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Treebeard's apprentice · 10-27-2002, 11:36 PM

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.
I just bought The Tommyknockers (I love Stphen King; can't you tell?) today, so that will get added onto my List of Books to Read After the One I'm Reading Now. The list never seems to get any shorter, but that's not a bad thing

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Silverstripe · 10-28-2002, 01:52 AM

Jane Eyre, for the 12,747,543 time

BeardofPants · 10-28-2002, 03:41 AM

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Originally posted by Coney
Frank Millers work on Batman was cool, but if you want dark (and insane) Batman, Jim Stalins Death in the Family is amazing (one of the best Graphic Novels I've ever read).

I'll have to check it out... once I finish Akira... only another 4 to go....

Treebeard's apprentice · 10-28-2002, 01:34 PM

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Jane Eyre, for the 12,747,543 time

Yuck! I totally hated that book (or brick is more like it). I had enough trouble reading it just once.

Starr Polish · 10-28-2002, 07:14 PM

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.

**crickhollow** · 10-29-2002, 04:03 AM

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?

***Rían*** · 10-29-2002, 01:00 PM

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Originally posted by Treebeard's apprentice
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.

It's a fascinating book, isn't it?! (Letters) Several people at Entmoot have started on it recently. The letter to the German publishers about whether or not he has any Jewish blood in him is particularly well-written, I thought. And it's fun to read his lighter letters, too, and those written to very close friends. There's lots of good ME info to be picked up, too. I hope you can find it in a bookstore soon, because I think it's a real "keeper". I refer back to it often.

Radagast The Brown · 10-29-2002, 04:48 PM

I read Maloria (Edings) and another fantasy book. I can't remember its name, of its writer. I'll edit them next.

cee2lee2 · 11-01-2002, 09:50 PM

The Silmarillion. Taking it nice and easy, and determined to get through it this time.

Radagast The Brown · 11-02-2002, 09:20 AM

cee2lee2, did you already try to read The Sil and you failed?

cee2lee2 · 11-02-2002, 10:45 AM

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.

Sylvee Estel · 11-05-2002, 01:27 AM

I just finished reading A Rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniel. Very sad, I cried.

Radagast The Brown · 11-05-2002, 04:57 PM

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originally posted by c2l2
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.

ok.

I'm reading a book written by Piury something, and it called Orian. And the Malorian, Edings.

Philia · 11-05-2002, 11:20 PM

Shakespeare's A Midsummer nights eve

sun-star · 11-06-2002, 03:44 PM

Le Morte d'Arthur, by Thomas Malory. I've only just started it but I think I love it already...

cassiopeia · 11-06-2002, 10:47 PM

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!

Silverstripe · 11-12-2002, 10:47 PM

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Originally posted by Treebeard's apprentice
Yuck! I totally hated that book (or brick is more like it). I had enough trouble reading it just once.

Let me explain that one. See, I have a group of friends who were all really into romance novels (especially Jane Austen and the Brontes) and had never read LotR. So we came to an agreement that for every time they read a book by Tolkien, I would read a romance novel by one of their two favorite authors. As I have only been able to get through TWO Jane Austen books, one of Emily Bronte's, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, I wind up reading the four books a lot. Half of those friends have now read and re-read LotR several times! Having to read just about anything is worth that.

**crickhollow** · 11-13-2002, 02:26 AM

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.

BeardofPants · 11-13-2002, 02:38 AM

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.

Silverstripe · 11-13-2002, 10:04 AM

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Originally posted by crickhollow
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.

Thank you. I'll try that.

10-27-2002, 11:36 PM	#361
Treebeard's apprentice Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Wherever I may roam Posts: 207	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. I just bought The Tommyknockers (I love Stphen King; can't you tell?) today, so that will get added onto my List of Books to Read After the One I'm Reading Now. The list never seems to get any shorter, but that's not a bad thing.

10-28-2002, 07:14 PM	#365
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	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. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

10-29-2002, 04:03 AM	#366
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	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? __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

10-29-2002, 04:48 PM	#368
Radagast The Brown Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Israel Posts: 6,975	I read Maloria (Edings) and another fantasy book. I can't remember its name, of its writer. I'll edit them next. __________________ Lalala... poof! AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

11-02-2002, 09:20 AM	#370
Radagast The Brown Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Israel Posts: 6,975	cee2lee2, did you already try to read The Sil and you failed? __________________ Lalala... poof! AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

10-28-2002, 01:52 AM	#362
Silverstripe Empress of the Writewraiths Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Running around somewhere inside my head. So what are YOU doing here?! Posts: 1,546	Jane Eyre, for the 12,747,543 time

11-01-2002, 09:50 PM	#369
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	The Silmarillion. Taking it nice and easy, and determined to get through it this time.

11-02-2002, 10:45 AM	#371
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	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.

11-05-2002, 01:27 AM	#372
Sylvee Estel Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Tennessee Posts: 115	I just finished reading A Rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniel. Very sad, I cried. __________________ ~Sylvee

11-05-2002, 11:20 PM	#374
Philia Enting Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 57	Shakespeare's A Midsummer nights eve __________________ Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. --Unknown What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. --Robert Louis Stevenson Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. --Unknown Love your enemies. It really pisses them off! --Unknown Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. --Jeanne Moreau, French Actress We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love. --Sigmund Freud

11-06-2002, 03:44 PM	#375
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Le Morte d'Arthur, by Thomas Malory. I've only just started it but I think I love it already... __________________ 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.

11-06-2002, 10:47 PM	#376
cassiopeia Viggoholic Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 1,749	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! __________________ Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

11-13-2002, 02:26 AM	#378
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	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. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

11-13-2002, 02:38 AM	#379
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	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. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

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