04-03-2002, 09:44 AM | #221 |
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I'm waitng for the newest Harry Turtledove novel! Go harry go!
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04-06-2002, 02:26 PM | #222 |
Elven Warrior
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At the moment I am reading nothing as I am typing on my keyboard.
Lets see... The Amber Spyglass (PPullman) His Last Bow (Sir. A.C.Doyle) Mort (T.Pratchett) The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco).
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04-07-2002, 12:23 AM | #223 |
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The Amber Spyglass! I just re-read that.
Am now reading Interview With the Vampire (Anne Rice).
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04-07-2002, 06:12 AM | #224 |
The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain
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I read A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennesee Williams) a couple of days ago
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04-18-2002, 08:01 AM | #225 |
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Currently reading the first Wheel of Time book.
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04-18-2002, 12:11 PM | #226 | |
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One of my FAVORITE plays, did you enjoy it? I seem to have a habit of reading several books simultaneously. One inbetween work, another in the evening, one in the morning... anyone else do this??
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04-18-2002, 12:14 PM | #227 | |
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Now i'm reading 'the hobbit' and 'Stonehenge' by Bernard Cornwell. I try to read several and do other things as well Earenya, but i tend to get easily distracted and it takes me twice as long to do any of the things!!
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04-18-2002, 02:27 PM | #228 |
Lady of Letters
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I always read more than one book at a time. I start them, then I think I should wait to finish one before starting another, but by that time I can't stop. Then I get confused.
At the moment: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy and something by PG Wodehouse I can't remember the name of.
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04-18-2002, 11:34 PM | #229 |
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Currently I'm rereading on A pale horse and Have started the Dark Elf Triology.
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04-19-2002, 05:01 PM | #230 |
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I just started Nicholas Spark's The Notebook. It's pretty good so far. I've never read anything by him before, so we'll see how it goes.
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04-19-2002, 07:39 PM | #231 |
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Finished what I was reading before, now reading David Eddings Tamuli Trilogy
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
04-21-2002, 11:30 PM | #232 |
The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain
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"do you know what I shall die of? I shall die of an unwashed grape!"
I enjoyed "streetcar", but I really haven't had a chance to sort through it all yet. I don't usually read more than one book at a time, b/c I pick one, and don't let it out of my sight until I've turned the last page. I take it with my on the bus, at lunch, in the breakroom at work, I can't rest until I've finished it. I started Our Mutual Friend by Dickens yesterday.
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04-22-2002, 11:53 AM | #233 |
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Ive just finnished 'the bible code' which is very scary indeed - dont know how true it is but there are lots of very dodgy coincidences in it, and the way things are in the middle east makes it that bit more frightening - i think i need a session of the hobbit next
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04-22-2002, 12:31 PM | #234 |
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Crimeny, I'm always in the middle of about three to five books. Right now, let's see...
1.) The Two Towers - The Road to Isengard 2.) Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) 3.) Always some part of the Bible. 4.) The 4th Harry Potter book (kind of lost ineterest lately) 5.) Bulfinch's history on the Age of Chivalry and the Knights of Chalrlemange Whew! so many books, so little time. Wish I was in school again, so I'd be forced to read - and have time to do it Tell me more about this 'Bible Code' viggosbeard. Is it one of those rapture-esque theory books? I always find those interesting...
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04-22-2002, 04:47 PM | #235 | |
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Anyway! I'm currently reading The Education of Mary and one of the Redwall Books (Legend of Luke I think... I seem to always be reading one of these... lol). |
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04-23-2002, 11:06 AM | #236 |
Elf Lord of the Grey Havens
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Will and Ariel Durant, "The Age of Revolution"
Napoleonic Era - Facinating, extensive detail, must love history Robert D. Kaplan, "The Road to Tartary" Follow up to "Balkan Ghosts" some repeat material but great on current affairs, politics, human nature J. W. Rowling , "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (to the boy) entertaining, even though somewhat predictable. J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Lost Tales (Vol. 1) Some repeat from Silmarillion, but the commentary is interesting. John McPhee, "The Annals of a Former World" Interesting less as a geologic reference than as a geologic "narrative"
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04-23-2002, 03:25 PM | #237 |
Elf Lord
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Right now I am reading 'The secret of Sarah Revere" by Ann Rinaldi. It's really good. She writes that Paul Revere tell Sarah who shot the first shot but you never find out even though you think you will . Poor me. Otherwise it's REALLY good!!!!! unless you don't like books will a little of everything in them.
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04-23-2002, 09:18 PM | #238 | |
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04-24-2002, 07:50 PM | #239 |
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I'm not reading them right now, but wanted to recommend to those of you who like fairy tales:
These are by James Thurber and very short/ easy to read but are geared to adults and children alike -- The Wonderful O The Thirteen Clocks The White Deer |
04-25-2002, 02:14 PM | #240 |
Elf Lord
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the last book I read was the 5 book of Amber!! I didn't find the 6 in the library (sorry on my spell mistakes, I don't know so good English)
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