What 📔book are you reading right now?

[klugiglugus]

The magician is rubbish! Don't even bother! The first chapter is mildly interesting with the house in the forest and such things but it just all goes down hill from there! Worse than Harry Potter! I do not jest! All the characters are idiotic; the story line is mildly stimulating but too quick and thrifty.

Time looking at such a foolish rag, as the 'Magician' would be better spent revising the 'Hobbit' or briefly skimming through the works of Tacticus!

 

[Lantarion]

I'm currently reading Aristotle's Poetics.. But the foreword is over half the book, and I have a habit of reading certain books only on the way to and from school (the train trip takes about 10 mins in one direction), so it'll take me a while to actually start it.

 

[Wolfshead]

I've heard Magician is very good, and it came in the top 100 books on the recent BBC poll, LOTR was the only other fantasy novel in there. So, I reckon it's worth a shot.

 

[Rhiannon]

Magician wasn't rubbish, though it wasn't particularly to my taste. I enjoyed it and the next few books well enough, but I wasn't motivated to finish the whole series.


klugiglugus, I mean this nicely, but would you not call things rubbish? It's okay to say you hated it, but that doesn't mean everyone else will. It just didn't work for you. I hate Dickins, myself.

 

[Courtney]

That last book I read (Evolution's Shore) stinks! I would reccommend it to nobody! Unless of couse you want to test yourself to see how much crappy writing you can read before you lose your mind!!! Grrr... and the characters! They weren't lovable at all not even likeable! Oh well... I'll spare you from the rest of my complaints... just don't read it ok?

So now I had to read something that I KNOW is good... the Silmarillion... It is only my second or third time reading it... I can't remember...

 

[Wolfshead]

Well, it's good so far. I've read the foreward...

Worse than Harry Potter!

Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention this, I actually enjoy Harry Potter. So it could be just you who doesn't really like that kind of book.

 

[Eliot]

I finished Refuting Evolution last night.

Pretty soon, I'll be reading Brian Jacques' Loamhedge just so I can say that I've read the whole Redwall series. I just have to wait for it to get to my library, that's all.

 

[Rhiannon]

...And this loyal Redwall fan still doesn't even have Triss. This is depressing.

 

[Eliot]

Originally posted by Rhiannon
...And this loyal Redwall fan still doesn't even have Triss. This is depressing.

Haha...I think Triss was actually one of the best ones, IMHO. But, that was about 6 monts ago that I read it, so.....I'm not sure if I'll be as interested in Loamhedge as I was with the other books when I started the series. I'll still read it of course. It only takes a couple of days for me. I can't just read it through in one sit though.

 

[klugiglugus]

Well, it's good so far. I've read the foreward...

That’s right it lures you into a false sense of security, then bam! Terrible, rubbish, writing! The entire story is accelerated! With boring plot lines and really bad characters! People shouldn't be allowed to publish that kind of rubbish! Go read Tad Williams!

 

[Starflower]

without commenting on the rubbishness of the Magician ( which I have read) , I second your suggestion to read T Williams

 

[Wolfshead]

That’s right it lures you into a false sense of security, then bam! Terrible, rubbish, writing!

That wasn't quite what I was meaning - I wouldn't really say the foreward inspired me either way, it merely re-iterated what a success the book has been, it would seem some people enjoyed it...

 

[Eliot]

I'll probably finish Ruled Britannia sometime tonight.

 

[flame]

i read a comic called Were The Wind Blows, by Raymond Briggs, its so sad.

 

[Eliot]

Well, I miracualously finished both Ruled Britannia and America's Wars last night. The latter I finished last, and when I finally closed the book, it was 3:00. It's not 10 here, and I'm amazingly not very tired.

Now, I need to go to the library fast to get some new books!!!

 

[Rhiannon]

I tried to start Perdido Street Station by China Mieville last night, but didn't get very far- the squeamishness of it is off-putting, but I know a lot of people who love it. We'll see if it passes the 100-page test.

 

[ely]

I have to read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" through by Thursday. Not that it's boring or anything, but first it's such kind of book that I'd like to read slowly, and secondly I have also many other things to do. It's always like that with me, if I HAVE to read something, it loses half of its value...

 

[Eliot]

I'm about to start William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and The Genesis Flood by John T. Whitcomb.

 

[Manveru]

I'm reading "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. Great book so far. I've read about 50 pages and... I've lingered here for too long.

*gets back to reading*

 

[Eliot]

The version of Hamlet I'm reading is split up into the old English version, and a modern English version. I finished the latter last night. It was a GREAT story! I loved it. Now I'll be able to understand the old English version when I start it today.