
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12-05-2003, 09:10 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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I'm working my way through a stack of old Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazines from 1098 and 1999.
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12-05-2003, 09:50 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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12-05-2003, 11:16 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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12-06-2003, 12:00 AM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Originally posted by Cee2Lee2
I working my way through a stack of old Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazines from 1998 and 1999. _____________________________________ About Isaac Asimov. His 2 volume autobiography is interesting and well-written, but the trouble is, in it he's so smug and arrogant I couldn't get through the first volume. Some of his novels hold up very well, such as"Childhood's End", but, as a history major in college, I thought the Foundation Trilogy was flawed and lacking in believable depth (a scientist's concept of writing history- interested mainly in the technilogical aspects, as opposed to JRRT's layered world). Also, a book I occasionally reread is "The Incomplete Enchanter", by L. Speague DeCamp. Hilarious! Written in the 1940s and 1950s, but holds up well. The hero, a Chicago psychologist, travels to the worlds of Norse legend and Spenser's Fairie Queen, where magic really works. Now if only he had gotten to Middle-earth 
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12-06-2003, 05:55 PM
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I absolutely loved Smith and Leaf both. I think I like Smith a bit more, though, partly because I found it a tad easier to understand. A good friend of the family has been trying to get me to read them for a while, now, and I'm so glad I did. I think it's really cool how Leaf can be seen as a parallel of Tolkien's life and work. Yeah, I agree with what you said before, too, about Smith being sad. It is. So yeah, I thought they were both really good.
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12-06-2003, 06:12 PM
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To tidy up some mess in my life I'm going to make a list of which books I'm currently reading:
LotR - FotR (Just started anew) The Iliad (song two or three) The Complete Works of William Shakespear (half way through A Midsummer Night's Dream) The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide (half way through) War! ("Krig!" By Knut Nærum) The Odyssey (just started) Suleiman, Emperor of the East (old book, I suspect I'll never finish it because I don't know where I stopped last time and many of the pages have disappeard.
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12-08-2003, 05:14 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: The Library, may it live forever!!!
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Oh!
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12-08-2003, 05:19 PM
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Oh, and the Silmarillion (if you haven't already read it). Quote:
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12-08-2003, 05:46 PM
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An enigma in a conundrum
Join Date: Oct 1999
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Just finished the last in the Area-51 series and now reading "Black Ice" about the cyber terrorist threat. I've got to take a Valium now.!!!
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12-08-2003, 05:53 PM
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Anyway....oh yes. The Silmarillion. I really should read that. Can you believe it? I claim to be an ardent tolkien fan and I have not read The Silmarillion? Blasphemy!! I guess it's not that bad since there are "tolkien fans" who have never even read the LOTR books.  |
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12-08-2003, 06:00 PM
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An enigma in a conundrum
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Hey, did you take my towel?
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12-08-2003, 06:29 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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I can't believe I haven't posted here before
Currently reading Seabiscuit, it is very good
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12-08-2003, 07:00 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: small town in NY...not where I wanna be..
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me? currently reading...The Count of Monte Christo (sp?).
and TFotR and the Sil...(but I'm always reading Tolkien)
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12-08-2003, 11:29 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: 2nd star to the left.....
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I've started to reread A Wrinkle in Time. Will probably go on to the other 3 in the quartet when I'm done with it.
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