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08-10-2004, 10:19 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England
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I'm reading Elaine Showalter's "A Literature of their Own" about women novelists in the 19th and early 20th century. Very interesting.
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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. |
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08-10-2004, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Oslo, Norway
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  Currently waiting to get my hands on the third part of Feist's and Wurst's Empire-triology, as well as the second part of To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams...just finished Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, both nice reads. (Especially Ender's Game.)
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08-13-2004, 10:18 AM
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Woolly Jumper
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby
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im re-reading HP4. was gonna start at the beggining again but cudnt find one and tbh i dont no why i didnt then start with 3 but oh wel thats my strange mind for ya!
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08-14-2004, 09:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: 2nd star to the left.....
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I reread all of the HP books about a month ago. It was great going through them again. I'm always amazed by what I've forgotten but that may just be a byproduct of gettin' old.
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08-15-2004, 02:07 AM
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Greatest Elven woman of Aman
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7
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I've just finished Appelsinpiken (The Orange Girl) by Jostein Gaarder. It is an easy-to-read book about a 15-year old boy who receives a letter from his father who has been dead for 11 years. It is a beautiful love story, and a sad story, but not without humour. Hereby recommended.
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08-15-2004, 05:31 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: wirral - The Shire of the North
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This week I will be mainly reading...
the susan cooper series " The dark is rising " beginning with "Over sea,under stone ", marvellous series that takes me back a decade or two.
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. We know where the music's playing, let's go out and feel the night. Because I'm still in love with you, I want to see you dance again, because I'm still in love with you on this harvest moon.Well the sun is surely sinking down But the moon is slowly rising So this old world must still be spinning 'round And I still love you NIL SATIS NISI OPTIMUM |
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08-15-2004, 10:13 AM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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Just started "The Scar" by China Mieville, a sequel of sorts to "Perdido Street Station" (which is a fantastic book, BTW).
Just finished "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. Amazing book, 100% absorbing.
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08-15-2004, 04:30 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Narnia
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Finished "I Will Follow" by Bethany Patchin and somebody else (?).
Working on "Thrones, Dominations" by Dorothy Sayers and .... ah yes, Somebody Paton Walsh. (Joan?) I'm blanking out right now. And I think I read another Sayers/Walsh entitled "A Presumption of Death" but for the life of me I can't remember what it was about (except a murder, obviously), lol.
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08-16-2004, 07:17 AM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: In the kitchen ...... still!
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08-16-2004, 12:18 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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I'm still working on Journey to the West. (It's loooong...) I'm also reading Mein Kampf (which I just started). I'm not a nazi or anything, I just think it's interesting. I was just thinking, there are a lot of books I want to buy, books that I feel I should own a copy of. There's the Koran, and other holy books, (I already own a million bibles), what else was there? Classics, I guess, and historically significant writings. I can't afford all that though. I'm saving for a car.
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08-16-2004, 05:15 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Not where I want to be ...
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Artanis - did you (or anyone else) have trouble getting into Don Quixote? I know you enjoyed it, but I've tried getting into it twice now and am just not being drawn in ... is it worth sticking with it?
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08-16-2004, 05:39 PM
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But of course it depends on the kind of literature you usually read. How far have you reached? EDIT: I'll give you an advice: take the role of Sancho, and perhaps you'll begin to see things otherwise.
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08-16-2004, 05:43 PM
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Greatest Elven woman of Aman
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7
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Well - I thought it was a great book. It is hard to grasp the deeper meanings of it though - I think I have just scraped on the surface of that book - I will have to read it again sometime.
But even if you skip the deeper layers, the book was so full of humour and absurdities, Don Quixote's 'madness', Sancho Panza's sayings and his naive stupidity, and all the crazy, silly, funny and sometimes heartbreaking situations they wind themselves into. You don't know whether you should laugh or cry. But to answer your question, I think that if you don't enjoy the first chapters, it will be hard to finish the book. Part 2 is different from part 1 though, it may very well be that you will like the last part better than the first.
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08-16-2004, 06:43 PM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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Have finished the first five amber books by zelazny; can't seem to track down the second lot, so I might have to order them in.
 I've now started on Emma, by Jane Austen, and I also have Persuasion as well. (And some other remaindered penguin classics - beowulf, and pygmalion). Which is good, because I've got this awful bloody cold, some I'm doing lots of reading, and feeling sorry for myself. 
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08-16-2004, 07:04 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Not where I want to be ...
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Sorry you feel bad, BoP, but am glad you didn't get run over last night!
Thanks for the comments, FM and Arty - I'm on chpt. 16 now. I wasn't really looking for deep meaning, Arty - it just wasn't grabbing me on any level. When I picked up Bros. Karamazov, it grabbed me right off. So did Dune, at first. I think I'll keep at it, tho.
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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08-17-2004, 07:55 AM
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Fair Dinkum
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Houston, TX
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Reading a bit of Jane Austen's Emma now as well as a bit of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Trying to get a copy of The Da Vinci Code but it seems to be really popular and always on loan at the libraries.
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08-17-2004, 03:18 PM
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Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Unless you coun't Harry Potter as fantasy, every fantasy book I've read so far has been written by Tolkien (and his son, more or less). Haven't really wanted to, didn't want to risk spoiling my view of the fantasy genre. But after being recommended by my friends to read George R. R. Martin, I've started to read A Game of Thrones. Don't really know yet what to think of it. I like the way Martin writes, but he fails to make me interested in the world he has created. Oh well, my friends warned me that it might take a while to get into the book (gosh, all the names, how am I supposed to keep track of everyone!
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08-17-2004, 03:30 PM
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Fëanorophobic
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Between the pages of a book
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I'd also recommend Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time (it shouldn't spoil your view on fantasy too much
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08-17-2004, 04:11 PM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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Jon, the thing that grabs you about GRR Martin's work is his characters. He's more of a character-driven novelist than a world-driven novelist. But you'll enjoy them; they're a fantastic read.
Lin, the Davinci Code was, IMO, terribly written. You can see the "twist" coming from a mile off, and the romance was so bad, I actually laughed. I'd give it a miss if I were you. Plus, it's really annoying how he tries to pass off "fluff" as fact.
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08-18-2004, 07:19 AM
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Fair Dinkum
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Houston, TX
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Thanks BoP, I might give it a miss then. How do you find Emma? It's pretty good so far (A few chapters in) and you can already see those 'flaws' of Emma's. I don't like it as much as Pride and Prejudice, but maybe that's because I usually hate beginnings of books unless they're fantastic.
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