I'm going to start the new HP this afternoon, and I've already guessed who dies, thanks to a news programme trying not to give it away saying it wouldn't trouble Warner Brothers too much. If you're clever that leaves it easy, though i could be wrong.

I'd put it back on the list if I was you, then slowly move it to the one's to avoid list!

So I finished it, my first guess was indeed wrong Grondy, however my second guess proved to be spot on. Good book, now I may have to read it again rather slower and try and pick up on a few more nuances and subtleties, there's always clues for the future in there.

The shipping news by E.Annie.Proulx
I liked the movie so much that i bought the book, so far so good, but it reads kinda funny, almost like poetry.
Heres an example:

A year came when his life was bought up sharply. Voices over the wire, the crump of folding steal, flame.
(From Annie Proulx's,The Shipping News)


[Edited on 2/7/2003 by Rhodry*of*Aberwyn]

I alwayssss peeksesss at the endingssss precioussss!! Can't stand nasty suprisesssss!!!

I am reading a large fan fiction story "The Captain and the King" by PlasticChevy, which can be found at Henneth Annun site. I am very glad to have found at last this story because I knew about its existence since a long moment and I could not find it on the web. I learned about it when I found on the site rolozo.org the illustrations to LOTR made by a young Polish artist, Catherine Chmiel. She published there some very fine potraits of Boromir and Faramir, and also some illustrations to the story "The Captain and the King". I was intrigued by them and I wanted very muich to read that story. And I found it at last! It is definitely worth reading, a sort of cross-over between LOTR and Dune! It tellss an alternative version of LOTR in which Boromir does not die at Parth Galen, but is taken captive by the orcs of Saruman together with Aragorn. I think I will say no more, I don't want to spoil your fun!

I started re-reading The Doll's House, which is Volume II of Neil Gaiman's Sandman Series and is comprised of issues 9-16 of the comic books.

Currently running my eyes over Downsize This by the fantastic Michael Moore in which he talks about how 'The American Dream' is now the American Nightmare. And also What If in which war historians dfiscuss the what if possibilities of all the great conflicts in history plus The Salmon of Doubt and Unfinished Tales.

I have been reading "So Big" by Edna Ferber;it won the Pulitzer Prize and I think it is good,but not great.Its about an 19-year-old orphan who takes a job as a teacher in a one room school house in a Dutch community.I just finished reading a book called the Covenant(I forget the postAuthorID!),a story of four Amish sisters growing up in Lancaster county during the 50's.

I am currently reading Ivanhoe (Scott), Tales from Ovid (translated by Ted Hughes), and bits of Edith Hamilton and Bullfinch.

Yup, I always wondered why he had a runny nose until I saw his gloves. I also thought Rincewind's Jet-Pack looked cool; however, I think it might need a little more work, just judging by the pictures.

hi everyone im bella im new to p.t.im just finising the new harry potter then im going to read rotk to refresh my memory for the movie -cant wait

Had I the money to buy the new Potter (extraordinarily pricy in this non-english-speaking country), that's what I would be reading.

But I do not. So I am having a laugh over the Canterbury Tales.

Though it has been a good six months since I read LOTR...I'm beginning to hear its tempting call..

Yes, I'll have to re-read LOTR soon, it's been too long, my preciousssss...

Yes, I think I'm due for another reading myself.
What country do you live in, Rodia, just out of curiousity.

Poland, Samwise.

(gotta love a teaser. )

Terry Pratchett's "Wee Free Men" the second Discwordl book for kiddies, yes I know it's for Kiddies, but there's references for adults too, and it is Pratchett. Don't know how much I like it yet though. Just finished the Science of Discworld 2: The Globe. Not as good as the first one, but still really very interesting stuff.

I'm still ploughing through HOME, but I've just read Greenmantle by Charles de Lint while on holiday.

’holds down barf’ Ugh! I don't think I could even pick that book up knowing that was in there!

Ok, since my last post in this thread I have read:
Raymond E. Feist Magician Apprentice, Magician Master, Silverhorn and A Darnkness at Sethanon.

Terry Pratchett's Small Gods, Lords and Ladies, Soul Music, and I am currently reading Mort. Thanks to Plastick and Golly (geez I miss her)


I have also finished Katherin Kerr's Daggerspell, and Darkspell. (Thank you Rhodry and Val. That is an excellent series.)

I also have David Gemmel's Quest for Lost Heroes, but have not started it yet.

I have read Ken Follet's Paper Money and The Modigliani Scandal

I think I have read something else but at the moment I can't think of what it is.

I am reading Bless Me Ultima for school. It is a very good book, freaks me out, but still very good.
I also had to read Romeo and Juliet for school and did not want to, so my friend Helen and I acted it out. So now I am done with that too.
I am re-reading Edith Hamilton for school as well, she is a very good reference book, but I do NOT like her approach to the concept of Greek or Norse mythology. She has some very interesting things to say and is certianly not dull, I like her for that, but I cannot agree with what she says and find it RIDICULOUS.

I've been putting it off for weeks now, but today (while I'm doing laundry) I'm going to start Louis Armstrong An Extravagant Life by Laurence Bergreen.

I'm currently perusing the appendices of RotK, UT, and several HOME books as well as the Atlas of Middle Earth for snippets of information, as background for a story I'm working on.

I've finally started reading Terry Pratchett's Diskworld fable, The Last Hero, which is beautifully illustrated by Paul Kidby. The pictures are wonderful and make me feel young, while the very funny story is like Eric and the Vikings Meet the Astronauts on Mt Olympus.

Now I started another book by Steinbeck! Called East of Eden,so far from what I have read its one of the best of Steinbeck's works(best of so-far).Fare reading all!
-LadyFeawen