What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Rhiannon]

It depends on which edition you're reading- the 'definitive edition', which is the one just out in pb now, has every single word of out of Frank's diaries that they've found: the original edition was edited by Frank's father and cut out a lot of things like her arguments with her mother. It's definintly worth reading, though I agree the parts about her emotions got dull and repetitive (like most journals).

 

[Blue Wizard]

I'm reading The Silmarilllion now.

 

[My_Precious]

Originally posted by Aragorn21
Currently I'm reading one of the most BORING books in the world! It's The Diary of Anne Frank . I'm like SNOOOOOORRRR!!!!!

It is not boring! First of all, it is real life, so if you are bored with the reality, than... Second of all, yes, it does not contain the cool fight scenes and all, but it is more interesting on the spiritual level... Try being locked up in the building for that long and writing a thriller. I read it when I was 9 the first time, and then the second time my sophomore year, and it deeply touched me. The only surviving family member was Anne's father...

 

[Underhill]

Right now I'm reading the dragon reborn by robert jordan.it Is cool but it copies Lotr,and it gets kinda boring at some parts.The story is cool,and all but I have stoped reading it for about three weeks. I'm on the third book,and there's supposed to be sixteen.

 

[Talierin]

Heh, just wait till the 4th book... snooooooooooore


*avoids asha'man*

 

[Wolfshead]

Originally posted by Underhill
Right now I'm reading the dragon reborn by robert jordan.it Is cool but it copies Lotr,and it gets kinda boring at some parts.The story is cool,and all but I have stoped reading it for about three weeks. I'm on the third book,and there's supposed to be sixteen.

Speak quietly, or Ash will have your head

Oddly, though, it doesn't copy LOTR - not any further than the unavoidable similarities between all books in the fantasy genre. I've read the first 5 - I've been waiting for the 6th to come into the library since October, I think I may end up buying it! However, I've got a huge pile of other stuff to read, so we'll see when we run out

I love the story - it's so complex and you really get into because you get so much detail. Perrin's thread is definately the most interesting one, though And those girls, Nynaeve and co running round just get on my nerves...

There are 10 books just now, but I believe the plan is for 13 rather than 16.

 

[Aragorn21]

It is not boring! First of all, it is real life, so if you are bored with the reality, than... Second of all, yes, it does not contain the cool fight scenes and all, but it is more interesting on the spiritual level... Try being locked up in the building for that long and writing a thriller. I read it when I was 9 the first time, and then the second time my sophomore year, and it deeply touched me. The only surviving family member was Anne's father...

Didn't you read my post after that? And by the way, they only had 9 months until the end of the war with Germany, then they would be free. It's kind of depressing knowing only the father survived when they were SO close.

 

[Rhiannon]

Originally posted by CraigSmith
Speak quietly, or Ash will have your head

Oddly, though, it doesn't copy LOTR - not any further than the unavoidable similarities between all books in the fantasy genre. I've read the first 5 - I've been waiting for the 6th to come into the library since October, I think I may end up buying it! However, I've got a huge pile of other stuff to read, so we'll see when we run out

I love the story - it's so complex and you really get into because you get so much detail. Perrin's thread is definately the most interesting one, though And those girls, Nynaeve and co running round just get on my nerves...

There are 10 books just now, but I believe the plan is for 13 rather than 16.

Somewhere in the book 4-7 area, the story got much, much too slow. Everything was going in circles and nobody accomplished anything until the 9th book. It just drags on and on and on and on and on....I haven't even bothered with the most recent one. But oh well- if you like 'em, more power to you.

I finally finished Rebecca last night, after taking a break from it to read Snow White and Rose Red: A Modern Fairy Tale (which was extremely predictable, but still enjoyable because of the number of similarities between the main characters and my sister and I- long story, sort of, behind that). Goodness. I was not expecting that ending. I did not like the first 2/3rds of the book (Rebecca) very much at all, because the narrator was so irritating. Completely spineless and dull. But the last third I enjoyed very much, once things livened up.

 

[FoolOfATook]

Given that the last post was about a book that became a Hitchcock film, it's almost appropriate that right now I'm reading Raymond Durgant's study A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho. Very good so far, for anyone interested in film. I'm also reading and re-reading Donne's Satyres for class- brillant, but difficult works...

 

[Eliot]

I finished What If? a few days ago, I'm now reading Great Battlefields of the World by John MacDonald. It's very good.

 

[Elendil3119]

I'm currently reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and The Annotated Hobbit. Both are extremely good!

 

[Wolfshead]

I gave up on The Thomas Covenant Chronicles, it just wasn't doing anything for me. So now I'm reading Belgarath The Sorcerer by David Eddings - it's the prequel to The Belgariad.

 

[Eliot]

Hey Elendil, what's the difference between the Annotated Hobbit, and just the normal one?

 

[FoolOfATook]

A book is considered annotated when someone adds notes to a book to enhance and clarify the text. Douglas A. Anderson did this for The Hobbit, pointing out the origins of elements of the story, interesting links between the book and Tolkien's other works, notes about the origins of some words, notes about translations, and, perhaps most interestingly, notes about where the text was changed in the various revisions that Tolkien made. I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in Tolkien.

 

[Eliot]

OK, thanks.

 

[Eliot]

Continuing The Two Towers, a little over halfway through Book IV. A lot better then I remembered.

I have Mein Kampf (My Struggle) reserved at my library right now. All I have to do now, is to go pick it up.

 

[Idril]

1984. I found this old copy in my bookcase and it has my maiden name in it! I don't even remember buying/owning it. It must be a good 20 yrs old! About time it got read I think

 

[Rhiannon]

I finished The Road Home by Ellen Emerson White- Awesome, awesome book. Whoever let this book go out of print needs to be shot.

Now I'm hovering in between books and can't really seem to get started on anything.

 

[FoolOfATook]

I just finished Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings, and am currently reading Roverandom, written by Our Favorite Philologist. After that I'll probably begin on C.S. Lewis' space trilogy. Of course, there's also the enormous amount of Donne that I'm reading for school- we finished the Satyres and are now working on his Elegies.

 

[Eliot]

OK, this is what I'm still in the middle of:

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien,
Great Battlefields of the World by John MacDonald,
Roverandom (well, I'm still reading the preface) by J.R.R. Tolkien,

and I just finished reading The No Spin Zone by Bill O'Reilly. That's a really good book. Seriously! It's good! And it's not just Right-Wing propaganda. It's very interesting. I read it in less then one day.

I also finally got Mein Kampf from my library. I'm looking forward to reading it, for some weird reason. Don't worry, I won't become a Nazi. Though, I am half German.