Reading any good books? - Page 30

Gwaimir Windgem · 06-22-2006, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Eärniel

Currently reading a non-fiction book (gasp!) called 'Drawing Animals'.

Does it involve pictorial representation of mobile organisms?

***Earniel*** · 06-23-2006, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Valandil

But - it was 1194 or 1195 or something. Ivanhoe in some ways was the "ideal" of that culture - and is on display as such to our own culture, isn't he?

Could be, still don't like 'im, though.

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Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

Does it involve pictorial representation of mobile organisms?

Possibly in a later chapter.

Mercutio · 06-23-2006, 12:04 PM

I must admit...

I read Bertie Wooster Sees it Through between Howards End and North & South.

I can't help myself!

Now I will read North & South

***Valandil*** · 06-24-2006, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Eärniel

... Personally I'll take Robin Hood over Ivanhoe any day.
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I'm sure that the man in green would be glad to hear it.

Spock · 06-24-2006, 11:33 PM

Now into "Red Rabbit" an early Jack Ryan book; good so far.

katya · 06-26-2006, 03:59 AM

Dream Buster! It`s a Miyabe Miyuki novel (series) about Dream Busters Shen and Maestro who save you from criminals from another dimension that hijack your consiousness by way of nightmares. It`s pretty good.

Beren3000 · 06-26-2006, 05:08 AM

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. But don't read it unless you've read or are planning to read her poems at some point.

Curubethion · 06-26-2006, 12:01 PM

I'm in the middle of High Rhulain, a good ol' Brian Jacques adventure. Not too bad, as Jacques goes. Next up on my list: The Count of Monte Cristo. That is one heck of a long book!

But then...I've read Wheel of Time all the way through Knife of Dreams, so who am I to talk about long books?

Pytt · 06-26-2006, 07:34 PM

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran-Foer. (Think I got his name right.) Extremely good read actually. It is very warm and funny. I like the pictures in it aswell.

hectorberlioz · 07-01-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Curubethion

I'm in the middle of High Rhulain, a good ol' Brian Jacques adventure. Not too bad, as Jacques goes. Next up on my list: The Count of Monte Cristo. That is one heck of a long book!

But then...I've read Wheel of Time all the way through Knife of Dreams, so who am I to talk about long books?

I'll have to read High Rhulain...after I get to reading Rakkety Tam

I'm reading Arthur Rubinstein's Autobio Vol.I
It's not profane or anything, but it is SHOCKING!

I really can't describe the stuff that goes on...

***Earniel*** · 07-01-2006, 12:25 PM

I've just packed my books for the holidays. 17 books for 28 days, if I'd take more I'd return with unread books which is a bit of a waste. One reading marathon coming up. I love it!

Currently reading 'Going Postal' by Terry Pratchett, well, just started reading actually.

hectorberlioz · 07-01-2006, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Eärniel

I've just packed my books for the holidays. 17 books for 28 days, if I'd take more I'd return with unread books which is a bit of a waste. One reading marathon coming up. I love it!

Currently reading 'Going Postal' by Terry Pratchett, well, just started reading actually.

Hector takes a look at Earniel's reading

1) Kid's cardboard book called "On the Farm", edited by Al Gore. (3 pages)

Wow, Al really edits a lot of stuff

2) The Berenstein bears go to Tahiti (61 pages)

better than the farm book, Earniel...but still.

3) Madonna's kiddie book. (45 pages)

Sheesh!

4) Bono's kiddie book (45 pages)

Guacamole!

5) War and Peace....edited by Al Gore (2 pages)

another cardboard?

6) A Hitchhiker's guide to the Universe...edited by...Al Gore! (3 pages)

Prolific!

7) Pitter, Patter. BY James Pitterson (200 pages)

A Belgian imitator?

8) A Hitchiker's Guide to Belgium (4 pages)

You know Earniel...if you're LEAVING Belgium, shouldn't you be taking a book about the place you're going?

9) Stock-Breaking, by Geoge Soros. (666 pages)

Isn't he under arrest if he goes to France?

10) How the Cow Jumped to the Moon Using Metaphysics and Relativity (300,016,789,242,653,636 pages)

That at least has an interesting title.

11) The Jumblies of the Wild (1001 pgs)

British for sure...

12) Madonna's scrapbook (13 pages)

13) Beethoven's Life...is for Idiots (4 pages)

Now this....Heeeeeeyy

14) Mad Cow Disease in Belgium (500 pages)

At least useful

15) The Yogi and Yogi Bear go to Yellowstone (14 pages)

what the...did John Lennon write that?

16) Yoko Ono's Grand Day Out (60 pages)

hmmm.....

17) The Lord of the Rings, JRRT

Nice...but what's this?....Edited by....Al Gore

three pages, one for each volume.

***Earniel*** · 07-01-2006, 01:53 PM

So Hector, did the new glasses arrive yet? It sounds like your current pair needs some readjusting.

I'll post my real list of books when I get back because I will have read them then. And then I will kick your butt, point and laugh at you.

Curubethion · 07-02-2006, 05:17 PM

I need to get some of those books.

I've just finished The Count of Monte Cristo. It seemed to slow up at parts, but the climax and end were amazing. I was watching with an almost horrified fascination at the action.

Mercutio · 07-03-2006, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercutio

I must admit...

I read Bertie Wooster Sees it Through between Howards End and North & South.

I can't help myself!

Now I will read North & South

I have since finished (and enjoyed) North & South and am again reading Wodehouse--this time The Butler Did It.

hectorberlioz · 07-03-2006, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eärniel

So Hector, did the new glasses arrive yet? It sounds like your current pair needs some readjusting.

I'll post my real list of books when I get back because I will have read them then. And then I will kick your butt, point and laugh at you.

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Hector takes a look at Earniel's reading

7) Pitter, Patter. BY James Pitterson (200 pages)

A Belgian imitator?

Even you Earniel, have to admit, that the James Pitterson one sounds real

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Originally Posted by Curubethion

I need to get some of those books.

Check out the George Soros one, very revealing

Pytt · 07-19-2006, 02:47 PM

Lately, I have read quite alot of books. It is nothing compared to Earniel, really.

The trilogy about Arn, written by Jan Guilluo. Very good read. Entertaining, and fun to read. I learned something about the medieval, and the war in the Holy Land.

Do Androids Dream about Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick. I read it one night, taking the train to Trondheim from Oslo, and I dunno if I got the point completley. But I liked it, and think I have to read some more sci-fi-novels.

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre. What a pile of **** the pharmasy-buisness is. A good and thrilling book.

And I began reading Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I like it, this far.

Beren3000 · 07-20-2006, 04:33 AM

Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier: interesting, innovative and colorful!

EDIT: I just finished it yesterday. AWESOME BOOK! Really worth a read, you guys.

Gwaimir Windgem · 07-24-2006, 09:18 PM

Currently reading the Aeneid, Wilde's plays, Blessings in Disguise (Alec Guiness' memoirs), Literary Converts by Joseph Pearce and...something else, I'm sure, but I can't recall what, exactly. Oh, the Kalevala!

Grey_Wolf · 07-25-2006, 04:30 AM

Ive just begun Harry T's World War part V: Colonisation: Second Contact.

06-23-2006, 12:04 PM	#583
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	I must admit... I read Bertie Wooster Sees it Through between Howards End and North & South. I can't help myself! Now I will read North & South __________________ 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.

06-24-2006, 11:33 PM	#585
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Now into "Red Rabbit" an early Jack Ryan book; good so far. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

06-26-2006, 12:01 PM	#588
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	I'm in the middle of High Rhulain, a good ol' Brian Jacques adventure. Not too bad, as Jacques goes. Next up on my list: The Count of Monte Cristo. That is one heck of a long book! But then...I've read Wheel of Time all the way through Knife of Dreams, so who am I to talk about long books? __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

06-26-2006, 07:34 PM	#589
Pytt The Supreme Lord of The Northern Eagles Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: trondheim, norway Posts: 1,388	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran-Foer. (Think I got his name right.) Extremely good read actually. It is very warm and funny. I like the pictures in it aswell. __________________ Don't Panic!

07-01-2006, 12:25 PM	#591
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	I've just packed my books for the holidays. 17 books for 28 days, if I'd take more I'd return with unread books which is a bit of a waste. One reading marathon coming up. I love it! Currently reading 'Going Postal' by Terry Pratchett, well, just started reading actually. __________________ We are not things.

06-26-2006, 03:59 AM	#586
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	Dream Buster! It`s a Miyabe Miyuki novel (series) about Dream Busters Shen and Maestro who save you from criminals from another dimension that hijack your consiousness by way of nightmares. It`s pretty good.

06-26-2006, 05:08 AM	#587
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. But don't read it unless you've read or are planning to read her poems at some point.

07-01-2006, 01:53 PM	#593
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	So Hector, did the new glasses arrive yet? It sounds like your current pair needs some readjusting. I'll post my real list of books when I get back because I will have read them then. And then I will kick your butt, point and laugh at you. __________________ We are not things.

07-02-2006, 05:17 PM	#594
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	I need to get some of those books. I've just finished The Count of Monte Cristo. It seemed to slow up at parts, but the climax and end were amazing. I was watching with an almost horrified fascination at the action. __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

07-19-2006, 02:47 PM	#597
Pytt The Supreme Lord of The Northern Eagles Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: trondheim, norway Posts: 1,388	Lately, I have read quite alot of books. It is nothing compared to Earniel, really. The trilogy about Arn, written by Jan Guilluo. Very good read. Entertaining, and fun to read. I learned something about the medieval, and the war in the Holy Land. Do Androids Dream about Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick. I read it one night, taking the train to Trondheim from Oslo, and I dunno if I got the point completley. But I liked it, and think I have to read some more sci-fi-novels. The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre. What a pile of **** the pharmasy-buisness is. A good and thrilling book. And I began reading Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I like it, this far. __________________ Don't Panic!

07-20-2006, 04:33 AM	#598
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier: interesting, innovative and colorful! EDIT: I just finished it yesterday. AWESOME BOOK! Really worth a read, you guys. Last edited by Beren3000 : 07-21-2006 at 04:06 AM.

07-24-2006, 09:18 PM	#599
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Currently reading the Aeneid, Wilde's plays, Blessings in Disguise (Alec Guiness' memoirs), Literary Converts by Joseph Pearce and...something else, I'm sure, but I can't recall what, exactly. Oh, the Kalevala! __________________ 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

07-25-2006, 04:30 AM	#600
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Ive just begun Harry T's World War part V: Colonisation: Second Contact.

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