what are you reading right now? - Page 15

BeardofPants · 06-07-2002, 10:50 PM

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Originally posted by TwirlingString

Letters?

You surely do like your extraneous posts, don't you?

If you look it up on Amazon, I'm sure you'll find the answer there. Oh, and refer to my sig. Fool.

TwirlingString · 06-07-2002, 10:55 PM

What happened to the box?

Nienna Grey · 06-08-2002, 01:14 AM

OK, I'm reading the following books at present:

Re-reading Silmarillion

A biography of Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

TwirlingString · 06-09-2002, 05:41 PM

Love wyrd sister, megaly mundoly cool! I think it might be my favorites of the books with the witches in them, but then again it might be Equal Rites

Eldanuumea · 06-09-2002, 08:18 PM

I am reading The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.

BeardofPants · 06-09-2002, 08:26 PM

As I said earlier, I'm reading Tolkiens unfinished tales. However, it is a library book, and some nasty bugger has ripped out the map!

If anyone could scan and email it to me, I would be eternally grateful! (PM me for my 'mail)

Andúril · 06-10-2002, 01:34 PM

I read some of the newspaper tonight.

BeardofPants · 08-25-2002, 05:48 PM

Have just had a Tolkien splurge (Sil, UT, Letters, LOTR) I'm taking a break to re-read my Harry Potter books before I start HoME...

Sylvee Estel · 08-25-2002, 05:52 PM

Right now I am reading The Pearls of Lutra by Brian Jacques. Very good book!

Eldanuumea · 08-25-2002, 07:09 PM

I just started The Soul of Sex of Thomas Moore. After that....or during.....I'' read some more Star Trek novels.

Arathorn · 08-25-2002, 10:31 PM

I just finshed 6 Dune books (book 1 last yr before FOTR movie movie came out, books 2 to 5 three weeks ago, and book 6 last week.

I started to read Neil Gaiman's American Gods yesterday. I hope I can catch up on a lot of other things which are not related to reading fiction books. Hopefully I'd learn an instrument or 2 this year and scaled another Philippine peak. So many things to do...

**crickhollow** · 08-27-2002, 02:18 PM

_That Hideous Strength_ by C.S.Lewis. Excellent, excellent book. a little freaky, though! Jane's dream, the dead man who was only sleeping, and the head of the executed criminal kept alive separate from his body...wow! I couldn't sleep at night.

Shadowfax · 08-27-2002, 08:16 PM

Just starting The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan; it's for English at school. I'm finding it a little akward because it is written in the present tense (she sits down and watches...). Oh well. Anyone else read this book?

***Earniel*** · 08-28-2002, 08:45 AM

At the moment I'm rereading 'The hobbit' this time in English. And 'Cat World' from Desmond Morris.

Grey_Wolf · 08-28-2002, 10:28 AM

At the moment I'm re-reading Dale Brown's Chains of Command (a very good techno-thriller). Taken a long pause in Harry Turtledove's WW: Upsetting the Balance and finishing off KSR's Green Mars. Have begun Edward Rutherfurd's Sarum (with the intent of reading London and The Forest)

sun-star · 08-28-2002, 01:07 PM

I've just finished 'Perelandra' by C.S. Lewis, as well as re-reading Sense and Sensibility, and I'm not sure what to start next. I'm sure I'll find something...

Hasty Ent · 08-28-2002, 08:03 PM

Just finished The History of Danish Dreams by Peter Hoeg. Working through Ulysses by Joyce and What is Art For? by Ellen Dissanayake. Also reading the Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, -- finished Justine last week and 50 pages into Balthazar.

Erawyn · 08-29-2002, 02:39 PM

Catcher is the Rye

osszie · 08-31-2002, 08:39 PM

Mien Kampf (the holocaust both horrifies and amazes me....been trying to get my head around it, in an understanding sense, for about 2 years now, not there yet).

reading for pleasure?.................the belgariad, again, tis stereotypical.........and wonderful because of that

oh and as many comics and small press as i can afford this month

katya · 09-02-2002, 01:14 PM

i am reading crime and punishment. its great. i am also rereading lotr. but mostly i am reading crime and punishment. gives me a lot to think about.

06-07-2002, 10:55 PM	#282
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	What happened to the box? __________________ "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?!”

06-08-2002, 01:14 AM	#283
Nienna Grey Enting Join Date: May 2002 Location: England Posts: 62	OK, I'm reading the following books at present: Re-reading Silmarillion A biography of Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett __________________ "Mornie Utúlië Believe and you will find your way"

06-09-2002, 05:41 PM	#284
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	Love wyrd sister, megaly mundoly cool! I think it might be my favorites of the books with the witches in them, but then again it might be Equal Rites __________________ "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?!”

06-09-2002, 08:18 PM	#285
Eldanuumea Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Mississippi Posts: 123	I am reading The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. __________________ "Queen of Sweetness and Light!" - Mordomin

06-09-2002, 08:26 PM	#286
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	As I said earlier, I'm reading Tolkiens unfinished tales. However, it is a library book, and some nasty bugger has ripped out the map! If anyone could scan and email it to me, I would be eternally grateful! (PM me for my 'mail) __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

06-10-2002, 01:34 PM	#287
Andúril The Original Corruptor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,881	I read some of the newspaper tonight.

08-25-2002, 05:48 PM	#288
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Have just had a Tolkien splurge (Sil, UT, Letters, LOTR) I'm taking a break to re-read my Harry Potter books before I start HoME... __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

08-25-2002, 05:52 PM	#289
Sylvee Estel Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Tennessee Posts: 115	Right now I am reading The Pearls of Lutra by Brian Jacques. Very good book! __________________ ~Sylvee

08-25-2002, 07:09 PM	#290
Eldanuumea Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Mississippi Posts: 123	Currently reading: I just started The Soul of Sex of Thomas Moore. After that....or during.....I'' read some more Star Trek novels. __________________ "Queen of Sweetness and Light!" - Mordomin

08-25-2002, 10:31 PM	#291
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	I just finshed 6 Dune books (book 1 last yr before FOTR movie movie came out, books 2 to 5 three weeks ago, and book 6 last week. I started to read Neil Gaiman's American Gods yesterday. I hope I can catch up on a lot of other things which are not related to reading fiction books. Hopefully I'd learn an instrument or 2 this year and scaled another Philippine peak. So many things to do... __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

08-27-2002, 02:18 PM	#292
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	_That Hideous Strength_ by C.S.Lewis. Excellent, excellent book. a little freaky, though! Jane's dream, the dead man who was only sleeping, and the head of the executed criminal kept alive separate from his body...wow! I couldn't sleep at night. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

08-27-2002, 08:16 PM	#293
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	Just starting The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan; it's for English at school. I'm finding it a little akward because it is written in the present tense (she sits down and watches...). Oh well. Anyone else read this book? __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

08-28-2002, 08:45 AM	#294
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	At the moment I'm rereading 'The hobbit' this time in English. And 'Cat World' from Desmond Morris. __________________ We are not things.

08-28-2002, 10:28 AM	#295
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	At the moment I'm re-reading Dale Brown's Chains of Command (a very good techno-thriller). Taken a long pause in Harry Turtledove's WW: Upsetting the Balance and finishing off KSR's Green Mars. Have begun Edward Rutherfurd's Sarum (with the intent of reading London and The Forest) Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 01-06-2003 at 04:54 AM.

08-28-2002, 01:07 PM	#296
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I've just finished 'Perelandra' by C.S. Lewis, as well as re-reading Sense and Sensibility, and I'm not sure what to start next. I'm sure I'll find something... __________________ 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.

08-28-2002, 08:03 PM	#297
Hasty Ent Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 516	Just finished The History of Danish Dreams by Peter Hoeg. Working through Ulysses by Joyce and What is Art For? by Ellen Dissanayake. Also reading the Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, -- finished Justine last week and 50 pages into Balthazar.

08-29-2002, 02:39 PM	#298
Erawyn Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: america junior Posts: 320	Catcher is the Rye __________________ peace never hurt anyone "Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth." Johann Georg von Zimmermann

08-31-2002, 08:39 PM	#299
osszie Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 409	Mien Kampf (the holocaust both horrifies and amazes me....been trying to get my head around it, in an understanding sense, for about 2 years now, not there yet). reading for pleasure?.................the belgariad, again, tis stereotypical.........and wonderful because of that oh and as many comics and small press as i can afford this month

09-02-2002, 01:14 PM	#300
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	i am reading crime and punishment. its great. i am also rereading lotr. but mostly i am reading crime and punishment. gives me a lot to think about.

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