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For lack of a better title, The Book Thread!
KharBevNor:
The Hobbits closer to my German reading level, certainly.
Reading proper literature in foreign languages is something I always mean to get around to. I expect a German copy of the Hobbit with dictionary on stand-by would do more for my Grammar than a year or so of German lessons.
Anyway, back to other things, I mentioned The Left Hand of Darkness...anyone read it? Indeed, anyone read any Ursula K LeGuin at all apart from The Wizard of Earthsea etc. (Which are great books, don't get me wrong, but don't represent the best of her work imo) I think she rocked at your subtle, thought provoking 'Protest books': The Left Hand of Darkness and The Word For World is Forest particularly. Same with Anne McCafferey. She should have stuck to things like The Ship Who Sang rather than those endless Chronicles of Pern sequels. There are literally only four or five decent Pern Books before the whole thing gets over the top: The original trilogy, The White Dragon, and Dragonsdawn. Maybe Dragondrums as well...actually no.
Also, did she ever finish The Survivors? I only ever remember reading two of those. FINALLY, who here likes schlock pulp sci-fi? I love the stuff. Anyone who does should check out Edmund Cooper. He was one of my dads favourites for the same reasons, and I have almost his complete works, he's mostly out of print now though. In particular, Pratchett fans should get hold of Coopers 'The Last Continent', which Pratchett actually makes tributes/parodies/references to in the discworld book of the same title.
ALSO, anyone else love Pratchett's sci-fi stuff?
Trollstormur:
I've read a lot of piers anthony, but I've felt I've grown out of it. I've been reading a lot of comics recently. Only book I've been reading I've been working on for two years now, the collected Justine by the Marquis De Sade.
Maui:
4 books you must read before you die:
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
1984 by George Orwell
Life of Pi (its by Yann Martel fyi)
To Kill A Mockingbird
Theres a lot more really, but these four are probably my favorites. I mean, stuff like harry potter rocks too though, like i said, this is just 4.
sp2:
--- Quote from: Trollstormur ---the collected Justine by the Marquis De Sade.
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Oh man, that was a sick sick sick book, albeit not as sick as Juliette.
Highlander:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---What's Der Herr De Ringe (did I get that right?) like anyway? Translation wise and such. I've had thoughts about reading it in Icelandic, but have no idea where you'd get such a thing.
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Don't. The Icelandic version isn't as good, we don't have the words for many things Tolkien talks about, so the translation sounds rather silly. Also I believe that the original version of books are always better, exactly as the writer intended them.
That said we should all read as much H. P. Lovecraft as possible.
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