11-30-2004, 01:35 AM | #61 |
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I'm reading the "Tol"s!
haha! ahem... anyway... I'm always reading something Tolkien... actually, rereading would be the better term, so forget about that... Right now, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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11-30-2004, 01:41 AM | #62 | |
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um... sorry... this is from the why you believe what you believe thread, in case anyone gets confused about random shifts in conversation...
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Anyway... Don Quixote. I tried reading it about 2 years ago, but I was having too much trouble with the dictionary in the back of the book. I have to brush up on my Spanish.
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11-30-2004, 05:06 AM | #63 | |
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11-30-2004, 08:22 AM | #64 | |
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My quote is Gerard Manley Hopkins, my new favourite poet. Definitely recommended to everyone
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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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11-30-2004, 01:12 PM | #65 |
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whoops, it's "Glaston", not "Glouster" - sorry!
I highly recommend it. The version I have is a rewrite (to update the language) but the guy seems to have a huge appreciation and understanding of MacDonald, and from what I've read of MacDonald in his original writing, it seems to be spot on. It's about a curate who is asked by an atheist one day if he really believes all that "humbug" about religion. The curate is an honest fellow, and actually thinks about the question ...
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12-01-2004, 04:18 PM | #66 |
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Currently reading Magic, the final fantasy collection by Isaac Asimov. Rather interesting, even if half of the book are essays.
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12-01-2004, 06:54 PM | #67 |
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Beowulf (for English Lit., we just started)
Bro. K (for Novel class-- around Zosima's death...wait, did I give something away? And they just set up the murder) ABC Murders (by Agatha Christie, for Lit. paper)
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12-01-2004, 07:07 PM | #68 |
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Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
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12-02-2004, 02:13 PM | #69 |
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Inkheart. Interesting. Good characters. There's something wanting, though. I guess it's because I already expected it to be fantasy, I find it a little hard to picture it actually set in our world.
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12-09-2004, 03:30 PM | #71 |
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I just finished Lay of Lethian - stunning, it's brilliand! Starting with Lay of the Children of Hurin, but I am distracted from my reading cause I just started playing my first role playing game (Icewind dale) and it is so much fun, it's taking all of my time
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12-09-2004, 03:39 PM | #72 |
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Currently, I'm reading Jaaka Ruus, the newest Shanarra book by Terry Brooks, I hope I'm not mispelling that, and then I'll probably return to The Dragonriders of Pern, by Anne McCaffery. Oh, and I also read alot of manga, Japanese comic books, such as Inuyasha, DBZ and Fushigi Yuugi and Demon Diaries. Japanese comics rock!!!
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12-09-2004, 03:45 PM | #73 |
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I can tell that just by looking at your Avatar
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12-09-2004, 04:15 PM | #74 |
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Right now I'm reading The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follet. realy intriguing book!
and besides I'm reading Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan. and i think I read a book by the norwegian author Erlend Loe.
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12-10-2004, 12:41 AM | #75 |
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*raises eyebrow*
You think? I'm presently reading... nothing! Most remedy that... *grabs copy of The Lays of Beleriand sitting next to her*
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12-10-2004, 03:31 AM | #76 |
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I'm in a bookclub, it means I always have something to read....til I finish it that is. Right now I just finished Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and am working on Fifth Business by Robertson Davies. I'm afraid I'm not intelligent enough to understand HoD though...I found it quite, undecipherable.
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12-10-2004, 04:21 AM | #77 |
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I'm currently reading A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking. Very interesting read so far!
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12-10-2004, 01:00 PM | #78 |
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Beren3000,
Did you get the philosophy of LOTR and HP books? Had a chance to read them? What do you think of them?
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bj:
Thanks for the link, I'll keep it in mind. inked: As a matter of fact, I did. I posted about that earlier in the "Books just acquired" thread. However, I still have to finish with Stephen Hawking before starting on them. When I get around to reading them, I will give you feedback! |
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