Whatcha reading?

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May 12 2003, 8:36 pm
In response to Jar'anthe Perrife
LOTR? NO!!!!

Raymond Feist? YES!!!!!

David Eddings? BETTER THEN SEX!!!!!
May 12 2003, 8:40 pm
In response to Jp
... is all i can currently say...
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Aah. hm. Well, not having read Eddings, I wouldn't know, however, to the best of my knowledge, LOTR is the best book ever written.
May 12 2003, 8:59 pm
In response to Deadron
Plus it's just neat to actually watch a guy crush a skull with his bare hands.
May 12 2003, 11:06 pm
In response to TheSheep
No way. Eddings is the best author I have ever read, with Isaac Asimov coming close second. LOTR is too archaic for me. I also think the plot is a bit obvious, although any kind of questy novel will cause that. Eddings is more modern, though. He doesn't write in a archaic style, and he is funny. Ce'Nedra still cracks me up.
May 12 2003, 11:59 pm
In response to Jp
Who's Eddings?
May 13 2003, 10:57 am
In response to Jp
So your calling Old English archaic are you?
May 13 2003, 9:08 pm
In response to Maz
David Eddings is A Very Good Author, that's who. =P The Belgariad is probably his best known series, but he has a bunch of others as well. I forget what the others are called, but they're all good.
May 15 2003, 4:09 pm
In response to Jotdaniel
Jotdaniel wrote:
So your calling Old English archaic are you?

If no one else will, I will! I will also call a hamburger beefy, an automobile vehicular, and a milkshake dairysome. "Dairysome" probably isn't a word, though, unless maybe it's archaic.
May 15 2003, 4:11 pm
In response to Gughunter
Just because its difficult for some people to read doesnt mean its not excellent reading. I wouldnt classify his style of writing as "archaic" either, its old, but stil quite understandable.
May 16 2003, 8:52 am
In response to Jotdaniel
Meh, one of the things for me is the rest of the stuff: Silmarillion, etc etc. The whole world is so much more than LOTR.
May 16 2003, 11:27 am
In response to TheSheep
I read the Sillmarillion from front to back, most difficult book I've ever read. Im a real stickler on pronunciation so it bugged me till I thought I was pronouncing all the names and such correctly.
May 17 2003, 9:51 am
In response to Jotdaniel
Me too. The back has a section on pronunciation, as do the appendices of LOTR. My problem is the e+diareses (umlaut) - it states that it is always pronounced, but how? :P I tend to say "Feyahnor" or "Eyah" but anyway.. also, I used to pronounce Maeglin "Mieglin" along with other things - aheh is so annoying to say!
May 18 2003, 10:14 am
In response to Kujila
Kujila wrote:
John Stainbeck's "Of Mice and Men"

Pretty durn good, I'de say! :)

We just finished reading The Grapes of Wrath for English class. I didn't really like it, and I expected a better ending after 600+ mind-numbingly boring pages. But that's just me.
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Heh, if you ever go out to the woods on a camping trip, all you need is a book you haven't read. That way, if you get lost, all you need to do is start reading it, and sooner or later someone will pop up and tell you how it ends.
May 18 2003, 2:18 pm
In response to Crispy
The belgariad, the mallorean, the elenium and the tamuli.

He R0X0RS!
May 18 2003, 2:24 pm
In response to TheSheep
I say feenor

And I have read the hobbit, the silmarrilion, and the three LOTR books. I just find it archaic, difficult to read and boring.

And yes, I do read a lot, I like David Eddings much better then LOTR.

Raymond Feist is a good author as well. And Isobelle Carmody.
May 18 2003, 2:55 pm
In response to Jp
It might be difficult to read, but thats half the fun, and its not that difficult to read, your just complaining right there. Once you get into one of the LOTR books you hardly notice the fact that its written in old english.
May 18 2003, 3:52 pm
Since I've finished the Lord of the Rings, I'm starting on reading the Necronomicon whenever I have spare time. The lord of the rings was one of the greatest I have read, along with these two books full of short stories about Forgotten Realms.
May 18 2003, 8:32 pm
In response to Jp
Jp wrote:
Isobelle Carmody.

W00t for IC! Nearly forgot about her. =)
May 18 2003, 10:00 pm
In response to Jotdaniel
I have gotten into them. I just find them boring.

At least you haven't claimed that I'm uneducated.
May 19 2003, 8:32 am
In response to Jotdaniel
I agree. The language of Tolkien lends to the books, IMO. The description and depth, more often than not, interest me, rather than bore me. Feist and Freda Warrington. As a side note, I'm doing my drama exam on Magician.
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