12-26-2004, 09:57 PM | #101 |
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I'm reading a lot of books at the moment.
I'm in the middle of J.R.R Tolkien's letters. Then I'm reading 5 plays of Lessing (if anyone of you knows him) and these days I'm going to start reading Aristoteles and Sophokles. Yah. Yah. But so far I can tell that "Die Juden" (The Jews) and "Minna Barnhelm" are very good (both plays of Lessing).
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12-27-2004, 12:23 PM | #103 |
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Chaucer's THE CANTERBURY TALES translated by Neville Coghill - an Inkling forsooth!
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12-28-2004, 12:11 PM | #104 |
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I'm reading Lawrence James' The Rise And Fall of the British Empire and Tom Clancy's AIRBORNE: A Guided Tour of An Airborne Task Force.
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12-30-2004, 09:44 AM | #105 | |
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01-03-2005, 09:20 AM | #106 |
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Currently reading a book called Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger for my English class. It's the true chronicles of an Englishman's travels in Arabia.
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01-03-2005, 11:25 AM | #107 |
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Hey, Beren3000, did you get the philosphy series read? What did you think? I could use a little help on the Narnia threads and the HP - Chrisistian themes in HP? - thread. The conceptualizaton of good in these threads is being opposed by radical secularists bent on the destruction of the obvious...NO, wait, that goes in the Venting thread !
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01-03-2005, 06:13 PM | #108 | |
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SPOILER FROM THE WHEEL OF TIME, BY ROBERT JORDAN When Rand gets Calandor, that was a moment I had longed to see also when he battles Asmodean. Really smart move. when Perrin(goldeneyes ) fights the trollocs back in Two Rivers, when he leaves Tair. his wolfdreaming I find really intriguing, and I thought it was sad he was not mentioned in book 5 more than just one... how about you? Edit for EB Yes, Robert Jordan. I think 11 books at the moment...
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Finishing up Greyfriars Bobby by ?
Reading sections of Dorothy Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds Skimming (to refresh my recollection; I read this a few years ago) Washington Square by Henry James For school: Book VIII of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky Getting from the library: Woman in White (by ?), and something by Wilkie Collins (on reccommendation from a teacher; I forget the name now), Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (maybe). And some poetry (T.S. Elliots cats stuff, some Keats, Donne, and Dickinson). then just toss in some Wodehouse for good measure, and voila: book casserole. I need to keep a record of what I read. Some college applications ask things like, what books have you read in the last 12 months. 12 MONTHS!!!! How do I remember!!! I guess its good tho if I have trouble w/ the question because of my reading excess, not lack there of.
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01-05-2005, 01:54 AM | #110 |
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Currently I am reading more than I should (I tend to read too many books at once!) I am reading; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, I am finding this book to be as good as I had expected. Don't misunderstand me I am no pedofile it is a great book and I would suggest it to anyone interested in a well writen book. A nice psychological book that can be quite difficult to read at times due to the excelent vocabulary used. I am also starting to read The Tessaract by Alex Garland, and The Dubliners by James Joyce, of these books I can say little at the moment. I am also continuing my ongoing and neverending reading of The Lord of the Rings and other Tolkien works including the Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien which I purchased this evening infact!(A very exciting pruchase for me)I am also trying to read... or study more like, my Japanese instruction books. I think that is all for the moment.
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From the other books: I loved that scene with Callandor in the Stone of Tear. Most of Rand's scenes with the Aiel in books 4 and 5 are also great. The ending of book 5 was great too (I wonder if Rand could later turn Lanfear to the good side!). Quote:
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01-05-2005, 04:58 PM | #112 |
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what do you mean, turn Lanfear to the good side? you mean she didn't die in the door along with Moiraine? actually, I thought about that she might have not when someone killed Asmodean.
yes, the Aiel. love them, and the since are magnificent I got the book today, so I will start today or tomorrow, when I have finished The Da Vinci Code.
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01-06-2005, 02:20 PM | #114 |
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ok. sure will.
I guess I have gone off topic myself
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Started another book of the Philosophy and Popular Culture series: The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh of Homer
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01-13-2005, 04:47 PM | #116 | |
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i am reading The Justice League Exterminators by Cristopher Golden
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I am reading an extremely factual, and interesting collection of essays about Jan Svankmajer and his participation in czech surrealism in film.
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Hmm, what was it... Phosphorous, P, used in fertilizer, solid at room temerature, non-metal, melts at 44.1 °C, boils at 280 °C. Edit: sorry, didn't mean to double post. I though pressing "stop" would work.
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