What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Wolfshead]

There's no point in just reading the first 3 of WoT. I'm on book 8, and while it is so complicated, and does drag occasionally, I'd recommend it to anyone. By this stage, I know all the characters, and I don't know what it'll be like when the series finishes and there's no more from them...

 

[Eliot]

I finished Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels on Monday, and now I'm starting Jeff Shaara's (the son of Michael) Gods and Generals, the prequel to The Killer Angels.

Another book I read (very quickly ), was Out of the Blue: The Remarkable Story of the 2003 Chicago Cubs by the staff of the Chicago Tribune. It was awesome.

I'm also slowly reading The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. It's ok. A wee bit boring though. Oh well. I shall strive to finish it.

 

[Rhiannon]

I've never made any kind of attempt to read the Letters straight through. I use the index a lot, and flip through it, and look up random references, which is great fun.

I'm almost done with The Abolition of Man, which is really interesting- I think I'm going to end up using it a lot in my pro-homeschooling arguments.

 

[FoolOfATook]

I'm re-reading certain essays from the wonderful collection of scholarly articles about the HoMe, Tolkien's Legendarium.

Also, after seeing Master and Commander, I have an interesting compulsion to read Moby ****. But, the library called today and said that the copy of Confessions of an English Opium Eater that I requested has come in, and I might let that tide me over while I wait for them to get in either Lost In A Good Book (Rhiannon- you've made me a Fforde addict!) or The Spy Who Loved Me.

Edit: Oh come on... Moby ****?

 

[Rhiannon]

(Rhiannon- you've made me a Fforde addict!)

Mwahahahaha. I only peddle the very best bibliocrack.

 

[Eliot]

Originally posted by FoolOfATook
Edit: Oh come on... Moby ****?

Haha! Look, I can do it: Moby D¡ck.

I just started The Eye of the World yesterday. It's pretty interesting.

 

[FoolOfATook]

I picked up Jasper Fforde's Lost In A Good Book from the library yesterday- it got in earlier than expected. I'm halfway through it, and it's tremendous.

Because she tipped me off to Thursday Next, I think it can be officially noted that Rhiannon rules.

 

[Rhiannon]

Just doing my part to make the world a better, happier, Thursday-Next-loving place

I finished (finally) The Aboliton of Man, and I've started The Great Divorce- I suppose I'll have to find a copy of the Four Loves soon.

I'm also reading Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers still, but I'm almost done, and I've started Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosphy, which is very interesting.

But all this rather serious reading is going to take a hit, because it's absolutely imperative I find a copy of The Book of Three, book one in Lloyd Alexander's wonderful Prydain Chronicles, and proceed to devour the entire series for the first time in several years (it will also be more interesting now, after I've read part of The Mabinogion).

 

[klugiglugus]

I just read 'The Hobbit' its a bit complex and I didn't really understand it that well, the themes are a deep array of mystery to me and that bit where they go into the forest with all the spiders, well lets just say I soiled myself that evening...

I advise every body on this forum to read the Hobbit because they clearly haven’t read it already...

 

[Eliot]

I just want to announce that I'm lovin' Jordan's The Eye of the World. I'm only at Chapter Nine, but it's gotten pretty awesome so far.

 

[FoolOfATook]

I advise every body on this forum to read the Hobbit because they clearly haven’t read it already...

Actually, the vast majority of us have. I've read it several times, including the annotated edition which includes the original version of the Gollum/Bilbo encounter.

 

[Lantarion]

I'm pretty sure everybody here at TTF, with very few exceptions, has read the Hobbit.. It is the common introduction to Tolkien's world.

Hm, I'm still reading 'Canterbury Tales', "The Knight's Tale": It's very entertaining and even funny, but if you have a dislike for really arhaic and practically Anglo-Saxon English, then don't read it.
No but seriously I think anybody could get something out of it.

I am seriously planning to read the Silmarillion front front to back at some point too; even though I've read it some 5 times I haven't picked it up in over half a year, except to look up some quotes now and again.
And since I've joined deviantART I've had a growing liking for drawing things, and I've decided to start drawing things from Tolkien's works. I've just finished drawing and colouring my version of the 'Sceptre of Annúminas'. Relating to that, would somebody know a direct quote about it? I've searched for a long time but I haven't found a quote; even though I remember at least one.

 

[Rhiannon]

I finished The Great Divorce and Stiff this morning, so now it's just Sophie's World and The Deed of Paksenarrion.

 

[Eriol]

Originally posted by Lantarion
Relating to that, would somebody know a direct quote about it? I've searched for a long time but I haven't found a quote; even though I remember at least one.

Appendix A, a footnote to the heirlooms of the house of Isildur:

The sceptre was the chief mark of royalty in Númenor, the King tells us; and that was also so in Arnor, whose kings wore no crown, but bore a single white gem, the Elendilmir, Star of Elendil, bound on their brows with a silver fillet (I, 157, III, 123, 137, 145). In speaking of a crown (I, 182, 261) Bilbo no doubt referred to Gondor; he seems to have become well acquainted with matters concerning Aragorn's line. The sceptre of Númenor is said to have perished with Ar-Pharazôn. That of Annúminas was the silver rod of the Lords of Andúnië, and is now perhaps the most ancient work of Men's hands preserved in Middle-Earth. It was already more than five thousand years old when Elrond surrendered it to Aragorn (III, 251). (...)

 

[Malbeth]

Right now I am reading LOTR, but I don't know how many times I've read it (between 25 and 30 times I guess)... but I made a short interruption to read a book of tales from ancient and medieval times; I had to tell a story in a storyteller's workshop that concluded yesterday and I thought that would give me good material; I was not disapointed, these old tales are very witty, and, in a way, very true... wonderful!

 

[Talierin]

What's your deviantart name, Master Lanty? Mine's http://talierin.deviantart.com

 

[FoolOfATook]

I've finished the Fforde book, and for reasons that I can't quite identify, I've been reading Mark T. Sullivan's detective novel The Serpent's Kiss. So far it's kind of a police procedural meets The Da Vinci Code kind of affair. It's far from the worst book I've read, but I can't explain why I keep reading it.

This weekend I'll probably start in on De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater and spend a great deal of time with Goddard, Auden and Bloom's respective essays on Shakespeare as a method of preparing for my exam on the Swan of Avon's early works.

 

[Lantarion]

Eliot thank you for the quote.. I was actually looking for a physical despcription of the Sceptre, but that's ok. I've already finished it anyway. I suppose I'll do another version of it though.

Haha Tal! I checked out your gallery, and WOW!
The meager fruits of my imagination can be found here: ~inziladun.

 

[Eliot]

I believe you're referring to Eriol's quote, not mine.

 

[Elbereth]

I am now reading "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

I saw the miniseries on TNT awhile back, so I was a little intrigued. It is nice to be able to see the inner depth of the story that is always cut out in translation to the small screen. Although I have just started it...I can already tell it is going to be a good read. And for anyone who is into the legends of King Arthur, I definately think this book will be for you!