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Yes - I consider "Western" to be from what is now about the western US, with "Leatherstocking Tales" (all of which I read some years back) to be more "Frontier". If that makes sense to others. Have only read one Zane Grey book, and that was way long ago!!!
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05-05-2010, 10:01 AM | #2 |
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I'm reading a book called the Shadow of the King.
It takes place in Anglo-Saxon England, and it is very good so far.
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05-29-2010, 10:34 AM | #3 |
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I'm re-reading The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart. It was my favorite book in 6th or 7th grade, or whenever I read it. It's about the childhood of Merlin, and the later books are about Arthur.
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05-31-2010, 08:08 PM | #4 | |
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The last two go pretty well downhill though.
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05-31-2010, 08:55 PM | #5 |
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That's too bad. I was thinking maybe this time I'll read the others (the first time I started The Hollow Hills but didn't finish it). Who knows, maybe I'll like them better than you did though.
Things sure have changed since I read The Crystal Cave the last time. I remember spending literally hours on my WebTV trying to figure out what the sign against the evil eye was all about. Now it's all right there on wikipedia. I kind of miss being young and caring so much about things like that, though. Not the internet, things in books. |
06-02-2010, 12:53 AM | #6 |
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Well, your mileage may differ- #3, The Last Enchantment, is okay- just a big step down from the first two.
I remember watching the latest King Arthur movie and wondering why someone didn't make a movie of these two. Hollywood suits, I guess: "Hey, that Gladiator was a big hit- what's some other old stuff we can do?" First you start with a story....
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05-29-2010, 11:04 AM | #7 |
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard The Christian Imagination Leeland Ryken And always on my desk: On Faerie Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien
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07-19-2010, 04:41 AM | #8 |
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Dostoyevsky is well worth reading, although his works are certainly not chirpy and light-hearted! But I think that the subjects for the wall murals were not a great choice ...
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10-12-2010, 01:29 PM | #9 |
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Just finished up a re-read of LOTR, and while starting into the appendices, picked up some Dickens books. Have gone about 5-6 chapters into Little Dorrit. Also picked up Bleak House and Tale of Two Cities.
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10-12-2010, 08:41 PM | #10 |
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I also loved A Tale of Two Cities! It is pretty descriptive, but it's very well written and has a captivating plot. A very enjoyable way to study the French Revolution!
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11-16-2010, 01:52 AM | #11 |
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I liked Little Dorrit. After it, I quickly read The Good Shepherd by CS Forester. He wrote the Horatio Hornblower series. This one is about a WW2 destroyer captain, fending off German U-boats while escorting a convoy.
I've just started Tale of Two Cities.
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12-02-2010, 03:24 AM | #12 |
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Yes I did, I'm reading right now is "The Fellowship of the Ring"*...(I'm reading it again.)
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10-12-2010, 07:33 PM | #13 |
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I wasn't wild about Little Dorrit, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE Bleak House and Tale of Two Cities. BH starts a bit slow, but just remember that Dickens was often paid by the word, and feel free to skip over some of his long, descriptive sections that must have happened because of unexpected bills
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01-07-2011, 04:00 PM | #14 |
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After finishing my tolkien collection, including History of Middle Earth, I started reading books from an American author called Brendan Dubois. Some of his stuff is old but he is still writing new books. A very good bit of light reading
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01-09-2011, 05:24 PM | #15 |
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I'm reading "The Hobbit" right now. After that I will read "The Voyage of the Dawn Threader by C.S. Lewis".
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02-12-2011, 09:55 PM | #16 |
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I am a huge fan of John Irving, especially "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and his latest (I believe), "Last Night in Twisted River"
Fantastic author, two incredible books that I could read over and over again.
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I just finished Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother which was interesting and got me to write a "tiger daughter" list of things to do everyday (like brush my teeth, I know, high standards I have for myself).
Then I read The Winter of our Disconnect about a family that goes "screen-free" for 6 months which was kind of interesting, kind of interesting also because the family reminded me of my own family. Might try to cut down on my aimless internet surfing that I find so very spiritually draining. Read a chapter and a half of a book called "War is a Force that Gives us Meaning", which is interesting but not a very enjoyable read in a way (the writing itself). Interesting ideas though. Before that I finished "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre, which I liked quite a bit. But I was totally having an existential crisis which I'm largely "over" now. I've been reading at a pace of more than a book a week. I have an insatiable thirst for knowledge all of the sudden. (Last couple years have been about 25 books a year.) Been leaning heavily toward non-fiction.
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My recent favorite read was "The Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. It's a book about survival and spirituality, humorous and sad, that can be read and interpreted on many levels. It's great book to discuss. Also, like JRRT, Martel shows a deep appreciation for the natural world: "I am not one given to projecting human traits and emotions onto animals, but many a time during that month in Brazil, looking up at sloths in repose, I felt I was in the presence of upside-down yogis deep in meditation or hermits deep in prayer, wise beings whose intense imaginative lives were beyond the reach of my scientific probing."
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Being turned into a movie by Ang Lee, currently being filmed here in Taiwan
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The story would make a good movie, but much of his spiritual journeys would be lost. I found that theme the most compelling.
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