what are you reading right now? - Page 64

sun-star · 04-07-2004, 12:08 PM

I'm reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte, but only because I have to. I'm not a Bronte fan - far too emotional for me!

***Earniel*** · 04-08-2004, 07:26 AM

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Originally posted by ethuiliel
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.

If you want to practise Dutch, hop over to the Official Language Thread in the GM-forum.

(And to stay on topic: ) I'm currently reading LoTR and Terry Pratchett's Night Watch.

***Jonathan*** · 04-08-2004, 08:11 AM

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Originally posted by Nerdanel
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.

Yes, I've read a little about Ohlmark's book. As far as I know, he started to hate the Tolkien community after being harassed by some Tolkien freak. So what he did was to write this book, Tolkien and the black magic, in which he distorted facts and made the Tolkien community look like some satanistic cult or similar.

Currently, the Swedish version of LotR is being retranslated. Ohlmark's version was very bad actually, and he had taken quite some freedoms and translated the books a little after his own will. So right now some new translators are working on making the Swedish version of LotR as true to Tolkien as possible.

Oh, and I'm currently reading Orwell's 1984

Menelvagor · 04-08-2004, 09:49 AM

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Originally posted by Millane
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

a very good book. I read it over my winter break. I didn't know much about the subject matter before I read it, but it was still facinating. I love the confluence of art hist. and religion. (not to mention it says exactly what I want it to say about early Christianity

) I hope you like it.

Elvengirl · 04-08-2004, 09:39 PM

I recently discoved David Eddings, a fairly good fantasy author. After reading his first series I dived right into the second. Currently I'm on The King of Murgos and also working on The Fellowship simultaneously.

Mercutio · 04-08-2004, 10:08 PM

Currently: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (by Mark Twain; for term paper)

Going to start: Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde and some mysteries by Agatha Christie.

*Also just finished, Knight's Gambit, by William Faulkner. Great complicated, excellently written short stories (mystery).

Lady Ravyn · 04-08-2004, 10:55 PM

just finished the bell jar (pretty good; odd, but good)
re-reading The Ring of Five Dragons by Eric Lustbader then I have to re-read The Veil of a Thousand Tears so that i remember everything when i read the book i really want to read, the third in that trilogy: Mistress of the Pearl

Elvengirl · 04-09-2004, 12:33 PM

William Faulkner?
That name sounds very familiar to me, though I don't think I've heard of any of his books.....hmmm....

Mercutio · 04-09-2004, 02:33 PM

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Originally posted by Elvengirl
William Faulkner?
That name sounds very familiar to me, though I don't think I've heard of any of his books.....hmmm....

He also wrote "As I Lay Dying", another book I read. Its ...different. He's an American author.

Menelvagor · 04-09-2004, 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by Mercutio
He also wrote "As I Lay Dying", another book I read. Its ...different. He's an American author.

American Southern author.

Have you read "The Sound and the Fury"? It also falls under the catagory of ...different. very cool though.

Mercutio · 04-09-2004, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by Menelvagor
American Southern author. Have you read "The Sound and the Fury"? It also falls under the catagory of ...different. very cool though.

Nope. But I'm pretty sure we have it. I'll work on it after I finish "Picture of Dorian Gray" (I'm about halfway through that.)

Elvengirl · 04-09-2004, 05:51 PM

I've never read his books but think I've just heard mention of him.

Shadowfax · 04-12-2004, 04:23 AM

I have been reading so much lately! I read "Of Mice and Men," and started "The Mists of Avalon." For my English class, I am also reading "Things Fall Apart" (by Chinua Achebe). Has anyone read it before? I am enjoying it a lot.

Mercutio · 04-12-2004, 09:21 AM

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Originally posted by Shadowfax
I have been reading so much lately! I read "Of Mice and Men," and started "The Mists of Avalon." For my English class, I am also reading "Things Fall Apart" (by Chinua Achebe). Has anyone read it before? I am enjoying it a lot.

No--but I read Of Mice and Men last summer. Its another book that falls under the "...different" category (I have so many in that! I'm beginning to wonder what books I don't consider ...different

)

Menelvagor · 04-12-2004, 09:40 AM

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Originally posted by Shadowfax
I have been reading so much lately! I read "Of Mice and Men," and started "The Mists of Avalon." For my English class, I am also reading "Things Fall Apart" (by Chinua Achebe). Has anyone read it before? I am enjoying it a lot.

I just read it for the second time (for the second english class

). I really liked it too. There are lots of subtleties that are very subtle. How indepth are you going with it?

Shadowfax · 04-12-2004, 03:18 PM

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Originally posted by Menelvagor
I just read it for the second time (for the second english class ). I really liked it too. There are lots of subtleties that are very subtle. How indepth are you going with it?

I don't know how far indepth my teacher is going to discuss it with us; we're talking about it on Thursday I think, and we'll probably spend at least 2 classes on it. It's for my Advanced Placement grade 12 english course, so I'm sure we'll talk about it on a deeper level than other "normal" english classes. I'll tell you more once we've discussed it.

Menelvagor · 04-12-2004, 03:48 PM

That's the class I read it in.

Hope you enjoy it.

Caro · 04-17-2004, 11:26 AM

I'm reading Fellowship of the Ring for the first time at the moment. I'm currently reading the chapter ''A Journey in the Dark'' (I'm almost done with that chapter though...).

ethuiliel · 04-17-2004, 02:21 PM

I'm reading His Dark Materials.
I've already read Golden Compass and Subtle Knife, and I'm almost done with Amber Spyglass. (I had a lot of time in the car during my spring break with nothing else to do.

)

**crickhollow** · 04-17-2004, 03:44 PM

Anne of Green Gables
Jacob Have I Loved
A Wrinkle in Time
Willow and Twig
The Princess and the Goblin
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
A Wind in the Willows
and Tom Sawyer

all for my directed study crash-course in Children's Lit.

04-07-2004, 12:08 PM	#1261
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I'm reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte, but only because I have to. I'm not a Bronte fan - far too emotional for me! __________________ 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.

04-08-2004, 09:39 PM	#1265
Elvengirl Mirthful Maiden Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rivendell Posts: 1,252	I recently discoved David Eddings, a fairly good fantasy author. After reading his first series I dived right into the second. Currently I'm on The King of Murgos and also working on The Fellowship simultaneously. __________________ The Elves represent, as it were, the artistic, aesthetic, and purely scientific aspects of the Humane nature raised to a higher level than is actually seen in Men.~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wanna play? www.thievesguild.com

04-08-2004, 10:08 PM	#1266
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Currently: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (by Mark Twain; for term paper) Going to start: Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde and some mysteries by Agatha Christie. *Also just finished, Knight's Gambit, by William Faulkner. Great complicated, excellently written short stories (mystery). __________________ 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.

04-08-2004, 10:55 PM	#1267
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	just finished the bell jar (pretty good; odd, but good) re-reading The Ring of Five Dragons by Eric Lustbader then I have to re-read The Veil of a Thousand Tears so that i remember everything when i read the book i really want to read, the third in that trilogy: Mistress of the Pearl __________________ 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.

04-09-2004, 12:33 PM	#1268
Elvengirl Mirthful Maiden Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rivendell Posts: 1,252	William Faulkner? That name sounds very familiar to me, though I don't think I've heard of any of his books.....hmmm.... __________________ The Elves represent, as it were, the artistic, aesthetic, and purely scientific aspects of the Humane nature raised to a higher level than is actually seen in Men.~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wanna play? www.thievesguild.com

04-09-2004, 05:51 PM	#1272
Elvengirl Mirthful Maiden Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rivendell Posts: 1,252	I've never read his books but think I've just heard mention of him. __________________ The Elves represent, as it were, the artistic, aesthetic, and purely scientific aspects of the Humane nature raised to a higher level than is actually seen in Men.~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wanna play? www.thievesguild.com

04-12-2004, 04:23 AM	#1273
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	I have been reading so much lately! I read "Of Mice and Men," and started "The Mists of Avalon." For my English class, I am also reading "Things Fall Apart" (by Chinua Achebe). Has anyone read it before? I am enjoying it a lot. __________________ 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)

04-12-2004, 03:48 PM	#1277
Menelvagor Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: lurking on the edge of conversations Posts: 924	That's the class I read it in. Hope you enjoy it.

04-17-2004, 11:26 AM	#1278
Caro Sapling Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Province of Quebec Posts: 3	I'm reading Fellowship of the Ring for the first time at the moment. I'm currently reading the chapter ''A Journey in the Dark'' (I'm almost done with that chapter though...). Last edited by Caro : 04-17-2004 at 11:28 AM.

04-17-2004, 02:21 PM	#1279
ethuiliel Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: USA until I find a way to get to Middle Earth Posts: 681	I'm reading His Dark Materials. I've already read Golden Compass and Subtle Knife, and I'm almost done with Amber Spyglass. (I had a lot of time in the car during my spring break with nothing else to do. ) __________________ "...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."

04-17-2004, 03:44 PM	#1280
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	Anne of Green Gables Jacob Have I Loved A Wrinkle in Time Willow and Twig The Princess and the Goblin The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe A Wind in the Willows and Tom Sawyer all for my directed study crash-course in Children's Lit. __________________ 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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