Reading any good books? - Page 7

Rosie Gamgee · 01-19-2005, 11:22 AM

I've just finished J.M. Barrie's The Little Minister. Very funny, cute, touching; a good read. I intend to go home and read A Window in Thrums when I am done here. For me, who has only previously had the pleasure of reading Barrie's Peter Pan, a thoroughly delightful book, I find these other works of his a pleasant surprise. Ripping good stuff. I've also read his (albeit short) play A Woman Shows Her Medals- wonderful and touching.

Also, on the subject of Barrie, I am reading J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin- informative and interesting- and Barries semi-autobiographical work The Greenwood Hat- lovely so far.

Beren3000 · 01-21-2005, 11:43 AM

I'm currently reading Winter's Heart, book 9 of The Wheel of Time.

Last Child of Ungoliant · 01-21-2005, 12:01 PM

currently reading I Don't Believe It!, by Richard Wilson
funny, very funny!

trolls' bane · 01-21-2005, 08:18 PM

14 pages away from finishing the Diary of Anne Frank.
And I'm also reading the Rathlas RPG

. (I printed it out so I could read the 2-3 months I missed.)

Mercutio · 01-21-2005, 11:02 PM

"Trent's Last Case" by E.C. Bentley. I can't wait to get into the meat of the book!

Lenya · 01-22-2005, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beren3000

I'm currently reading Winter's Heart, book 9 of The Wheel of Time.

Oh. It was my favourite of them all. I enjoyed it lots and lots

Pytt · 01-23-2005, 01:00 PM

I am still reading book 6 of WoT. It is the best one this far, though I haven't got longer to...SPOILER

where Nynaeve heals Logain, Siuan and Leane.

it is absolutley magnificent!

Beren3000 · 01-23-2005, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pytt

I am still reading book 6 of WoT. It is the best one this far, though I haven't got longer to...SPOILER

where Nynaeve heals Logain, Siuan and Leane.

it is absolutley magnificent!

Wait till you get to the end, that's where it gets really good.

Pytt · 01-23-2005, 02:09 PM

Ceartainly will

I am about to take a break from the moot, make a cup of tea, and read. See you later.

Beren3000 · 01-23-2005, 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pytt

Ceartainly will

I am about to take a break from the moot, make a cup of tea, and read. See you later.

Enjoy!

Mercutio · 01-23-2005, 02:37 PM

Inked--
You should read Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley. It's considered the first of the English Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and what partially inspired Dorothy Sayers to try her hand at it (Lord Peter is slightly based on Phillip Trent). It was a break from the Sherlock Holmes type of detection; the detective also begins to become fallible (in detection and romance, in this case). There are also some marvelous plot twists.

~

Reading (started) The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It's considered one of the first English detective novels ever (written around 1860-70 I believe [?]), not part of the Golden Age. In the intro., it was said to have beautiful descriptions, and other things...?...anyway... that compared to nothing, "unless it be Dorothy Sayers The Nine Tailors"!

inked · 01-24-2005, 11:12 AM

DEATH'S ACRE by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Subtitled: "Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab The Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales". A rather interesting forensics study in a popular format. A quick and dirty read I suspect, rather unlike the actual researches.

***Fat middle*** · 01-25-2005, 05:07 AM

Just finished 84th Charing Cross Road, by Helen Hanff.

What a nice little book

It's a collection of letters between an american writer (Helen H.) and an English secondhand bookstore. Through the letters you can see the characters behind and the evolution of this pen-pal relation for about twenty years.

sun-star · 01-27-2005, 12:20 PM

Great Expectations and The Woman in White (which is by Wilkie Collins too, Mercutio

)

Pytt · 01-27-2005, 01:55 PM

I just finished book 6 in WoT. really great, as you said Beren

but you mentioned the following is a little dull, until the ninth?(maybe take it in the WoT thread

Mrs.Gimli · 01-27-2005, 02:13 PM

I love you motto

hectorberlioz · 01-27-2005, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Isn't that a great book? At least it is compared to the rest of the Sherlock Holmes books (except perhaps the Valley of Fear).
Hmm, what was it...
Phosphorous, P, used in fertilizer, solid at room temerature, non-metal, melts at 44.1 °C, boils at 280 °C.
Edit: sorry, didn't mean to double post. I though pressing "stop" would work.

I use to do it all the time (and think that press stop would work too...it doesnt!) I also need to get used to this new look...I had to quote someone to post!

Lets see...fourth and fifth of Lemony Snicket (good stuff! I'm telling you!) Don Quixote, still progressing

Last Child of Ungoliant · 01-27-2005, 09:27 PM

i recently read a book called 'JRR Tolkien - Master of Middle-Earth', by someone who i cant remember

, which was quite interesting

ItalianLegolas · 01-27-2005, 09:37 PM

I'll have to check that one out, its a mis-title, the master of Middle-Earth is Eru

Last Child of Ungoliant · 01-27-2005, 09:46 PM

its a really good book, about how tolkien developed the landscapes, people and races and such like of ME and so on - i will find out the author, and post that up here aswell

01-19-2005, 11:22 AM	#121
Rosie Gamgee The Lovely Hobbit-Lass Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bounded in a nut-shell Posts: 1,593	I've just finished J.M. Barrie's The Little Minister. Very funny, cute, touching; a good read. I intend to go home and read A Window in Thrums when I am done here. For me, who has only previously had the pleasure of reading Barrie's Peter Pan, a thoroughly delightful book, I find these other works of his a pleasant surprise. Ripping good stuff. I've also read his (albeit short) play A Woman Shows Her Medals- wonderful and touching. Also, on the subject of Barrie, I am reading J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin- informative and interesting- and Barries semi-autobiographical work The Greenwood Hat- lovely so far. __________________ It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year!

01-21-2005, 08:18 PM	#124
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	14 pages away from finishing the Diary of Anne Frank. And I'm also reading the Rathlas RPG . (I printed it out so I could read the 2-3 months I missed.) __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

01-21-2005, 11:02 PM	#125
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	"Trent's Last Case" by E.C. Bentley. I can't wait to get into the meat of the book! __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

01-23-2005, 01:00 PM	#127
Pytt The Supreme Lord of The Northern Eagles Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: trondheim, norway Posts: 1,388	I am still reading book 6 of WoT. It is the best one this far, though I haven't got longer to...SPOILER where Nynaeve heals Logain, Siuan and Leane. it is absolutley magnificent! __________________ Don't Panic!

01-23-2005, 02:09 PM	#129
Pytt The Supreme Lord of The Northern Eagles Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: trondheim, norway Posts: 1,388	Ceartainly will I am about to take a break from the moot, make a cup of tea, and read. See you later. __________________ Don't Panic!

01-21-2005, 11:43 AM	#122
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	I'm currently reading Winter's Heart, book 9 of The Wheel of Time.

01-21-2005, 12:01 PM	#123
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	currently reading I Don't Believe It!, by Richard Wilson funny, very funny!

01-23-2005, 02:37 PM	#131
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Inked-- You should read Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley. It's considered the first of the English Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and what partially inspired Dorothy Sayers to try her hand at it (Lord Peter is slightly based on Phillip Trent). It was a break from the Sherlock Holmes type of detection; the detective also begins to become fallible (in detection and romance, in this case). There are also some marvelous plot twists. ~ Reading (started) The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It's considered one of the first English detective novels ever (written around 1860-70 I believe [?]), not part of the Golden Age. In the intro., it was said to have beautiful descriptions, and other things...?...anyway... that compared to nothing, "unless it be Dorothy Sayers The Nine Tailors"! __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries. Last edited by Mercutio : 01-23-2005 at 02:38 PM. Reason: needed a smiley

01-24-2005, 11:12 AM	#132
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	DEATH'S ACRE by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Subtitled: "Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab The Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales". A rather interesting forensics study in a popular format. A quick and dirty read I suspect, rather unlike the actual researches. __________________ 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

01-25-2005, 05:07 AM	#133
*Fat middle* Mootis per forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Spain Posts: 61,439	Just finished 84th Charing Cross Road, by Helen Hanff. What a nice little book It's a collection of letters between an american writer (Helen H.) and an English secondhand bookstore. Through the letters you can see the characters behind and the evolution of this pen-pal relation for about twenty years. __________________ Do not be hasty. That is my motto. Now we'll have a drink and go to the Entmoot.

01-27-2005, 12:20 PM	#134
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Great Expectations and The Woman in White (which is by Wilkie Collins too, Mercutio ) __________________ 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.

01-27-2005, 01:55 PM	#135
Pytt The Supreme Lord of The Northern Eagles Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: trondheim, norway Posts: 1,388	I just finished book 6 in WoT. really great, as you said Beren but you mentioned the following is a little dull, until the ninth?(maybe take it in the WoT thread __________________ Don't Panic!

01-27-2005, 02:13 PM	#136
Mrs.Gimli Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 39	I love you motto Last edited by Mrs.Gimli : 01-30-2005 at 04:09 PM.

01-27-2005, 09:27 PM	#138
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	i recently read a book called 'JRR Tolkien - Master of Middle-Earth', by someone who i cant remember , which was quite interesting

01-27-2005, 09:37 PM	#139
ItalianLegolas Tolkien-aholic Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: somewhere in the solar system... more specifically NJ... Posts: 712	I'll have to check that one out, its a mis-title, the master of Middle-Earth is Eru __________________ What was lost is now found.

01-27-2005, 09:46 PM	#140
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	its a really good book, about how tolkien developed the landscapes, people and races and such like of ME and so on - i will find out the author, and post that up here aswell

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