Reading any good books? - Page 32

Beren3000 · 08-03-2006, 05:18 PM

Finished Lord of the Flies yesterday. You people need to stop wasting your time with other books and READ THIS BOOK NOW!

***azalea*** · 08-03-2006, 07:57 PM

You might be interested in this , if you haven't already seen it.

Beren3000 · 08-04-2006, 05:05 AM

Wow! That really is interesting. Thanks a lot, azalea; you've provided me with reading material for a few days

Beren3000 · 08-05-2006, 11:46 AM

I just finished reading the Book Club thread. Wow, great insights there, azalea! Thanks again for pointing me to it.
It's a shame that you never got around to finishing it. Do you think we will get some response if we revive it?

Spock · 08-05-2006, 11:58 AM

Actually it's still an 'active thread' so all you need do is post in it. No more revivals, I can't take the music

Curubethion · 08-05-2006, 11:55 PM

Finished The Three Musketeers. Fun book, lots of action, and some really fun plot twists!

Beren3000 · 08-07-2006, 11:17 AM

Finished Carrie by Stephen King; good book (is the movie worth it, btw?) and I'll be starting a book that sounds v. interesting: How to Read a Book (think of the irony

)

Spock · 08-07-2006, 11:35 AM

The movie Carrie isn't too bad. They made "Firestarter and Firestarter 2"
with the Carrie fans in mind.

hectorberlioz · 08-07-2006, 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eärniel

So despite Hector's creative attempt

to guess my reading list, here's what I have been reading the last three weeks. I managed to read everything I had packed but one book on environmental debate.

The Serpent Gift - Lene Kaaberbol
The People of the Fire - Michael and Kathleen Gear
Badger's Moon - Peter Tremayne
The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit
East - Edith Pattou
Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
The Girl with the Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Le Morte Darthur - Sir Thomas Malory
The Alexander Roman - Patrick de Rynck
Lirael - Garth Nix
Abhorsen - Garth Nix
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
The Peoples of Middle-earth - C. Tolkien
Tales of Unease - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Natural History of Dragons and Unicorns - Paul and Karin Johnsgard
Power of Three - Dianne Wynne Jones

So I was wrong...but not THAT wrong

Alright, I congratulate you on the Doyle reading. It wasn't Sherlock though...hmm...rare

I finished Chesterton's Orthodoxy. Great book, and amazing reasoning this guy posessed at age 34! I'll have to re-read it one day.

***Earniel*** · 08-07-2006, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Alright, I congratulate you on the Doyle reading. It wasn't Sherlock though...hmm...rare

I have read those already. But I can really recommend his short stories too. Very creepy, and often very original too.

As for now, I have just finished Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. A real classic.

hectorberlioz · 08-07-2006, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eärniel

I have read those already. But I can really recommend his short stories too. Very creepy, and often very original too.

As for now, I have just finished Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. A real classic.

I think there's an opera on Le petit prince....can't remember who wrote it....

***Earniel*** · 08-07-2006, 06:22 PM

A play, that I remember. But an opera I do not recall.

Spock · 08-07-2006, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

I think there's an opera on Le petit prince....can't remember who wrote it....

An opera, The Little Prince, based on the book was composed by Rachel Portman. ...

Gwaimir Windgem · 08-07-2006, 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beren3000

Finished Lord of the Flies yesterday. You people need to stop wasting your time with other books and READ THIS BOOK NOW!

That's how I feel about Dorian Gray.

*waves a copy under the 'Moot's collective nose*

READ!!!

Curubethion · 08-08-2006, 12:05 AM

I'm going to be reading that for Brit Lit...will that count?

hectorberlioz · 08-08-2006, 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spock

An opera, The Little Prince, based on the book was composed by Rachel Portman. ...

Wow! Spock!...how did you find that one out?

Wiki?

hectorberlioz · 08-08-2006, 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

That's how I feel about Dorian Gray.

*waves a copy under the 'Moot's collective nose*

READ!!!

You need to give us a comprehensive reform talk on Mr Wilde, Gwai. I've seen bios that were pro-his faith, and others that completely denied it and made him out to basically be one of the cast of "Queer Eye".

Gwaimir Windgem · 08-08-2006, 09:31 PM

Comprehensive Reform Talk? What gibberish!

Yar, the bios do run the span.

*continues waving Dorian*

sun-star · 08-09-2006, 06:02 AM

Oh, I love Dorian Gray. There should really be an Oscar Wilde thread.

I'm reading the complete works of Shakespeare this summer. Unfortunately, P.G. Wodehouse has ruined Hamlet for me

Mercutio · 08-09-2006, 01:23 PM

What particularly? Did he write a humorous commentary on it or something?

Or do you just find yourself picking up Wodehouse when you really meant to plow through another Shakespeare play...(that would be me!).

_____
Actually, I had to read Dorian Gray & Lord of the Flies (and Pygmalion) for summer reading for a class.

08-05-2006, 11:58 AM	#625
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Actually it's still an 'active thread' so all you need do is post in it. No more revivals, I can't take the music __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

08-05-2006, 11:55 PM	#626
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Finished The Three Musketeers. Fun book, lots of action, and some really fun plot twists! __________________ 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)

08-07-2006, 11:35 AM	#628
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	The movie Carrie isn't too bad. They made "Firestarter and Firestarter 2" with the Carrie fans in mind. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

08-07-2006, 06:22 PM	#632
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	A play, that I remember. But an opera I do not recall. __________________ We are not things.

08-08-2006, 12:05 AM	#635
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	I'm going to be reading that for Brit Lit...will that count? __________________ 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)

08-03-2006, 05:18 PM	#621
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	Finished Lord of the Flies yesterday. You people need to stop wasting your time with other books and READ THIS BOOK NOW!

08-03-2006, 07:57 PM	#622
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	You might be interested in this , if you haven't already seen it.

08-04-2006, 05:05 AM	#623
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	Wow! That really is interesting. Thanks a lot, azalea; you've provided me with reading material for a few days

08-05-2006, 11:46 AM	#624
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	I just finished reading the Book Club thread. Wow, great insights there, azalea! Thanks again for pointing me to it. It's a shame that you never got around to finishing it. Do you think we will get some response if we revive it?

08-07-2006, 11:17 AM	#627
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	Finished Carrie by Stephen King; good book (is the movie worth it, btw?) and I'll be starting a book that sounds v. interesting: How to Read a Book (think of the irony )

08-08-2006, 09:31 PM	#638
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Comprehensive Reform Talk? What gibberish! Yar, the bios do run the span. continues waving Dorian __________________ 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

08-09-2006, 06:02 AM	#639
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Oh, I love Dorian Gray. There should really be an Oscar Wilde thread. I'm reading the complete works of Shakespeare this summer. Unfortunately, P.G. Wodehouse has ruined Hamlet for me __________________ 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.

08-09-2006, 01:23 PM	#640
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	What particularly? Did he write a humorous commentary on it or something? Or do you just find yourself picking up Wodehouse when you really meant to plow through another Shakespeare play...(that would be me!). _____ Actually, I had to read Dorian Gray & Lord of the Flies (and Pygmalion) for summer reading for a class. __________________ 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.

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