ZombieKitten said:

It's different for every day, but I get home usually in the evening

zaza said:

You'd have more reading time if you weren't online all the time!

mostbeautifulboy said:

I'm online when I'm on my way to uni or when I'm at uni..

zaza said:

Must be a long journey

mostbeautifulboy said:

mostbeautifulboy said:

50 minutes by bus I wanted to read some books while I'm on my way to uni, but I felt sick after a little while - and I need to read in silence. You have to admit - there's no silence in a public transport

zaza said:

just the thought of reading on a bus makes me nauseous the only thing I could do would be sleep or listen to music

I read a biography of Yuri gargarin on my bus trips this week, feeling nauseous
added to the space theme

ZombieKitten said:

That's what I do

mostbeautifulboy said:

I'd read that! was he very disappointed not to see God out there?

ZombieKitten said:

He was very poetic in his description of his travels. he did very well for a farm boy.
Why am I thinking of Luke skywalker now?

AshK said:

Hmmm....good question. I think I would still like it because it gives so much history that is not included in the LOTR trilogy. And no doubt, it was tough to get into. The first 75 or 100 pages I had to trudge through, and there were times I had to take several days off from it before I picked it back up. Plus, like I said, I'm a Tolkien nerd, so I was gobbling up all the books by him that I could get my hands on. I also read Unfinished Tales (eh, so so), and tried to read The Lost Tales, but just could NOT get into it. The Children of Hurin, Tolkien's "newest" book (I think), was a good read, though very sad and tragic. Less complete versions of that tale occur in several of his other books.

Poiple said:

Great book. I loved it.
Personally, J.K. Rowling doesn't impress me as a writer. I cannot re-read the Harry Potter books. That's disappointing. Admittedly, I'm not the audience it was written for, but after reading The Hobbit and LOTR trilogy at 9, even as a teenager, I wouldn't have felt their were great reading, but fun reading. I've bought all the books, read them and given them away.

SUPRMAN said:

I'm with ya--I enjoyed the HP books, but have read all of them only once. I will eventually read them all again, but probably no time soon. All other books on my list I have read more than once or am in the process of reading again.

For those who have read the LOTR trilogy and may not have read The Silmarillion or The Hobbit (or maybe you have read them), I would suggest reading the latter two, and then going back and reading the LOTR trilogy again. It's amazing how much more I enjoyed the trilogy after reading The Silmarillion and The Hobbit--they give lots of insight and history behind certain events and characters in the trilogy.

I'd say Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series 1-10, but that's only because Book 10 comes out in 6 days and it's all that's on my mind.

Yes, I know, pathetic.

zaza said:

Hi Zaza!

fiction only

Le Fanu-Carmilla
Yukio Mishima-Confessions of A Mask
Lynn Flewelling- Stalking Darkness
Jay Little-Suddenly Last Summer
Oscar Wilde-Portrait of dorian grey
Banana Yoshimoto-Kitchen
Jim Grimsley-Dream Boy
Ginn hale-Wicked Gentlemen
R.W. Day-A Strong And Sudden Thaw
Akimi Yoshida-Banana Fish

Non Fiction

A Handbook of greek art By Gisela M.A Richter
Earth Magic-By Steven D Farmer
The Meaning of Trees-Fred Hageneder
Ancient Greek Religion-Jon D Mikalson
Daily Life In Medieval Europe-Jeffrey L Singman
Five Stages of Greek Religion-Gilbert Murray
The Chocolate Connoisseur-Chole Doutre Roussel
Daily life in 18th century-Kristen Olsen
Lorca-Living In The theatre Gwynne Edwards
Celtic Myth And Legend-Charles Squire

Poiple said:

I didn't read The Children of Hurin just because I found The Silmarillion a little dull. So you think it's better? I really liked the appendices of LOTR, I like the idea of short stories in Middle Earth, really adds to the whole overall Tolkien world.

AshK said:

I don't know that The Children of Hurin is "better" than The Silmarillion, but it flows much better and is more of a true beginning-to-end story that's easy to follow.