What 📔book are you reading right now?

[HALETH✒🗡]

I'm currently reading a book by Ray Bradbury too ("Dandelion Wine" in the original to be exact).

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

I'm currently reading a book by Ray Bradbury too ("Dandelion Wine" in the original to be exact).

Interesting.. In English, or Russian?

 

[HALETH✒🗡]

Interesting.. In English, or Russian?

In English.

 

[Copia]

The Return Of The King now. My favorite Tolkien book. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields and Mount Doom chapters are just so amazing I find it hard to describe it. Gives me goosebumpbs like nothing else!

Frodo and Sams struggle, hoplessness and bravery at the end is so beautiful.
Theoden and Eomer's several charges and heroisime on the fields of Pelennor.

Tolkien is such a legend.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

The Return Of The King now. My favorite Tolkien book. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields and Mount Doom chapters are just so amazing I find it hard to describe it. Gives me goosebumpbs like nothing else!

Frodo and Sams struggle, hoplessness and bravery at the end is so beautiful.
Theoden and Eomer's several charges and heroisime on the fields of Pelennor.

Tolkien is such a legend.

Tolkien is a legend, but his works feel so real, and so much more than that!

 

[Olorgando]

Re-reading the 2006 book by former Columbia University Professor Fritz Stern (1926-2016), "Five Germanys I have known", in the 2007 German translation.

 

[Ealdwyn]

Just started re-reading the Culture scifi series by Iain M. Banks

 

[Deimos]

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I read this a good while ago but while I remembered a story of action I read it now as a novel of ideas: ideas that seem as relevant as ever these days. Culture reduced to mindless TV shows shown on huge wall sized TVs...

(Sorry for the slight necro-post....)

Don't forget the Little "sea-shells" in the ears constantly pumping out "noise" (commercials, music, slogans..."Denham's Dentifrice" 😱 )

 

[Deimos]

I'm currently reading a book by Ray Bradbury too ("Dandelion Wine" in the original to be exact).

In the original....what? Original edition? That would be a 1957 edition.
I have a hardcover 1971 edition...discard from a library...I guess Bradbury's warning was too farfetched for them and, bookburning being frowned upon (currently anyway 😉) they discarded it.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I believe she meant the original English, as she mentioned below.

 

[Deimos]

I am reading (just started) The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison (1922)

"Before there was Tolkien there was Eddison."

 

[Deimos]

I believe she meant the original English, as she mentioned below.

Oh. OK... didn't see that. My bad 🙁

 

[Ent]

My dear @Deimos - I applaud you, "There are so many swell places for a person to keep his mouth shut." Absolutely excellent.
As the Enting says: "There is much to be said for saying little."

The difficulty is in the doing..!

 

[Deimos]

My dear @Deimos - I applaud you, "There are so many swell places for a person to keep his mouth shut." Absolutely excellent.
As the Enting says: "There is much to be said for saying little."

The difficulty is in the doing..!

Thanks for the kudos, but please don't assume it is my original thought/saying because it isn't.
And as far as "doing" (dear God I sound like Yoda), it has taken me over 50 years merely to learn the truth of it. 🙁

 

[Ent]

please don't assume it is my original thought/saying because it isn't.

Thank you for the clarification, but even posting it whether yours or not, can put you at risk with some. (People are easily offended these days.) You still earn my applause.

dear God I sound like Yoda

Not such a bad thing. Young as he was, he spoke some wisdom nonetheless.

over 50 years to merely learn the truth of it

And yet most never do..! So I also maintain my evaluation of "absolutely excellent..!"

😁

 

[Deimos]

Thank you for the clarification, but even posting it whether yours or not, can put you at risk with some. (People are easily offended these days.) You still earn my applause.



Not such a bad thing. Young as he was, he spoke some wisdom nonetheless.



And yet most never do..! So I also maintain my evaluation of "absolutely excellent..!"

😁

OK... I'll let you do so 😁

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

Just finished Vertigo the novel by the French writing pair Boileau/Narcejac. it's an engaging psychological thriller set in WW2 France with a plot that is similar to the Hitchcock film. There's a lot of French style introspection by the main character, but it's still well above the average murder mystery. Hitchcock used it to produce something better as I've argued elsewhere.

 

[Ent]

Still working through LoTR again, bringing Hammond and Scull's Companion alongside chapter by chapter.
Also nearing halfway though SIL again.
Rereading our own Bosko Took's "The Dangerous Truth" again as well, some revision having been done.
And have brought alongside his other book "W.B. Yeats and the Secret Masters of the World."

I can never manage to focus on just one thing at a time it seems.

I seem to be developing a desire to reread Asimov's Foundation series again too... only read through it all once, and recall thinking it was somewhat well written and held together well. Also dealt interestingly with several psychological principles worth pondering.

 

[Starbrow]

I am rereading Emma by Jane Austen. I needed some "comfort food."

 

[Ugluk]

cool.
has any1 read harry potter?
they are basically copies of lotr...but in a shorter and junkier version

**Edited by Tal**Please refrain from cussing, thanks**

Read them many times. They are not remotely copies of LOTR with a completely different premise and setting. Nor are they junk, rather well crafted and well thought out tales with a strong moral compass, insight into the human condition, and a touch of deft humour.