What are you currently reading?

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Maximilian

Quote from: Clare on July 24, 2014, 07:34:27 AM
The Hobbit.

And, no, I've not read it before!  :-[

How fun to be able to read it for the first time.

Clare

Quote from: Maximilian on July 24, 2014, 10:49:49 AM
Quote from: Clare on July 24, 2014, 07:34:27 AM
The Hobbit.

And, no, I've not read it before!  :-[

How fun to be able to read it for the first time.
Yes, I'm liking it so far.  :)
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Finished The Way of Kings, now onto Words of Radiance.  One of the things I like most about Sanderson so far is the restraint he shows in his storylines.  He really lets the stories unfold naturally, but he gives you more than enough to make them page turners.  At least that's been my experience so far.



   
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The Reverse of the Medal, by O'Brian.  I am getting into unfamiliar territory again.  I have read FSW many times, but not the next one in the series and I've been waiting to see the continuation of events from FSW.
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I'm just finishing up reading the Apocalypse (in the original 1582 Rheims New Testament).  Does anyone know of a good traditional commentary on it?

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Not reading it yet, but I just ordered "The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde".
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Rereading the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  Gandolf rocks and Frodo Lives!
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Quote from: maryslittlegarden on July 30, 2014, 02:42:10 PM
Rereading the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  Gandolf rocks and Frodo Lives!

Samwise lives!

Love that story and have read it many, many times.  I was always more enthusiastic about Sam than Frodo to begin with, and then the movies cemented that position even more.  Am not a fan of the Elijah Wood Frodo.

Have you ever read the Silmarillion?
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Pheo

Quote from: Dom Passerini on July 30, 2014, 03:10:23 PMHave you ever read the Silmarillion?

Gotta jump in here and say that this is probably my favourite Tolkien book.
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Quote from: Pheo on July 30, 2014, 08:09:51 PM
Quote from: Dom Passerini on July 30, 2014, 03:10:23 PMHave you ever read the Silmarillion?

Gotta jump in here and say that this is probably my favourite Tolkien book.

I really really really like it, too.  Not sure if I can definitively say I like it better than lotr, but between the hobbit and the silmarillion, no contest.  It has a biblical feel to it.
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Chestertonian

Quote from: Dom Passerini on July 30, 2014, 08:21:02 PM
Quote from: Pheo on July 30, 2014, 08:09:51 PM
Quote from: Dom Passerini on July 30, 2014, 03:10:23 PMHave you ever read the Silmarillion?

Gotta jump in here and say that this is probably my favourite Tolkien book.

I really really really like it, too.  Not sure if I can definitively say I like it better than lotr, but between the hobbit and the silmarillion, no contest.  It has a biblical feel to it.
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Quote from: Dom Passerini on July 30, 2014, 03:10:23 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on July 30, 2014, 02:42:10 PM
Rereading the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  Gandolf rocks and Frodo Lives!

Samwise lives!

Love that story and have read it many, many times.  I was always more enthusiastic about Sam than Frodo to begin with, and then the movies cemented that position even more.  Am not a fan of the Elijah Wood Frodo.

Have you ever read the Silmarillion?

Yeah, I'm more of a Samwise fan than Frodo.  I'm slowly working my way the Silmarillion - I like it very much.
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