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Lesley Kara: The runour
2/3 in, and it's good.
listening to Michael Grant's Gone.
would've liked a whole lot better if it didn't mention Astrid's hair color all the time (but no one else's was overly mentioned and lots not even mentioned at all) how just everyone thought she was soooo pretty
a pity, the story's good, but that's annoying
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Kraichgauer
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Long overdue... Finally started the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
I was so obsessed with the movies when I was around 4 or 5 years old, I wore out a couple dvd sets. It's hard to believe I've never read the books considering my obsession with books in general AND the movies.
It's different, but I am really enjoying them. More than I even thought I would. I liked the Tom Bombadil arc and how much more detail there is in the beginning, a lot of things make so much more sense now that I felt seemed janky in the movies.
Kraichgauer
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I was so obsessed with the movies when I was around 4 or 5 years old, I wore out a couple dvd sets. It's hard to believe I've never read the books considering my obsession with books in general AND the movies.
It's different, but I am really enjoying them. More than I even thought I would. I liked the Tom Bombadil arc and how much more detail there is in the beginning, a lot of things make so much more sense now that I felt seemed janky in the movies.
Back in my college days, I took a class on fantasy literature in which the trilogy was our text. One of my most memorable classes.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
I was so obsessed with the movies when I was around 4 or 5 years old, I wore out a couple dvd sets. It's hard to believe I've never read the books considering my obsession with books in general AND the movies.
It's different, but I am really enjoying them. More than I even thought I would. I liked the Tom Bombadil arc and how much more detail there is in the beginning, a lot of things make so much more sense now that I felt seemed janky in the movies.
Back in my college days, I took a class on fantasy literature in which the trilogy was our text. One of my most memorable classes.
Yeah, that sounds like fun. I took quite a few literature classes as electives in college as well! Including Sci-fi, Fiction, Middle English, Shakespeare. I think there was more but I can't recall... It all kind of melds together. I had the same 2 teachers for all of them. Super fun, though. I think my favorite read was the Canticle for Leibowitz, overall.
I wish I was still in college right now... I will get back to it, at some point.
Kraichgauer
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Joined: 12 Apr 2010
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Posts: 47,798
Location: Spokane area, Washington state.
I was so obsessed with the movies when I was around 4 or 5 years old, I wore out a couple dvd sets. It's hard to believe I've never read the books considering my obsession with books in general AND the movies.
It's different, but I am really enjoying them. More than I even thought I would. I liked the Tom Bombadil arc and how much more detail there is in the beginning, a lot of things make so much more sense now that I felt seemed janky in the movies.
Back in my college days, I took a class on fantasy literature in which the trilogy was our text. One of my most memorable classes.
Yeah, that sounds like fun. I took quite a few literature classes as electives in college as well! Including Sci-fi, Fiction, Middle English, Shakespeare. I think there was more but I can't recall... It all kind of melds together. I had the same 2 teachers for all of them. Super fun, though. I think my favorite read was the Canticle for Leibowitz, overall.
I wish I was still in college right now... I will get back to it, at some point.
Do go back. Learning just for the sake of learning was one of the very best experiences of my life.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
I was so obsessed with the movies when I was around 4 or 5 years old, I wore out a couple dvd sets. It's hard to believe I've never read the books considering my obsession with books in general AND the movies.
It's different, but I am really enjoying them. More than I even thought I would. I liked the Tom Bombadil arc and how much more detail there is in the beginning, a lot of things make so much more sense now that I felt seemed janky in the movies.
I'm currently rereading LotR. Just got to A Journey In the Dark. I'm actually reading it on my phone because the only copies I have are old paperbacks published in the 70's and I want to keep them in good condition.
You can find it here if you like:
http://ae-lib.org.ua/texts-c/tolkien__t ... n.htm#2-03
Also I play a free online game called Lord of the Rings Online which lets you travel throughout Middle Earth. I'm currently playing a character who is in Eregion aka Hollin and about to enter Moria.
I am also reading a book called Nervous Laughter by Earl Emerson. It's the third in a series of novels about a Seattle private investigator named Thomas Black. They are written in the style of Raymond Chandler I believe. I like the author's detailed knowledge of Seattle and the surrounding areas.
I was so obsessed with the movies when I was around 4 or 5 years old, I wore out a couple dvd sets. It's hard to believe I've never read the books considering my obsession with books in general AND the movies.
It's different, but I am really enjoying them. More than I even thought I would. I liked the Tom Bombadil arc and how much more detail there is in the beginning, a lot of things make so much more sense now that I felt seemed janky in the movies.
I'm currently rereading LotR. Just got to A Journey In the Dark. I'm actually reading it on my phone because the only copies I have are old paperbacks published in the 70's and I want to keep them in good condition.
You can find it here if you like:
http://ae-lib.org.ua/texts-c/tolkien__t ... n.htm#2-03
Also I play a free online game called Lord of the Rings Online which lets you travel throughout Middle Earth. I'm currently playing a character who is in Eregion aka Hollin and about to enter Moria.
I may look into them! As far as the game goes, I don't know. I am a bit skeptical, I've had bad experiences with movie/book game adaptions. I've heard good and bad about those games, and I'm *very* picky. Maybe once I am done with the list I already have going for games I need to work on. Currently going through Oblivion for the first time since I was a lot younger.
253 by Geoff Ryman.
I was dubious when I started this due to the non-narrative, rule-bound writing, and sheer number of characters. There are 253 words about each of the 252 passengers on a London tube train, plus the driver. Each person is described according to a strict formula; their appearance, a short biography, and their thoughts at a certain point in the journey. You know from the outset that the train is going to crash. It was an internet book originally, so I'm not sure how much reading it in print might change the experience, but it works much better than I anticipated, and sucked me in quite easily.
There are some really clever and quite poignant plays on how the passengers (mis)read each other's appearance and behaviour once it becomes clearer which passengers are watching which other ones (now I wonder why that might appeal to me! ). I found the original internet version too (here), so I might have a look at that once I've finished the book. Not the most world-changing book in the world, for sure; but it's a nice little jaunt into something a bit unusual, and I think short enough that the formulaic structure won't get too get tiresome.
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