What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Niirewen]

Really? Hmm.. didn't know that. Interesting.

 

[Ice Man]

I started to read Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire today. So far, it's been quite a strange reading.

 

[Rhiannon]

Really? Hmm.. didn't know that. Interesting.

Of course, now that I've said that the only other example I can think of is 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' vs. 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'.

 

[Starflower]

Of course, now that I've said that the only other example I can think of is 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' vs. 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'.

that's because in UK 'Philosopher' has the same meaning as 'alchemist', where as in the US the meaning is different

 

[celebdraug]

i have to read "the crucible" for my school project! *sarcastically* OH JOY! Has anyone else read it?

 

[LegolasLuver]

I've heard of it but never read it. I'm getting ready to start reading LotRs again though. As soon as I finish reading the Simril I mean.

 

[jejeje]

Hi, i hate tacking a reply onto a thred that has been going on for about 70 years, but who cares?
i just read Junk, which is a very good book by Melvin Burgess. It's about heroin addiction and it really puts you off drugs.
I just did the crucible for my english coursework! I kinda liked it actually, but writing a massive essay on it puts you off. I went to see A view from the bridge, which is another Miller play, and that was really good.
Just read His Dark Materials again,too, and the first Sally Lockhart book. Philip Pullman is one off my favourite authors

 

[Niirewen]

i have to read "the crucible" for my school project! *sarcastically* OH JOY! Has anyone else read it?

Yes.. it wasn't great but it wasn't horrible either, I thought. In my English class we're reading Huckleberry Finn, but I'm not actually reading it because 1) I've already read it and 2) I'm not a fan of Mark Twain.

 

[Lantarion]

The Crucible is an excellent play (it is a play right, or am I going crazy?).. The movie is also excellent (*drools*: Winona Ryder..)

I really want to read 'Catcher in the Rye' and practically all of Steinbeck's works. I've only read 'Cannery Row' by him, which was so wonderful.

 

[Rhiannon]

The only Steinbeck I've actually read was Travels with Charlie (which I loved), and excerpts from his unfinished writing on King Arthur. I really should read The Grapes of Wrath one of these days.

I'm almost done with Neverwhere, but I've given in and started The Time Traveler's Wife. I'm inhaling it. So far it's wonderful.

 

[Niirewen]

I really want to read 'Catcher in the Rye' and practically all of Steinbeck's works

I've recently read Steinbeck's East of Eden, which I really liked. I enjoyed writing a paper on one of it's main themes- man's freedom to choose good over evil. I haven't read any of his other works, but I plan to sometime in the future.

 

[Éomond]

I'm currently reading Black Hawk Down, the New Testament of the Bible, and (drum roll)

The Silmarillion! Yay! It's some-what confusing but really, very good.

 

[Lindir]

I really want to read 'Catcher in the Rye' and practically all of Steinbeck's works. I've only read 'Cannery Row' by him, which was so wonderful.

'The Catcher in the Rye' is not by Steinbeck, it was written by J.D. Salinger. Still a good book though.

 

[Rhiannon]

I finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman this evening. It rocks. Highly recommended, though it might not be for everyone.

 

[Lindir]

I finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman this evening. It rocks. Highly recommended, though it might not be for everyone.

'Neverwhere' is a fantastic book, as everything by Gaiman. If you have still to read 'Good Omens' and 'American Gods', you are lucky. Those are great.
I have just finished 'Fool's Fate' by Robin Hobb, the last book in 'The Tawny Man' trilogy and 'New Spring' by Robert Jordan. I'm a bit lost now as what to read. Probably something I've already read.

 

[Lantarion]

Lindir I know it isn't by Steinbeck. maybe I worded the sentence wrong.

 

[Lindir]

Lindir I know it isn't by Steinbeck. maybe I worded the sentence wrong.

I'm sorry that I got it wrong. No offence intended.

 

[Eriol]

After finding my old copy of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (by Jared Diamond) buried beneath some other books, I'm rereading it. It's very interesting. Subtitled "A History of Everybody for the last 13,000 Years" . Highly recommended.

 

[Eliot]

I'm currently reading Black Hawk Down

Ah yes, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. I love that book. It's a great book, IMHO. How are you liking it, Éomond?

 

[Rhiannon]

Now I am sick- blah, I feel so rotteeeeen....- but fortunately I have The Time Traveler's Wife to go cuddle up with. Mm, yummy novel.