what are you reading right now? - Page 63

Lady Ravyn · 03-17-2004, 09:46 PM

reading FotR for the 6th time (i know; not a record, but not too shabby, imo

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ethuiliel · 03-17-2004, 11:03 PM

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Cool! I'm trying to get my friend to read Dune and The Silmarillion. He says both are dumb. Fool! He doesn't get it that you can't judge a book by its cover. *sigh* Oh well, his loss.
Wait, maybe I could blackmail him into reading them.

A while ago I tried to convince a friend to read LotR (She considers herself a fan...of the movies at least, and I thought she would like the books if she actually read them.) but I didn't succeed for nearly a year. She finally started, but that was a few months ago, and I doubt she got farther than 2 chapters. But I decided to let her be. It is her loss after all. And she'll probably like it less if she feels forced. It's hard though.

sun-star · 03-19-2004, 10:44 AM

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.

Shadowfax · 03-19-2004, 12:51 PM

I just finished reading "Pride and Prejudice" for my English class. Ack! I didn't like it at all!

Shadowfax · 03-19-2004, 12:53 PM

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.

trolls' bane · 03-19-2004, 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by Lady Ravyn
reading FotR for the 6th time (i know; not a record, but not too shabby, imo )

I have only read the Fellowship once, but I have read TTT three times, and almost read it a fourth.

Nerdanel · 03-24-2004, 04:44 PM

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.

ethuiliel · 03-24-2004, 06:36 PM

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reading FotR for the 6th time (i know; not a record, but not too shabby, imo )

I read LotR 4 times and the Hobbit 3...not too bad considering that I read all that in one year (last year, suprisingly enough, I only discovered it in January 2003). Though some people are boring enough to consider reading it that much a bad thing.

Last Child of Ungoliant · 03-24-2004, 09:51 PM

i must have read the hobbit at least a hundred times in the last 3 years

at the moment, tho, i am reading 'The Murder of Tutankhamen', by Bob Brier

Mercutio · 03-26-2004, 01:35 AM

Right now? "Washington Square" by Henry James.

His realistic novels show great insight into the human personality/spirit/ideas.

Artanis · 03-29-2004, 09:29 AM

I'm reading "Iphigeneia in Aulis".

Plus I'm trying to read LotR again.

And a bit of HoME 6 in between.

***Fat middle*** · 03-29-2004, 09:54 AM

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Originally posted by Mercutio
Right now? "Washington Square" by Henry James.

His realistic novels show great insight into the human personality/spirit/ideas.

I liked that one.

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)

ethuiliel · 03-29-2004, 11:13 AM

I'm reading:
Harry Potter 3 (in Dutch)
The Blooding
and maybe something else, but I can't think of any right now.

zinnite · 03-29-2004, 01:38 PM

"Crash," by J.G. Ballard. Sex and car wrecks--what more can you want?

Lady Ravyn · 03-29-2004, 10:09 PM

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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cee2lee2 · 03-29-2004, 10:43 PM

The Last Lessons of Summer by Margaret Maron. I really enjoy her mysteries.

Millane · 03-30-2004, 06:20 AM

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

***Earniel*** · 04-06-2004, 06:07 AM

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Originally posted by ethuiliel
I'm reading:
Harry Potter 3 (in Dutch)

I didn't know you knew Dutch, since your location says USA. Interesting.

Got Dutch roots by any change?

**crickhollow** · 04-06-2004, 06:40 AM

Siegfried Sassoon's Collected Poems.

ethuiliel · 04-06-2004, 05:10 PM

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I didn't know you knew Dutch, since your location says USA. Interesting. Got Dutch roots by any change?

Yeah, my mom's Dutch. I speak it, but not as well as English, so I read it as a sort of chalenge to myself.

03-17-2004, 09:46 PM	#1241
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	reading FotR for the 6th time (i know; not a record, but not too shabby, imo ) __________________ 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.

03-19-2004, 10:44 AM	#1243
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	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. __________________ 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.

03-19-2004, 12:51 PM	#1244
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	I just finished reading "Pride and Prejudice" for my English class. Ack! I didn't like it at all! __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

03-19-2004, 12:53 PM	#1245
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	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. __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

03-24-2004, 04:44 PM	#1247
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	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. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

03-24-2004, 09:51 PM	#1249
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	i must have read the hobbit at least a hundred times in the last 3 years at the moment, tho, i am reading 'The Murder of Tutankhamen', by Bob Brier

03-26-2004, 01:35 AM	#1250
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Right now? "Washington Square" by Henry James. His realistic novels show great insight into the human personality/spirit/ideas. __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

03-29-2004, 09:29 AM	#1251
Artanis Greatest Elven woman of Aman Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7 Posts: 4,285	I'm reading "Iphigeneia in Aulis". Plus I'm trying to read LotR again. And a bit of HoME 6 in between. __________________ --Life is hard, and then we die. Last edited by Artanis : 03-29-2004 at 09:30 AM.

03-29-2004, 11:13 AM	#1253
ethuiliel Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: USA until I find a way to get to Middle Earth Posts: 681	I'm reading: Harry Potter 3 (in Dutch) The Blooding and maybe something else, but I can't think of any right now. __________________ "...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
zinnite Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Posts: 195	"Crash," by J.G. Ballard. Sex and car wrecks--what more can you want? __________________ A citizen runs to the fire department yelling that he's spotted a roaring blaze from his car. "WHERE IS IT?" the fire department asks, pen ready. "It rises like some brooding , glaring trail of cosmic fury from- " "WHERE? WHERE?" "Oh. Well, it blazes up from a crimson-sheathed visage brooding darkly above the haunted towers of impotent indignity which, like melons hovering unhappily over lifetimes of empty meaning which-" "THE ADDRESS!" "Oh. Oh, I didn't notice. But look for a brooding, glaring trail of cosmic fury rising from a crimson-sheathed visage-" They lead him back to his car, and send him on. -- Philip K. Dick "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Diderot

03-29-2004, 10:09 PM	#1255
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	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! ) __________________ 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.

03-29-2004, 10:43 PM	#1256
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	The Last Lessons of Summer by Margaret Maron. I really enjoy her mysteries.

03-30-2004, 06:20 AM	#1257
Millane The Dude Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: at the altar of my ego Posts: 1,685	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 __________________ Ill heal your wounds, ill set you free,

04-06-2004, 06:40 AM	#1259
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	Siegfried Sassoon's Collected Poems. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

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