10-27-2002, 11:36 PM | #361 |
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I finished IT (the Stephen King book), so now I'm working on The Letters of JRRT. It's very interesting, especially his views about love & marriage, religion, Hitler, Jews, and war in general. I had to borrow it from someone living here in the dorms with me because I can't seem to find it in any library or bookstore.
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10-28-2002, 01:52 AM | #362 |
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Jane Eyre, for the 12,747,543 time
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10-28-2002, 03:41 AM | #363 | |
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10-28-2002, 07:14 PM | #365 |
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I agree, Treebeard's Apprentice. Yuck! Good for you, being able to read it so many times.
Out of Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis.
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10-29-2002, 04:03 AM | #366 |
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ehhh...I'm not a big fan of any of the brontes, though I've been meaning to read The Tenant of Whitfield Hall...
right now I'm reading The Making of the English Working Cl--oh, you mean what am I reading for fun? what's fun?
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10-29-2002, 01:00 PM | #367 | |
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10-29-2002, 04:48 PM | #368 |
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I read Maloria (Edings) and another fantasy book. I can't remember its name, of its writer. I'll edit them next.
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11-01-2002, 09:50 PM | #369 |
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The Silmarillion. Taking it nice and easy, and determined to get through it this time.
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11-02-2002, 09:20 AM | #370 |
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cee2lee2, did you already try to read The Sil and you failed?
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11-02-2002, 10:45 AM | #371 |
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Radagast the Brown, yes, I tried a long time ago and got bogged down in all of the names and the style of writing. I think part of my problem then was trying to get through it too quickly, as I had ploughed through the trilogy to find out what happened. Now I am taking each chapter slowly and letting it sink in before moving on. I'm reading it at lunchtime at work, so I have a time constraint anyway and am not able to get through too much at once. I must say I'm enjoying it more this time. And I anticipate I'll come back to it when I'm done, just as I do with The Hobbot and the trilogy.
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11-05-2002, 01:27 AM | #372 |
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I just finished reading A Rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniel. Very sad, I cried.
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11-05-2002, 04:57 PM | #373 | |
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11-05-2002, 11:20 PM | #374 |
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Shakespeare's A Midsummer nights eve
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11-06-2002, 03:44 PM | #375 |
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Le Morte d'Arthur, by Thomas Malory. I've only just started it but I think I love it already...
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11-06-2002, 10:47 PM | #376 |
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I've kind of given up reading BoLT 2 until my exams are finished and I can concentrate properly. I know this is probably very bad, but I'm currently reading this very good LOTR fanfiction story on the web. Ok, so it does contain some slash, but its all in good fun!
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11-13-2002, 02:26 AM | #378 |
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next time they make you read Jane Austen, read _Lady Susan_. It's very short (especially for Austen), it has a much more interesting format.
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11-13-2002, 02:38 AM | #379 |
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I'm taking a hiatus from Tolkien, and have just finished Asimov's first foundation book. I'm still formulating my opinion on it, and I think to get a feel for it, I'll have to read some more of the series. (I started on Foundation, not Prelude.) Now, I'm about to start on Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
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