Reading any good books? - Page 28

hectorberlioz · 02-08-2006, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Spock

I've just finished "Tony and Me" by Jack Klugman.

It's a great, easy read and gives insight into two guys who made many of us laugh. A bonus was that the book came with a DVD of out-takes from the 'odd couple' tv show....hil air e ous ..........

Take time to check this one out of your local library should it appear on the shelf.

I never watched The Odd Couple. Is it good?

Spock · 02-09-2006, 09:05 AM

The book deals with the intra-personal relationship between the two actors. The television show is hilarious, IMO and millions of others over here.

Falagar · 02-12-2006, 02:45 PM

Just finished The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, a brilliant and strangely relevant read (one of the main themes is religious conflict, the plot is set in a country very similar to Spain under the Chaliphate in Cordoba in the medival age). I must admit Kay surprised me, Tigrana was nice but far from as good as this one.

Pytt · 02-14-2006, 03:19 PM

Reading volume 4 in Song of Ice and Fire, A Feast for Crows. Just started, but if it has any resemblance to the previous books, I will enjoy it immensly.

I also read Neil Gaiman "Anansi Boys". Very cool book, maybe not as deep or big as American Gods, or as strange and fascinating as Neverwhere, but a good read.

Falagar · 02-14-2006, 06:09 PM

Currently reading The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker, the second bokk in his The Prince of Nothin-triology. While not quite as good as Martin (IMO) it's definitely worth it.

**crickhollow** · 02-18-2006, 07:13 PM

Currently in the middle of "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander" by Thomas Merton. Lots of good stuff in this book, though I can see why the US government kept an eye on this guy. He didn't have very many good things to say about them.

Last Child of Ungoliant · 02-18-2006, 07:15 PM

i am currently reading a book called 'the silmarillion', it is by a little know author called JRR TOLKIEN

Grey_Wolf · 02-19-2006, 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

i am currently reading a book called 'the silmarillion', it is by a little know author called JRR TOLKIEN

Tolkien, never heard of him. Is he famous?

littleadanel · 02-23-2006, 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf

Tolkien, never heard of him. Is he famous?

I guess so, right now I'm reading another one of his, Book of Lost Tales or something

sun-star · 03-13-2006, 04:23 PM

I'm reading Evelina by Fanny Burney. C18th forerunner of Jane Austen, not read as much as she should be... it's a great novel, highly recommended

Snowdog · 03-27-2006, 01:06 PM

Reading Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler & Robert Parker.

Grey_Wolf · 03-27-2006, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by littleadanel

I guess so, right now I'm reading another one of his, Book of Lost Tales or something

Goodie. I must really try to get hold of one his books.

Mercutio · 03-27-2006, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sun-star

I'm reading Evelina by Fanny Burney. C18th forerunner of Jane Austen, not read as much as she should be... it's a great novel, highly recommended

It is added to my summer list

Pytt · 03-28-2006, 08:13 AM

Reading Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. Cool, funny and quite weird book, about a hacker somewhere in the distant future, but it will make you think about the world and whats wrong and stuff.

Thain Peregrin Took I · 04-01-2006, 11:20 PM

Well, right now I'm starting to read Jane Eyre. I haven't read much yet, but it's good so far.
I am also reading Ivanhoe, which I have been reading for a long time. It's a pretty good book, it just taking me a really long time to read.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-02-2006, 08:14 PM

I read Brideshead Revisited recently; REALLY good book. I'm about to start Lewis' Hideous Strength; there are supposed to be voluntary seminars on both, which I signed up for.

I'm also reading the Republic; that wacky Socrates!

Also read recently the Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha.

*the moth attains Enlightenment*

Mercutio · 04-02-2006, 10:03 PM

Bleak House

Spock · 04-03-2006, 10:34 AM

Well, I'm reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (again) so I can compare it to the DVD I recently received. At the same time, when I get tired of HP, I'm reading "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". What a brain challenge that one is.

brownjenkins · 04-03-2006, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Mercutio

Bleak House

good book! I read that a few months back.

littleadanel · 04-04-2006, 02:00 AM

We had to read a short story of I. B. Singer for the literature seminar, so I borrowed a collection of his short stories from the library... and got stuck with it. Won't return it until I read the whole book. Great writings.

02-09-2006, 09:05 AM	#542
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	The book deals with the intra-personal relationship between the two actors. The television show is hilarious, IMO and millions of others over here. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

02-12-2006, 02:45 PM	#543
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Just finished The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, a brilliant and strangely relevant read (one of the main themes is religious conflict, the plot is set in a country very similar to Spain under the Chaliphate in Cordoba in the medival age). I must admit Kay surprised me, Tigrana was nice but far from as good as this one. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle. Last edited by Falagar : 02-12-2006 at 02:51 PM.

02-14-2006, 03:19 PM	#544
Pytt The Supreme Lord of The Northern Eagles Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: trondheim, norway Posts: 1,388	Reading volume 4 in Song of Ice and Fire, A Feast for Crows. Just started, but if it has any resemblance to the previous books, I will enjoy it immensly. I also read Neil Gaiman "Anansi Boys". Very cool book, maybe not as deep or big as American Gods, or as strange and fascinating as Neverwhere, but a good read. __________________ Don't Panic!

02-14-2006, 06:09 PM	#545
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Currently reading The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker, the second bokk in his The Prince of Nothin-triology. While not quite as good as Martin (IMO) it's definitely worth it. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

02-18-2006, 07:13 PM	#546
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	Currently in the middle of "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander" by Thomas Merton. Lots of good stuff in this book, though I can see why the US government kept an eye on this guy. He didn't have very many good things to say about them. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

02-18-2006, 07:15 PM	#547
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	i am currently reading a book called 'the silmarillion', it is by a little know author called JRR TOLKIEN

03-13-2006, 04:23 PM	#550
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I'm reading Evelina by Fanny Burney. C18th forerunner of Jane Austen, not read as much as she should be... it's a great novel, highly recommended __________________ 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.

03-27-2006, 01:06 PM	#551
Snowdog Dúnedain Ranger of the North Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: The Ruins of Arnor Posts: 892	Reading Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler & Robert Parker. __________________ "I am an outlaw, I was born an outlaw's son. The highway is my legacy, on the highway I will run."

03-28-2006, 08:13 AM	#554
Pytt The Supreme Lord of The Northern Eagles Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: trondheim, norway Posts: 1,388	Reading Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. Cool, funny and quite weird book, about a hacker somewhere in the distant future, but it will make you think about the world and whats wrong and stuff. __________________ Don't Panic!

04-01-2006, 11:20 PM	#555
Thain Peregrin Took I Thain of Randomness Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Most likely being completely random... Posts: 971	Well, right now I'm starting to read Jane Eyre. I haven't read much yet, but it's good so far. I am also reading Ivanhoe, which I have been reading for a long time. It's a pretty good book, it just taking me a really long time to read. __________________ Here we were trying to take Rommel, when who do we kidnap but Admiral Todley himself. What? Hahahaha. That wasn't the plan you know. - Col. Crittendon Monk: I'm 100% sure that she probably killed him. Stottlemeyer: What does that mean? Monk: 95%... I feel like Pepé Le Pew when he look up "pew" in the dictionary. French accent Le pew? Moi? Noo. -Shawn Spencer British accent It's a bobble head Bobbie! head bob -Special Agen Seely Booth

04-02-2006, 08:14 PM	#556
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I read Brideshead Revisited recently; REALLY good book. I'm about to start Lewis' Hideous Strength; there are supposed to be voluntary seminars on both, which I signed up for. I'm also reading the Republic; that wacky Socrates! Also read recently the Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha. the moth attains Enlightenment __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-02-2006, 10:03 PM	#557
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Bleak House __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

04-03-2006, 10:34 AM	#558
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Well, I'm reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (again) so I can compare it to the DVD I recently received. At the same time, when I get tired of HP, I'm reading "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". What a brain challenge that one is. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Last edited by Spock : 04-03-2006 at 03:21 PM. Reason: oops

04-04-2006, 02:00 AM	#560
littleadanel of the House of Bëor Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Eastwards. Posts: 979	We had to read a short story of I. B. Singer for the literature seminar, so I borrowed a collection of his short stories from the library... and got stuck with it. Won't return it until I read the whole book. Great writings. __________________ I'm good in bed - I can sleep for days

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