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I am reading The Iliad by Homer. I started reading it on monday and today is sunday. It's been 6 days and I only have about 150 pages left out of around 600 pages. It's a fantastic book, i'm reading it before i see troy. Highly recommend it to anyone.
 
james-88 said:
I am reading The Iliad by Homer. I started reading it on monday and today is sunday. It's been 6 days and I only have about 150 pages left out of around 600 pages. It's a fantastic book, i'm reading it before i see troy. Highly recommend it to anyone.
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Be careful not to assume movie is going to have much relation to the book or you'll be disappointed, I'm afraid. :( But, I'm glad to hear someone else likes the Iliad, as I enjoyed it quite a bit when I read it years ago.
 
I'm rereading Only Forward by one of my favourite authors, Michael Marshall Smith.

Cheers, Martin
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Have just finished His Dark Materials, and am now reading The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, all of which are fantastic books that i really enjoyed.

Phil
 
Tennessee Williams: A Portrait In Laughter and Lamentation

It's awsome...very touching at times, and quite artistically inspiring in a Kerouacian sense. Quite colorful.
 
Finished Ambrose's Band of Brothers which wasn't bad, but seemed a bit dull to be honest. In places it did seem like the author simply cutted and pasted the soldiers' interviews into the book without adding much insight of his own. As for the 'brotherhood' aspect of war, there are better books out there IMHO.

At the moment, I'm about a quarter of the way through Antony Beevor's Stalingrad which I'm enjoying so far. Not reached Stalingrad itself yet, but the early aspects of the war (including German and Russian mentalities) are well fleshed out. It's looking pretty savage so far.
 
I just finished The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. I had my doubts about the book when I saw it in the bookstore, since stories about Afghanistan and Iraq seem to be getting quite 'popular', but it's an excellent read.
 
After about 10 pages, I am giving up on My Name is Red because I'm not really in the mood for that. Not sure if it's because I don't like it ( seems a bit dry to me right now ) or it's just that I am not in the mood. Right now am finishing off my ghostie book until SF book arrives! Hopefully for the weekend :D Come on Amazon! Pull your finger out or will have to unleash my hamsters of doom on!!!
 
Are you all excited about your new book? Are you going to be dead cross with me if you don't like it?

I'm reading Overtime by Tom Holt at the moment. It's quite silly, but it's one of his less surreal and more enjoyable books. Makes me chuckle on the train, which is good because people are less incline to sit near you when you're laughing.
 
Yes, am excited about the book! Hopefully it's not crap! I won't be cross with you though, just the writer! How CAN you be cross with a scantly clad pirate wench? Can't be done. Well... if you pinched my nipples or kicked me in the goolies I might be cross. Maybe if you stole my last chocolate... apart from that would find it quite difficult!
 
Well, I was about a third of the way through Sabriel, but I was ill last night and still felt rotten today, so wasn't really in the mood for serious doom and gloom, so I started The Wee Free Men to cheer myself up. Read straight through half of it this afternoon; it's excellent! Really funny! It cheered me up no end. :)
 
just finished The Brothers Karamazov, all 980+ torturous pages of it. heheh.

nr: Bram Stoker - Dracula; Lord Dunsany - Time And The Gods
 
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Well, I was about a third of the way through Sabriel, but I was ill last night and still felt rotten today, so wasn't really in the mood for serious doom and gloom, so I started The Wee Free Men to cheer myself up. Read straight through half of it this afternoon; it's excellent! Really funny! It cheered me up no end. :)
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Oh, now I want to read The Wee Free Men....I just finished The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents about a week ago, and loved it.


I started Ella Enchanted last night, though I'm still reading Crossed Bones. I just needed something not so "adult" last night (I was tired of the sleuth seeing every man as a sex object and the whole racial strife was getting to be too much).
 
Finished The Wee Free Men last night - it was brilliant! :) I enjoyed it much more than The Amazing Maurice; it was really hilarious. Even the character names were funny - Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock!! :D Great stuff! I want to read A Hatful of Sky now, but I'll have to wait ages until the paperback, I suppose.
 
I take it The Wee Free Men is by Pratchett? Is it part of the Discworld-series?

Cheers, Martin
 
Oh, now I really want to read it, Halo!!

Yes, Martin, The Wee Free Men is a YA novel by Pratchett. He's written several YA novels and several children's novels in addition to his regular Discworld fare.
 
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