What 📔book are you reading right now?

Lantarion · Dec 6, 2003

Woah Elbereth sounds fascinating.

LOL sorry Eriol.. I always get you two mixed up.

Talierin · Dec 6, 2003

Everyone should go read Mister Monday by Garth Nix, tis a fablous book... can't really explain what it's about though, it was very odd, but really good...

Rhiannon · Dec 7, 2003

I read Mists of Avalon way back and really enjoyed it, but since then I've kind of gotten tired of the 'pagan feminist' theme. It seems like every Arthurian re-telling is one now.

Mister Monday is in my room waiting to be read- I borrowed it from my friend months ago and just haven't gotten to it yet

FoolOfATook · Dec 10, 2003

I've finally decided to read Stephen King's Dark Tower books. I've just begun the second one, although I won't be able to read as much as I like for the next few days because of exams.

Arebeth · Dec 10, 2003

I've finally started Germinal by Zola (for French class), and I must say it's an incredible good book, even if I'm not really into French realism/naturalism. I'm rather a romantic...

Rhiannon · Dec 10, 2003

My brother loves the Dark Tower books...one of these days I'll have to read them.

I'm still working on Sophie's World, and now I'm reading The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers, and The Gilded Chain by Dave Duncan, both fun, escapist type reads.

arisen pheonix · Dec 10, 2003

right now im deep into the Wheel of Time..... im on book 6 the lord of chaos.....really good

Captain · Dec 10, 2003

Right now I'm reading Don Quixote for school. It's pretty funny, but I've got to read the whole 1000 pages in a month, and I have many other things to do (midterms, research papers, science fair project, etc.)

Elentári · Dec 10, 2003

I am on The Great Hunt (book #2 in the Wheel of Time.)

I would have to say that I love the series so far, the first book I read in three days. I always have to pull myself away from the book to work on my homework!

Courtney · Dec 12, 2003

Well... since I have been here last, I have finished Jane Eyre, The Lost World (Crichton), The History of Middle Earth (the one with the Lost Road)... and I am going to try not to start another book until I am finished with exams next week.... grrr...

Eliot · Dec 12, 2003

Originally posted by Courtney
The Lost World (Crichton)

Ooooooo.....that's a good book, IMHO. How did you like it, Courtney? Have you read Jurassic Park?

Courtney · Dec 12, 2003

Oh yes!!! I read Jurassic Park for the first time in 5th grade, so of course I didn't understand much of it, except that there were dinosaurs...

I really love both books... and they are much better than the movies... grr... in the Lost World, the little girl does some gymnastics trick and kicks the velociraptor. Yeah right!!! And the third movie was just not neccessary, but I still like them because it is the closest I can get to seeing dinosaurs...

and I have read some of Crichton's other stuff... Sphere, Congo, I can't remember what else, it was a while ago.

Eliot · Dec 12, 2003

Originally posted by Courtney
Oh yes!!! I read Jurassic Park for the first time in 5th grade, so of course I didn't understand much of it, except that there were dinosaurs...

Haha, I never even knew about JP until I saw the movie when I was 5.

Originally posted by Courtney
I really love both books... and they are much better than the movies... grr... in the Lost World, the little girl does some gymnastics trick and kicks the velociraptor. Yeah right!!! And the third movie was just not neccessary, but I still like them because it is the closest I can get to seeing dinosaurs...

Yeah, the books are a LOT better. I read both of them when I was 12. I had some trouble understanding some different things, but I also had trouble putting the book down.

Originally posted by Courtney
and I have read some of Crichton's other stuff... Sphere, Congo, I can't remember what else, it was a while ago.

I haven't read any thing else of Crichton's. I've seen Congo, but IMO, it was dumb. My dad read Prey, but I really have no idea what that's about. Wasn't Sphere also a movie? I think I remember seeing a movie called Sphere.

Lantarion · Dec 13, 2003

You mean 'The Sphere' with Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L. Jackson etc.? Man now that is a scary movie...
But excellent.

Maybe I should read the Jurassic Park books. They sound enjoyable.

Húrin Thalion · Dec 13, 2003

Right now: Guns, germs and steel. A short conclusion of how human history has been the last 13.000 years. By Jared Diamond.

A highly interesting book about human history, Diamond tries to give his answer to why the many civilizations have developed so differently, and for example why the European one dominated the world for such a long time and still does.

Måns

arisen pheonix · Dec 13, 2003

Originally posted by Elentári
I am on The Great Hunt (book #2 in the Wheel of Time.)

I would have to say that I love the series so far, the first book I read in three days. I always have to pull myself away from the book to work on my homework!

its an awesome series....whos you fav character so far?

Eledhwen · Dec 13, 2003

The Visitation, by Frank Peretti, is my current read. On Thurs/Fri I read Pride and Prejudice, because seeing it 2nd on The Big Read reminded me that I hadn't read it. Excellent stuff. The jury's still out on Peretti; I know his style, so I think I know what will happen, but we'll see.

Inderjit S · Dec 16, 2003

Currently, my non-fiction reading consists of War and Peace in the Middle-East by Avi Shlaim, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast and Rogue State by William Blum.

My fiction reads, are Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Regeneration by Pat Barker and presently the delightful, if controversial Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, which I cannot seem to put down!

Yet, despite his charms Humbert can never measure to one of my favourite literary characters, Stephen Wraysford from Birdsong *swoon* those big, brown impassive eyes, his sweetness, his charm...it's enough to make a guy cry.

I still have to get round reading Doctor Zhivago if only because I loved the T.V adaptation last year mainly because of the very beautiful Keira Knightley. I still remember seeing her for the first time looking into that shop window. *sigh* my heart was all fluttery for days after.

Anyway anyone want to discuss Birdsong, Regeneration or Lolita. (Or Keira Knightley!) Or Animal Farm?

Eliot · Dec 16, 2003

Well, I don't really have time to discuss it, but I really really enjoyed Orwell's Animal Farm. That's a great book.

Elentári · Dec 16, 2003

its an awesome series....whos you fav character so far?

Wow! Hard thing to choose!

I really don't think that I have one yet.

Maybe Perrin because I love wolves so much. But I think that they are all really cool and well developed characters.

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