Still (re)reading The Gunslinger. I really just need to focus, I'm glad I didn't promise to read all 7 Dark Tower books this year...
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doubleofive said:
Still (re)reading The Gunslinger. I really just need to focus, I'm glad I didn't promise to read all 7 Dark Tower books this year...
Such a brilliant series... although a proper ending would have been nice.
Still brilliant though. book 2 is a particular favourite.
War does not make one great.
TV's Frink said:
xhonzi said:
The Mrs. and I just finished Mocking Jay, the third Hunger Games book. It tooks us most of a year to get through the first half- then we read the last half in a weekend. I had heard that the book was a real let down after the first two, but I was determined to enjoy it. Well... the first half is hard to enjoy. It really picks up in the second half, right up until the rather disappointing ending.
We?
Just curious how this works.
I was gonna ask the same thing.
War does not make one great.
Maybe they read them out loud to each other, or they listen to the audiobooks together. Or perhaps they each independently have a copy so they can read at the same time, or they just share the same one copy and read it when the other is not.
CP3S said:
Maybe they read them out loud to each other
I hope it is this one.
Hahahaha, PinkFive and I are going to read The Hobbit together. She's never read it and I haven't in a few years. I have multiple copies, though, so there's no need for read-alouds.
The Later Roman Empire - the Penguin Classics abridgment of Ammianus Marcellinus's book on the history of ancient Rome.
“It is only through interaction, through decision and choice, through confrontation, physical or mental, that the Force can grow within you.”
-Kreia, Jedi Master and Sith Lord
Tyrphanax said: ....
Also, J.R.R. Tolkien is an awful writer.
First of all, I like that no one even felt the need to refute this unbelievable statement. However, when I saw this I had to come here and present it as evidence to the contrary:
RedFive said:
Tyrphanax said: ....
Also, J.R.R. Tolkien is an awful writer.
First of all, I like that no one even felt the need to refute this unbelievable statement. However, when I saw this I had to come here and present it as evidence to the contrary:
Meh. Robert E. Howard is far superior to Tolkien as a story teller.
“It is only through interaction, through decision and choice, through confrontation, physical or mental, that the Force can grow within you.”
-Kreia, Jedi Master and Sith Lord
RedFive said:
^Is that movie adaptation any good? I got it out of a $5 bin once and never watched it..
I don't know, but i don't think it will be as long or as juicy as the book. I found this to be the case with the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls film version.
VADER!? WHERE THE HELL IS MY MOCHA LATTE? -Palpy on a very bad day.
“George didn’t think there was any future in dead Han toys.”-Harrison Ford
YT channel:
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TV's Frink said:
xhonzi said:
The Mrs. and I just finished Mocking Jay, the third Hunger Games book. It tooks us most of a year to get through the first half- then we read the last half in a weekend. I had heard that the book was a real let down after the first two, but I was determined to enjoy it. Well... the first half is hard to enjoy. It really picks up in the second half, right up until the rather disappointing ending.
We?
Just curious how this works.
We take turns reading aloud. Most of the time it's just on long drives (like finishing Mocking Jay) but depending on how well we're enjoying a book, we might actually spend valuable movie/TV time reading it aloud. That's usually reserved for special books like Harry Potter or the last 20-30 pages of a good one.
It works quite well for us, but most couples respond that they've never tried it and/or that they can't imagine it working. It's nice, because we're always "at the same spot" in the book and can talk about it while we read it. Sort of like a book club, but where people actually read the book, we don't get sloshed, and there is very little neighbourhood gossip.
We've even done it with a few graphic novels, but that's always really weird. So, mostly, I just give her the comics I think she'll enjoy and she reads them on her own.
We've also listened to the same audiobooks at the same time (but separately) and someone is usually way ahead of the other, and it kind of wrecks our ability to have good discussions.
It's something we started on our honeymoon when my wife realized I hadn't read any Nicholas Sparks books. And she hadn't read 1984.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
Reading a beautifully-written, dark and twisted steampunk-style fantasy called Perdido Street Station
I mean, one of the characters looks like this:
What's not to love?
theprequelsrule said:
RedFive said:
Tyrphanax said: ....
Also, J.R.R. Tolkien is an awful writer.
First of all, I like that no one even felt the need to refute this unbelievable statement. However, when I saw this I had to come here and present it as evidence to the contrary:
Meh. Robert E. Howard is far superior to Tolkien as a story teller.
I too find Tolkien to be a frustrating writer. I want to read his stories, but I struggle with his words.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
xhonzi said:
We take turns reading aloud.
When my girlfriend was away at college, we would read to each other over the phone. We did this with The Hobbit and a great book called The Solitaire Mystery. It was actually a lot of fun and made it feel like we weren't half a continent apart.
It's a good read (she has a friendly writing style and she is well travelled so lots of fun stories in there).
The recipes are really good too and can be adapted to include animal parts if that's your thing.
Bingowings said:
It's a good read (she has an friendly writing style and she is well travelled so lots of fun stories in there).
The recipes are really good too and can be adapted to include animal parts if that's your thing.
Mmm..... Animal Parts....
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
xhonzi said:
theprequelsrule said:
RedFive said:
Tyrphanax said: ....
Also, J.R.R. Tolkien is an awful writer.
First of all, I like that no one even felt the need to refute this unbelievable statement. However, when I saw this I had to come here and present it as evidence to the contrary:
Meh. Robert E. Howard is far superior to Tolkien as a story teller.
I too find Tolkien to be a frustrating writer. I want to read his stories, but I struggle with his words.
Me in 6th grade: Oh, I've got to read a book on this list, why not try The Hobbit? 2 pages in: Okay, I'm good.
VADER!? WHERE THE HELL IS MY MOCHA LATTE? -Palpy on a very bad day.
“George didn’t think there was any future in dead Han toys.”-Harrison Ford
YT channel:
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CP3S said:
darth_ender said:
But as for the audiobooks, I'm currently listening to The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (my least favorite so far).
That one is my favorite! A lot better than the second book, that one and the Magician's Nephew are the ones I like the least.
I finished this one, and I do like it, but...I think my biggest problem with it was the lack of a real overarching conflict. The whole thing that ties it together is silly Reepicheep (who had some good lines) wanting to prove his valor by going as far east as he could. It seemed like nothing more than a bunch of subplots. But for what it was, in the end I liked it better than I expected.
RedFive said:
Tyrphanax said: ....
Also, J.R.R. Tolkien is an awful writer.
First of all, I like that no one even felt the need to refute this unbelievable statement.
Whoa! I somehow missed that comment. I will refute it to hell and back, and then all over again. Unbelievable is right! Tolkien is brilliant! I love the way he writes, as have countless others, as evident by the popularity of the books since they were first published.
But it seems most people queef eloquent on the greatness of Stephen King's writing, and yet I've never managed to make it more than a few chapters into one of his books before wanted to beat my own head in with a blunt object. While unquestionably bad writing exists, once you get into the realm of decent to fantastic writing, it becomes very much subject to the reader's tastes.
darth_ender said:
I finished this one, and I do like it, but...I think my biggest problem with it was the lack of a real overarching conflict. The whole thing that ties it together is silly Reepicheep (who had some good lines) wanting to prove his valor by going as far east as he could. It seemed like nothing more than a bunch of subplots. But for what it was, in the end I liked it better than I expected.
You're right, it [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader] is a travelogue with episodic events taking place, rather than having a solid main story arch. That is possibly one of the things I have always really loved so much about it. Reading it at a very young age, it was very imagination inspiring. It made me want to want to go on my own adventures through strange lands (and amusingly enough, I actually made a career of doing just that, for a short while). The idea of stepping through a wardrobe into another world was the only other concept in any of the other Narnia books that excited me anywhere near as much as the things that happen in Voyage. I admit, some of the things in that book are rather silly, but as a kid I didn't really see that.
I agree. Voyage is the most imaginative of the entire series.
I really don't care if you agree, the real question is: Does your mom agree?
I asked her, and she said The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Then she wanted to know why I was asking this. I said "nobody" and ran out of the room.
I JUST FINISHED READING STAR WARS: FATE OF THE JEDI ALLIES WHICH IS THE FIFTH BOOK IN THE SERIES.
"I'VE GROWN TIRED OF ASKING, SO THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME..."
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Tolkien just rambles on and on a lot of the time about really boring and unnecessary detail and extrapolation. Not to mention the forty-five million three-page tuneless songs in every book. Ugh. And the grammar is lacking, as is the sentence structure. I just find myself feeling like I'm slogging through a mire of jumbled words and it hurts my brain.
The posted passage is good, but for every good passage he writes, there are ten passages that make me want to fall asleep and never wake up.
I barely finished FOTR over the span of months. I didn't get that far into TTT over the span of months. It was like pulling teeth. Any book that I'm finding excuses not to pick up again are bad in my... er... book.
Anyway. I'm reading Goldfinger, currently. This version:
I also have that same version of Thunderball, which I'll probably read next.
Keep Circulating the Tapes.
END OF LINE
(It hasn’t happened yet)
The weekend the last Harry Potter book came out, my wife and I visited another couple, got the book at midnight, and did this all weekend. When we got tired of reading aloud, we read silently (yes, we bought 4 copies) for a few chapters, then met together to talk about it before reading another few chapters aloud. Unfortunately we ran out of time before we had to head home, but I finished reading it to my wife in the car on the way.xhonzi said:
We take turns reading aloud. Most of the time it's just on long drives (like finishing Mocking Jay) but depending on how well we're enjoying a book, we might actually spend valuable movie/TV time reading it aloud. That's usually reserved for special books like Harry Potter or the last 20-30 pages of a good one.
It works quite well for us, but most couples respond that they've never tried it and/or that they can't imagine it working. It's nice, because we're always "at the same spot" in the book and can talk about it while we read it. Sort of like a book club, but where people actually read the book, we don't get sloshed, and there is very little neighbourhood gossip.
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