11-21-2003, 12:41 AM | #1041 | |
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I am still reading The Brothers Karamazov. It's getting really exciting. I just can never get down to opening the blessed thing nowadays! So many things to do!!
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11-21-2003, 06:40 PM | #1042 |
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I'm re-reading Northanger Abbey - one of the greatest pleasures in life! - and I think I'm about to start Bleak House, but I haven't decided yet. Dickens is such an investment of time
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11-23-2003, 01:19 PM | #1043 |
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I just read C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Two days after I read it I heard that my church is having auditions for TLTWATW play! I hope to be the White Witch, (Lucy was taken) but we have a CRAPY director who shooses her best friends (who SUCK at acting) to play the major roles.
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11-23-2003, 01:35 PM | #1044 |
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Audio books are the way to go for me right now. I spend so much time in my car, and I'm not stupid enough to try reading and driving. So, I just finished Pride and Prejudice, and am starting HP and the sorcerer's stone.
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11-23-2003, 05:02 PM | #1045 |
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I'm halfway through Good Omens.
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11-23-2003, 05:20 PM | #1046 |
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Did you like it? It's a bit weird; you get used to that.
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11-23-2003, 06:13 PM | #1047 | |
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Finished His Dark Material a week or so ago, not reading anything right now (that his, i have yet to finish the Illiad and Hamlet but not reading on them).
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11-23-2003, 08:26 PM | #1048 |
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I just started the 'Smith of Wootton Major' and 'Farmer Giles of Ham' by JRRTolkien.
They are only 60 pages, very short stories. Has anyone read these before? Last edited by Lady Tinuveil : 11-23-2003 at 08:28 PM. |
11-23-2003, 10:17 PM | #1049 |
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both. I like 'Smith' best
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11-23-2003, 10:40 PM | #1050 |
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RE: Good Omens:
It's okay so far. Not Pratchet's best piece of work. And I've read better by Gaiman as well. The humour just isn't quite up to Diskworld level, is it?
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11-24-2003, 08:57 AM | #1051 | |
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11-24-2003, 09:04 AM | #1052 |
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Rereading TTT, and have read a few chapters of Peter Wright's beginning Visual Basic 6. Both are fun.
Then I'm reading the English texts for next year. The Great Gatsby, Medea, MacBeth, First They Killed My Father. And then all those books on my shelf that I bought but haven't had the chance to read. Thank goodness it's the holidays tomorrow! [Edit] Falagar, how did you like His Dark Materials? Starr, read Sabriel yet? BoP, how did you like Abhorsen? Still haven't read it yet. Hope it's as good as the first two. (Though Lirael just seemed a bit too lengthy IMO) Last edited by Linaewen : 11-24-2003 at 09:23 AM. |
11-24-2003, 10:33 AM | #1053 | |
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I have just finished The adventures of Tom Saywer which was surprisingly endearing. Am now half way in The talented Mr. Ripley. Man, what a crook! Am also still reading HoME 5 and savouring it. (The Lost Road would have made such a great book!)
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11-24-2003, 12:41 PM | #1054 | |
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11-24-2003, 09:54 PM | #1055 |
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Currently I am re-reading LOTR.
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11-24-2003, 11:29 PM | #1056 | |
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11-25-2003, 12:37 AM | #1057 |
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I'm reading 'More Than Human' by Theodore Sturgeon right now and, damn, is it ever good. Next on my list is 'Perdido Street Station' by China Mieville, though the Kurt Vonnegut thread has given me an urge to do a marathon binge of his novels. Decisions, decisions...
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11-25-2003, 08:27 PM | #1058 |
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I've just started Tales from the Perilous Realm. It's a collection of Tolkien's short stories and poems that includes "Farmer Giles of Ham", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "Leaf by Niggle", and "Smith of Wootton Major".
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11-28-2003, 07:10 PM | #1059 |
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I am reading Encient Egyptian Legends and Stories and I love the tales in it! It has a lot about the Mistress of Magic and Speaker of Spells [Isis], King Khufu, Re, Pe, Hatshepsute (Hat-Sheep-Soot), Osiris, Horus and Seth. Then there are stories about things that REALLY happened (like the capture of Joppa) and those are the best! I am FULL of legends to tell.
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12-03-2003, 01:23 PM | #1060 | |
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I picked up Bros. Karamazov and Don Quixote and am looking forward to reading them soon but could use some advice for this: I also want to read Dante's Inferno & etc. - I hadn't realized how many types of translations there were. There was everything from straight prose to full-on poetry to kind of a semi-poetry. Does anyone have any recommendations as to a particular translation or style of translation?
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