What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Olorgando]

Having re-read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and the second volume "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, volume 3 "Life, the Universe and Everything" is up for a reread next.

 

[Deimos]

My favorite scoundrel -- beating out even Eddie Haskell! 😄

I wish more movies had been made, in the 70s; Malcolm McDowell was a perfect Harry.

There could easily be made a new series for Fraser's stories.
"Easily" meaning minimal CGI would be necessary** , and because the era is Victorian there wouldn't be much "tech" to deal with.
That is, of course , as long as the screenplays don't go off into a "fantasy version", but stick to the quasi-historical stories.
I cannot say what actor would be a good Flashman because I haven't given it much thought.
I do not watch any of the current TV series, hence I am not familiar with any contemporary actors.
But I'm certain there is a British actor somewhere that could do justice to the character, in much the same way Jeremy Brett captured the quintessential Holmes.

**CGI would probably be needed in some battle scenes where there were a lot of foot soldiers and cavalry.

 

[Eljorahir]

Just began a re-read of Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

 

[Radaghast]

Another free Nook download:

 

[JackTorrance]

I've begun to read The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. I am currently on Purgatorio.

 

[Deimos]

I've begun to read The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. I am currently on Purgatorio.

Are you reading it in the original Italian or in translation?
If the latter, who is the translator?

 

[JackTorrance]

Are you reading it in the original Italian or in translation?
If the latter, who is the translator?

I've got the translation. I'll look as to who translated it later.

 

[Ent]

Well, I continue to chew on Crichton's Jurassic Park. I confess... the book and movie continue to be completely different, which is fine.
I'm finding his characters pretty flat, though, and at times it feels more like he's 'reporting a story' rather than telling a tale.
He also just slapped me with several 'useless thats', after several chapters of freedom.. I was disappointed.
But I'm only about 20% through, so we'll see if it improves.
It's clear he's trying to 'make a point' given the growth and state of genetic engineering around the times he began those writings. That said, the Godzilla craze and many others were of the same ilk. Even many of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories tackled 'real world' issues of the times.

Anyway, I'm not finding myself quite as 'entertained' as I'd hoped, but I'll plod along for awhile. It's mindless enough for spare time activities.

 

[LaurelinBearsFruit]

I am currently reading Where There is Light by Paramahansa Yogananda (author of Autobiography of a Yogi). Very good book that has many excerpts from his lectures and other published materials on religious/spiritual perspectives on meeting many of the challenges of life, as well as many of his teachings on life, death, and mortality.

 

[Olorgando]

Appendix 6 to volume 5 of the four-part trilogy started by Douglas Adams with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (to mix quotes from Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer), "And Another Thing ...". Colfer was chosen to write the sixth volume by Adams's widow Jane Belson (Adams had (written) published vol. 4 "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" in 1984, and vol. 5 "Mostly Harmless" in 1992), which was published in 2009, 30 years after vol. 1. Colfer was (and is) well-known for his series of "Artemis Fowl" children's books.

 

[Vorondil]

I've just started rereading Commando by Deneys Reitz, it's jolly good. If you happened to have a passing interest in the Second Anglo-Boer War, I recommend you read it.

 

[LaurelinBearsFruit]

I've just started rereading Commando by Deneys Reitz, it's jolly good. If you happened to have a passing interest in the Second Anglo-Boer War, I recommend you read it.

So I take it the book has no relation to the Arnold Schwartzenegger film? Lol

 

[Aldarion]

 

[Vorondil]

So I take it the book has no relation to the Arnold Schwartzenegger film? Lol

Um... no.

 

[Radaghast]

Having thankfully finished the mind-numbing zaniness that is Grimms' Fairy Tales, I've started Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré on the recommendation of a friend. Another download from B&N; not free, but on sale (I think) for $1.99.

 

[Elthir]

Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis

it's based on the tale of Eros and Psyche

 

[JackTorrance]

Well, I am getting a set of The Hobbit, and The LOTR trilogy, The Silmarillion, plus I have reached the final part of the Divine Comedy: Paradiso.

 

[Deimos]

Well, I am getting a set of The Hobbit, and The LOTR trilogy, The Silmarillion, plus I have reached the final part of the Divine Comedy: Paradiso.

You were going to check on the name of the translator...did you? Thanks

 

[JackTorrance]

You were going to check on the name of the translator...did you? Thanks

I never found out who translated it...Maybe its the girl who wrote the introduction?
Edit: Okay, its Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation.

 

[Deimos]

I never found out who translated it...Maybe its the girl who wrote the introduction?
Edit: Okay, its Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation.

Thanks... I had to look this up because I never knew Longfellow had translated The Divine Comedy.
There are at least a dozen English translations out there, if not 2 dozen.
And apparently Longfellow's is one of the better ones, if not the best.
So... I learned something worth knowing** ... I owe you one. 😉

** Not everything one learns is worth knowing... quite a lot of it is a waste of time.
(And time is one thing of which I no longer have a surfeit 😬)