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Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!!
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Through the glass darkly,
Its a novel about a girl with an illness that she knows will kill her, she is in bed at christmas, and how this angel comes and talks to her about death. |
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03-20-2003, 10:32 AM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Over the river and through the woods.
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I'm reading, " Companions of the Night". It's about a girl whose little brother asks her to go get his teddy bear that he left at the laundromat. (of course this is at 11 o'clock at night) She can't stand to see him cry so she goes, when she gets it, three guys come in dragging a gagged guy who is bleeding through his leg. Then they take her prisoner while they beat the other guy to death. I havn't gotten to this part yet but the summary says it's about murder and vampires.
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03-22-2003, 11:48 AM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden
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Have begun reading Harry Turtledove's WW: Striking the Balance and KSR's Blue Mars. Am halfway through Edward Rutherfurd's Sarum (with the intent of reading London and The Forest). Am also reading Arthur Hailey's The Final Diagnosis.
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03-25-2003, 03:33 PM
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Sapling
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: far away
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hi!
im reading "Gone with the Wind" totally boring... but I read Paolo Coelho's "The Alquimist" and "The Fifth Mountain" and I thougth they were really good... oh anyway i read the hobbit but i dont have the LotR although i'd like to read them...  |
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03-25-2003, 04:40 PM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi
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I was on a bing of serious adult books, but now I'm vagly depressed so I'm rereading my trixie belden and every other childrens book I can get my hands on. (ps: Does any one know when the next of Bruce Coville's into the Land of the Unicornbooks is supposed to come out?)
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03-25-2003, 11:57 PM
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Fowl Administrator
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada
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I started The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
So much literature in the world to read, so little time.
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03-26-2003, 03:56 AM
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Greatest Elven woman of Aman
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7
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Currently reading 'What I loved' by Siri Hustvedt. So far it's full of references to artwork that I don't know of
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03-26-2003, 04:02 AM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA
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03-26-2003, 04:21 AM
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Viggoholic
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Australia
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I finally got Dune from the library! It's...weird. Something about Gom Jabbers and a crysknife (did I spell that right?) I've only read fifty pages. I'm sure I'll get into it soon. It freaked me out when I saw it had appendices.
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03-26-2003, 06:14 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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03-26-2003, 05:16 PM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
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03-27-2003, 08:16 AM
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An enigma in a conundrum
Join Date: Oct 1999
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DUNE???
ISN'T "dune" sci-fi" and isn't this in the wrong forum.?
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03-27-2003, 07:10 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill
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About 150 pages from the end of Dune. It does get much stranger. You think gom jabbars and crysknifes are strange?  I think I'm missing a lot of things though, it can be confusing, but I love it. I'm flying through it, considering how busy I am.
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03-27-2003, 07:18 PM
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The Buddy Rabbit
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Trapped in the headlights..
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Currently reading 'Before I Say Goodbye' by Ruth Picardie (subtitled 'The Bottom Line is, I'm Dying')
It's the letters, emails and journal extracts from the author, she died of cancer in 1997. Grim stuff, but ya gotta read a bit of grim 'real life' stuff now and again.......at least I think I need to. EDIT: The link contains extracts which have a couple of swear words in 'em, don't hit it if yer the sensitive type Last edited by Coney : 03-27-2003 at 07:32 PM. |
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03-27-2003, 10:29 PM
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the dumb stoner canuck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: canada
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a midsummers night dream by shakespeare
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03-28-2003, 02:17 PM
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Enting
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Finland
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I´m re-reading Terry Pratchett´s "Witches Abroad", which is a great book - very clever and humorous.
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03-28-2003, 02:19 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England
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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. |
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03-28-2003, 05:42 PM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Somewhere out there
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Re: DUNE???
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Dune was originally a book series, before it was made into movies. I've never read it, but I suppose I should since it comes highly recommended on the 'Moot. I'm reading Anne Perry's Face of a Stranger, which is the first in the William Monk series. It's pretty good so far.
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03-28-2003, 08:28 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill
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I finished Dune. Wow. Not what I expected. I loved it and it is definitely worthy enough of being bought (I TRY not to buy many books, I'm a library person). I'm just getting through the appendices now, and I'm going to start The Count of Monte Cristo next.
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03-29-2003, 10:45 PM
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Down the road on your left...No your other left.
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Have just finished Wolf Tower and cannot wait to go back to library to get Wolf Star.
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