What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Rhiannon]

Go for LotR. It's actually shorter for once. As interesting as the subject matter was, I got bored with the Left Behind series.

 

[King Aragorn]

I really like the Left Behind series. Maybe I'll read both of them at the same time...

 

[e.Blackstar]

Am reading Thief of Time to my dad, am re-reading The Golden Compass (Am almost done with that and will go onto The Subtle Knife), and just finished The Hounds of the Morrigan. (Celtic fantasy, very good)

 

[Talierin]

I'm reading the Princess Bride... finally bothered to go out and buy it and read it - it's great!

 

[Niirewen]

I've been meaning to read that for a long time, too. I just saw the movie. I'll try to remember to get it next time I'm at a bookstore..

Anyway, right now I'm reading Wicked. Have any of you read it? I really like it, so far.

 

[greypilgrim]

I've been reading "Dirty Jokes and Beer" ~Drew Carey

 

[33Peregrin]

I'm reading the Princess Bride... finally bothered to go out and buy it and read it - it's great!

Awesome, awesome book! I read it earlier this year. It's great!!!!!! It's been ages since I have seen the movie though, so I really want to see that again.

As for the books I am reading... mostly LOTR related books that I got from the library, like 'Following Gandalf' and trying to read as many of the Letters of JRRT before I have to return that from the library. It's weird how I am reading no 'real' book, but I am hoping to get some good ones for my birthday. I am also thinking about starting 'Watership Down.' Is it good? And I want to read The Sil again.

 

[Arvedui]

I have been reading a lot this summer:
"The Complete Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - Douglas Adams
"Downsize this!" and "Dude, where's my country?" - Michael Moore
ans I am now about finished with
"The Annotated Hobbit" - Tolkien/Douglas C. Anderson (2nd edition)

 

[Dark_Glamdring]

"Magic circle" by Katherine Neville and "Jaws" (yes the book, and it is my first book in english)

 

[Niirewen]

I am also thinking about starting 'Watership Down.' Is it good?

I loved Watership Down! I definately recommend it, 33Peregrin.

 

[Ruinel]

To The Nines, by Janet Evanovich (almost finished)

 

[Talierin]

Watership Down is very good, although I found it a bit scary in places. It'll make you think better of rabbits, heheheh

 

[e.Blackstar]

Lots of books about Elizabeth I and Henry VII, and a few Prattchet books going all at once

 

[Inderjit S]

Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith; I am half way through.

Reading various short stories by Beckett and Tolstoy, recent reads include, 'The Catcher In The Rye', 'The Old Man And The Sea', The Quiet American' (Greene) and some Edgar Allan Poe short stories. I have a couple of hefty Thomas Mann novels for a length coach trip I am going on tomorrow.

 

[33Peregrin]

OK, I will read Watership Down... soon. I just borrowed a couple of books from my friend today, like The Davinci Code, Gnomes, Fairies, and Elves: The Little Folk, and The Catcher and the Rye. So I am reading Catcher in the Rye now, just started it today. Pretty good so far! And I also borrowed a book from the Vampire Chronicles, because of this:

I've finnished Interview with a vampire by Anne Rice and ive just started the second book in the "Vampire Chronicles", The Vampire Lestat. Rice is my sisters fav author but i was always under the impression they were just horror books, wrong: they are REALLY amazing. I just love the characters, so passionate and sensual.

I've also read the thrid Artemis Fowl book. Does anyone else read Artemis Fowl? They are childrens books, but i think there really funny and charming. I definatly prefer Artemis to Harry Potter hands down

And I do like Artemis Fowl. I've only read the first book though, because my brother was reading it for school at the time so I took it from him for a while. I have to say I prefer Harry to Artemis though.

 

[Lhunithiliel]

The Eddas

OMG!!!
I have never seen more complicated names than those I'm reading there! Not even the names I've met in the myths of the Atsteki and Maya are so difficult !!!
Arvedui, how, for Othin's sake , is one supposed to read and remember those names!!!

And sth. else ... I wonder ... quite difficult it is to understand and to follow the story, mainly in the Poetic Eddas! Therefore the notes and explanations after each couple of stanzas are invaluable!
But ... where have those people taken that information from in order to explain what one reads in a stanza? Is it from and based upon their knowledge of the whole cycle?

Oh! And one more thing ... it would be lovely to hear the opinion of someone who has read the Eddas....
In the Prose Eddas, I cannot understand why the author made Troy to be the seat of the Aesir Gods; why, at all, the Gods the Norse nations once worshipped should've come out from Asia ... I find it so strange!

Maybe I'd better open a thread about all that ... but I wonder how many people here at TTF have read the Eddas ...

In any case, these writings are considered as sources for Tolkien's work so I guess they are a must read.

Oh, and Arv, welcome to the "Hitchhiker"'s club !!!

 

[King Aragorn]

Books that I am reading right now

Left Behind series
LOTR

 

[Arvedui]

The Eddas

OMG!!!
I have never seen more complicated names than those I'm reading there! Not even the names I've met in the myths of the Atsteki and Maya are so difficult !!!
Arvedui, how, for Othin's sake , is one supposed to read and remember those names!!!

And sth. else ... I wonder ... quite difficult it is to understand and to follow the story, mainly in the Poetic Eddas! Therefore the notes and explanations after each couple of stanzas are invaluable!
But ... where have those people taken that information from in order to explain what one reads in a stanza? Is it from and based upon their knowledge of the whole cycle?

Oh! And one more thing ... it would be lovely to hear the opinion of someone who has read the Eddas....
In the Prose Eddas, I cannot understand why the author made Troy to be the seat of the Aesir Gods; why, at all, the Gods the Norse nations once worshipped should've come out from Asia ... I find it so strange!

Maybe I'd better open a thread about all that ... but I wonder how many people here at TTF have read the Eddas ...

In any case, these writings are considered as sources for Tolkien's work so I guess they are a must read.

Oh, and Arv, welcome to the "Hitchhiker"'s club !!!

I haven't read the complete Edda, so I am not one to give answers to many of your questions, except from the names. These are Old Norse names, and some of them (well, most of them) just become ridiculous when translated. But if you can remeber all the names from The Silmarillion, then those from Edda shouldn't be any problem.

Oh, and btw it wasn't the first reading of the "Hitchhiker." What a fabolous book. I must try to find a way to afford it in english, though.

 

[Ol'gaffer]

20 Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by: Jules Verne


brilliant book, I'm reading it the second time now.

 

[Dark_Glamdring]

The Necronomicon