What book are you reading?

smithnic · January 2013

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

catefrances · January 2013

smarchee wrote:

80 pages in and loving it

i read this one on the train between albany and los angeles... jobs is an interesting character.

after america - john birmingham. book 2 of the trilogy.

mcgruff10 · January 2013

I just read "the road"by cormac mccarthy, one of the most amazing books i've ever read. if you have kids, especially a son, read it.

donnaruhl · January 2013

My Daughter wants me to get her Fifty Shades of Grey. And I thought
to myself, I'd be Fifty Shades of Red at the check out counter.So I told her
To get it herself.

donnaruhl · January 2013

campbelltoe2000 wrote:

"Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die" Willie Nelson

You'll have to give us some feedback on that one.
Love,Love Willie.

PearlJamaholic · January 2013

Morgoth's Ring. Getting towards the end of the series. It's been a tough read but worth it to see how one of the best worked his magic.

Before that Warbreaker by Sanderson, surprised how good it was. Ive been so reluctant to read modern authors, especially in fantasy cause they always feel like disposable stories. Warbreaker didnt feel like i was reading some D&D playgroup's campaign.

leekstokie · January 2013

Just about to start Keith Richards autobiography - Life

intodeep · January 2013

PearlJamaholic wrote:

Morgoth's Ring. Getting towards the end of the series. It's been a tough read but worth it to see how one of the best worked his magic.

Before that Warbreaker by Sanderson, surprised how good it was. Ive been so reluctant to read modern authors, especially in fantasy cause they always feel like disposable stories. Warbreaker didnt feel like i was reading some D&D playgroup's campaign.

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.

smithnic wrote:

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

That is a good one!

intodeep · January 2013

donnaruhl wrote:

My Daughter wants me to get her Fifty Shades of Grey. And I thought
to myself, I'd be Fifty Shades of Red at the check out counter.So I told her
To get it herself.

That is funny.
That is why ereaders are great. No embaressment by the cover of the book or the title

kw18 · January 2013

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.

PearlJamaholic · January 2013

intodeep wrote:

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.

intodeep · January 2013

PearlJamaholic wrote:

intodeep wrote:

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

PearlJamaholic · January 2013

intodeep wrote:

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.

oona left · January 2013

Just finished "11/22/63."

Now on to "A Storm Of Swords." Season 3 of "Game of Thrones" begins March 31!!! :corn:

the wolf · January 2013

"Bruce" by Peter Ames Carlin.

http://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Peter-A-Car ... ords=bruce

Who Princess · January 2013

Just starting The Guns of August

Newch91 · January 2013

the wolf wrote:

"Bruce" by Peter Ames Carlin.

http://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Peter-A-Car ... ords=bruce

It's so good! On page 320 now. Tough to put the book down at times.

the wolf · January 2013

Newch91 wrote:

the wolf wrote:

"Bruce" by Peter Ames Carlin.

http://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Peter-A-Car ... ords=bruce

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.

Newch91 · January 2013

the wolf wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

the wolf wrote:

"Bruce" by Peter Ames Carlin.

http://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Peter-A-Car ... ords=bruce

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.

the wolf · January 2013

Newch91 wrote:

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.

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