04-18-2004, 10:44 AM | #1281 |
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I'm about to read The Silm for the third time.
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04-18-2004, 10:55 AM | #1282 |
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I'm about to read Beowulf.
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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." |
04-18-2004, 11:16 AM | #1283 |
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Dune ...you know why
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04-18-2004, 11:19 AM | #1284 | |
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04-18-2004, 04:37 PM | #1285 | |
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Originally I read it, 'cause I wanted to read something about someone else's opinions on Tolkiens books, but Ohlmarks just seems to hate Tolkien as a person. I don't recommend it. Reading it is just a waste of time.
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04-18-2004, 04:40 PM | #1286 |
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Now I'm reading Silmarillion and Dude, where's my country? by Michael Moore (I'm reading a translation to Swedish).
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04-18-2004, 06:06 PM | #1287 |
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After people nagging me to read David Eddings, I'm reading book one of the belgariad series. It's pretty good so far, though a bit formulaic - marks on arms, birthrights, aunts who aren't what they seem, etc.
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04-18-2004, 08:08 PM | #1288 | |
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Winn-Dixie is on my list of things to read as soon as May is finished and the last of my undergrad classes are completed, and my degree is in my hand. Have you read The Tale of Despereaux? It's this year's Newberry Medal winner...:-D I liked it very much.
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04-18-2004, 10:02 PM | #1289 |
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Just finished "Curtain" by Agatha Christie--Hercule Poirot's last and greatest case...(at least some say that).
Now working on "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain for my term paper (due in three weeks! Ahhhhhhhhh )
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04-27-2004, 12:03 PM | #1291 |
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I'm reading 'Hatchet' by gary paulsen.
I usually dont read teen books anymore, but Gary Paulsen is a very gifted writer
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04-27-2004, 12:12 PM | #1292 |
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Yesterday I started on "The sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner. It will take a while to finish it, I think. It's not an easy book.
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Has anyone read it? If you haven't, you should.
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04-28-2004, 02:02 PM | #1295 |
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Daniel Deronda - very long, but very good
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04-28-2004, 02:24 PM | #1296 |
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just started dune messiah today... with a few intermixed FoTR chapters to keep up with the discussion
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04-28-2004, 03:39 PM | #1297 |
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Just about to start reading the sixth book of Wheel of Time, just finished Pratchett's Thief of Time, still in the middle of The Oddyssey somewhere (just found it after having been lost for some time) and hoping to buy the second book in Steven Erikson's a Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (Deadhouse Gate I think it's called).
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04-28-2004, 10:30 PM | #1298 |
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Starting the Confusion by Neil Stephenson. multihundred pages. whee!
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04-28-2004, 11:16 PM | #1299 | |
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almost finished the first book of song of ice and fire by GRR Martin. Made Falagar read Dune, the least I can do is reciprocate. Does it get better as it progresses? Not too much to complain about so far, just can't see it as being 'king of fantasy'.
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04-29-2004, 12:00 AM | #1300 |
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Just started David McCullough's John Adams. He seems to be trying to make JA more of a "common man", interesting, but the constant effort to include Abigail in the narrative seems a little bit forced, although she's a great example of 'lost potential" in that she would have been so much more an important person in the 20th or 21st century. (I wonder if McCullough had Hilary Clinton or Eleanor Roosevelt in the back of his mind when writing about Abigail)?
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