04-07-2004, 12:08 PM | #1261 |
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I'm reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte, but only because I have to. I'm not a Bronte fan - far too emotional for me!
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04-08-2004, 07:26 AM | #1262 | |
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(And to stay on topic: ) I'm currently reading LoTR and Terry Pratchett's Night Watch.
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04-08-2004, 08:11 AM | #1263 | |
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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
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04-08-2004, 09:39 PM | #1265 |
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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.
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04-08-2004, 10:08 PM | #1266 |
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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).
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04-08-2004, 10:55 PM | #1267 |
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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
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04-09-2004, 12:33 PM | #1268 |
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William Faulkner?
That name sounds very familiar to me, though I don't think I've heard of any of his books.....hmmm....
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04-09-2004, 05:51 PM | #1272 |
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I've never read his books but think I've just heard mention of him.
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04-12-2004, 04:23 AM | #1273 |
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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.
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That's the class I read it in. Hope you enjoy it.
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04-17-2004, 11:26 AM | #1278 |
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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...).
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04-17-2004, 02:21 PM | #1279 |
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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. )
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04-17-2004, 03:44 PM | #1280 |
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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.
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