02-13-2004, 05:37 PM | #1201 |
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I've read half of The Tao of Pooh, not sure where I last put it...
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02-15-2004, 09:48 PM | #1202 |
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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
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02-20-2004, 03:23 PM | #1203 |
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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 ).
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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. Last edited by sun-star : 02-21-2004 at 04:54 AM. |
02-21-2004, 07:58 AM | #1204 |
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Started to read "A confederacy of dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. Loved his novel "The neonbible".
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02-21-2004, 07:21 PM | #1205 |
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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
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02-25-2004, 05:55 PM | #1206 |
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i just finished the lord of the rings today!and i read the hobbit recently
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03-03-2004, 04:55 PM | #1207 |
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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.
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03-03-2004, 05:28 PM | #1208 |
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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!!!
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03-03-2004, 05:48 PM | #1209 |
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What did you think of Lyra's Oxford?
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03-03-2004, 06:22 PM | #1210 |
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I´m reading "Stupid White Men". I bought it yesterday and have read it half. Is this really all true?
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03-04-2004, 04:52 AM | #1211 |
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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.)
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03-04-2004, 05:01 AM | #1212 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Back OT. I'm reading Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr. I haven't decided if I like it yet. Anybody else read it?
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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.
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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 )
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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?
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03-04-2004, 06:20 PM | #1218 |
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the iliad unabridged ! but transalated from poem form to story form!
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03-04-2004, 09:40 PM | #1219 |
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I just finished the Odyssey. How're you liking the Iliad?
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03-04-2004, 11:09 PM | #1220 |
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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.
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