What Are You Reading, Again?

[Till]

Just finished "The Adventures of Sherlock Homes" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Beautiful language and interesting plots. Plus, i got them for the price of less than two beers.

 

[thetrooper]

I'm reading The Moscow Vector by Ludlum/Larkin*. Kind of eerie when you think about the Politkovskaja assasination.

* Larkin is using unfinished material by Ludlum.

 

[Turner]

Yeah, but thought Sagan, every now and then, would get too technical needlessly, specially in the beggining (when stablishing Ellie's caracther) just to show what he got. Anyway, some movie decisions were good - a "one person" machine can, maybe, not make much sense aftera movie when the reasoned manner though which contact happened was the theme of the entire movie, but it certainly reinforces the development of people not believing in the trip. Also, uniting in the caracther of Father Joss the agent which had an affair with Ellie is wise on-screen decision (even though a bit forced), for it leaves more time for the text development. Overall, I think that the movie turned out as good as it could possibly be for such a limited midia to communicate the complex debate Sagan proposed.

Which does not mean that the movie is as good as the book, just that it was pretty good anyway, and I feel no one could realistically expect it to be any better.

Regards .

What ultimately saved the movie for me was the fact that you can't condense a 500 page book into a 2 hour movie without some major cuts. Fortunately, the cuts were good ones, and the general feeling of the book was brought across into the movie. Last time I saw that was Patriot Games, maybe even The Hunt for Red October. Both were pared down quite a bit, but still remained true to the story.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Well, if that's all that bothered you...

And believe it or not, not every chapter starts out that way. There was a couple of chapters recently that didn't. Can't recall which ones, but it was enough to make me wonder why he didn't use his trademark opening sentence.

REALLY? The foundations of my world have been shaken!



I don't really have anything against Feist. I just don't find him particularly groundbreaking.

 

[Turner]

REALLY? The foundations of my world have been shaken!

As well they should be!

yourself.

I don't really have anything against Feist. I just don't find him particularly groundbreaking.

Yeah, but he's better than most out there.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I started two books today, both are for school, but I would read them on my own anyway.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

A Sailor's History of the US Navy by Thomas J. Cutler.

 

[tomsnowman123]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

What do you think about it? I thought it was the only book I have ever read that was both boring and interesting at the same time, if that makes any sense. Then again, I read it wy back in sixth grade, so I don't really remember it.

 

[Fifty]

I prefer Emily to Charlotte

 

[CivCube]

I am shamed.

As a college student, I look at my colleagues and am embarrassed by my total lack of literary experience. While I have read plenty of books in my time, the number pales in comparison to what I could have been reading.

 

[QuoVadisNation]

I'm reading Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence. Essentially, it's 1600 pages all of which are saying "we actually don't know just what the hell Jurisprudence is nor do we know how to define law". : (

I haven't been able to read anything for recreation in a while. I'm still 'reading' The Revolt of the Masses, by Jose Ortega y Gasset. But, I haven't been able to finish it since college started.

 

[Trajan12]

I just finishe Great Expectations. It was a very intriguing book.

 

[Rambuchan]

Jane Eyre? Best cure for insomnia ever.

Conan Doyle? A master of his craft!

Dickens? Ditto.

Le Guin? A quiet genius, trampled over by the plagiaristic Rowling juggernaut.

Pratchett? Wanker

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Dante Aligheri's - Divine Comedy

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Dante Aligheri's - Divine Comedy

I do intend to read that someday, though I've still got a couple of other epic poems to get back too.

 

[tomsnowman123]

In the last couple days I have read:

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
AND
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles.

 

[thetrooper]

Fiction: Rat Run by Gerald Seymour.

Science: Solid State Chemistry and its Applications by Anthony R. West.

Now guess which is the boring one...

 

[Red Door]

I'm reading The Truth......with Jokes by Al Franken.


Every American voting on November 7th should be forced to read this book.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Just finished Stalin's Folly by Constantine Pleshakov, which focuses on the first few days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and the actions of the Russian leadership at that time.

 

[Ball Lightning]

Books i'm currently reading:
The Big Man Fly (for school)
Daughter of the Empire
Servant of the Empire (this is the one i'm currently reading)
Mistress of the Empire
Rereading: All the David Eddings Series

 

[Smellincoffee]

1421: The Year China Discovered America
The Selfish Gene
A Man Named Dave

Finishing 1421, trying to re-read Dawkins' book because I didn't finish it the first time.