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I read Inachieve Tales and Legend - Third age by Tolkien. (I hope it's the correct title in english) Interesting Book for the fan of Tolkien's World.
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I'm currently reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith, as well as V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, and Wolf's Brother by Megan Lindholm.
After I've read these, I'm going to read a Norwegian book called Hvite Niggere (English: White Niggers) by Ingvar Ambjørnsen.
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I just finished "Buddhism In Chinese History" by Arthur F Wright.
Why?
Well, its been sitting on my book shelf since my college days and I finally decided to get my money's worth out of it.
I found it quite interesting, but I can be a history junky.
I have since started "The Canteburry Tales".
Worse, I re-Xanthed. With 2 hours between interviews I went to a library to pass the time. I started the Question Quest--2 hours of bad puns and brain candy.
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Scott, how far along are you? What are you thinking of it so far?
I'm reading a bunch of stuff at the moment:
Ursula K. LeGuin's collection The Compass Rose (an old favorite--my copy is literally falling apart from having been read so many times) Michael Bishop's collection Blooded on Arachne (first time through, and so far I'm not terribly impressed, but his novels are good enough that I expect the collection to get better) OSC's Saints (2nd time through, I think. I read it ages ago, and remember vitually nothing about it) James P Hogan's Inherit the Stars (I remember loving this when I was younger, but it was long enough ago that I've completely forgotten the story) Nancy Kress' Probability Moon (1st time through--I've been impressed with other stuff she's written, and this seems like it's shaping up to be quite good as well) J.M. Gullick's Adventures and Encounters: Europeans in South East Asia (this is a compilation of source texts such as journals and log books that details contact between Europeans and SE Asia. So far almost everything I've read has been from the 16th century.) I've got, and have been glancing at Jack Whyte's The Eagle's Brood, but I suspect it's going to suck, so I haven't quite been able to make myself open it yet.
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I gave all my Xanth to my sister so as not to be at risk. Of course, I still have my Xanth t-shirt....
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How far into it are you? I loved it when I first read it, but I was...oh, I don't know, 13 or 14, somewhere in there.
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St. Yogi, I love Zadie Smith. Check out her second novel "The Autograph Man." It's very clever as well.
I'm currently reading "Anna Karenina" and "A Widow for One Year" by John Irving. Irving is beginning to annoy me. Many of his books seem to have the same main male character but with a different name.
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Choobak - I think you mean the Unfinished Tales. Your translation was close. I've read it, and enjoyed most of it, but I just couldn't get through the section about Turin. *sigh*
Right now I'm reading Wicked. Not very far into it, but it's interesting, and I'm looking forward to really getting into it. Unfortunatly for my reading, I've also started playing Katamari Damacy. That game is extremely addictive.
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Right now I'm reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Alton Brown's I'm Just Here For The Food.
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Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland and Rudolfo A. Anaya's Heart of Aztlan. Both picked up fairly randomly at the library, both very good.
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Noemon: I'm on tape 12/14. (Audio books keep me sane).
Um. . . Dune is not as good as I've been lead to believe. It's not bad-- but I'm having a hard time connecting to anyone beyond Stilgar. The Atreides are so . . . invulnerable.
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Absolutely nothing. Well, at least nothing that I'm reading for my own, personal enjoyment. I have so much stuff to read for school, its not funny.
First we the ever present US History book. Several pages (with itty bitty font and HUGE pages) a day.
Although we don't have a particular reading schedule, it doesn't hurt to read my Environmental Science book, either.
I also have to read The Jungle for US History.
Huck Finn is our current book in English.
And right after we finish Huck Finn, we need to read one of the books on the "banned book" list. Fortunately, we get to choose which one. I picked Clockwork Orange.
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I’m currently reading “Crossroads of Twilight” (The Wheel of Time, Book 10) by Robert Jordan. This is my second time through the series as I started over again after the prequel came out last year. Fun!
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Morte Darthur- selections (class) David Copperfield (pleasure, old favourite) Biography of Tolkein (pleasure and VERY INTERESTING)
quote: Scott R -- I'm sorry. Most people find Dune painfully boring or obscure on their first reading.
They do? But it's full of murder and battles and stuff! I liked it first time around.
And DB, I love the Aeneid! Today, we have to recite the first twelve lines for class (in translation or not- I'm doing it in translation because I don't speak latin and I want to know what I'm saying)
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Yeah, in many ways it's better than the Iliad, though the Odyssey still outranks it, IMO. I prefer the Fitzgerald translation to the Mandlebaum.
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Love the Aeneid. A closer translation of the first words would be "Arms and the hero I sing of..."
Okay, I stop now. I had waaaay too much Aeneid last term (whole Latin class on Vergil, oi).
Currently Reading: The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Diana Wynne Jones Mabinogion Dragon Venom, David Watt-Evans Liber Viginti Quattuor Philosophorum (for class)
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Nothing for pleasure right now because I have not had time to go to the bookstore.
But for school... about 10 essays all on Constructivist teaching, schools going corporate, accountability, or grading/testing. Whoho. Our education system is going down the hole.
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Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. Actually pretty good so far, although the timeline is confusing.
I'm also rereading Le Passe-Muraille by Marcel Ayme. En francais, of course. Those are some good stories.
I'm going to have to say that Dune really wasn't that great of a book. It wasn't bad, but I wasn't prfoundly moved by it either. And I tried reading a sequel and found it horrid. So there. Bleyeh.
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I started it on the flight back from Mexico and seem to have become a slow reader in my old age. I am quite embarassed to be only as far as I am in a book I'm greatly enjoying in spite of the amount of time I have spent on it.
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The Knight, book 1 of The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe--just finished, very good, I haven't decided whether to reread it before starting book 2
R. Buckminister Fuller by John McHale. About the inventor of the geodesic dome, among other things. Interesting, lots of cool photos, but the text is a little light on Fuller's unique approach to geometry.
Radio Free Albemuth By Phillip K. Dick. This book was "discovered" among Dick's papers posthumerously. I am usually suspicious of such books, as they are often second-rate material the author didn't want published. So far it seems to be a more coherent version of Dick's Valis, but less interesting/weird. I started reading and rereading classic Dick novels and stories after reading:
quote:The Knight, book 1 of The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe--just finished, very good, I haven't decided whether to reread it before starting book 2
I saw this at the bookstore and was very intrigued. Normally, I really can't handle anything vaguely fantasy-like*, but I trust Gene Wolfe pretty inherently. I think I shall put this on my list. Have you read his other stuff? There are Doors was my favorite book in a long time, and Storeys From The Old Hotel was fabulous.
Oh, in addition to Ramona, which I read one chapter a night with my sister, I'm also reading Asimov's The Robots of Dawn because my new favorite book source is whatever sci fi I can find at the Salvation Army.
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*Remind me to tell you sometime the story of me getting brainwashed into reading like 6 books by Terry Goodkind
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quote: Love the Aeneid. A closer translation of the first words would be "Arms and the hero I sing of..."
We're reading the Fitzgerald translation, so that was the one that most people performed. I like it, even if it's not completely accurate. Posts: 8473 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I've never read anything by Douglas Adams...
*adds yet another series on my neverending and everexpanding list of books to read in the next few centuries...*
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I found The Knight to be kind of a strange book. The main character was so headstrong that it seemed like everyone including the author and reader had to run to keep up. It wasn't a bad read, though.
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Teshi, just because I can't let things lie, I'm gonna suggest the Tony Kline translation. Best mix I've seen yet of keeping the poetic feel of the original while still being a readable story.
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I'm reading... a lot. I think. At least I have a lot of books scattered around my room with bookmarks in them, and several I'm reading for class. Hmm... methinks I should clean.
Examples (with authors on the not-so-obvious):
Shadow of the Hegemon The Worthing Saga A Clash of Kings The Dragon Reborn From Here to Eternity (James Jones) 38 Latin Stories Chapter 17 - The Myrmidons The Iliad (in Greek and both Fagles and Lattimore translations) Makers of Rome (Plutarch, trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert) Schopenhauer, A Very Quick Introduction (from the series)
Well, that's all of them that aren't buried. There may well be more, but I'm kind of scared to see what they will be.
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The Fagles translation of The Odyssey bothered me with its repeated use of the idiom "cramping his style." Odysseus' soldiers cramped his style every other page. I mean, I understand the difficulty of rendering figurative language, but really - must Homer sound like a Beatnik?
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Yeah, they're great. Except when we actually spend time on them in class. I can mostly translate them on sight, which drives a couple of my friends up the wall. Again, oops.
But when you're studying your sixth language, they start to get easier. Especially when they're all related somehow.
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The Crystal City and the rest of the series up to it... (waiting anxiously for another novel? if its coming)
have completed the Homecoming Series (loved it) Enders game, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide (I'm not sure where to go from there in that series though...)
Have just started reading the Women of Genesis books as I loved the first three chapters that I read here on the site...and have requested a boat load of Card's books from the local library.. (yeah I'm a Card junky)
thats about it for now... I can only read so fast...lol
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I am reading The Redemption of Althalus which I found at the Curves bookshelf. Someone who exercises there is a serious fantasy fan. it's great. Plus, I found the The Dragobbone Chair , which I had loaned to a student who moved away. It is a great way to unload books, too. I want to keep them all, but our house is too small. So, I am only keeping complete fantasy series, and passing the rest along, except fo other favorite. And books I read in college. And...I'm hopeless.
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Eaquae Legit- what is it about the translation you linked to that you prefer over other published ones? For some reason it just doesn't work for me...
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