What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Mad for Middle Earth]

I just started the Silmarillion

 

[Radaghast]

I started that one years ago, but couldn't make it past the first few pages. You're clearly a hardier reader than I am, Gunga Din. 😄

Well, you finished The King of Elf-land's Daughter, so I think that trumps me finishing TDT 😁

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Well, I've read Ulysses (twice!), so I don't consider Dunsany that much of a lift. 😄

 

[Radaghast]

Well, I've read Ulysses (twice!), so I don't consider Dunsany that much of a lift. 😄

Yeah, I'm a little trepidatious about starting that one 😨 Though I did manage to finish Crime and Punishment...

 

[Radaghast]

Well, I've read Ulysses (twice!), so I don't consider Dunsany that much of a lift. 😄

Reading the reviews on Goodreads I'm dumbfounded at how different people can look at the same work and see entirely different things 🫤

 

[Sword&Sorcery]

Frank Herbert’s “Dune”.

 

[Elwing the White]

Frank Herbert’s “Dune".

I'm about to work my way through Dune as well, I'm just taking some time to finish my other book(s) first.

 

[Ent]

Jeb Smith's Defending Dixie's Land.
PR Jennings revision of The Dangerous Truth - now titled Tolkien and the Dangerous Truth
PR Jennings W. B. Yeats and the Secret Masters of the World.
CR Wiley: In The House Of Tom Bombadil

 

[TrackerOrc]

Christina Thompson: Sea People the puzzle of Polynesia.

 

[Idril Celebrindal]

Eragon by Christopher Paolini.

 

[Ashley]

I just finished Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, and, I was very impressed. I'd read some of his other works before, and, while I did enjoy them, I hadn't found them particularly interesting, except for Killer, Come Back to Me, a collection of his crime stories, and that was more because of the subject matter than the quality of the writing. This book, however, was incredible. It started out a bit slow, but after a certain point, I was completely hooked. In fact, I couldn't stop reading and finished it all on the same day.

 

[TrackerOrc]

'Juice' by the brilliant Australian writer Tim Winton.

 

[Ent]

Liberty: The God That Failed - a rather dense book of particular interest to me at the present time.

Also our own @Bosko Took, P.R. Jennings' revision to his book The Dangerous Truth now titled Tolkien and The Dangerous Truth. A good book I had the blessing of reading the first version of, and providing a few thoughts and comments about.

He's also authored W. B. Yeats and the Secret Masters of the World. He's a 3rd book in the series planned at present.

 

[Deimos]

Well, I've read Ulysses (twice!), so I don't consider Dunsany that much of a lift. 😄

Ulysses. Twice. Amazing. Really.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

It wasn't meant as a boast -- after all it gets a public reading every Bloomsday! 😃

 

[Deimos]

I just finished Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, and, I was very impressed. I'd read some of his other works before, and, while I did enjoy them, I hadn't found them particularly interesting, except for Killer, Come Back to Me, a collection of his crime stories, and that was more because of the subject matter than the quality of the writing. This book, however, was incredible. It started out a bit slow, but after a certain point, I was completely hooked. In fact, I couldn't stop reading and finished it all on the same day.

Don't watch the movie. Ever.

Try his more fantastical short stories, such as The Exiles, Usher II, The Veldt, Marionettes, Inc., The Halloween Tree (novella)**
Also Fahrenheit 451 (not "fantastical", just dystopian)

** I have to admit the first time I read The Halloween Tree, I thought it was ...OK.
But I reread it years later (at least 15 years had passed, while it sat on my bookshelf, gathering dust) and I found I liked it quite a lot.
"Time changes us."

 

[Deimos]

It wasn't meant as a boast -- after all it gets a public reading every Bloomsday! 😃

Why don't you all flagellate yourselves even more by reading Finnegan's Wake....🙄

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

One of the most hilarious books I've ever read. 😄

As a matter of fact, I've always thought it would make a great drinking game: read aloud until you laugh -- or trip up -- at which point, take a drink.

Of Jameson's, of course! 😁

 

[Ashley]

Try his more fantastical short stories, such as The Exiles, Usher II, The Veldt, Marionettes, Inc., The Halloween Tree (novella)**
Also Fahrenheit 451 (not "fantastical", just dystopian)

I have read most of those. I haven't done The Halloween Tree or Usher II, but the others were good. The Veldt I read for school two years ago, and I've been reading the rest more recently, as my brother got several of his books from the library, and I decided I'd read them, too. I liked The Exiles, but I haven't read many of the authors in it. I probably would have liked it better if I had.

 

[Radaghast]

Don't watch the movie. Ever.

Which one?