Started TP's Carp Jugulum last night. Appears to be another hilarious tale of the three witches against this time, a family of vampyres.

Rhodry - I also read Pillars of the Earth recently! An excellent book! I really enjoyed the insight into the difficulties of life in the 13th century... yikes!

Also, eagerly awaiting the 4th in George R. R. Martin's fantasy series, but the pub date has been pushed back again...

Hmm...What book am I reading. I am reading Willow, bby V.C.Andrews. She's in the Horror section. I never knew why, but i guess they are creepy if you think about it. O well!

I forgot to take a new book to bed last night so I ended up reading a short story by Rudyard Kipling entitled, At the End of the Passage, which is one of his India stories about a British Civil Servant to whom the summer heat and the isolation were just too much for him to handle.

Tonight I must reread The Fellowship of the Ring, Chapters 9, 10, and 11 of Book I for Sunday's 9 PM GMT Bilbos-Study chat room class. The lesson will cover the hobbits' arrival in Bree through the Nazgul's stabbing of Frodo on Weathertop. That line by Sam is one of my favorites. The poems from those chapters are also very good; like Aragorn's tale of Beren and Luthien, Sam's rendition of 'Gilgalad was...,' and Frodo's non-sense song and dance 'The Man in the Moon Stayed up too Late'.
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Change in plan from the above: We will save Chapter 11 and cover it next week along with Chapter 12, thus completing the first of the six LotR books at that time.

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I'm reading The Strange Will another of the books with the diabolical convoluted plots of Harry Stephen Keeler with his wife Hazel Goodwin Keeler.

Sounds interesting!

Every time I go to the bookstore I end up getting a really horrible book based on what other people think...

Last book I read was Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

I'm sorry to everyone who loves the series but I really can't stand the way he writes. I honestly feel like the time I spent wasting reading that repetitive book should be reimbursed by Mr. Goodkind himself.

So I recently picked up a copy of Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King. I don't get to go to the movies often so I love when I can read the books before they come out on DVD. I read the first page and now it's collecting dust on my bookshelf waiting to be sold on Half.com From the fist page I gathered that it was written by an 11 year old and lost interest completely with the unnecessary use of fowl language almost every other word

So right now I'm searching for something that's worth reading for myself and in the mean time I'm reading Chronicals of Narnia every night before bed to my 2 year old.

uh.. I'm reading Planet-Tolkien threads....

Finished TP's The Fifth Elephant early this morning. Don't know what got Ungoliant's goat.

Tonight I will start Harry Stephan Keeler's The Riddle of the Travelling Skull published in 1934.

I'm just reading Life Of Pi by Yann Martel. I find it hilarous.
Feawen, who is Amistad by? I might have heard of it.

I am reading the latest Robert Jordan book not that good.

I haven`t read anything by Robert Jordan.

Currently I`m reading FOTR and it`s excellent!

Has anyone read My Story Collection?It consists of, A Child Called It, The Lost Boy and aA Man Named Dave. They are wrote by Dave Pelzer

They are all true stories about him being abused by his mother and everything else. It`s really sad. I shouldn`t be reading them at my age but my mum let me and they`re really great books. They make you realise how lucky you are to have such good parents.

He also has wrote two other books, Help Yourself and something else I can`t remember it`s name. The last two books I named he tells you about getting help and surving through being abused if you are afraid to get any help. Everything like that is in those books.

At bedtime I'm reading Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn, which is Book Two of the Thieves World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin & Lynn Abbey.

A friend loaned me his twelve volume set of this series.

Each book in the series contains Swords and Sorcery type short stories by different postAuthorIDs that take place in and around the city of Sanctuary and may make use of many of the same characters with the rule that if one postAuthorID creates a character, another postAuthorID can use him as long as he stays in character and doesn't get killed off. The postAuthorIDs of the stories are well known in the field of Fantasy/Sci-Fi.

I'm stumbling through some poetry my arabic teacher gave me...I have a rough enough time with poetry in english, this arabic nonsense is making me crazy

I went over to my grandparents' house the other day, and my grandfather had found a big old box of books somewhere that he said I could have...lots of stuff I never heard of before...the goal of this summer is to work my way through the whole box.

I'm reading Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time another one with Susan, Death's grandaughter. I'm finding it hillarious, like all TP's work.

The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam. Yes, I think he was an Arabian rather than a Persian. All I remember is it is a bunch of long poems and one contains the bit about ...

Defenders #109, slow connection, have to do something while I wait for the pages to load.

I just started.. Hero of Everest: Tenzing

Its a biography of Tenzing Norgay, who along with Sir Edmund Hillary were the first men on Mount Everest.

When Thief Meets Thief by Harry Stephan Keeler having finished Candace Robb's A Spy for the Redeemer, her eighth, 14th century, Owen Archer mystery.

A whole stack of past research reports, I'm afraid

I’m currently reading Unfinished Tales, and The Letter’s of J.R.R. Tolkien, both for the first time. Obviously both are amazing! The great thing about those two books is that you can kind of pick them up whenever you want, and jump around if you wish.

I’ve also been poking around in my copy of Karen Wynn Fonstad’s The Altas Of Middle Earth that I got a couple of months ago, which is excellent, and a must have for any serious Tolkien fan.

I just re-read ROTK cover to cover again about a month ago, and even though I’ve basically read The Silmarillion cover to cover twice now, I’m planning on re-reading that again soon.

Other than the newspaper, or various magazines that I read, I just can’t seem (or want) to pull away from Tolkien right now. All of the other books I’ve been meaning to read are stacking up! I do read liner notes from albums all the time though; I’m a liner note fiend! Do those count?

Grondy, my mates in Liverpool could have got you a copy of that a week ago!

Need to get home to pick up my HP book, need to get home and pick up my HP book... (repeat ad infinitum)
Nearly went and bought it in Exeter yesterday, but restrained myself, and bought Essential Fantastic Four #1 and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 1. Once again had to restrain myself from buying the new boxed hardback LOEG for ’60, it looks so pretty, and it's got Alan Moore's full scripts in it as well, looks fantastic. I'm reading the FF at the minute, and will hit the LOEG tonight I'd imagine.

lotr, fotr

Very true Grondy. I have not gotten to that part in the book yet, but I already know who it was that dies. Littleirena told Robbie, and he told me yesterday. I guess, I am prepared for it now though.

I have been teasing her about spoiling it, just a tad too. heheheee.

Ok, I have not been on line much, so I have been doing a lot of reading.

I have read:

1) Tolkien's Roverandom. That was really cute.

2) David Gemmel's (sp?) Legend. Excellent stroy

3) " " King Beyond the Gate.

4) Harry Potter Year 5

5) Laurell K. Hamilotn's Guilty Pleasures. It is a vampire book, and I love stories about vampires. I think this one is sooooo cool. Completely different from Anne Rice's novels and not quite as good, but still very enjoyable.

6) Terry Pratchett's Color of Magic

7) " " Light Fantastic

8) " " Equal Rites (I am in the middle of it now and will probably finish it this weekend if I have time to read.

I have the 2nd book The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton, to start.

I think I got everything, but I have no real clue. I just know I have been reading a lot lately.



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No, I had not, heard that. I hope he does not die, in the last book, that would be just too sad. Harry is a nice kid. I tend to get attached to my characters, and by the end of the series, I would be really upset if Harry, Ron or Hermione were to die. I mean it was bad enough when Cedric died. I did not get to read much last night, but this is a really good book, and it gets better and better with each page.

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