i just finished "Tales of the Beedle Bard" newly translated from the ancient runes by Hermione Granger.....lol....my Harry Potter fix
i just finished "Tales of the Beedle Bard" newly translated from the ancient runes by Hermione Granger.....lol....my Harry Potter fix
Does whatever a spiderman does.
Which reminds me... I started reading it some two or three years ago, but never went past the middle... maybe I should pick it up and give it another try.Originally Posted by William50
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
It is just... amazing.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sun Tzu's Art of War
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
Finished The Terror by Dan Simmons last night. I've only read a couple of his other stories, but I really enjoy his style of writing, so I'm going to pick up some more by him.
I will say that I absolutely loved this book, with the exception of the last 70 pages or so. At that point it seemed to turn into another type of book completely and I don't think it was necessary to include any of that. I think it would have made the book alot stronger overall if he had omitted that whole section. It just didn't seem to flow well with the rest of the book.
Has anyone here read this and if so what did you think.
Now I just have to decide what to read next. There's too many books on my too read list that I can't decide. I'm actually thinking of maybe picking up Hearts in Atlantis and reading one of those stories. Is it necessary to read the whole book at one time, or could I read one story, then something else, and then go back to it again?
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Planning on having Sirens of Titan completed by today so that I can start A Storm of Swords.
I think the stories work well enough on their own, but there are recurring characters that you'll have a little more appreciation for later on. No enough to make a lot of difference, but a little. Kind of like seeing tiny shout outs in later King novels to former ones. You don't have to read IT to enjoy Insomnia, but you appreciate when the 1985 flood is discussed, even in its brevity.
Hope this helps a little.
These discussions regarding the Tolkien books have made me want to dig out my copies and reread them. It's been a long, long time (I read them as they first came out but not since) and I think I've forgotten a lot of what happened.
John
Yes! You should!Which reminds me... I started reading it some two or three years ago, but never went past the middle... maybe I should pick it up and give it another try.The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
It is just... amazing.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
saw the movie (fantastic, btw), went and got some food at b dubs, and, noticing that there was a barnes and noble in the vicinity of the restaurant, i had to pick up the book.
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
Same as that. Reading the Unfinished Tales got me going again so now I'm reading The Sil.
Also my 11 yr old, Mark, finished a book today & was stuck for something to read so he pulled The Hobbit off the shelf for a re-read!
Thanks it did. I've decided to wait till I can devote the time to read it all at once. Hopefully by summertime I'll get to it.Hope this helps a little.
So right now I've decided to start reading Misery since I haven't read this one before.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
Just finished Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo by Margot Mifflin and am now rereading Gerald's Game.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
Enjoyable, but not my favourite of his works.
"Help me out here
All my words are falling short
And there's so much I want to say"
just finished 'boy in the striped pyjamas' very sad. have no new books to read now so may go bxack to bag of bones as someone mentioned in earlier in the thread and i realised i have not read it for ages.
I just finished "The Long Walk", and I am about to start "Lisey's Story." I dont really know what to expect, but I hear it is pretty good.
hm
hmmmm
::shuts up::
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:duct tapes the bear's mouth:
I'm into philosophy and law right now so I've just started reading "Le contrat social" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hopefully I'll soon be over and can start reading Hobbes again
Finally finished the Heylin book and will be starting The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger tonight.
ABOUT TIME
I had my infatuations, but we both know in our hearts who is the sole love of my short, bright life.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Started A Storm of Swords today, after I finish that I'll either pick up Order of the Phoenix, or another Kurt Vonnegut book.
The Salvador Dalí illustrations are great.
i'm currently listening to Uglies by Scott Westerfield. it hasn't caught on and been turned into a movie yet so i thought i'd jump on it.
Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth.
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