Reading any good books? - Page 42

***Rían*** · 04-03-2007, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Curubethion

And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie. Brilliant story! And the end totally threw me for a loop! It's also very interesting to re-read after you know who the killer is...

Agatha Christie is just plain fun and relaxing. Kind of candy literature

I have most of her books and have enjoyed relaxing with them many times.

One of her best surprise ending books is "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd".

Prince Myshkin · 04-07-2007, 01:04 PM

I just got finished with a little Dostoyevsky myself. I just finished The Idiot... Wow... That was an amazing book. I couldn't put it down. So I had to be careful not to pick it up just before I had a paper due

I Just started reading Reality Isn' What It Used To Be, I'm not very far in, but it's really interesting so far.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-09-2007, 04:09 PM

Just finished Rice's Queen of the Damned, and am now polishing off Joseph Pearce's The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-10-2007, 11:02 PM

Finished that; now reading Memoirs of Hadrian. I quite like it so far.

hectorberlioz · 04-10-2007, 11:09 PM

The only free time reading I've been doing has been...quite harmless. Nothing extraordinary.

I have nearly gotten through ALL the Hank the Cowdog series

. Quite good reading, I MUST say

. It's not Dostoyevsky...but do I have time to read Dostoyevsky during school? No.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-11-2007, 06:34 PM

I have time to read Yourcenar, don't I? You can manage it!

Rosie Gamgee · 04-12-2007, 12:36 PM

Currently reading The Prestige, by Christopher Priest. Very good. I saw the film, which was excellent, and thought I'd read the book. Very good so far, I've been reading it for two days and am already half-way through. Interesting mode of telling the story, and differs enough from the movie to give a few surprises and mysteries. I'd recommend it.

Rosie Gamgee · 04-16-2007, 01:28 PM

A follow-up on The Prestige. I'm very glad that the movie-makers decided to change the ending, for if they had made the ending in the book, you would have left the cinema completely disappointed. After about the mid-way point in the book there are no more surprises (well, one; but it is so unrealistic that it doesn't really register as a surprise), and the ending peters out without impression.
Still, it's a very interesting read, especially if you've seen the film.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-16-2007, 11:29 PM

Starting reading Anne Rice's Call to Heaven, but it ended up being basically homoerotic porn. Shame, the story was pretty interesting.

elffreak24 · 04-17-2007, 09:19 AM

I'm reading any Frank Perretti books and some books by Melody Carlson. Also like the Redwall series.

Ireth · 05-01-2007, 12:25 PM

I'm currently reading Dale Brown's 'Battle Born' Right now. Interesting.

Curubethion · 05-01-2007, 11:46 PM

Frank Herbert's Dune. Oh, yeah. THE Dune. And it's not too bad. I'm about a third of the way through, and I like what I'm seeing. Not quite what I expected, but it's really cool. It reminds me of the plotting of GRR Martin.

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-02-2007, 01:34 AM

*waits in ambush for BoP*

BeardofPants · 05-02-2007, 01:47 AM

<_< I don't know what yer talking aboot.

....

EVERYONE MUST READ DUNE. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-02-2007, 01:35 PM

*pantses Shee*

Har, har!

elffreak24 · 05-12-2007, 01:23 PM

I have been reading the Chronicles of Prydain series. And lots of books by Avi.

inked · 05-12-2007, 02:04 PM

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

Quite a challenge for the form and redaction critics, I must say!

http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Eyewitne...8992955&sr=8-1

cee2lee2 · 05-13-2007, 10:02 AM

I've just started reading the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and if I enjoy the rest of the book as I've done so far, I'll be seeking out the others in the series.

cee2lee2 · 05-13-2007, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by inked

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

Quite a challenge for the form and redaction critics, I must say!

http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Eyewitne...8992955&sr=8-1

Followed your link and it looks interesting. I've often wondered about our modern bias against memory and the accuracy of oral tradition.

tolkienfan · 05-13-2007, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by cee2lee2

I've just started reading the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and if I enjoy the rest of the book as I've done so far, I'll be seeking out the others in the series.

Ah, I've read the first 4 of those. I thought they were pretty good. I liked the 3rd one the best.

04-07-2007, 01:04 PM	#822
Prince Myshkin Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 112	I have to say, I just got finished with a little Dostoyevsky myself. I just finished The Idiot... Wow... That was an amazing book. I couldn't put it down. So I had to be careful not to pick it up just before I had a paper due I Just started reading Reality Isn' What It Used To Be, I'm not very far in, but it's really interesting so far.

04-09-2007, 04:09 PM	#823
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Just finished Rice's Queen of the Damned, and am now polishing off Joseph Pearce's The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde. __________________ 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

04-10-2007, 11:02 PM	#824
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Finished that; now reading Memoirs of Hadrian. I quite like it so far. __________________ 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

04-10-2007, 11:09 PM	#825
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	The only free time reading I've been doing has been...quite harmless. Nothing extraordinary. I have nearly gotten through ALL the Hank the Cowdog series. Quite good reading, I MUST say. It's not Dostoyevsky...but do I have time to read Dostoyevsky during school? No. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

04-11-2007, 06:34 PM	#826
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I have time to read Yourcenar, don't I? You can manage it! __________________ 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

04-12-2007, 12:36 PM	#827
Rosie Gamgee The Lovely Hobbit-Lass Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bounded in a nut-shell Posts: 1,593	Currently reading The Prestige, by Christopher Priest. Very good. I saw the film, which was excellent, and thought I'd read the book. Very good so far, I've been reading it for two days and am already half-way through. Interesting mode of telling the story, and differs enough from the movie to give a few surprises and mysteries. I'd recommend it. __________________ It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year!

04-16-2007, 01:28 PM	#828
Rosie Gamgee The Lovely Hobbit-Lass Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bounded in a nut-shell Posts: 1,593	A follow-up on The Prestige. I'm very glad that the movie-makers decided to change the ending, for if they had made the ending in the book, you would have left the cinema completely disappointed. After about the mid-way point in the book there are no more surprises (well, one; but it is so unrealistic that it doesn't really register as a surprise), and the ending peters out without impression. Still, it's a very interesting read, especially if you've seen the film. __________________ It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year!

04-16-2007, 11:29 PM	#829
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Starting reading Anne Rice's Call to Heaven, but it ended up being basically homoerotic porn. Shame, the story was pretty interesting. __________________ 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

04-17-2007, 09:19 AM	#830
elffreak24 Sapling Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NC Posts: 8	I'm reading any Frank Perretti books and some books by Melody Carlson. Also like the Redwall series.

05-01-2007, 12:25 PM	#831
Ireth Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2006 Location: India Posts: 193	I'm currently reading Dale Brown's 'Battle Born' Right now. Interesting. __________________ The sun be warm and kind to you. The darkest night a star shines through. The dullest morn a radiance brew. And where dusk comes, God's hand to you.

05-01-2007, 11:46 PM	#832
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Frank Herbert's Dune. Oh, yeah. THE Dune. And it's not too bad. I'm about a third of the way through, and I like what I'm seeing. Not quite what I expected, but it's really cool. It reminds me of the plotting of GRR Martin. __________________ 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)

05-02-2007, 01:34 AM	#833
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	waits in ambush for BoP __________________ 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

05-02-2007, 01:47 AM	#834
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	<_< I don't know what yer talking aboot. .... EVERYONE MUST READ DUNE. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

05-02-2007, 01:35 PM	#835
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	pantses Shee Har, har! __________________ 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

05-12-2007, 01:23 PM	#836
elffreak24 Sapling Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NC Posts: 8	I have been reading the Chronicles of Prydain series. And lots of books by Avi. __________________ ~When I was strong enough, I stood, But you knocked me to my knees, You put as close to death as I could be, Without falling into it.~ Me

05-12-2007, 02:04 PM	#837
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Jesus and the Eyewitnesses Quite a challenge for the form and redaction critics, I must say! http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Eyewitne...8992955&sr=8-1 __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

05-13-2007, 10:02 AM	#838
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	I've just started reading the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and if I enjoy the rest of the book as I've done so far, I'll be seeking out the others in the series.

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