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I've started RotK again. Mainly to refresh my memory so I can:
1. Explain what the heck is going on for my less than knowledgable friends at the movie.
2. Make my own mental criticisms of PJ's "interpretation"
Well, I finally finished The Return of the King for the third time. I loved it all over again. I forgot how good it is. I'm now reading the Appendices.
I'm still reading The Killer Angels, it's going kinda slow. Oh well, I'll finish.
(tom slemen is a local auther who investigates local storys of liverpool (were i live) his storys range from ghoast storys to local storys that have kept people in wonder (like a ninja killing in Haunted liverpool 5). and yes i have read all 7, im reading 8th now
In addition to The Path Of Daggers, I'm also reading a biography of Otto von Bismarck called Bismark, The Man And The Statesman by AJP Taylor for some background reading for Higher History. Quite interesting, really.
Yeah, "The Sound of Her Wings" is incredible. Neil Gaiman wrote two mini-serieses(?) featuring Death, and they're both tremendous.
You have a lot to look forward to in Volume II, The Doll's House- The Cornithian, Rose Walker, finding out how vicious Desire can be, and the first appearance of a struggling playwright/actor from Stratford-Upon-Avon in the series... Will something
You already know this, but The Eyre Affair is delightful. The Rocky Horror Picture Show production of Richard III practically had me in tears.
Finished The Eyre Affair. Tremendous book. While I wait for the library to get in a copy of the sequel, I'm continuing my progress through the James Bond novels, by Ian Fleming. Now I'm on Thunderball. If you've only seen the movies, the books are surprising- James is very different in the novels.
I'm also working on Fight The Power, the autobiography of Chuck D. (The frontman of Public Enemy).
I'm bouncing back and forth between several books at the moment...The Aboliton of Man by CS Lewis, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (my brother's Christmas present, shh), my seventh re-read of The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon, and of course The South Was Right!. I abandoned Eregon, too annoyed by the fact that I just know I can write better, though I might pick it up again later, and I'm itching to start Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, both of which are sitting temptingly here in front of me...
I been reading the Black Company series, having finished the first four books. I await Sahow Games, the first of the Books of the South to be delivered.
Have any of you read The Wheel of Time series? If so, how did you like it? I'm going to be getting Book I: The Eye of the World from my library. It's pretty large, so I'm not sure if I want to read it or not. Could I have some advice?
The first six Time books I thought were really, really good. I enjoyed them. After that, things just got really long...the series keeps going and going and going etc. and because long and convoluted and I only kept reading because I was attached to two of the characters.
I'm just starting Homer's Iliad. I read the Oddyssy(or however you spell it!) and felt i was after missin out on a lot of important backround info so i'll prob end up reading that again afterwards for completions sake.
OK, all this stuff has to do with the Chicago Cubs, a Baseball team.
AC005895: AC is something Latin, something to do with Bears. 00 means 0 years since the Cubs won their Division. 58 means fifty-eight years since the Cubs went to the World Series. 95 means ninety-five years since the Cubs won the World Series.
"Eamus Catuli!" presumably means "Go Cubs!" in Latin.
And on the bottom, are all the years the Cubs have been to the World Series. The years in BOLD are the years the Cubs have actually won the World Series.
Read only the first three books of Wheel of Time, heh.... other ones are crap... I made it up to 6 before I quit reading... 4, 5, and 6 aren't very good...