What 📔book are you reading right now?

CelebrianTiwele

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• Apr 19, 2003

• #101

Well, I just finished Sutter's Cross. I will warn you rite now. don't read it. It is incredibly boring except for like the last 20 pages. I want to read the 'in Death' series by Nora Roberts but my evil stepmom won't let me. Ah well, must find other book. Maybe I should read 'Holes' before getting dragged to the movie.

 

Talierin

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• Apr 19, 2003

• #102

I'm now reading Long John Silver, by Bjorn something-swedish... it's an "autobiography" of Silver, quite interesting so far!


And I think I've read Winter of Fire.... did Sherryl Jordan also write The Raging Quiet? If so, I think I've read Fire too...

 

Eliot

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• Apr 19, 2003

• #103

On Friday, I finished Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden. Very good. I'm re-reading The Lord of the Rings the third time through, and after that, I'll start (don't shoot me) Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler.

I'll eventually start How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove, and 1984 by George Orwell.

 

Rhiannon

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• Apr 19, 2003

• #104

Turtledove, there's a name I recognize. My brother discovered him recently - I'll have to pick up one of his sometime soon.

 

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Zale

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• Apr 19, 2003

• #105

Having just finished Asimov's "I, Robot" (BUY! READ! NOW!), I'm reading "Inquisition" by Anselm Audley. He's at the same college as my sister!

 

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• Apr 20, 2003

• #106

I am now reading The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, upon reccomendation of my father.

 

Lantarion

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• Apr 20, 2003

• #107

I read 1984 a while ago.. It's truly magnificent, though it's really disturbing as well..
We have to read a book for Finnish class, called Seitsemän veljestä ("Seven brothers").. It's pretty humorous, and written in quite an old dialect of Finnish; but it is considered to be one of the jewels of Finnish literature. It's actually not bad, but the language sort of gets to you if you read too much at once..
Still it's nowhere near as wierd as the Kalevala, which I have told myself I am going to read from front to back during the summer vacation.
I really want to read "Richard III" by Shakespeare, it seems very complex and cunning. Maybe I'll read that next..
But I also want to read the BoLT 1 and 2! And I should re-read Animal Farm.. Aargh!

 

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Thindraug_2

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• Apr 20, 2003

• #108

Has anyone read the fever

 

Eliot

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• Apr 20, 2003

• #109

Originally posted by Lantarion
I read 1984 a while ago.. It's truly magnificent, though it's really disturbing as well..

....And I should re-read Animal Farm.. Aargh!

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I'll eventually get to Animal Farm. My list of books I want to read is endless...

 

FoolOfATook

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• Apr 20, 2003

• #110

Blackhawk Down is an extraordinary book. If I could only remember the author's name... He did a marvelous piece about the Husseins in Atlantic Monthly a few months back. (Yes, I'm part of that East Coast Literati that reads AM and The New Yorker and worships Bloom. )

Pretty much anything by Orwell is worth reading.

 

Eliot

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• Apr 20, 2003

• #111

Originally posted by FoolOfATook
Blackhawk Down is an extraordinary book. If I could only remember the author's name...

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His name is Mark Bowden.

 

FoolOfATook

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• Apr 20, 2003

• #112

Bowden. That's it. Anyway Eliot, here's the story I was talking about it. I think that you'll appreciate it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/05/bowden.htm

 

FREEDOM!

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• Apr 20, 2003

• #113

I just got done reading "Shaddow Warriors". RangerDave, You should read it.

 

Rhiannon

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• Apr 20, 2003

• #114

My list of books I want to read is endless...

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Ditto that- as the resident YARG goddess CK likes to say, 'Must. Read. Faster!'

 

FoolOfATook

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• Apr 20, 2003

• #115

I really want to read "Richard III" by Shakespeare, it seems very complex and cunning. Maybe I'll read that next..

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"Was ever woman in such humour wooed?
Was ever woman in such humour won?
I'll have her, but I will not keep her long."

I absolutely love Richard III. If you have a chance, read the entire Henriad (Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and Henry V) as well.

 

Lantarion

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• Apr 21, 2003

• #116

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that lowered upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

I've actually read a little bit of it; and I just saw "Looking for Richard" with Al Pacino, which is great.

 

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• Apr 21, 2003

• #117

Sabrina the Teenage Witch, LOL.

 

Rhiannon

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• Apr 21, 2003

• #118

Has anyone here read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde? It takes place in an alternate universe that is obsessed with books, Shakespeare in particular, and there's a wonderful scene at a theatre where Richard III is performed every week; the director auditions people from the audience half an hour before the show, and everyone has the play memorized, and joins in for the battle, etc., and shout out additional lines. "WHEN IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT?" "NOW is the winter of our discontent..."

 

e.Blackstar

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• Apr 21, 2003

• #119

I am reading Conquerers' Pride by Timothy Zahn. Excellent book

 

Elbereth

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• Apr 24, 2003

• #120

Well...I have just finished "the Lays of Beleriand"...and since I don't have a new Tolkien book to continue on my Middle earth journey...I have opted to read my copy of Socrates, "The Aedipus Cycle".

I read this book in college...but couldn't give it full attention that it deserved because I had six other classes that semester ended up skimming much of it for the sake of time constraints. But so far I am enjoying it. I'm sure it will be an easy and quick read for me. At least I hope so...because I am excited about moving onto my next Tolkien book in the series.