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02-03-2004, 04:27 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden
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Books just aquired...
I've just aquired the Raj-quartet, will read at leisure.
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02-05-2004, 09:38 PM
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Thief Queen of Entmoot
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly...
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hmm... i work at a library so i don't buy books all the time; but i just borrowed One for the Money (again) and a book by Laurell K. Hamilton (can't think of the name- but it's not an anita blake book)
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02-07-2004, 01:06 AM
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The Fleet-Footed
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: British Columbia
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I was just given an early birthday present (my 18th birthday is in 2 weeks): "The Lays of Beleriand" (HoME 3)! I was so excited--I still am!
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02-10-2004, 08:54 PM
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Thief Queen of Entmoot
Join Date: Jan 2004
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 i suppose i should request it, but i never remember...
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*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. |
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02-10-2004, 11:35 PM
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Enting
Join Date: Dec 2002
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I just bought The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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03-13-2004, 07:56 AM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden
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I just aquired books 3 - 6 and 8 - 11 of HOME. Am awaiting books 1, 2 and 7.
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03-13-2004, 12:06 PM
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Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Oslo, Norway
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Just got some book named "We all fall down" (or similar) to read in English-classes and bought A Game Thrones in the "A Song of Ice and Fire"-series
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05-05-2004, 12:43 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden
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I've just bought John Keegan's The First World War
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05-05-2004, 10:35 PM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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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 |
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05-06-2004, 11:31 AM
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Lady of Letters
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England
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I just bought the Letters of Tolkien. Finally
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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. |
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05-06-2004, 11:35 AM
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Send me a copy? Pleeeease? *bambi-eyes*
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Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle. |
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05-06-2004, 11:37 AM
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Lady of Letters
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No, this is mine... my precioussss...
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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. |
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05-07-2004, 10:42 AM
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Elf Lord
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05-07-2004, 11:05 PM
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The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Just acquired "Sweeter Than All the World" by Rudy Wiebe, "Because of Winn-Dixie" Kate DiCamillo, "Practicing the presence of God" by Brother Lawrence, and "The Theif Lord" by cornelia somthing. All summer reading, and I'm not allowed to touch them until my papers are turned in on the 28th.
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05-08-2004, 11:31 AM
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Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs
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In addition to borrowing the 7th book of WoT and Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice I've just bought American Gods by Neil Gaiman and the second book in Steven Erikson's Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.
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05-10-2004, 10:40 AM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: The Library, may it live forever!!!
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 I only started reading it. i have so many other books to read right now! Like The Silmarillion....
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05-10-2004, 04:10 PM
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Spammer of the Happy Thread
Join Date: Dec 2003
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I found Unfinished Tales in English!!
*Happy! Happy!*
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05-11-2004, 08:21 PM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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Well, I just finished reading the Song of Ice and Fire series, which I enjoyed very much. To put it simply, it has rekindled my faith in fantasy, which I was rather apathetic to with the exception of a few greats (Tolkien, LeGuin). Now, I am at a cross-road. I just spent 40 minutes in the bookstore trying to decide what to read next. It was a toss up between Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series, Robin Hobbs Farseer Trilogy (Assasins Apprentice, etc), or David Eddings Mallorean series. In the end I decided on Tad Williams series because I really enjoyed the Otherland series written by him, and also because many people who read GRR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire also enjoyed the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. Anyone else read Tad Williams or Robin Hobb? How do the two series compare?
I also acquired Ken McLeod's Engines of Light: book one - Cosmonaut Keep. This is the blurb: Quote:
Anyone else read any of his other stuff? Is it as exciting as this one sounds?
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05-11-2004, 11:56 PM
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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 |
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05-13-2004, 03:55 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill
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I recently acquired what I call "The Abhorsen Trilogy" by Garth Nix, which inclues Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen. Very, very good fantasy books, they sucked me in as fast as LOTR did.
I also just bought The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. Ah...British Literature.
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