03-17-2004, 09:46 PM | #1241 |
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reading FotR for the 6th time (i know; not a record, but not too shabby, imo )
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03-17-2004, 11:03 PM | #1242 | |
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"...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." |
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03-19-2004, 10:44 AM | #1243 |
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I'm reading a book called "Hero Myths and Legends of the British Isles" (I think) and one of my all-time favourite books, "The Go-Between" by L.P. Hartley.
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03-19-2004, 12:51 PM | #1244 |
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I just finished reading "Pride and Prejudice" for my English class. Ack! I didn't like it at all!
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03-19-2004, 12:53 PM | #1245 |
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Oh yeah, and now I'm reading "Crime and Punishment" for English too. I like that a lot better!
And in my spare time (ha! spare time only cause it's Sprig Break...) I'm reading "The Singer Trilogy" by Calvin Miller. It's a re-telling of the New Testament as a sort of myth. Quite cool.
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03-19-2004, 06:16 PM | #1246 | |
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03-24-2004, 04:44 PM | #1247 |
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I'm reading a book, Tolkien och den svarta magin (roughly: Tolkien and the black magic), by Åke Ohlmarks. Ohlmarks is a Swedish guy, who has translated LotR into Swedish. He has been very critizised for his translations, and in the book I'm reading he has "discovered" the dark side of some Tolkiensocieties: drugs and death!
Well. I haven't read that much yet, but I'm sure I'll post more when I've read it.
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03-24-2004, 06:36 PM | #1248 | |
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"...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." |
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03-24-2004, 09:51 PM | #1249 |
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i must have read the hobbit at least a hundred times in the last 3 years
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03-26-2004, 01:35 AM | #1250 |
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Right now? "Washington Square" by Henry James.
His realistic novels show great insight into the human personality/spirit/ideas.
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03-29-2004, 09:29 AM | #1251 |
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I'm reading "Iphigeneia in Aulis".
Plus I'm trying to read LotR again. And a bit of HoME 6 in between.
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03-29-2004, 09:54 AM | #1252 | |
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I'm now with LOTR again and also with Richard Ford's "The Sportswriter". I'm not sure I'm going to enjoy much of this book though... (I mean the Ford's one)
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03-29-2004, 11:13 AM | #1253 |
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I'm reading:
Harry Potter 3 (in Dutch) The Blooding and maybe something else, but I can't think of any right now.
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"...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." |
03-29-2004, 01:38 PM | #1254 |
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"Crash," by J.G. Ballard. Sex and car wrecks--what more can you want?
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03-29-2004, 10:09 PM | #1255 |
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FotR; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath; and The Diary of a Fat Bride by Laurie Notaro (i just finished her first autobiography: The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club love the title! )
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03-29-2004, 10:43 PM | #1256 |
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The Last Lessons of Summer by Margaret Maron. I really enjoy her mysteries.
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03-30-2004, 06:20 AM | #1257 |
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hahhahha after the brilliance of Game of Thrones finished i found (for probably the first time in about 5 years ) that i had nothing lined up to read next, so i have mainly re-read some odd books in my bookshelf (mainly Roald Dahl) but thankfully when mum went to melb on the weekend she returned bearing books for her favorite son i just started the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and it sounds amazing, i just love the whole secret society part of it (reminds me of the Stone cutters simpsons episode) and the religious weirdo's in it, talk about queer
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04-06-2004, 06:40 AM | #1259 |
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Siegfried Sassoon's Collected Poems.
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