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Post by Lily on May 13, 2005 14:18:17 GMT
Tell us, what you are reading at the moment. Is it just for fun? Or is there any reason or teacher, why you ought to read it? Is it interesting or boring?
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Post by sweetbiscuit on May 13, 2005 14:39:00 GMT
Last book I started reading is Stiff by Shane Maloney. I'm not a political mystery fan, but the humor makes it very enjoyable. Unfortunitly I've spent my time lately doing other things, so I'm about halfway through.
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Post by Lily on May 13, 2005 14:42:30 GMT
Funny enough, SB, I am reading Stiff too, but I am not as far as you. I agree with you: It is humourous and enjoyable.
Besides that I am at the beginning of Shakespeare´s Midsummernight´s Dream and I like it a lot.
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Post by Rosie on May 13, 2005 16:16:28 GMT
I've got two books on the go...The Brush Off which is even funnier than Stiff, and Lightning by Dean Koontz which is a really good read......very nail-biting. He's known as a horror writer, but this is more of a thriller I think. I'd recommend it to anyone.
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Post by sweetbiscuit on May 13, 2005 17:24:47 GMT
I've read The Fun House and Hideaway by Koontz before. I like a few of his books for some strange reason although horror is my least favorite genre. I agree that his style is more "suspence thriller".
I don't have The Brush Off yet. I only got Stiff in case I didn't like it.
Been trying to read The Iliad on and off for almost a year now. Its actually better than most people believe.
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Post by shieldmaiden on May 13, 2005 19:55:06 GMT
I like the Illiad-- I though the Odyssey was much more interesting though.
I just finished Sense and Sensibility--been on a bit of an Austen kick lately. Still trying to decide what to read now. I've got National Velvet out at the moment, because with all the work I've had lately, kids' books are about all I can handle. Besides, there's horses in it. ;D
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Post by sweetbiscuit on May 14, 2005 0:24:36 GMT
Horse stories are always good. I was a fan of Walter Farley's Black Stallion series.
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Post by Lily on May 14, 2005 11:45:07 GMT
SMOR, I always wanted to read the Iliad and Odyssee, you reminded me of that.
And I also read "Sense and Sensibility" and I liked it very much. Has anyone seen the film?
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Post by Rosie on May 14, 2005 11:46:41 GMT
I like the Illiad-- I though the Odyssey was much more interesting though. I just finished Sense and Sensibility--been on a bit of an Austen kick lately. Still trying to decide what to read now. I've got National Velvet out at the moment, because with all the work I've had lately, kids' books are about all I can handle. Besides, there's horses in it. ;D I enjoy quite a few kids' books. Looking forward to the new Harry Potter - and I'm wondering if we should open boards for individual books. What do you think? Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy might be worth discussing.
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Post by eggowaffles on May 16, 2005 2:00:53 GMT
Just finished reading "The Great Gatsby" myself... fantastic novel-- I recommend it to you lot. Now I'm getting into C.S. Lewis's sci-fi trilogy (took me ages to get those books from the library-- someone went on a Lewis binge last week ) Love Jane Austen, too! Why is it that all but one of the authors (coughjkrowlingcough) I enjoy are dead ?! (*counts on fingers* CS Lewis, Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, Charles thingyens, Jane Austen, Douglas Adams, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlotte Brontë... dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead...) The editing system keeps replacing "charles d i c k ens" with "charles thingyens"... that's hysterical...
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Post by Lily on May 16, 2005 7:15:07 GMT
Charles Dickens: this should work now...I told the system to accept this "innuendo". ;D
I agree, eggos, the dead authors wrote very interesting literature. In Germany we have the three classical authors: Goethe, Schiller, Lessing.
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Post by shieldmaiden on May 16, 2005 13:20:56 GMT
Ooh... I love C.S. Lewis. I think I'm going to have to give the space triology another go though, because I was forced to read the last book in the trilogy (!) for school once and didn't really enjoy it. I think it might go better if I read the entire thing especially now that I'm much more into sci-fi.
Definitely planning on re-reading Chronicles of Narnia (again) sometime this year though, before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe comes out in theaters.
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Post by eggowaffles on May 25, 2005 0:35:14 GMT
Have now just finished the Space Trilogy (took me a while, I know, but the thing is 700 pages, and I stopped for some Sherlock between books ). I very much disliked the third volume, "That Hideous Strength"-- though I did get a feeling of nerdy satisfaction when the references to Númenor and the True West cropped up. I can see why reading the third one first would turn one off to the rest of the series, though-- sorry, smor I enjoyed the first two, though, especially "Perelandra." It also happens that the main character, Ransom, is modelled after our own Professor Tolkien, who was a friend of Lewis's. It figures-- the first thing he does upon encountering a foreign and possibly hostile being on the foreign and possibly hostile planet Malacandra is... deconstruct their language into prefixes and root words.
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Post by shieldmaiden on May 28, 2005 20:03:02 GMT
It also happens that the main character, Ransom, is modelled after our own Professor Tolkien, who was a friend of Lewis's. It figures-- the first thing he does upon encountering a foreign and possibly hostile being on the foreign and possibly hostile planet Malacandra is... deconstruct their language into prefixes and root words. I think I'm going to have to read it just for that now. ;D Oh-- and I'm currently reading a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury.
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Post by eggowaffles on May 28, 2005 21:49:53 GMT
Thrashing my way through "The Count of Monte Cristo"... only twelve chapters in and already it's depressing. Anyone read it before? If so... tell me, will anything happy occur in this book? And yeah, you should read the Space Trilogy, if only for that ... the third one's a drag, but the first two are very quick.
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Post by lindahoyland on Jun 7, 2005 0:18:41 GMT
I'm reading a book by Christopher booker about the seven basic plots behind all novels.It is fascinating and has quite a bit about LOTR, which according to the author has elements of all seven !
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Post by Rosie on Jun 7, 2005 6:57:40 GMT
I'll look out for that one Linda - sounds good.
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Post by TheRedQueen on Jun 22, 2005 6:52:13 GMT
Ooh, this is a good thread for me because I’m always very nosy about what others are reading. I gawp indiscreetly at the books people are reading on buses, crane my neck to see what the person in front of me in the bookstore is buying, and sometimes blatantly reach into a friend’s bag to pull out the book they’d hoped to hide while saying very loudly, “Oh my God, you’re reading this!!” And when I’m in people’s houses for the first time I always have a good look at their bookshelves (closely followed by scrutiny of their CD and DVD collections). Of course, it’s usually more revealing what books people have on their bedside tables because bookshelves can be just for show. So, this necessitates sneaking into their bedroom on the way back from the loo (nobody’s ever going to invite me round for dinner now, are they!). Right now, I’m reading ‘Music & Silence’ by Rose Tremain, a book that’s billed as ‘The best thing from Denmark since Hamlet.’ It’s about a young and handsome English musician who goes to the Danish court in the 17th century to join the King’s orchestra. The poor musicians have to perform in a freezing wine cellar underneath the royal apartments so that the music appears to float magically upwards which always amazes the guests. It’s not as dull as it sounds – it’s rife with intrigue, as any good novel about a royal court is. Just reached the part where the King’s frivolous queen consort, Kirsten Munk, is upset with the new Looking-Glass she was given for her birthday. She writes: ‘ But there is an error in it, an undoubted fault in its silvering, so that the wicked object makes me look fat. I have sent for a hammer.’You know, it’s what I’ve been saying about the mirrors in store fitting-rooms for years…wicked objects, indeed! ;D -rEdP.S. Eggos, how are you doing with ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’? Probably the happiest bit in that book is at the beginning when Edmond seems to have the perfect life ( even if he is engaged to a woman named after a car...).
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Post by binky on Jun 22, 2005 19:35:06 GMT
Thrashing my way through "The Count of Monte Cristo"... only twelve chapters in and already it's depressing. Anyone read it before? If so... tell me, will anything happy occur in this book? can't remember. i do remember i was rather depressed after reading the man in the iron mask.
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Post by eggowaffles on Jul 1, 2005 21:36:05 GMT
I'm still reading CoMC, as I've been procrastinating lately... I began to get discouraged when I got to the dramatic scene between Edmond and Ferrari Mercedes, which I had believed to be the final denouement– only to discover 200 more pages awaiting my perusal. Argh. I immediately sat down and wrote my own ending to the book, involving murder, intrigue, gangs, turf wars, and unexpected pairings... however, given the fact that there is no "COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO 2: BATTLEGROUND", I doubt that any of my predictions are feasible...
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