What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

That came as a great disappointment to me. I'd recommend running down the 1981 series. Not a high budget, but it followed the book fairly closely, IIRC.

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

That came as a great disappointment to me. I'd recommend running down the 1981 series. Not a high budget, but it followed the book fairly closely, IIRC.

Ah those 1960s film posters - always playing up a sex angle but with a certain mid 20th century restraint - rarely corresponding to any actual scene in the film!
(Spot the high heels!)

 

[Lithóniel]

I'm currently reading LotR (again ) and The Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer. What about you guys?

I’m reading Lotr The Two Towers right now 😃

 

[Lómelindë Lindórië]

On the 16th chapter of The Silmarillion.

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

Just read The Little Prince by Saint-Exupery. Definitely a book for children of all ages. The author's exquisite illustrations add to the story. A simple message that grown ups are very strange people who busy themselves with things that don't matter and that something you care for can become special to you.

 

[Lómelindë Lindórië]

Just read The Little Prince by Saint-Exupery. Definitely a book for children of all ages. The author's exquisite illustrations add to the story. A simple message that grown ups are very strange people who busy themselves with things that don't matter and that something you care for can become special to you.

I totally agree.

Passion is what fuels the heart.

 

[HALETH✒🗡]

I totally agree.

Passion is what fuels the heart.

I suppose Saint-Exupery meant love. Love and passion are not the same things.

 

[Olorgando]

I suppose Saint-Exupery meant love. Love and passion are not the same things.

True. Passion can be destructive.

 

[Lómelindë Lindórië]

True. Passion can be destructive.

Not if passion is under control. Love would be a safer option, though, as long as it's genuine and requited.

 

[HALETH✒🗡]

Some time ago I read "Words Living and Words Dead" by Nora Gal. The book is about creative writing, everyday writing and literary translation. There Nora Gal wrote about her experience in transiting "The Little Prince" from French into Russian. In French the same word is used for a female fox and a male fox, while in Russian there're two different words. It was difficult to define whether the fox was female or male. Some experts claimed that the fox was female and that the prince had to choose between his love to the fox and his love to the rose (Saint-Exupery loved two women, by the way), while the others thought that the fox was male, so the fox represents friendship and the rose represents love. Nora Gal chose the second version. In her translation the fox is male. What about the fox from "The Little Prince" in English (or in other languages)?

 

[Goldilocks Gamgee]

True. Passion can be destructive.

So can love.

 

[HALETH✒🗡]

So can love.

In what way?

 

[Lómelindë Lindórië]

In what way?

Unrequited love, I suppose. It is the most destructive of all, for it is the one that causes the most grief.

Yet grief can be a powerful healer, and one can learn much from unrequited love if they are lucky enough to be healed and get over it.

 

[HALETH✒🗡]

Unrequited love, I suppose. It is the most destructive of all, for it is the one that causes the most grief.

I hope that true love isn't destructive even if it is unrequited. To love is more important than to be loved.

 

[Olorgando]

Unrequited love, I suppose. It is the most destructive of all, for it is the one that causes the most grief.

If it turns destructive, it wasn't love, it was narcissism.
True love may have to mean letting go. It's basically something all parents go through when the children leave the "nest" (or it should be).
That's why I'm dubious about "passion", which too often smacks of narcissism for my taste, the second most destructive emotion after psychopathy.

 

[jdbliss]

I am currently reading The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. Pretty fascinating book, but a lot more difficult read than his book Supernova Era. Great Science Fiction out of China.

 

[Goldilocks Gamgee]

I just finished reading Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare, and found it a decent book. I am now thinking about reading the Hunger Games, because my friends seemed to have enjoyed it. Then again, my friends find Tolkien boring, so I don't know whether to trust their opinion...

 

[Olorgando]

After finally finishing my re-reading of my German translation of LoTR, I'm now delving into my 2012 German translation of Douglas A. Anderson's "Annotated Hobbit". After 51 pages of background information, it seems the story is finally beginning ...

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I'm reading The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross. It's about a Jewish village in Poland who avoided being attacked by Germany and was discovered in the 20th century while they were still living in 1800s Orthodox Jewish tradition. It's kind of like M. Night Shimaloomaloo's The Village movie but without monsters.

 

[Bunny]

I'm currently reading LotR (again ) and The Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer. What about you guys?

The Atlas of Middle-Earth , by Karen Wynn Fonstad.