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Just to put this section on par with the other "what are you currently..." sections. And, I'm curious.

I'm currently reading The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson. Just started. Seems like it'll be a doozy, like most of his books. I'm continuing straight from Midnight Tides, which was great. It had a lot more "comedy" than previous books in the series. (The Malazan Book of the Fallen)

Waiting patiently for A Dance of Dragons by George R. R. Martin.

I forget what the last book I read was. And I returned it to the library today, too.....

Waiting for Snow Crash to be ready for me to pick up. Hopefully Monday.

Seems interesting. Probably be years until I get to pick it up though. I've got nine unread books stacked and ready.

I started re-reading the wheel of time books.

I have a bookshelf full of books I could read as well. Would take me, oh, three months to plow through them all?

I started re-reading the wheel of time books.

I've never gone down that road. And it seems a bit moot now. I might be wrong of course, but Erikson and Martin blows most other fantasy stuff out of the water.

I have a bookshelf full of books I could read as well. Would take me, oh, three months to plow through them all?

I've taken down my bookshelf in preparation for moving. But I'd take me muuch longer. I don't read as much as I should. I do too much at the same time.

OMG, Tenb changed the Writer's Guild to the Writer's Guild & Book Club! Wowie.


Right now, I'm currently reading The Great Gatsby by what's-his-face. Noahbody recommended it to me and I sifted through my mom's bookcases and found it (I knew she had it).


However, I have it in the bathroom and I'm reading it in intervals. You know what I mean.

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OMG, Tenb changed the Writer's Guild to the Writer's Guild & Book Club! Wowie.
Right now, I'm currently reading The Great Gatsby by what's-his-face. Noahbody recommended it to me and I sifted through my mom's bookcases and found it (I knew she had it).
However, I have it in the bathroom and I'm reading it in intervals. You know what I mean.

Yuh, I told him that was your suggested title. ^^

Fitzgerald. I haven't read it myself. But heard of it, of course. Any good?

Fitzgerald. I haven't read it myself. But heard of it, of course. Any good?

Well, I'm still only in the beginning chapters, but I'm very impressed with F. Scott's writing style. It makes me want to see the movie after I'm done with it to get a visual (and yes I know the books are always better than the movies so we don't have to get into that). But with that said, I always like to compare my visualization of a book with the director's interpretation. And it always helps if the author is involved with the screen writing when modern books are turned into movies.

And btw, I read A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens while sitting on the toilet. It took me a while to do it but it was quite an interesting way to read a book.

El Aleph.

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Ugh. Had to read that in highschool and do something for it... probably a report or something. It's ok, a classic, though that means nothing to me.

I had to read The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne in high school and I hated having to do that. I guess when you're forced to read something, it's never as enjoyable as wanting to read it. To this day when I hear that book title, it makes me sick to my stomach from remembering when I was in school.

And it also reminds me of the movie with Demi Moore and her godawful scratched up voice.

Well, I'm still only in the beginning chapters, but I'm very impressed with F. Scott's writing style. It makes me want to see the movie after I'm done with it to get a visual (and yes I know the books are always better than the movies so we don't have to get into that). But with that said, I always like to compare my visualization of a book with the director's interpretation. And it always helps if the author is involved with the screen writing when modern books are turned into movies.

And btw, I read A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens while sitting on the toilet. It took me a while to do it but it was quite an interesting way to read a book.

The movie's not to bad we watched it in school almost every year because he's from minnesota.

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A book.

A classic: Something no one wants to read and everyone wants to have read
- Mark Twain

Quite true. I'm working on War and Peace between my other reading. Phew. What's happening is interesting enough, but the writing style is kinda boring. I've actually wanted to read that since TNMT, the first one. They're playing TP while waiting for Raph to recover, and Don get the question; "What novel features over 500 characters."

I must say that even though I too was forced to read that, I quite enjoyed it. Well, more then anything else I was forced to read that year anyway. The way my curriculum was set up was so that year (junior) would be full of all the 'classics' - the fricken top 15 most depressing novels they ever make you read in highschool bastards.

While we're on the topic of highschool readings, I'd recommend Canterbury Tales to anyone who hasn't read it, and even those who have, because it was just that good (although it tends to be one of those people either love or hate with no middle ground).

Kudos for this thread actually going well

edit: I'm re-reading Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett, who I'm sure we could have an entire separate thread for

Sadly, we mostly have to read Norwegian Authors in Norway. English class usually extended to us reading Animal Farm. Which isn't that good in my opinion. I prefer books with no hidden agenda. Especially if the author is dead. Telling someone what a book is really about, when the author is dead, and there is no record of him telling people what it was about, makes me really irate. I didn't want to know that Huckleberry Finn was a critique on American society! (That was later, in uni.) Which is probably why I read fantasy.

It is, isn't it. ^^

Oh, a separate Pratchett thread. Now there's a thought. He was the first humor author I read. It is sheer genious!

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Telling someone what a book is really about, when the author is dead, and there is no record of him telling people what it was about, makes me really irate. I didn't want to know that Huckleberry Finn was a critique on American society! (That was later, in uni.) Which is probably why I read fantasy.

It is, isn't it. ^^

Oh, yeah, they even have college courses dedicated to studying what writers were thinking when they wrote their stories. lol! That always cracks me up. They can turn stuff into whatever they want and it's probably not even what the author was thinking when he/she wrote their book.

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Work and Days, by Hesiod
Snorri's Edda
Dali, by Robert Deschaenes and Gilles Neret
Cradle by Arthur C. Clarke.

It's no fun to just read one at a time.

Work and Days, by Hesiod
Snorri's Edda
Dali, by Robert Deschaenes and Gilles Neret
Cradle by Arthur C. Clarke.

It's no fun to just read one at a time.

Oh, I have a big leather bound collectors edition of the Edda. Like, pimpin'. Haven't gotten around to reading all of it yet. Bought because it was half price And going back to the roots and all that.