What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Lintecoireion]

Last book i read was Sacret Hunger by... can't remember.

Current novel being read is The Fellowship of the Ring by.... well, you know. I think this is my 6th time through it...

I remember reading A Brave New World a while back, very.. interesting/creepy.

 

[Ol'gaffer]

weee! Anime fans galore!

My favorite Manga (the comics) of all time are:

Love Hina - A beautiful and hilarious story of people trying to get into Tokyo University, with one of them doing it because he promised the love of his life to do so when they were children, but who is the girl?

Galaxy Express 999 - The story of a young boy called Tetsuro, who goes on a journey with the beautiful Maetel to the center of the Galaxy Andromeda, to get a mechanical body. On his way, he encouters numerous different people who all show him what it is to be a human. Beautiful fables on life and death. Also made into two amazing movies.

 

[Rhiannon]

Wow! Rhi another anime fan!!! Cool!! I think I've read those too, and yes not for kids. Do read the Dark Horse versions?

I am a some-time anime/manga fan--I mooch off of my brother's collection
His copies of Lone Wolf and Cub are the small mass market paperback sized ones, which I think are put out by Dark Horse, but I'm not sure.

I'm almost done reading The Raven Ring, and enjoying it even more than The Harp of Imach Thyssel--but I have a decided preference for books with female protagonists. I counted once, and I think out of some 250 books that I own, less than twenty centered on main characters that were male, and five or so were equally distributed between the sexes...and there's a minority of male authors, too. Does anyone else's personal library have such specific demographics?

 

[Lantarion]

Good luck with Tess of the d'Urbervilles when you get to it, Inder! (It was the only one in that list that I've read ) It's really remarkable, the way Hardy uses the English language to create situations and emotions and scenes.. Beautiful.

 

[Persephone]

weee! Anime fans galore!

Galaxy Express 999 - The story of a young boy called Tetsuro, who goes on a journey with the beautiful Maetel to the center of the Galaxy Andromeda, to get a mechanical body. On his way, he encouters numerous different people who all show him what it is to be a human. Beautiful fables on life and death. Also made into two amazing movies.

I cried when I saw this anime! I love this story so much I had to watch it 3 times!!! According to this friend of mine who is like the library of Anime, the maker of this anime also made Starship Yamato (which I think is Starblazer - could be wrong though).

Wow!!! Nice to know there's more than me in this Forum!!!

 

[Rhiannon]

Finished The Raven Ring yesterday morning and really enjoyed it, although I felt that the vague romantic tension wasn't wrapped up very well. Now I'm halfway through Patricia McKillip's The Sorceress and the Cygnet, which I have to say I don't care much for--it's one of her ealier books, and while I love The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (her first book), most of her earlier fiction doesn't appeal to me as much as her recent work--I liked The Riddlemaster of Hed, but it didn't impress me the way In the Forest of Serre did.

 

[Ol'gaffer]

I cried when I saw this anime! I love this story so much I had to watch it 3 times!!! According to this friend of mine who is like the library of Anime, the maker of this anime also made Starship Yamato (which I think is Starblazer - could be wrong though).

Wow!!! Nice to know there's more than me in this Forum!!!

Same here! This is one of my favorite movies of all time, it's such a beautiful story.

 

[Paul]

I'm currently reading the Bible, the Book of Isaiah.

 

[Zale]

I'm currently on "Deadhouse Gates", by Steven Erikson: amazing!

 

[Starflower]

just read 'wandering road', part of 'the fionavar tapestry' by guy gavriel kay.

 

[Beleg]

Would you recommend the series Starflower? I started his sole novel Tigania [Sp?] and it was pretty boring so I stopped reading after a while.

Just finished Sean Russel's Swan War and George RR Martin's Tuf Voyaging and SandKings.

On to read some Clifford D. Simak stuff.

 

[Finduilas]

I'm currently reading the Bible, the Book of Isaiah.

Yes, I'm reading It too now. I'm reading the New and the Old Tastement.

Also I'm slowly getting my way through James Joyce's Ulysses. It'll take a while...

 

[Starflower]

Would you recommend the series Starflower? I started his sole novel Tigania [Sp?] and it was pretty boring so I stopped reading after a while.

Just finished Sean Russel's Swan War and George RR Martin's Tuf Voyaging and SandKings.

On to read some Clifford D. Simak stuff.

well...it depends what kind of books you normally read... the Fionavar Tapestry is pretty heavy on mythology. The underlying idea is that there are several worlds, but Fionavar is the first, the one before everything else. Then there is the idea of 'recycling' myths in our world, most notably the Arthurian myths, that the story of Arthur and Guinevere and Lancelot has been played out in a thousand variations in a thousands worlds.... it is good, gripping fantasy, when you read it it's hard to put the books down. but yes, i do recommend it

 

[Inderjit S]

Well, with 'Tom Jones' and 'The Pilgrim's Progress' out of the way, I will be looking to disrupt my reading list for, wait for it...Ulysses...*scream*....though I may read The Odyssey before I begin that or just stoically throw it away and go on to reading 'Emma' and a lot of other books, before I feel I am ready for Joyce's overly-fastidious masterpiece for pedants and the like.

 

[Rhiannon]

I read the first 1/3 of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and realized that I had absolutely no idea what was going on or what the point was, and returned it to the library. Never been tempted to try Joyce again. Read Emma! I loved Emma. Adored Mr. Knightley.

I have been reading...manga! Almost done with the first volume of Rurouni Kenshin, which is awesome. I love my brother, who buys comic books and then lets me read them...

 

[Finduilas]

Well, I haven't read much still...what's more, have to study for term tests but it really is fascinating ...at least what I have read so far.
As for Emma, I read it from the English lessons and loved it too! Knightly...hmmm...yep...

Have you seen the film with Gwuineth (can't spell the second name )?

 

[Beleg]

Paltrow?

Emma is one JA book that I haven't yet got my hands on.

 

[Finduilas]

Paltrow?

Emma is one JA book that I haven't yet got my hands on.

Exactly.
A very beautiful actress and talented too.

 

[spirit]

Lord of the Flies

For school. It's a boring book
x_x

 

[Finduilas]

Lord of the Flies

For school. It's a boring book
x_x

Is it?
I recently saw it translated in Bulgarian and thought I could read it after "Ulysses" that is. I have heard a lot about it and thought it should be a good piece of reading.... So....it is not?