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What 📔book are you reading right now?

I finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman this evening. It rocks. Highly recommended, though it might not be for everyone.
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I started it yesterday.. I'm about halfway through. So far I really like it.

PS- Feel better Rhi
 
I predict you'll love the end, Niri I drew the reading of it out pretty long; after the holidays I was really burned out and I had been reading several books that I didn't finish, so a nice, slow read of a good book was very nice.
 
Started LOTR again, yeah yeah yeah i know.

1 peter, didn't even realize my sig was from there i put that up a long time ago.

Next semester will be reading Dante's Inferno, world lit class.
 
Finished Neverwhere today. Loved it. Started The Da Vinci Code, because my mom has been pestering me about reading it for awhile.
 
Elendil3119 said:
I'm currently reading LotR (again ) and The Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer. What about you guys?
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Hi,
I read some tales from the Canterbury Tales during Christmas Holidays...and in english, though finnish is my native..I also read then "Timeline" by Michael Chrichton and reread "The Children of Dune".

Right now I'm reading a scifi by Megan Lindholm (who also uses an alias Robin Hobb) and it's called "The Reindeer People".
It's in english too. I love this language and I think it's better to read books and novels in the language of the author.

And I'm considering of reading The Return of the King again in the near future..
 
Niirewen said:
Finished Neverwhere today. Loved it.
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Isn't the ending perfect, Niri?

I'm halfway through The Time Traveler's Wife and I'm absolutely eating it up. (though, it does have a fair bit of mature content- not hugely graphic, but present)
 
Sam_Gamgee said:
Started LOTR again, yeah yeah yeah i know.

1 peter, didn't even realize my sig was from there i put that up a long time ago.

Next semester will be reading Dante's Inferno, world lit class.
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Are you in the IB? We have World Lit too, or we have to write essays about it..
But I've always wanted to read the entire 'Divina Commedia', just haven't got round to it.
 
Isn't the ending perfect, Niri?
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Yes! It made me so anxious when he went back to his normal life, and I kept thinking- "What do you think your doing? Don't you realize you don't belong there?" When he finally went back to London Below it was a huge relief. Great ending.

Suprisingly, I'm really enjoying The Da Vinci Code. Mystery-thriller type books aren't what I usually go for, but I've hardly been able to put it down. It's very interesting.
 
I just finished The Time Traveler's Wife this evening. I loooved it. I'm still in post-really-really-really good book haze.
 
I just finished The Da Vinci Code. I really liked it. Too bad I missed the class my church was having on it.. I would've liked to have gone to it. I don't know what book I'll read next..
 
I'm currently reading the works of Raymond Feist. I've already read the Krondor trilogy, I've almost finished Magician and I'm going to read Silverthorn next (obviously). I enjoyed them, though not as much as LOTR of course.
I did like the Divina Commedia BTW, you should really read it if you have a chance, but take an edition with a lot of notes or you won't understand most of it.
 
Reading More's 'Utopia' will follow that up with Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby', Edith Wharton's 'The Custom of the Country' and John Stuart Mills political commentary 'On Liberty and Utilitarianism' as well as Robert Kagan's 'Paradise and Power'.

Just read Camus's 'The Outsider' which was brilliant!

Can anyone recommend any good old fashioned romances? Also any John Keats fans here?
 
It's not exactly a good old fashioned romance, but The Time Traveler's Wife is wonderful and gorgeous- you might give it a try. It's the best book with a romantic theme that I've read in a long time.

I like John Keats, but I don't read as much of him as I do John Donne. Wordsworth I can't stand.

I'm reading My Antionia by (I think) Willa Cather, and Dandilion Wine by Ray Bradbury for my book group.
 
just finished out Penmans The Queens Man and Dragon's Lair....was ok....and some more of the Poe collection...must say House of Usher is STILL my fav....and New Spring by Robert Jordan...good...and the Demon Lord of Keranda by Eddings...also good....
 
Let me know how you like My Antonia, Rhi. My mom gave me it for Christmas (I've been reading a lot of American classics lately) but I haven't read it yet.
 
Black Company Books

I have been reading Glen Cook's Black Company series and have finished the first four. Like the Silmarillion, the first one is a bit hard to start, but after getting through the first couple chapters it went well. Even learned a new card game from these books. I am currently reading Bleak Seasons, which is book 1 of the 'Glittering Stone' series. May be a bit dark for some who prefer the lighter Tolkienesque fantasy, but well worth the read in my opinion. Kudos to Moonbiter who prompted me to started reading them a few years back, though I didn't start until last year.
 
I'm almost through reading The Da Vinci Code. I think it is an great book. Murder, betrayal, corruption, history, what else could you as for?
 
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