What 📔book are you reading right now?

FoolOfATook

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• Aug 4, 2003

• #341

Catcher In The Rye is one of my all-time favorite books. I spent most of high school trying to emulate Holden.

 

Manveru

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• Aug 5, 2003

• #342

Originally posted by FoolOfATook
Catcher In The Rye is one of my all-time favorite books. I spent most of high school trying to emulate Holden.

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You're a lucky guy, FOAT
When I first read it (at university--american literature classes) it was too late for that...

 

Rhiannon

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• Aug 5, 2003

• #343

I spent most of junior high trying to emulate Indiana Jones...but we won't go there.

 

Finduilas

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• Aug 5, 2003

• #344

Originally posted by Rhiannon
I spent most of junior high trying to emulate Indiana Jones...but we won't go there.

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And nowadays children emulate Harry Poter...

 

Rhiannon

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• Aug 5, 2003

• #345

Actually my little sister tries to emulate Eowyn (imagine how proud her big sister is).

But the other day my two youngest siblings were bickering and name-calling, and progressed from 'do-do-head' and 'stupid-moron' to 'Draco' and 'Umbridge'. I cracked up, anyway.

 

Manveru

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• Aug 7, 2003

• #346

I am reading Maciej Kuczyñski's ''Atlantyda, wyspa ognia'' (eng.--> ''Atlantis the Isle of Fire''). It's a great book... I've always liked those myths of Atlantis...

 

Eliot

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• Aug 7, 2003

• #347

I finished Great War: Walk in Hell by Harry Turtledove, and started the third book in the series called The Great War: Breakthroughs. They're all very interesting.

 

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Courtney

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• Aug 12, 2003

• #348

I am reading (again) the Lord of the Rings. This is the first time I have ever read it as one book instead of the three volumes... pretty exciting ... I am up to the part where Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are searching for Merry and Pippin.

 

Wolfshead

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• Aug 13, 2003

• #349

I finished reading Wolf In Shadow by David Gemmell (which was excellent) a couple of days ago, now I'm onto Lords And Ladies by Terry Pratchett.

 

Gary Gamgee

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• Aug 13, 2003

• #350

just finished Goblet of of Fire, i cant believe how good it was, now for Order of the Pheonix.

 

Éomond

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• Aug 13, 2003

• #351

I'm reading This Present Darkness by.........um, uh........dang! I forgot, but oh yeah! Frank Pretti! That's who. Well, anyway, it's a pretty sweat book about Angels, Demons, and God and Satan and that cool Supernatural stuff.

 

Rhiannon

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• Aug 13, 2003

• #352

Peretti rules. The Oath is awesome.

I finished Kim- great fun- and now I'm reading just The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde, which is a great romp and immense fun- recommended to literature lovers anywhere (only start with The Eyre Affair or you'll be more lost than a sick dodo).

 

Eliot

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• Aug 13, 2003

• #353

Well, I'm almost done with The Great War series by Harry Turtledove, I should finish the third and final book Breakthroughs sometime today. Later, I'll start the series that follows the above-mentioned one, entitled American Empire which is composed of three books:

Blood and Iron
The Center Cannot Hold
The Victorious Opposition

They're all amazingly interesting.

I'm thinking of quiting Mein Kampf. It's not really that interesting, and you always have to grab a dictionary just to figure out what the psycho is trying to say! It's confusing, it's long, it's small print, and it's hard to pay attention to. I'm almost to the middle of the book, so could anybody tell me if there's any part that really stuck out to them that was in the last half? Otherwise, I see no point to reading it, and I'm just going to quit.

 

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Courtney

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• Aug 16, 2003

• #354

I am reading the one and only Lord of the Rings! It's pretty exciting because this time I am reading the one where it is all one giant book...

 

Eliot

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• Aug 16, 2003

• #355

Originally posted by Courtney
I am reading the one and only Lord of the Rings! It's pretty exciting because this time I am reading the one where it is all one giant book...

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I have the same thing. It was less expensive then buying the three volumes seperately, and I thought it looked kinda cool.

 

Rhiannon

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• Aug 16, 2003

• #356

When I re-read, I usually use one of our extremely-beat-up paperback sets (we have two or three), because my big one is...well, really big, and leather, and collectible, and prized, and things. But when my dad reads it aloud, he uses his really big, leather, collectible, and prized copy, and has ever since we were little.

<edit> I mean, of course, when I re-read LOTR.

Right now I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen in bed (it's great fun, and while I like Emma, I'm ready for her to mature. I love Mr. Knightly. He's so going to be haremed when I finish). I'm reading The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde out of my bag, and it's also great fun- FoolofaTook, have you heard of Jasper Fforde? I think you might enjoy The Eyre Affair, his first book, very much.

 

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Courtney

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• Aug 16, 2003

• #357

I love Emma! Well... I love anything by Jane Austen... You wouldn't happen to know where I could find Lady Susan, would you?... it's unfinished or something and so it is difficult to come by...

 

Rhiannon

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• Aug 16, 2003

• #358

My sister found it used at a Half Price Books in a volume with Sanditon and The Watsons- they're all unfinished/juvenalia. Unfortunately, she got it after I had gotten the same book (in paperback) from Amazon.com for her Christmas... *rolls eyes*

 

Finduilas

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• Aug 17, 2003

• #359

I'm reading now Jack London's Burning Daylight.
Then I'd like to read his Martin Eden. They are incredible I was told...

 

FoolOfATook

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• Aug 22, 2003

• #360

Titus Andronicus, for class. Written by some guy who hung out with Marlowe and Ben Jonson, and apparently wrote some plays. At any rate, they've devoted an entire class to his "early works", which seem to be about a Roman emperor, the King and Queen of Fairies, two Kings of England, a Jewish guy living in Venice obsessed with a pound of flesh (no more, no less), and other such weirdos.