I'm not familar with that Tolkien book. Can you tell me more about it?
I'm reading Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the wind now and will read it's follow up next. I'm excited that you liked sanderson's Warbreaker. After i finish those two i'm reading Sanderson's mistborn trilogy and if that is good i may read warbreaker.
Have you tried Guy Garviel Kay or China Mielville? Two very different stypes of fantasy but i've enjoyed both and neither have that D&D feel to it. I'm only 27% done with Name of the wind but it seems to be pretty good in that sense so far as well.
Chris Tolkien published a 12 book series, The History of Middle-Earth. The first few are about Silmarillion, i guess cause that is were he started the mythology, books 6 or 7 through 9 are on Lord of the Rings, and 10-11, Morgoth's Ring is book 10, is how after Tolkien wrote LOTR he had to make changes to the mythology texts. Not sure what the last book covers. This series is like Unfinished Tales, if you ever read that.
The whole series just follows Tolkien's work on the stories. I found the LOTR section the best, just to see how he would get to a point in the story realize it wouldnt work, and instead of forcing the story along he would go back and rewrite sections so it would fit to what he has written up to. Aragorn was a hobbit that wore shoes, the fleshing out of the hobbits was interesting. He would switch out who was who, some of what Sam is was one of the other hobbits, stuff like that. Frodo was first Bilbo's son named Bingo.... One of the best parts was when the Hobbits hid from the Ringwraith off the road in the earliest form this was Gandalf, then the Ringwraiths worked into the story so he took Gandalf from that section but then had to decided where was Gandalf. Interesting stuff, can be a boring read at times, but the behind the scenes look of LOTR is worth it i think.
Ill have to check out those other authors, never heard of them before. I was thinking of reading Sanderson's Elantris, think thats what it is called, then maybe trying the Mistborn series. Trying to avoid any series since I seem to always be wrapped in 2 or 3 of them.
I'm not familar with that Tolkien book. Can you tell me more about it?
I'm reading Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the wind now and will read it's follow up next. I'm excited that you liked sanderson's Warbreaker. After i finish those two i'm reading Sanderson's mistborn trilogy and if that is good i may read warbreaker.
Have you tried Guy Garviel Kay or China Mielville? Two very different stypes of fantasy but i've enjoyed both and neither have that D&D feel to it. I'm only 27% done with Name of the wind but it seems to be pretty good in that sense so far as well.
Chris Tolkien published a 12 book series, The History of Middle-Earth. The first few are about Silmarillion, i guess cause that is were he started the mythology, books 6 or 7 through 9 are on Lord of the Rings, and 10-11, Morgoth's Ring is book 10, is how after Tolkien wrote LOTR he had to make changes to the mythology texts. Not sure what the last book covers. This series is like Unfinished Tales, if you ever read that.
The whole series just follows Tolkien's work on the stories. I found the LOTR section the best, just to see how he would get to a point in the story realize it wouldnt work, and instead of forcing the story along he would go back and rewrite sections so it would fit to what he has written up to. Aragorn was a hobbit that wore shoes, the fleshing out of the hobbits was interesting. He would switch out who was who, some of what Sam is was one of the other hobbits, stuff like that. Frodo was first Bilbo's son named Bingo.... One of the best parts was when the Hobbits hid from the Ringwraith off the road in the earliest form this was Gandalf, then the Ringwraiths worked into the story so he took Gandalf from that section but then had to decided where was Gandalf. Interesting stuff, can be a boring read at times, but the behind the scenes look of LOTR is worth it i think.
Ill have to check out those other authors, never heard of them before. I was thinking of reading Sanderson's Elantris, think thats what it is called, then maybe trying the Mistborn series. Trying to avoid any series since I seem to always be wrapped in 2 or 3 of them.
I'm familar with the unfisnished tales books, but not this. Really cool stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Bingo :? thank god that changed
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I'm familar with the unfisnished tales books, but not this. Really cool stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Bingo :? thank god that changed
Yeah it would be hard to take a character serious with a name like that.
Depending on how much of a nerd you are, you dont have to read the whole series. The LOTR section is pretty independent of the the rest. Here and there might be a note about a name change that was talked about in a previous volume. The second half of the last book in the LOTR section was about Tolkien developing his elvish language... I like Tolkien but that was worst then reading accounting text books, haha.
It's so good! On page 320 now. Tough to put the book down at times.
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It's so good! On page 320 now. Tough to put the book down at times.
Yeah. I tend to blow through books like this really fast. I'm taking my time with this one. i'm only reading it on my breaks at work to be sure i don't finish it too fast.
Peace, Love.
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It's so good! On page 320 now. Tough to put the book down at times.
Yeah. I tend to blow through books like this really fast. I'm taking my time with this one. i'm only reading it on my breaks at work to be sure i don't finish it too fast.
Awesome. I wanted to read this book before the spring semester begins on Tuesday. Also, after reading a chapter about the albums, I'll listen to that album before I continue reading.
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Awesome. I wanted to read this book before the spring semester begins on Tuesday. Also, after reading a chapter about the albums, I'll listen to that album before I continue reading.
That's my plan too. To listen to the album after reading about the making of it.
I'm just now to the chapter where Bruce hooked up with Mike Appel. Looking forward to the album and tour parts.
Peace, Love.
"To question your government is not unpatriotic --
to not question your government is unpatriotic."
-- Sen. Chuck Hagel
Awesome. I wanted to read this book before the spring semester begins on Tuesday. Also, after reading a chapter about the albums, I'll listen to that album before I continue reading.
That's my plan too. To listen to the album after reading about the making of it.
I'm just now to the chapter where Bruce hooked up with Mike Appel. Looking forward to the album and tour parts.
You'll love it. Appel was aggressive but key to Bruce becoming Bruce.
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"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
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I just finished Under the Banner of Heaven. Wow. That's a heavy book. I need something a bit lighter and fluffier to read now ... gonna tackle How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley. I really enjoyed her first book of essays when I read it several years ago ... here's hoping she's still as funny.
Complete works of Sherlock Holmes.
Probably not going to read the whole thing, but they're great to pick up and put down whenever because they're like short stories.
I have this, but I haven't read it yet...I have so many books that I own but haven't read... :fp:
Consider picking it up though, since it's a fun, easygoing read.
I'll probably finish up Under the Dome by Sunday...and then I was going to read Black House by Stephen King/Peter Straub, but maybe I'll fit this one in between... :think:
I just finished Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the Wind. I enjoyed it. Really good for an author's first novel. I had a couple issues with it, but when he was on fire he was fantastic.
I considered reading something else, but by the end i knew i had to go onto the second book ... so i'm about to start:
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Im 60 pages into Imajica by Clive Barker. its not bad, but its a tough read so far. I havent given up on a book in ages, but im thinking about setting it aside to read Cloud Atlas.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" for my Brit Lit 2 class. I didn't finish it during the break. At least I started it.
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy for my World Lit class. During the first class on Tuesday, I didn't know if I was enrolled in a History class or an English class.
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Chris Tolkien published a 12 book series, The History of Middle-Earth. The first few are about Silmarillion, i guess cause that is were he started the mythology, books 6 or 7 through 9 are on Lord of the Rings, and 10-11, Morgoth's Ring is book 10, is how after Tolkien wrote LOTR he had to make changes to the mythology texts. Not sure what the last book covers. This series is like Unfinished Tales, if you ever read that.
The whole series just follows Tolkien's work on the stories. I found the LOTR section the best, just to see how he would get to a point in the story realize it wouldnt work, and instead of forcing the story along he would go back and rewrite sections so it would fit to what he has written up to. Aragorn was a hobbit that wore shoes, the fleshing out of the hobbits was interesting. He would switch out who was who, some of what Sam is was one of the other hobbits, stuff like that. Frodo was first Bilbo's son named Bingo.... One of the best parts was when the Hobbits hid from the Ringwraith off the road in the earliest form this was Gandalf, then the Ringwraiths worked into the story so he took Gandalf from that section but then had to decided where was Gandalf. Interesting stuff, can be a boring read at times, but the behind the scenes look of LOTR is worth it i think.
Ill have to check out those other authors, never heard of them before. I was thinking of reading Sanderson's Elantris, think thats what it is called, then maybe trying the Mistborn series. Trying to avoid any series since I seem to always be wrapped in 2 or 3 of them.
I'm familar with the unfisnished tales books, but not this. Really cool stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Bingo :? thank god that changed
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Yeah it would be hard to take a character serious with a name like that.
Depending on how much of a nerd you are, you dont have to read the whole series. The LOTR section is pretty independent of the the rest. Here and there might be a note about a name change that was talked about in a previous volume. The second half of the last book in the LOTR section was about Tolkien developing his elvish language... I like Tolkien but that was worst then reading accounting text books, haha.
Now on to "A Storm Of Swords." Season 3 of "Game of Thrones" begins March 31!!! :corn:
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"To question your government is not unpatriotic --
to not question your government is unpatriotic."
-- Sen. Chuck Hagel
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Yeah. I tend to blow through books like this really fast. I'm taking my time with this one. i'm only reading it on my breaks at work to be sure i don't finish it too fast.
"To question your government is not unpatriotic --
to not question your government is unpatriotic."
-- Sen. Chuck Hagel
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
That's my plan too. To listen to the album after reading about the making of it.
I'm just now to the chapter where Bruce hooked up with Mike Appel. Looking forward to the album and tour parts.
"To question your government is not unpatriotic --
to not question your government is unpatriotic."
-- Sen. Chuck Hagel
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Loved this one!!
Love this!!!
Probably not going to read the whole thing, but they're great to pick up and put down whenever because they're like short stories.
I'm loving it so far too!
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I have this, but I haven't read it yet...I have so many books that I own but haven't read... :fp:
Consider picking it up though, since it's a fun, easygoing read.
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I'll probably finish up Under the Dome by Sunday...and then I was going to read Black House by Stephen King/Peter Straub, but maybe I'll fit this one in between... :think:
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I considered reading something else, but by the end i knew i had to go onto the second book ... so i'm about to start:
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Fascinating stuff
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" for my Brit Lit 2 class. I didn't finish it during the break. At least I started it.
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy for my World Lit class. During the first class on Tuesday, I didn't know if I was enrolled in a History class or an English class.
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