So...what's everyone reading?

[Oldie Black Witch]

I was rather disappointed with The Color of Magic. It has a random ending (and I usually enjoy non-sequiturs) that lacks a resolution.

My favorite Pratchett is The Truth. It's especially funny if you're involved with publishing in any way. Even more so if you work in the newspaper biz.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

uhm. old one, I think what you did was type some text, then highlight it, then chose the "Italics" button above, am I right?

The board isn't htat smart. You have to click the Italics button, then in between the tags created you need to type the text to be italicized. sorry.

[Oldie Black Witch]

Ach!  That's what I get for not previewing my post.

*bangs head on the keyboard*

[Entsuropi]

The colour of magic's ending was a cliffhanger. It got resolved (admittedly not very well) in whatever the next book was called.

[Sminja]

I just finished readin' The Catcher in the Rye, and I really don't know how to describe it. I guess I liked it...full of "catch 22's" and what-not...

[Maxwell]

I;m reading "the fundamentals of physical metalurgy" it's a whimsical tale about lots and lots of atoms that are stacked in different ways and the world in which it is set is truly surreal... the sequel to the color of magic is called "the light fantastic"

[Archon]

I am currently reading among others.
Dune, Atlas Shrugged (second time), The Golden Compass (second time), and Through The Looking Glass

Hey Sminja, I am not trying to criticize your taste however this may sound, but how did you like that book?

[Sminja]

Well, Archon, to tell you the truth, I don't know if I liked it or not. For now, I'm gonna say it was mediocre, kind of boring, but I'm sure I'll appreciate it more as the years go by and I start to understand it better.

btw, I thought The Golden Compass was a good book.


Attention to everyone who read The Da Vinci Code and liked it, read Angels and Demons! The prequel to the prior title I mentioned, very good (I liked it better than TDVC.

[Archon]

yeah I like the Golden Compass too. As for the Catcher in the Rye, I just thought that he was too...whiny. He kept going on and on, and he used the same phrases repeatedly, like "he really was."  It is supposed to be a classic but I dont see the appeal.

[Sigyn]

I hated Golden Compass, but then, I tend to dislike any book that kills and hurts little kids.  Actually, I think I also just hate Philip Pullman.  I'm reading A Gentle Madness which is about bibliophiles and bibliomaniacs.  It's amazing what some people will do for a good book.

[Maxwell]

I dont care for phillip pullman either.. ya know what lets just all hate on pullman...

[Archon]

    Sigyn, that seems, at best, a hurried judgement. I thought that it was a very descriptive book. One of my favorite parts was when Serafina Pekkala was talking to Lee Scoresby while they were in his balloon and she talked about the differences between witches and men and how the witches could experience greater sensations than men could because they did not get bothered by cold. I thought it was a very good book, and although not as much as its sequels, thought-provoking.

[Dex1138]

Just finished "Halloween: What's a Christian to do?" I always get a kick of seeing how Halloween is made to be the Devil's holiday.
Currently reading "Carter Beats the Devil" which is about a stage magician in the 1920s.
Over the summer, I started reading some of the original stories from Doc Samson and The Shadow. Great stuff!
There's no such thing as too much pulp

[stacer]

Books for Thursday (Victorian children's literature class):

Swiss Family Robinson
Robinson Crusoe (still need to find it...)
Treasure Island
The Children of the New Forest
The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne (still need to find it too--not in the college bookstore, even)

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I read Heroics for Beginners by John More. on my way home yesterday.  Yeah, the whole thing. It's an easy read.

Anyway, I liked it. THe satire is nothing unexpected or original, but it amused. And he does an incredible job of bringing out funny things. Then bringing these funny things back up at a completely unrelated time, but in a way that reminds you of the first time. I liked that a lot. Now if he'd just focus and write something less contrived.