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i know this has been done before, but i think it was lost when hb crashed.
but here goes.
what i have been reading.
fierce invalids home from hot climates.
by tom robbins.
this will be the 3rd robbins book i have read. I was introduced to his books by a friend at work, who pointed out to me that one of the lead characters in a book called "jitterbug perfume, was named lefever, which is very similar to my last name. i must say the "fierce invalids home from hot climates is my favorite book of his so far. check it out sometime.
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I haven't read for wuite some time, been lazy and using the portable cd-player while commuting instead. So just yesterday I started on the third jean m auel novel, "valley of the horses" or something something... "Mad"? "Don't mind if I do!"
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I've been reading a lot but it's all for school, a lot of articles for my 'new media & digital culture' class, some of which is online and some of which from a reader. A book that came along with said course called "Remediation".
And then a sylabus and a book on theatre history from the Greeks up untill the 19th century for another class.
I'm also reading "Media Virus" by Douglas Rushkoff, but that's been on hold since about a week cause my other classes are swamping me and I don't really need to read that book till next year.
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I'm currently reading The Lord of The Rings, and Stephen King's collection, Everything's Eventual.
Recently read "What We Keep", by Elizabeth Berg. A good easy read about a daughter that hasn't seen her mother in over 30 years.
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good good
Lord of the Rings is an excellent trilogy
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I just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I'm going to try and read Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter next, along with the required reading for the class I'm taking this summer.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by JaceSan:
I'm going to try and read Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter next, along with the required reading for the class I'm taking this summer.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
I liked that one, you'll get through it in a jiffy. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
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She's an excellent author. I've found each of her novels gets progressively better. The Joy Luck Club had a few too many characters to keep all the story lines straight. The Hundred Secret Senses was fantastic. She actually spoke at this years commencement where I'm going to school. I would have gone, but parking's such a bitch when everyone's graduating down there.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by JaceSan:
I would have gone, but parking's such a bitch when everyone's graduating down there.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
You ever tried walking? Taking the bus? [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
I've only read this one of her novels, but I've understood she's done some pretty good stuff. When I buy books I just go over to "new" and pick what I like, or browse the shelves for covers & names I like. I very seldom pick a boring or uninteresting book though, so my method must work. =)
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And they say you can't judge a book by it's cover! HA! I have the same strategy Whyatt, I just scan whatever's there.. I'm usually in the English section. I know there's some classics I'd rather read in Dutch but in general in the library I go straight for the new books and see what's cooking there or I head off into the maze of English books and just pick something that looks good.
Of course I only take it home after reading the back and making sure that it also sounds good.
Can't wait for my vacation to start, then I'll have time to read again.
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That's a great method of choosing books Mieke. That's such a great method, I think anyone who uses it must be really, really, REALLY smart.. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
*does the thumb-dance* [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]biggrin.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_down.gif[/img]
<font color="#99CCCC" size="1">[ June 05, 2002 09:58 AM: Message edited by: Whyatt Thrash ]</font>
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currently reading the first Lord of the Rings novel (The Fellowship of the Ring) but keep having to put it down, read something else, and then go back to it...
Just finished T2-Infiltrator....cool book if you like the Terminator movies
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The BoneSetter's Daughter is on my upcoming list. My gf read it not too long ago (she loved it) and I just haven't picked it up yet. Started reading Lord of the Rings because I'd read The Hobbit and loved it, then the movie came out, which I loved. I bought it in one collected volume. I'm on the last "book"-The Return of the King. Seems strange to try and read just one book at a time, it flows better as one very large volume, IMO.
Anyone looking to read any classics soon? I'm thinking I want to reread "The Stranger" by Albert Camus. I haven't read it since high school and think I'd get more out of it by reading it now.
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I was reading the forward on Lord of the Rings....and originaly it was one book...not three. Publishers are the ones that split it up.
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I could see it as a 1 book collection. The copies i read were the original ones (before the movie ones came out). and i must say, i fucking loved it. I would have kinda liked to seen tom Bombedell (?think so) in the movie, but i could understand why they cut him.
But 1 character i cant wait to see personified is treebeard [img]smile.gif[/img]
Bring on the EntS [img]smile.gif[/img]
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I really didnt like the LOTR trilogy. I found the last half of The Two Towers very entertaining, but that was about it. American Gods was pretty good however.
Anyway, im reading Ubik by Phillip K Dick.
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tyler! when we doin' cawfee? [img]wink.gif[/img] hehe
i'm still about 3/4 of the way through The Stand.....i only read when i'm gonna be on the bowl for a while, so i guess i've just been really healthy lately [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
<font color="#99CCCC" size="1">[ June 09, 2002 05:15 PM: Message edited by: Jude ]</font>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by -Tyler-:
Anyway, im reading Ubik by Phillip K Dick.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
U DICK!
hehe..... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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The Stand is my fav work by King.
The Uncut version is the best.
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The Stand and IT are my top faves by King. I'm also a fan of the Dark Tower series.
Also starting to read a book "As Nature Made Him", nonfiction that talks about the guy whose botched surgery as a baby was the basis for medical theories that gender was defined by your environment, not birth (the boy was raised as a girl after a botched circumcism when he was 10 months old). Should be a very interesting read.
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I've wanted to read the "Dark Towers" trilogy, but I haven't been able to find them.
Is it good Bran?
Have you ever read Insomnia by King? That was a fantastic book. Very good.
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didnt dean koontz write insomnia?
and yeah fozzie bear, the dark tower saga is a great fucking read
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i must have some seriously undiagnosed A.D.D. cuz for whatever reason, i just can't seem to get past 3/4 the way of a book......it starts to seem like a chore to finish it...am i deficient in some intellectual way? *paranoid* [img]frown.gif[/img]
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No leo, you just have a short attention span for reading.
I have it too. I know what you mean.
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Even hardcore reader Tyler had a hard time finishing up on Lord of the Rings.. And I'm not even bothering, I wouldn't read that trilogy if they held a gun to my head. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Whyatt Thrash:
I liked that one, you'll get through it in a jiffy. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] </font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
You weren't kidding. I couldn't put it down last night and finished part one. She's an amazing writer.
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The Dark Tower is an excellent series and most bookstores should have the paperback version. Start with The Gunslinger. If you read the Dark Tower series, you'll notice a lot of references to it in his other books.
Read Insomina (Stephen King wrote it, it has nothing to do with the movie of the same name-there may be another book with the same name the movie is based on, I don't know). I liked it, though I think it was a bit too long.
I'm enjoying Lord of the Rings. Tolkien is definitely on the wordy side, but I find LOTR easier to read than The Hobbit, though it's much much longer in length.
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LotR is a classic. Other fantasy books worth checking out are Moorcock's Elric series and Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books. Howard's Conan titles are worth mentioning as well.
