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What 📔book are you reading right now?

Well, after finishing 'Goose Green,' I am now reading a book called 'The Peoples of Middle-earth.' It is written by this person called Christopher Tolkien. Maybe some of you have heard of him?
A rather good book, actually. But it takes some time to get into it.
 
I have just finished HoMe-3 - The Lays of Beleriand. Now every though I have, every sentence I make ... it comes out in rhymes!

I am now plunging into next vlume - The Shaping of the ME. It promisses to be even more interesting!

Hey, BTW, what's the purpose of this thread?
We could at least share opinions on what we're reading, right?
 
Originally posted by FoolOfATook
-whispers- Sophocles, not Socrates-
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*turns bright red*

My god, that is bad. You are absolutely right. My only excuse is that I was very tired last night.
 
I had to figure out what you meant, Elbereth, because I've always seen it written as 'Oedipus'. I haven't read the other two, but I absolutely love Antigone. Once you've read Sophocles' play, you must read Jean Anouilh's- It was written during the German occupation of France, and is wonderful. I was costume mistress for an HS production of it last year (v. fun).
 
I loved Antigone! Those are some of the few plays I actually enjoy reading.
 
Well, I just finished Animal Farm this morning, and it was very good. I'm serious. I'm still working my way through The Fellowship of the Ring, I'm a little over half-way through it.
 
EEEEE!!!!! I loved Animal Farm too!!! Isn't it wonderful when you find out that there are other people who enjoy the same books as you??? Orwell is another one of my all-time favorite authors. Have you ever read 1984, or Keep the Aspidistra Flying? That one was my favorite.
 
Originally posted by Courtney
EEEEE!!!!! I loved Animal Farm too!!! Isn't it wonderful when you find out that there are other people who enjoy the same books as you???
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Yes, it is actually. 8^)

Originally posted by Courtney
Orwell is another one of my all-time favorite authors. Have you ever read 1984, or Keep the Aspidistra Flying? That one was my favorite.
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I plan on starting 1984 sometime later this evening, and I'm not sure what Keep the Aspidistra Flying is about. I might get it from my library.
 
Well right now I'm reading "Two Towers" by.. we all know who! "The Rescue" by Nicholas Sparks and "Speechless" by Steven Curtis Chapman
 
I'm currently reading Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson, it's the first in the Thomas Covenant Chronicles. I'm not too sure about it - the main character is a leper and he has recently raped a young women. Maybe I'm just odd, but normally I don't like the hero doing that kind of thing. Plus the name of the bad guy is incredibly lame - Lord Foul The Despiser

Anyway, I'll finish it, despite those negative aspects, it hasn't been a bad story so far.
 
at the moment i'm reading "Last of the Crazy People" by great canadian author, Timothy Findley. none of his novels have dissapointed me yet
 
Right now I'm reading a lot of poetry- Robert Browning, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, John Keats- stuff like that. Plus I'm reading Alan Moore's graphic novel From Hell, which is pretty insanely awesome so far.
 
WB Yeats' poetry is top class FOAT, isn't it? Seamas Heaney is my favourite poet, thank God he's on the English course over here!
 
Yeats is incredible. I haven't read much Heaney, mostly because my literary mentor despises him. Not the best reason, I suppose...
 
Heaney is excellant, you (as you know yourself, im sure) shouldn't let narrow minded people hinder your appreciation of poetry, although I can't understand how anyone could despise someone who could write a poem like "Sunlight".
 
I've only read a little Heaney, but I really liked it (I can't read poetry in large doses). We have his translation of Beowulf, which I will eventually get through
 
Wow. 1984 is harder to read then I expected. I'm only a little bit through it, so I'll finish The Fellowship of the Ring first, then continue it (1984) later.
 
Definitely stick at 1984, it's so great, it makes alot more sense if you get through all the Newspeak glossaries!

By the way, Heaney? Heaney is so annoying, I had to do him in High School and I find his poems about digging peat and walking in muddy fields completely tedious. He isn't a patch on Keats or Robert Browning (Porphyria's Lover -)

Gave up completely on Mrs Dalloway, merrily going through Dr Zhivago now!
 
Just finished The Fellowship of the Ring a few hours ago. I was pretty disappointed, because I promised myself I'd finish 1984 first, right after FOTR. Oh well. From what I hear from many people, I'll really like 1984. I guess I'll have to wait to start The Two Towers.
 
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