What are you reading?

[Tyr]

Finished "A Madness of Angels" yesterday as well, started on "The Name of the Wind" today.

"A Madness of Angels" was a good decent book but conclusions was so carelessly taken and because the main character was basically a dick the truly "emotional" moments were so cold that I really didn't care. Betrayal was expected and deal with swiftly, friends dying was accepted and stuff like that was just meh. However the description of the battle moments in the book were absolutely awesome.

[Jack]

You seriously read a book a day? How?

[Tyr]

It may shock you Jack, but I have no life.

[Josh]

You seriously read a book a day? How?

Generally if you read books all your life, you can read them fast. It probably only takes him 3~4 hours max to read a book.

[Tyr]

Generally if you read books all your life, you can read them fast. It probably only takes him 3~4 hours max to read a book.

Probably not that quick with these 500-700 pages books, but since I'm on holiday I have all day. But yeah, practice makes perfect and I get faster each day.

JUST YOU WAIT, LORD OF THE RINGS BOOK TWO, I'LL BE BACK TO GET YOU.



god that book got boring

[Ander]

Tolkien is praised as the father of modern fantasy fiction, but his books are awfully dry and they have a horrible tendency to drag. I read them once and that took a lot of effort and concentration.

[Sage]

It's been a very long time since I've read a book that I didn't have to.

Over two years, in fact.

It bothers me a little, actually. I remember really enjoying reading. Now I never seem to have the time.

[Pinky]

Just began reading Katsu! and it's impressed me. Meanwhile, in not-manga news, the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis and Thomas Jefferson: In His Own Words have been dropped on top of my to-read pile.

[Treius]

Tolkien is praised as the father of modern fantasy fiction, but his books are awfully dry and they have a horrible tendency to drag. I read them once and that took a lot of effort and concentration.

Probably a quarter of the book (at least) is dedicated to describing the grass and the trees and the rest of the landscape. This really only applies to the LotR trilogy (though I'll likely be starting The Children of Hurin soon, so we'll see). The Hobbit is a much easier read, I find.

I'm in the middle of Dune now. It's part of what got me wanting to RP again. It's really...

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DRY. BAHAHAHAHA. Actually it's not, it moves along pretty nicely.

[Jesper]

Probably a quarter of the book (at least) is dedicated to describing the grass and the trees and the rest of the landscape. This really only applies to the LotR trilogy (though I'll likely be starting The Children of Hurin soon, so we'll see). The Hobbit is a much easier read, I find.

I'm in the middle of Dune now. It's part of what got me wanting to RP again. It's really...

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DRY. BAHAHAHAHA. Actually it's not, it moves along pretty nicely.

Thank God. I was beginning to think that nobody else had ever heard of Dune.

[Treius]

I tried watching the movie (with Sting) but it was pretty unbearable from the beginning. I'll have to try again after I finish the book. There's also the miniseries, and apparently a new adaptation is in production as well.

[Rem-13]

LotR is for people who like reading history books but find them rather unimaginative.

I've read Dune and enjoyed it thoroughly but I can't get into any of the sequels.

[Ashe]

Probably a quarter of the book (at least) is dedicated to describing the grass and the trees and the rest of the landscape. This really only applies to the LotR trilogy (though I'll likely be starting The Children of Hurin soon, so we'll see). The Hobbit is a much easier read, I find.

I'm in the middle of Dune now. It's part of what got me wanting to RP again. It's really...

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DRY. BAHAHAHAHA. Actually it's not, it moves along pretty nicely.

You should read the part about the knife fight between Paul and that other dude. I want to say its either one of the Fremen or the Baron's son, but can't say for certain as its been literally ten years since I read Dune. But that knife fight is considered a literary masterpiece by many and aside from flowing well, its just a great way to style writing fights around.

Thank God. I was beginning to think that nobody else had ever heard of Dune.

You must have missed the numerous mentions of it between myself and (I believe) Vad. =D I'm thinking about grabbing a more updated copy though since I've got an old copy that's falling apart. And I really wish I'd been able to play the TCG that was out for it quite a few years ago, but I never had spending money to spread that far at the time. It looked really awesome and innovative though.

I tried watching the movie (with Sting) but it was pretty unbearable from the beginning. I'll have to try again after I finish the book. There's also the miniseries, and apparently a new adaptation is in production as well.

I tried multiple times to watch the original movie when I was a kid. I fell asleep every single time regardless of the time of day. I don't mean that metaphorically either, I mean I that I literally fell a-fucking-sleep. I keep wanting to try again sometime but I fear I'd leave it as background while doing something else and then not recall much from it.

The miniseries was amazingly good. The Children of Dune miniseries (which was CoD and Paul of Dune together) was even better, to me, and I actually taped that one so that I have one big movie out of it. They really did a great job in my eyes, both visually and writing wise (though I do understand that numerous disagree).

Vad and I have talked about the new movie coming out in I believe 2011 as well. I'm led to believe from the things I've read that it'll be a pretty big shakeup to handle the feeling of monotony that carries over from the book, so I'm hoping that it manages to do that without turning into something like Spiderman 3 as far as "story adaptation". If they can keep it more like the recent Star Trek movie in style, I can be totally down with that and not go all purest. If its more like some kind of teen movie (slasher film "creativity") then I'll have to napalm something.

[Jack]

The Hobbit was a lot better than LoTR. I only have a vague memory of what the books where like though, I read them when I was like 11. And watching the movies really showed me how little of the books I actually comprehended.

[Ashe]

I agree with Jack (aside from the last sentence). I had such a hard time reading the latter half of The Two Towers where the description of Mordor was just driving me nuts. I'm glad now that I wasn't just "not getting it" back then like I thought was the case. And yeah, The Hobbit was a lot easier of a read.

[Treius]

You should read the part about the knife fight between Paul and that other dude. I want to say its either one of the Fremen or the Baron's son, but can't say for certain as its been literally ten years since I read Dune. But that knife fight is considered a literary masterpiece by many and aside from flowing well, its just a great way to style writing fights around.

I just read one actually, where he fights Jamis (the Fremen). That part was really awesome, it gave me some new ideas on how to write fights here. I'm pretty sure there's another fight with Feyd-Rautha (the Baron's nephew) at the end, that might be the one you're referring to.

The Hobbit was a lot better than LoTR. I only have a vague memory of what the books where like though, I read them when I was like 11. And watching the movies really showed me how little of the books I actually comprehended.

I've seen the LotR movies almost as many times as I've seen Star Wars (possibly more, which is frightening), but after having read all the books, I understood so much more of the content in the movies. Reading the names of people and places helps you catch it when they mention it in the movies, and it was like a new experience.

</nerd>

[Rem-13]

It has been about a year since I watched my Extended Cut DVDs. I was going to wait for blu-ray extended so that it'd be a fresher experience but its starting to look like that wont be till I'm in my fifties.

You'd think they'd be salivating over the opportunity to drain more money from me.

[Treius]

They are, they're gonna milk it from people who can't wait for the extended Blu-Ray (which is dumb) and then put out the extended version to GIT MO $$$$$

Two Towers Extended. Heh. Heh...heh.

[Vad]

You must have missed the numerous mentions of it between myself and (I believe) Vad. =D I'm thinking about grabbing a more updated copy though since I've got an old copy that's falling apart. And I really wish I'd been able to play the TCG that was out for it quite a few years ago, but I never had spending money to spread that far at the time. It looked really awesome and innovative though.

Yes. Twas me.

If my attention span were better and my affinity toward reading a little higher I might actually get past the parts directly after the witch tests Paul. Only read it once and was too young to understand it.

I'm trying. ;.;

[Pinky]

Nana to Kaoru. As manga go, it's got me... tied up in knots lolololol. English scanslators just put out chapter 23, and there are at least three translated special issues floating around. Very fun read.

Searching for more manga from the same source, I came across Toshiue no Hito. Maybe it's not as perverted, but it's much more explicit. Five volumes are out, but I've only finished the first. Both the drawing and the story are vastly inferior compared to Nana to Kaoru.

I've also bookmarked Violence Hero Riki-Oh!, which looks like good shit. Haven't even started it yet, but from all appearances it's right up my alley.