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Post subject:  Posted: June 25th, 2008, 1:30 am |
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Sairahiniel wrote: ^^ I love Eddings too. All time favorite HAS to be The Redemption of Althalus. Have you read that Sida dear?
 Not yet! I've heard of it, but I just haven't expanded my Eddings readings...I just absolutely love the Belgariad and everything related to it...so I tend to stick to that...  I think I've read the series every year...since I was err...12 perhaps? I'll totally check out Redemption of Althalus though...Perhaps we should start an Eddings thread
As for the topic of this thread, I'm still reading "Arabian Nights", but I'm also reading "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
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Post subject: Posted: June 25th, 2008, 4:21 am |
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^Oof, how do you like Heart of Darkness?
I finished The Colour of Magic and am now reading The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
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Post subject: Posted: June 25th, 2008, 7:39 am |
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Ohh another Disc world book lover!
I know, Terry Pratchett is lovely, too bad his books are so entertaining so they are so finished so quickly... I'm not allowed to buy too many more books considering weight limitations... perhaps I should get a really boring book after this... ehh...
The Brothers Lionheart.. so cheerful and sad... so hopeful and heartwrenching...
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Post subject: Posted: June 25th, 2008, 9:35 am |
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Sairahiniel wrote: ^ Yes it is out. Its been out for about two months I think o.O Or Im very wrong  I quite liked the rest, but this is my second fave for sure. Highly recommended to all. *slaps self on head* I had NO idea! *blinks* 2 whole months, you say?
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Post subject: Posted: June 25th, 2008, 11:15 am |
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Sairahiniel wrote: Melda my love I admire you for managing to read them. And then REread them  I read the first three pages two years ago in boarding school because my cousin was really into them and her and a friend were always trying to explain it to me because Im a good sport for book discussions. So one rainy day during exams I decided to start reading. I riffled through the book and got worried, but read three pages. That far in and I was asleep  Im not giving them another shot. Too lazy. Actually, the way it happened is that Aerandir is a nag, and my youth pastor is really into WoT, so he said he'd lend me the whole series if I wanted it. That was...about a year ago, I believe, so I read all of them over last summer. The first one isn't the MOST interesting, I'll give you that, but they do get better. I like 'em. _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: June 25th, 2008, 2:01 pm |
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I'm reading <b>The Paradise War</b> by Stephen Lawhead. I'm a few chapters into it, and it's been very good so far!
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Post subject: Posted: June 25th, 2008, 11:10 pm |
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I've finished Twilight. I was kind of hesitant to get the other ones from the library, since I didn't think that this one was very high quality, even if it did hold my interest, but then I remembered that it only took me two afternoons to read, so even if I got the other two, what's four more afternoons of reading? So I've requested those, though there are so many holds on them that lord knows when I'll get them. It may be another month.
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Post subject: Posted: June 26th, 2008, 12:29 am |
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The Merry Monarch's Wife by Jean Plaidy
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Post subject: Posted: June 26th, 2008, 6:55 pm |
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The Last Battle - C.S Lewis
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Post subject: Posted: June 26th, 2008, 8:05 pm |
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"The Pact" - Jodi Picoult
I am the Messenger" - Markus Zusak
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Post subject: Posted: June 26th, 2008, 8:51 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: June 26th, 2008, 9:06 pm |
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I like most of the Narnia series, but I really hated that book. It just felt as the series got more contrived as it went on... And he ending pisses me off to this very day.
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Post subject: Posted: June 26th, 2008, 10:41 pm |
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Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
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Post subject: Posted: June 26th, 2008, 11:46 pm |
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timtimtimtim wrote: I like most of the Narnia series, but I really hated that book. It just felt as the series got more contrived as it went on... And he ending pisses me off to this very day.
Aww. Any book series that has years passing and characters dying, but actually they all end upliving happily ever after, gets thumbs up in my books. Even if people wrongly see it as conveying a religious method, I don't it's like that. I think it's just a story full of imagination and probably some messages, that won't change the world but might make people a little bit better in themselves.
Anyway, I've just finished it and I'm off to read Hornblower and the Crisis._________________
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Post subject: Posted: June 27th, 2008, 12:45 am |
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Seeing as Lewis was a devout Christian, I really don't think it's reaching to read religious symbolism into his books That's not to say Narnia isn't a good story as well, it certainly is.
I'm still reading Eye of the World. Thoroughly enjoyable. If I am ever half the writer Robert Jordan was, I shall be content. _________________
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Post subject: Posted: June 27th, 2008, 12:48 am |
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^ You my dear, I shall repeat amaze me
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - I remember being six and trying to hop into cupboards with my two younger cousins, in the hope that I would end up in Narnia. Alas I was never as lucky as Lucy, but I sure did have some fabulous adventures.
I agree that it is SO symbolic, and that is why I love it. As an IB student I've become and analyzing nut so it makes me happy that I can find something and bounce about it. _________________ 
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