what are you reading right now? - Page 61

Falagar · 02-13-2004, 05:37 PM

I've read half of The Tao of Pooh, not sure where I last put it...

Lady Ravyn · 02-15-2004, 09:48 PM

finished time of twins, and now i'm waiting for war of twins or whatever the next one is called. in the mean time, i'm reading the adept by katherine kurtz

sun-star · 02-20-2004, 03:23 PM

I'm going through a phase of reading lots of my old children's books. That means Elinor Brent-Dyer, E. Nesbit, Pamela Brown and the original Mary Poppins stories (a lot better than the film - no perky Julie Andrews or bad Cockney accents

).

Lalaith · 02-21-2004, 07:58 AM

Started to read "A confederacy of dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. Loved his novel "The neonbible".

Lady Ravyn · 02-21-2004, 07:21 PM

ok, dropped the adept ( just not in the mood for it right now) and now i'm reading the much-awaited sequel to hades's daughter- gods' concubine!

by sara douglass

b.banner · 02-25-2004, 05:55 PM

i just finished the lord of the rings today!and i read the hobbit recently

Starr Polish · 03-03-2004, 04:55 PM

Witch Child, by Celia Rees. It's rather interesting, and I have a strange fascination with the Puritan period (or pretty much any time in history). I am also reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Is anyone here actually a fan of hers? I can't stand her or her idealology (sp). I'm doing it for a scholarship that i probably wont' get. Gah.

Also reading LOTR for the fourth time. Ahh...good stuff.

Lalaith_Elf · 03-03-2004, 05:28 PM

Still on Gormenghast... but I may give it a rest for now... I've just finished reading "Grass for his Pillow", "Lyra's Oxford", "Blood and Gold" and "Frankenstein" all in the past week and a half!!!

Falagar · 03-03-2004, 05:48 PM

What did you think of Lyra's Oxford?

Yapaluna · 03-03-2004, 06:22 PM

I´m reading "Stupid White Men". I bought it yesterday and have read it half. Is this really all true?

I think it is worth to have it´s own thread.

cassiopeia · 03-04-2004, 04:52 AM

What's Lyra's Oxford? Is it part of His Dark Materials? Have I missed something? (I love His Dark Materials, so I'm excited if it's a new book in the series.)

Linaewen · 03-04-2004, 05:01 AM

Lyra's Oxford

I'm going to read that when I finish rereading my His Dark Materials omnibus, which I got for $25 at the same store you got LotR from, I think, Cass. It's like a sequel I think.

I'm reading Terry Pratchett's 'Guards! Guards!' at the same time as Lord of the Flies. Terrible, I know, to read such different books at the same time. I couldn't help it.

The Gaffer · 03-04-2004, 05:09 AM

Porno by Irvine Welsh. It's the sequel to Trainspotting, set about ten years later but with the same characters.

He's kept the same device of telling the story in the first person but from different characters' perspectives, and done it really well. It's scary to have Begbie inside your head.

cassiopeia · 03-04-2004, 05:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Linaewen
Lyra's Oxford

I'm going to read that when I finish rereading my His Dark Materials omnibus, which I got for $25 at the same store you got LotR from, I think, Cass. It's like a sequel I think.

Woo! Lyra's Oxford is at my library so I've ordered it. Hopefully I'll be getting to soon... Thanks for the info!

Back OT. I'm reading Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr. I haven't decided if I like it yet. Anybody else read it?

Lalaith_Elf · 03-04-2004, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Falagar
What did you think of Lyra's Oxford?

Yeah it was okay. I bit short for my liking. I finished it in around 10/15 minutes.

Quote:

What's Lyra's Oxford? Is it part of His Dark Materials? Have I missed something? (I love His Dark Materials, so I'm excited if it's a new book in the series.)

It's just a very short story concerning Lyra. It's set a few years after Lyra and Will have parted. It leaves a few things unexplained so I'm guessing that it's going to lead into another story... just a guess though.

I haven't read Daggerspell but I've got another book by Katherine Kerr, that I've read the first chapter of, which is pretty good. The name escapes me at the moment though.

Falagar · 03-04-2004, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lalaith_Elf
Yeah it was okay. I bit short for my liking. I finished it in around 10/15 minutes.

It's just a very short story concerning Lyra. It's set a few years after Lyra and Will have parted. It leaves a few things unexplained so I'm guessing that it's going to lead into another story... just a guess though.

Same here, it was very short.

Pullman has said that he won't make any new Lyra/Will-books (about their future, that is), I don't believe him though (I don't want to believe him, at least

)

Lalaith_Elf · 03-04-2004, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Falagar
Same here, it was very short.

Pullman has said that he won't make any new Lyra/Will-books (about their future, that is), I don't believe him though (I don't want to believe him, at least )

I think he will... he would have to be pretty cold-hearted to leave it like he did. They did love each other after all.

And like I said, I'm sure that Lyra's Oxford carrys on to another bigger tale. If it doesn't then it was pretty pointless writing a story like that. And what's with all the stuff in the back of it - was it just me or did anyone else connect any of that stuff with Will?

b.banner · 03-04-2004, 06:20 PM

the iliad unabridged ! but transalated from poem form to story form!

katya · 03-04-2004, 09:40 PM

I just finished the Odyssey. How're you liking the Iliad?

ethuiliel · 03-04-2004, 11:09 PM

I'm reading the Acorna series. I already read Acorna, Acorna's Quest, and Acorna's People, and am about to start on the next one.

02-13-2004, 05:37 PM	#1201
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	I've read half of The Tao of Pooh, not sure where I last put it... __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

02-15-2004, 09:48 PM	#1202
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	finished time of twins, and now i'm waiting for war of twins or whatever the next one is called. in the mean time, i'm reading the adept by katherine kurtz __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

02-20-2004, 03:23 PM	#1203
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I'm going through a phase of reading lots of my old children's books. That means Elinor Brent-Dyer, E. Nesbit, Pamela Brown and the original Mary Poppins stories (a lot better than the film - no perky Julie Andrews or bad Cockney accents ). __________________ 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. Last edited by sun-star : 02-21-2004 at 04:54 AM.

02-21-2004, 07:58 AM	#1204
Lalaith The Elvish Temptress Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 3,055	Started to read "A confederacy of dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. Loved his novel "The neonbible". __________________ What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead.

02-21-2004, 07:21 PM	#1205
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	ok, dropped the adept ( just not in the mood for it right now) and now i'm reading the much-awaited sequel to hades's daughter- gods' concubine! by sara douglass __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

02-25-2004, 05:55 PM	#1206
b.banner Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Trying to keep a hold on my temper so I don't turn into a big green guy. Posts: 572	i just finished the lord of the rings today!and i read the hobbit recently __________________ "We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her cross-wise or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake."-Mat Cauthon from Wheel of Time "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry...."-Dr. Bruce Banner HULK BATMAN THE FLASH

03-03-2004, 04:55 PM	#1207
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Witch Child, by Celia Rees. It's rather interesting, and I have a strange fascination with the Puritan period (or pretty much any time in history). I am also reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Is anyone here actually a fan of hers? I can't stand her or her idealology (sp). I'm doing it for a scholarship that i probably wont' get. Gah. Also reading LOTR for the fourth time. Ahh...good stuff. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-03-2004, 05:28 PM	#1208
Lalaith_Elf Her Infernal Majesty Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,188	Still on Gormenghast... but I may give it a rest for now... I've just finished reading "Grass for his Pillow", "Lyra's Oxford", "Blood and Gold" and "Frankenstein" all in the past week and a half!!! __________________ "It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

03-03-2004, 05:48 PM	#1209
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	What did you think of Lyra's Oxford? __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

03-03-2004, 06:22 PM	#1210
Yapaluna Enting Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Druxberge (about 500 inhabitants) near Magdeburg Posts: 73	I´m reading "Stupid White Men". I bought it yesterday and have read it half. Is this really all true? I think it is worth to have it´s own thread.

03-04-2004, 04:52 AM	#1211
cassiopeia Viggoholic Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 1,749	What's Lyra's Oxford? Is it part of His Dark Materials? Have I missed something? (I love His Dark Materials, so I'm excited if it's a new book in the series.) __________________ Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

03-04-2004, 05:01 AM	#1212
Linaewen Fair Dinkum Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,319	Lyra's Oxford I'm going to read that when I finish rereading my His Dark Materials omnibus, which I got for $25 at the same store you got LotR from, I think, Cass. It's like a sequel I think. I'm reading Terry Pratchett's 'Guards! Guards!' at the same time as Lord of the Flies. Terrible, I know, to read such different books at the same time. I couldn't help it.

03-04-2004, 05:09 AM	#1213
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	Porno by Irvine Welsh. It's the sequel to Trainspotting, set about ten years later but with the same characters. He's kept the same device of telling the story in the first person but from different characters' perspectives, and done it really well. It's scary to have Begbie inside your head.

03-04-2004, 06:20 PM	#1218
b.banner Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Trying to keep a hold on my temper so I don't turn into a big green guy. Posts: 572	the iliad unabridged ! but transalated from poem form to story form! __________________ "We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her cross-wise or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake."-Mat Cauthon from Wheel of Time "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry...."-Dr. Bruce Banner HULK BATMAN THE FLASH

03-04-2004, 09:40 PM	#1219
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	I just finished the Odyssey. How're you liking the Iliad?

03-04-2004, 11:09 PM	#1220
ethuiliel Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: USA until I find a way to get to Middle Earth Posts: 681	I'm reading the Acorna series. I already read Acorna, Acorna's Quest, and Acorna's People, and am about to start on the next one. __________________ "...but I love not the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor." "'I would,' said Faramir. And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many. And many indeed saw them and the light that shone about them as they came down from the walls and went hand in hand to the Houses of Healing."

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Introduction: Reading the Sil for the First Time	Bombadillo	The Silmarillion	41	04-03-2005 05:07 AM
Reading Lolita in Tehran	Menelvagor	General Literature	1	05-12-2004 09:41 PM
March 25th (Today) : Tolkien Reading Day	Finrod Felagund	General Messages	6	03-30-2004 11:41 AM
For those reading along with the movie	Elfhelm	Lord of the Rings Movies	0	11-06-2003 01:17 PM
Reading THE HOBBIT at the bookstore...	Gilthalion	The Hobbit (book)	95	11-06-2000 04:01 AM