What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Thorondor]

I've started RotK again. Mainly to refresh my memory so I can:
1. Explain what the heck is going on for my less than knowledgable friends at the movie.
2. Make my own mental criticisms of PJ's "interpretation"

 

[Lantarion]

Originally posted by Isilme
I'm reading 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde in English class right now.

Haha, I've seen the movie based on the book; it's hilarious!

And Canterbury Tales is really funny too.

 

[Rhiannon]

You should read the other C S Lewis ones as well, especially Screwtape Letters, which is very thought-provoking.

I've read all of his fiction except for the science fiction trilogy (we don't own it), and I've always meant to read the non-fiction but never have.

This non-fiction spasm thing knows no bounds...much as I love the Bible, I've never really been interested in Genesis before.

 

[Eliot]

Well, I finally finished The Return of the King for the third time. I loved it all over again. I forgot how good it is. I'm now reading the Appendices.

I'm still reading The Killer Angels, it's going kinda slow. Oh well, I'll finish.

 

[flame]

im reading hunted liverpool 8 by tom slemen

(tom slemen is a local auther who investigates local storys of liverpool (were i live) his storys range from ghoast storys to local storys that have kept people in wonder (like a ninja killing in Haunted liverpool 5). and yes i have read all 7, im reading 8th now

 

[FoolOfATook]

The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde.

Because I have promises to keep...

 

[Rhiannon]

The Fool of a Took is back! You haven't been around in forever...

And speaking of promises, I've probably read Preludes & Nocturnes twenty times now, especially the last one. I love Death.

I finished Mere Christianity tonight, and I've started on The South Was Right! so that I'll be able to hold a conversation with my father.

 

[Wolfshead]

In addition to The Path Of Daggers, I'm also reading a biography of Otto von Bismarck called Bismark, The Man And The Statesman by AJP Taylor for some background reading for Higher History. Quite interesting, really.

 

[FoolOfATook]

I've probably read Preludes & Nocturnes twenty times now, especially the last one. I love Death.

Yeah, "The Sound of Her Wings" is incredible. Neil Gaiman wrote two mini-serieses(?) featuring Death, and they're both tremendous.

You have a lot to look forward to in Volume II, The Doll's House- The Cornithian, Rose Walker, finding out how vicious Desire can be, and the first appearance of a struggling playwright/actor from Stratford-Upon-Avon in the series... Will something

You already know this, but The Eyre Affair is delightful. The Rocky Horror Picture Show production of Richard III practically had me in tears.

 

[Rhiannon]

Must...buy...more...volumes!

I knew you'd love the Richard III

 

[FoolOfATook]

Finished The Eyre Affair. Tremendous book. While I wait for the library to get in a copy of the sequel, I'm continuing my progress through the James Bond novels, by Ian Fleming. Now I'm on Thunderball. If you've only seen the movies, the books are surprising- James is very different in the novels.

I'm also working on Fight The Power, the autobiography of Chuck D. (The frontman of Public Enemy).

 

[Rhiannon]

I'm bouncing back and forth between several books at the moment...The Aboliton of Man by CS Lewis, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (my brother's Christmas present, shh), my seventh re-read of The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon, and of course The South Was Right!. I abandoned Eregon, too annoyed by the fact that I just know I can write better, though I might pick it up again later, and I'm itching to start Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, both of which are sitting temptingly here in front of me...

 

[Halasían]

The Black Company

I been reading the Black Company series, having finished the first four books. I await Sahow Games, the first of the Books of the South to be delivered.

 

[Eliot]

Have any of you read The Wheel of Time series? If so, how did you like it? I'm going to be getting Book I: The Eye of the World from my library. It's pretty large, so I'm not sure if I want to read it or not. Could I have some advice?

 

[Rhiannon]

The first six Time books I thought were really, really good. I enjoyed them. After that, things just got really long...the series keeps going and going and going etc. and because long and convoluted and I only kept reading because I was attached to two of the characters.

 

[Eliot]

OK, thanks Rhi. I think I'll try reading the series.

 

[gilgalad]

I'm just starting Homer's Iliad. I read the Oddyssy(or however you spell it!) and felt i was after missin out on a lot of important backround info so i'll prob end up reading that again afterwards for completions sake.

PS Eliot, what's the signiture about?

 

[Eliot]

Originally posted by gilgalad
PS Eliot, what's the signiture about?

OK, all this stuff has to do with the Chicago Cubs, a Baseball team.

AC005895: AC is something Latin, something to do with Bears. 00 means 0 years since the Cubs won their Division. 58 means fifty-eight years since the Cubs went to the World Series. 95 means ninety-five years since the Cubs won the World Series.

"Eamus Catuli!" presumably means "Go Cubs!" in Latin.

And on the bottom, are all the years the Cubs have been to the World Series. The years in BOLD are the years the Cubs have actually won the World Series.

 

[Talierin]

Read only the first three books of Wheel of Time, heh.... other ones are crap... I made it up to 6 before I quit reading... 4, 5, and 6 aren't very good...

 

[Rhiannon]

Yeah. But Nynaeve is such fun!