Reading any good books? - Page 5

shesabrandybuck · 01-12-2009, 06:59 PM

Been Reading Angels and Demons, it is wonderful, can't put it down.

Amael · 01-29-2009, 06:31 PM

I read a Sky and Telescope magazine recently, because I'm into astronomy and have my own telescope my husband got me. However, since last month I haven't really read anything else. I've been staying in during the snow and ice and watching Youtube videos about how the Universe is going to end.

Oh, I just hit 100 posts. Figured I'd mention that. I went from Enting to Elven Warrior just now. That's some switch!!!

shesabrandybuck · 01-29-2009, 06:53 PM

I had my own party when I reached 500

cee2lee2 · 01-30-2009, 01:11 AM

Just finished The Sharing Knife - Passage. It's the 3rd in the Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold. I think there's a 4th already published. Have to see if the library has it when I take this one back.

**Mari** · 02-04-2009, 12:13 PM

I am rereading Althalus. I love that book. But it's not really literature.
I did start reading Emma again though, but I dislike that woman >_<

BeardofPants · 02-04-2009, 12:49 PM

She IS rather irritating, no?

**Mari** · 02-04-2009, 01:16 PM

Definitely. >_<

cee2lee2 · 02-05-2009, 11:02 PM

I am reading Village School by Miss Read again.

Empress_Flynn · 02-06-2009, 03:48 PM

^My future mother-in-law loves that book...

Well, I've read a lot since Christmas... but the standouts were The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and The House at Riverton by Kate Morton.

And now I've just reread an Agatha Christie while I wait for Amazon to deliver 5 books

Which should be today!

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-06-2009, 10:50 PM

How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto is one of the most delightful books I've read in a long time. Highly recommended.

Have recently started Shusaku Endo's The Sea and the Poison, a novel about guilt, with war crimes as the catalyst. Looks very good so far, but then I'm a fan of the author.

***Varnafindë*** · 02-07-2009, 11:29 AM

I'm reading Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book - the 4th book in a series. I haven't read the first three yet, I expect I'll borrow them from the friend who recommended them and gave me this one as a present.
I think it took some time to really take off, but now I'm enjoying it. It's fantasy in the same way as Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is fantasy

Grey_Wolf · 02-08-2009, 05:31 AM

Im reading AA Attanasio's brilliantly poetic rendition of the King Arthur legend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA_Attanasio

If you get can hold of this quartet,I recommend that you do.

I love it for the marvellous English it is written in.

Midge · 02-13-2009, 12:16 AM

I've been reading some really good books lately... One that I would recommend to anyone (mostly girls, but I GUESS guys could read it too) is Set Apart Femininity. I've got a Spurgeon book called Grace: God's Unmerited Favor and another one I've borrowed by R. C. Sproul. It's pretty good. Just reread Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis (are we just allowed to call him "Jack"? I feel like I should have some kind of nickname for him because I love him and his books SO very much!)...

Books I have NOT read recently:
my textbooks.

hectorberlioz · 02-13-2009, 12:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Midge

I've been reading some really good books lately... One that I would recommend to anyone (mostly girls, but I GUESS guys could read it too) is Set Apart Femininity. I've got a Spurgeon book called Grace: God's Unmerited Favor and another one I've borrowed by R. C. Sproul. It's pretty good. Just reread Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis (are we just allowed to call him "Jack"? I feel like I should have some kind of nickname for him because I love him and his books SO very much!)...

I think I have that RC Sproul book. Or another by him.

"Till We Have Faces" is awesome! I loved that book. Have you read "The Great Divorce"?

Quote:

Books I have NOT read recently:
my textbooks.

Me neither

Midge · 02-20-2009, 08:32 PM

Yes. I think it's just SO Lewis that MacDonald leads him around.

*Leads Rule around... right off a cliff*

GrayMouser · 03-02-2009, 04:33 AM

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

This book is absolutely horrible, and I mean that as high praise. It is gut-wrenchingly bleak, but incredibly gripping. I read the whole thing in a day, because I couldn't put it down, and had waking dreams about it all night.

I see I've fallen into the trap of putting it here instead of in the science fiction thread- "that's not SF, it's good". It's a post-apocalyptic tale, which makes most other devastated futures look like a romp in the park. Halfway through, in fact, the author almost loses it, venturing into "Saw" territory; but it's never horror for the shock value, and he pulls it back in the end. Highly recommended, two thumbs up, five stars- but only if you're ready for an express ticket to the Heart of Darkness.

SilverKnight · 03-25-2009, 06:35 PM

I read lots of books, but at the moment I have just started Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Pip · 04-02-2009, 07:57 PM

I got Moby Dick for my birthday and I'm working on that. I'm also in the middle of Return To Alastair. It's the second in a trilogy of books by L.A. Kelly. It's really intereting and fun to read.

***Jonathan*** · 04-04-2009, 07:52 PM

I quickly got hooked on John Grisham.
I recently read The Broker and The Last Juror and have just gotten started on The Summons. His legal drama is captivating and it's a delight to see how he (being an attorney) really masters the genre.

Annatar · 04-16-2009, 03:02 AM

I just finished Sharpe's Eagle. Sharpie is awesome. Bernard Cornwell is a great writer, his battle scenes are so realistic and very well-written.

01-12-2009, 06:59 PM	#1
shesabrandybuck Hero of Hyrule Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hyrule Posts: 1,052	Been Reading Angels and Demons, it is wonderful, can't put it down. __________________ Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe. Rain may fall and wind may blow, And many miles be still to go, But under a tree I will lie, And let the clouds go sailing by. twitter

01-29-2009, 06:53 PM	#3
shesabrandybuck Hero of Hyrule Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hyrule Posts: 1,052	I had my own party when I reached 500 __________________ Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe. Rain may fall and wind may blow, And many miles be still to go, But under a tree I will lie, And let the clouds go sailing by. twitter

02-04-2009, 12:13 PM	#5
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I am rereading Althalus. I love that book. But it's not really literature. I did start reading Emma again though, but I dislike that woman >_< __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"... Last edited by Mari : 02-04-2009 at 12:15 PM.

02-04-2009, 12:49 PM	#6
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	She IS rather irritating, no? __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

02-04-2009, 01:16 PM	#7
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Definitely. >_< __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

01-29-2009, 06:31 PM	#2
Amael Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Somewhere Between Here and There Posts: 237	I read a Sky and Telescope magazine recently, because I'm into astronomy and have my own telescope my husband got me. However, since last month I haven't really read anything else. I've been staying in during the snow and ice and watching Youtube videos about how the Universe is going to end. Oh, I just hit 100 posts. Figured I'd mention that. I went from Enting to Elven Warrior just now. That's some switch!!!

01-30-2009, 01:11 AM	#4
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	Just finished The Sharing Knife - Passage. It's the 3rd in the Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold. I think there's a 4th already published. Have to see if the library has it when I take this one back.

02-05-2009, 11:02 PM	#8
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	I am reading Village School by Miss Read again.

02-06-2009, 03:48 PM	#9
Empress_Flynn Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Everywhere and nowhere Posts: 814	^My future mother-in-law loves that book... Well, I've read a lot since Christmas... but the standouts were The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. And now I've just reread an Agatha Christie while I wait for Amazon to deliver 5 books Which should be today! __________________ "Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see." "But remember... clowns make two things around here: balloon animals... and enemies." "If I loved you then I would love you in any way I could, and if we could not touch, then I would draw strength from your beauty... And if I went blind, I would fill my soul with the sound of your voice and the contents of your thoughts until the last spark of my love for you lit the shabby darkness of my dying mind."

02-06-2009, 10:50 PM	#10
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto is one of the most delightful books I've read in a long time. Highly recommended. Have recently started Shusaku Endo's The Sea and the Poison, a novel about guilt, with war crimes as the catalyst. Looks very good so far, but then I'm a fan of the author. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-07-2009, 11:29 AM	#11
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	I'm reading Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book - the 4th book in a series. I haven't read the first three yet, I expect I'll borrow them from the friend who recommended them and gave me this one as a present. I think it took some time to really take off, but now I'm enjoying it. It's fantasy in the same way as Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is fantasy __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

02-08-2009, 05:31 AM	#12
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Im reading AA Attanasio's brilliantly poetic rendition of the King Arthur legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA_Attanasio If you get can hold of this quartet,I recommend that you do. I love it for the marvellous English it is written in.

02-13-2009, 12:16 AM	#13
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	I've been reading some really good books lately... One that I would recommend to anyone (mostly girls, but I GUESS guys could read it too) is Set Apart Femininity. I've got a Spurgeon book called Grace: God's Unmerited Favor and another one I've borrowed by R. C. Sproul. It's pretty good. Just reread Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis (are we just allowed to call him "Jack"? I feel like I should have some kind of nickname for him because I love him and his books SO very much!)... Books I have NOT read recently: my textbooks. __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

02-20-2009, 08:32 PM	#15
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	Yes. I think it's just SO Lewis that MacDonald leads him around. Leads Rule around... right off a cliff __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

03-02-2009, 04:33 AM	#16
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy This book is absolutely horrible, and I mean that as high praise. It is gut-wrenchingly bleak, but incredibly gripping. I read the whole thing in a day, because I couldn't put it down, and had waking dreams about it all night. I see I've fallen into the trap of putting it here instead of in the science fiction thread- "that's not SF, it's good". It's a post-apocalyptic tale, which makes most other devastated futures look like a romp in the park. Halfway through, in fact, the author almost loses it, venturing into "Saw" territory; but it's never horror for the shock value, and he pulls it back in the end. Highly recommended, two thumbs up, five stars- but only if you're ready for an express ticket to the Heart of Darkness. __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

03-25-2009, 06:35 PM	#17
SilverKnight Hobbit Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: UK by the sea Posts: 16	I read lots of books, but at the moment I have just started Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton.

04-02-2009, 07:57 PM	#18
Pip Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Tuckburough Posts: 258	I got Moby Dick for my birthday and I'm working on that. I'm also in the middle of Return To Alastair. It's the second in a trilogy of books by L.A. Kelly. It's really intereting and fun to read. __________________ America, what will we miss while we are sleeping/Will Jesus come again and leave us slumbering where we lay/America, will we go down in history/As the nation with no room for it's King/Will we be sleeping?

04-04-2009, 07:52 PM	#19
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	I quickly got hooked on John Grisham. I recently read The Broker and The Last Juror and have just gotten started on The Summons. His legal drama is captivating and it's a delight to see how he (being an attorney) really masters the genre. __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

04-16-2009, 03:02 AM	#20
Annatar Sapling Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 8	I just finished Sharpe's Eagle. Sharpie is awesome. Bernard Cornwell is a great writer, his battle scenes are so realistic and very well-written. __________________ Ash nazg durbatuluk, Ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul

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