what are you reading right now? - Page 72

Mercutio · 07-07-2004, 04:24 PM

Finished "Seabiscuit."

Still in "Bro. K"

Started "Monsieur Pamplemous and the Secret Mission" by Michael Bond.

Nerdanel · 07-07-2004, 04:38 PM

Lin, I'm glad you liked it!

I've read 'IstÃ¤llet fÃ¶r Hip Hop', a book full of poetry, by a Swede, Daniel Boyacioglu. Really good at times, really frustrating at times.

Thought-provoking.

Last Child of Ungoliant · 07-07-2004, 07:10 PM

whilst reading hobbit, fotr, ttt &rotk all at the same time

I am also reading Dragon Search, by Patricia C Wrede
(Book 2 in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles)

***RÃan*** · 07-08-2004, 01:23 AM

Trying to re-start Don Quixote - having trouble getting into it...

How are you liking Bros. K, Merc?

Grey_Wolf · 07-08-2004, 09:29 AM

Am also rereading Johan Tell's England, England - Guiden.
A very funny causerie or book of light articles.

Nerdanel · 07-08-2004, 04:23 PM

Thanks to my job, I have now finished reading the Silmarillion. A fantastic book, as many of you know.

Actually, I loved the first chapters, though many warned me that it'd be hard getting thru the first chapters. He really had imagination, our dear JRR. He was brilliant.

I believe that it'd be a lot different reading LotR after reading the Sil, than it was before I'd read it.

But I won't start reading LotR immediately. I'll read the Hobbit first.

Mercutio · 07-08-2004, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RÃ*an
Trying to re-start Don Quixote - having trouble getting into it...

How are you liking Bros. K, Merc?

very much so

And I also started "Greyfriar's Bobby." (Its about a dog in the Scotland Borders).

Beren3000 · 07-08-2004, 05:15 PM

I've recently started Mario Puzo's The Godfather. The first pages are kinda dull, but it's just because it's the inevitable introduction to characters. I'm really looking forward to getting past the introduction! Anyone read it?

Nerdanel · 07-09-2004, 05:42 PM

Today I've read an interesting book about Greenpeace.

I've also started the Hobbit.

Seems to differ a lot from the Sil!

Lady Ravyn · 07-09-2004, 10:16 PM

i just started the nameless day by sara douglass which means it'll be even longer 'til i get to the books i got for my b-day and the other ones i've collected over the past few months (i always figure, "oh, well, this library book you can only have for a month or two, but you have the books you bought forever" so library books get first preference lol

i'm also going to start listening to the sil (*dum dum dum dummmm...*

) on cd in a few days (something to listen to while i mow the lawn

) wish me luck- it'll be the fourth time i've tried reading it

i really want to get through it this time...

Lalaith · 07-10-2004, 11:32 AM

J.R.R. Tolkien - Letters

Got the book last year and didn't want to read it because it's not a "relaxing" book and too big to carry in my school bag.
But now I'm reading it at work (during the breaks).

sun-star · 07-12-2004, 08:06 AM

I've been re-reading some of the Jennings books since Anthony Buckeridge died. They're funny

***KhamÃ»l*** · 07-13-2004, 12:01 AM

I'm actually going to read all of the Canterbury Tales. So far I've covered the Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, and the Cook's Tale. It's all so much better when no one is making you read them.

zinnite · 07-13-2004, 12:35 AM

"After the Martian Apocalypse" by Mac Tonnies. It's nonfiction. Check it out.

Nerdanel · 07-13-2004, 05:21 PM

I've finished the Hobbit! It was very different from the Sil imo, much easier to read (since it's a children's book, I'm very glad it is

).
I liked it a lot. It's humoristic (sp?) and exciting.

Next: a book about mammals.

I have to vary the literature I read.

Jeeves · 07-15-2004, 08:39 PM

I am currently reading The Return of Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse.

trolls' bane · 07-15-2004, 09:06 PM

Now I'm reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (or 2o,ooo Leagues Under the Sea

)

My dream has been fulfilled! I have my very own library! And most of the books are classics! I'm very happy now. I'm going to the Teacup Cafe.

DRINKS STILL ON ME!!!!!

Nerdanel · 07-16-2004, 04:57 PM

I'm reading a book by the Norwegian author Agnar Mykle. I'm reding it in Finnish, but it's original name is Sangen om den RÃ¶de Rubin.
It was banned in Finland for a long time (it's written in 1956), but now it's been allowed for some 20 years.
This far it's interesting; written in a kind of brave way. I can really recognise myself.

Mercutio · 07-16-2004, 05:02 PM

Anybody here read "the Decameron"?

Beren3000 · 07-18-2004, 04:52 PM

I've heard about the "Decameron" as the origin of the short story genre. But unfortunately I couldn't find it

Can you please tell me the name of the author, Mercutio? Have you read it or are you currently reading it?

EDIT: and has anybody here read The Godfather?

07-07-2004, 04:24 PM	#1421
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Finished "Seabiscuit." Still in "Bro. K" Started "Monsieur Pamplemous and the Secret Mission" by Michael Bond. __________________ 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.

07-07-2004, 04:38 PM	#1422
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	Lin, I'm glad you liked it! I've read 'IstÃ¤llet fÃ¶r Hip Hop', a book full of poetry, by a Swede, Daniel Boyacioglu. Really good at times, really frustrating at times. Thought-provoking. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

07-08-2004, 01:23 AM	#1424
*RÃan* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Trying to re-start Don Quixote - having trouble getting into it... How are you liking Bros. K, Merc? __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ã‘Ã¡ Ã«?* Ã³Ãº Ã©Ã¤ Ã¯Ã¶Ã¼ Ã–Ã± Ã‰ Ãž Ã° ÃŸ Â® Ã§ Ã¥ â„¢ Ã¦ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lÃ³mÃ«! AurÃ« entuluva!

07-08-2004, 04:23 PM	#1426
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	Thanks to my job, I have now finished reading the Silmarillion. A fantastic book, as many of you know. Actually, I loved the first chapters, though many warned me that it'd be hard getting thru the first chapters. He really had imagination, our dear JRR. He was brilliant. I believe that it'd be a lot different reading LotR after reading the Sil, than it was before I'd read it. But I won't start reading LotR immediately. I'll read the Hobbit first. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

07-09-2004, 05:42 PM	#1429
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	Today I've read an interesting book about Greenpeace. I've also started the Hobbit. Seems to differ a lot from the Sil! __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

07-07-2004, 07:10 PM	#1423
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	whilst reading hobbit, fotr, ttt &rotk all at the same time I am also reading Dragon Search, by Patricia C Wrede (Book 2 in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles)

07-08-2004, 09:29 AM	#1425
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Am also rereading Johan Tell's England, England - Guiden. A very funny causerie or book of light articles.

07-08-2004, 05:15 PM	#1428
Beren3000 FÃ«anorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	I've recently started Mario Puzo's The Godfather. The first pages are kinda dull, but it's just because it's the inevitable introduction to characters. I'm really looking forward to getting past the introduction! Anyone read it?

07-09-2004, 10:16 PM	#1430
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	i just started the nameless day by sara douglass which means it'll be even longer 'til i get to the books i got for my b-day and the other ones i've collected over the past few months (i always figure, "oh, well, this library book you can only have for a month or two, but you have the books you bought forever" so library books get first preference lol i'm also going to start listening to the sil (dum dum dum dummmm... ) on cd in a few days (something to listen to while i mow the lawn ) wish me luck- it'll be the fourth time i've tried reading it i really want to get through it this time... __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

07-10-2004, 11:32 AM	#1431
Lalaith The Elvish Temptress Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 3,055	J.R.R. Tolkien - Letters Got the book last year and didn't want to read it because it's not a "relaxing" book and too big to carry in my school bag. But now I'm reading it at work (during the breaks). __________________ What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead.

07-12-2004, 08:06 AM	#1432
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I've been re-reading some of the Jennings books since Anthony Buckeridge died. They're funny __________________ 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.

07-13-2004, 12:01 AM	#1433
*KhamÃ»l* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	I'm actually going to read all of the Canterbury Tales. So far I've covered the Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, and the Cook's Tale. It's all so much better when no one is making you read them. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

07-13-2004, 12:35 AM	#1434
zinnite Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Posts: 195	"After the Martian Apocalypse" by Mac Tonnies. It's nonfiction. Check it out. __________________ 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

07-13-2004, 05:21 PM	#1435
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	I've finished the Hobbit! It was very different from the Sil imo, much easier to read (since it's a children's book, I'm very glad it is ). I liked it a lot. It's humoristic (sp?) and exciting. Next: a book about mammals. I have to vary the literature I read. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

07-15-2004, 08:39 PM	#1436
Jeeves Sapling Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Entmoot Posts: 9	I am currently reading The Return of Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse.

07-15-2004, 09:06 PM	#1437
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Now I'm reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (or 2o,ooo Leagues Under the Sea ) My dream has been fulfilled! I have my very own library! And most of the books are classics! I'm very happy now. I'm going to the Teacup Cafe. DRINKS STILL ON ME!!!!! __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator Last edited by trolls' bane : 07-15-2004 at 09:07 PM.

07-16-2004, 04:57 PM	#1438
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	I'm reading a book by the Norwegian author Agnar Mykle. I'm reding it in Finnish, but it's original name is Sangen om den RÃ¶de Rubin. It was banned in Finland for a long time (it's written in 1956), but now it's been allowed for some 20 years. This far it's interesting; written in a kind of brave way. I can really recognise myself. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

07-16-2004, 05:02 PM	#1439
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Anybody here read "the Decameron"? __________________ 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.

07-18-2004, 04:52 PM	#1440
Beren3000 FÃ«anorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	I've heard about the "Decameron" as the origin of the short story genre. But unfortunately I couldn't find it Can you please tell me the name of the author, Mercutio? Have you read it or are you currently reading it? EDIT: and has anybody here read The Godfather? Last edited by Beren3000 : 07-18-2004 at 04:53 PM.

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