Been on a Pratchett binge lately-- Guards! Guards!, Thief of Time, Night Watch. Will probably look at Water for Elephants very soon- do not know the author on that one....

Aaaahhh - water for elephants. I must dredge up my elephant pic for you Trey. Here is some real mental water for elephants, eh?

Fun pic, Ibis! Saw a fascinating program a few months ago about an elephant sanctuary here in TN- near a little town called Hohenwald.

Wow, elephant refuge in Tennessee? Life is amazing when you kick your heels together just so after leaving your front door and keeping your eyes peeled, ain't it???

Finished Feist's Prince of the Blood. It was a very quick read and while the characterization was excellent, I didn't seem to be much to the story. The conclusion felt very quick and rather clean as well. I would've like a bit more of a challenge to happen to the characters.

Hmm, hopefully The King's Buccaneer will prove to be a bit more eventful.

I dunno if any of you like him (didn't want to read through, what, 6 pages, around 50 to 60 posts) but right now I am reading through Issac Asimov's short stories, I found a few of his books while digging through my dad's collection... like father like son

Lately I've just been reading my old 3.0 D&D manuals... I really need to update to 3.5...

Well I finished with The King's Buccaneer, and I have to say I was much more pleased with it than Prince of the Blood. Felt more true to the Riftwar series than the previous installment. Nicholas, Harry, Amos, Ghuda, and Narik also proved to be more interesting than Borric and Erland were for me.

Ohwell, now onto a classic, Don Quixote! I remember hearing about the character in grade 6, but it must've been a small part we read, because the book is huge!

Which is good, it'll kill much time at work.

I love Isaac Asimov!

Daniel... what was it... did a paper on him in social studies last year in seventh grade... Daniel... Craig?

yay! i'm not alone

I just ordered the V for Vendetta graphic novel from my library so I'll be digging into that once it gets here. I just saw the movie so I thought I should read the book.

I probably should to but i'm fairly lazy

Supposedly I heard the movie doesn't do the comic justice, then again most don't. The only exception I can really say is Sin City, since that basically looks like they filmed the pages of the comic.

On the paperback front I am still somewhere in the middle of Hour Game, a serial murder mystery. I read it while waiting for Cain to pick me up at work.

But more of my time has been spent reading up over at FarFallen studios ... the game is now titled FarFallen too.

It's just amazing how much progress they've made so far and the concept art if just beautiful and there are now 24 members ... including modelers, musicians and programmers. Of those a good 20 are very active members of the team. It's really progressing nicely.

Perhaps some of you'd like to join? Always room for Chorrol people, especially since the idea for FarFallen was born here!!

I am attempting to finish Battle Royale. But I have seen the film, know how it ends and consequently lack any motivation to read the last 50 pages.

When I eventually get that one done, I am going to start on Lenin's State and Revolution, as well as hopefully finding the motivation to sit down and properly study The Communist Manifesto.

I finished V for Vendetta, it was ok I guess, I actually prefer the movie version for some reason. Anyway, I probably won't read any more graphic novels, they're just not my thing. I'm going to pick up Don Quixote tomorrow and give that a try.

Oh, and I also read 'The Color of Magic' by Terry Pratchett which I thought was brilliant.

I'm also reading Pratchet currently. That guy has some funny things. I just love that guy from the watch who has this laid back attitude and plays soccer with an army.

Also, I generally go here when I need to read anything at all. Elfwood This place is swarming with countless stories. Hooray, finally something to replace the library where I've read everything.

For school I am reading The Outsiders. Has anyone else read this?

Hehe, we didn't have to read it. It was on book on tape so we just "followed along". It's not a bad story though, a couple cheesy lines but other than that I liked it. The movie wasn't too bad either, had a bunch of people in it before they became famous.

thats what we did with the Crucible. Interesting topic but a pretty boring play. We also watched some clips of the movie, I felt a bit more sorry for Abbey in the movie then in the book. She looked too good to be a selfish brat, I hate it when it works out like that.

Hmm, not sure if this counts but we have been watching a movie of Macbeth during english class. Oh, the irony! The battle at the end was so silly. We were all (Well, me and some other guys) whispering to each other how we would have done it. The list:

1: Wreck the castle with those catapults that had been brought along. You want everyone death anyway and plundering was never considered. So wreck the place, don't storm for the gate expecting to be slaughtered. (The slaughter turned out to be impossible because only Macbeth was left in the castle.)
2: Charge with a bigger force if you're going for the gate, not a handful but enough to actually keep the damn gate for more than two minutes.
3: When confronting Macbeth, do not wear a helmet that makes you blind and fight at least two against one. None of that silly forming up in lines and let the bad king strike you down.
4: During the final duel, forget about freaking honour and swords. Get a decent Crossbow or Longbow. Just point and shoot. Also, who the heck thought that rolling over the ground punching and kicking like a bunch of fools is going to do any good with all that armour?

Anyway, Macbeth is quite a good play though I think that nowadays most people would laugh at the way they speak. I especially love the switching of sides and how everything is connected.

thats what I hate about people in our general age group.... half the time they are complaining that they can't understand whats going on in the play or what-not becasue the way they speak is so different. Its quiet annoying.

I havn't read/watched/listened to Macbeth but i've read other Shakespear(sp?) like The Taming of the Shrew

just started reading the simirillion...well kinda rereading. I got thru part of it before, but never finished.

I felt like this thread deserves a ressurection, namely because I've done some reading!

Well I finished book 1 of Don Quixote (finally). Seeing as it's an old book, it was sometimes hard to get through all the wordiness in it, plus the plot seems kinda thrown together. Just like "some new people arrived! Suprize! They have something to do with the people all ready tagging along with Don Quixote!"

I guess that is supposed to add to the humourous factor about the book, but meh. I heard the second part is better than the first, but at the moment, I simply can't read through 500 pages of that kind of stuff.

On the other hand, I recently finished "Dark Moon" by David Gemmel. While for the most part, the story was written really well, I'm pretty sure I found a HUGE plot hole in the book that kinda bugs me. Kinda puts a damper on a fast read, but ohwell.

Now, I just started Feist's Serpentwar series, and it looks promising so far. It's annoying that I have to go to Chapters instead of Coles to find Serpentwar books though, I go to Coles much more often.

Considering how popular his work is, it's almost amazing how hard it's to find his books around here (or maybe I'm just horrible at finding stuff). I got the last part of the Conclaves of Shadows series, Exile's Return, for Christmas and it sparked my interest enough to dig up his latest book, Flight of the Nighthawks. So basically this puts me in a situation where I have all the previous *War series left to read before the Darkwar continues and I have Alexander to blame for all of this. Bah.

hehe, always glad to be of assistance Rane

Desperately trying to read Hard To Be a God once again, but my internet addiction and NWN1 are obstructing me. :\

I´m currently reading "Mother, missing" by Joyce Carol Oates......hmmm sad but very touching story about the ghastly murder of a mother and her daughter´s life afterwards....Oh and I read the english version!

I'm working on Issac Asimov at the moment, but I have about the same problem as Mil, Internet, schol, PS2, and now a chick... yeah, sucks up most of my time

im not really much of a reader but i am into the vampire books. idk why i just like them. i finished all of Atwater-Rhodes books.

I'm working through Tom Clancy's "Without Remorse" for the second time. I think it's probably my favorite Clancy book.

I'm currently reading Mary Clearman Blew's All But the Waltz as part of my "Literature of Nature Writing" graduate course, as well as some other place-based nature writing. It's pretty good, considering that it's more a memoir in style than my typical reading diet.

Edit: Actually, at this very moment (as in, tonight) I'm reading excerpts from some older work like the Englishman Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

2nd edit: Yay, 200th post! Gotta love this forum!

I´m reading Rennie Airth, a criminal novel at the moment but I´ll soon turn to some .....work-papers that I brought home

Oh and canis....we love you too!

I'm currently reading Into A Dark Realm, the latest installment in Feist's Darkwar.... trilogy? saga? not sure which it is lol
Either way, great book

I'm reading "A Stranger" by some foreign novelist.

This wasn't my choice, it was assigned for AP English!

I haven't had time to read a novel of my choice since last summer...

Wintersmith- Terry Pratchett
Jack Knife- Virginia Baker

Several Scudder mysteries by Lawrence Block

The Eisenhorn Trilogy by Dan Abnett, more specifically Xenos

I'm starting David James Duncan's My Story As Told By Water this weekend.

I´m currently reading a book written by Catherine Marshall, a book about life in The Smokies in the beginning of the century. It´s called "Christy" and it´s just awesome! Since I´ve actually been there it´s just so incredibly fascinating reading about those particular spots...oh my!

I found this book in a bookstore in Tallinn, Estonia, and I was really delighted to find something to read in a language I can understand...you see my estonian is not so good....in fact it´s nearly non-existent! (If I´d known finnish it would have been different though!)

The History of the Low Countries, by Jaap ter Haar. It's a four-volume series about, well, the complete history about the slice of land that makes up the Netherlands (yay) and its vassal state Belgium. I'm currently onto the third volume, and it's very interesting so far. Would you believe that about every time a count of Holland died, there were years of fighting because everyone vaguely related to him wanted to be his succesor?

The last thing I read recently (excluding chorrol.com fanfics.) was 2001: A Space Oddyssey. It was for a reading assignment for my english class at school.


Moving off-topic, there always seems to be a mess about the succession. And not just in monarchies, in democracies and dictatorships as well. In monarchies the argument is about whose blood is purest. In democracies, they'll recount as often as they possibly can to get an advantage in the voting. In dictatorships, the argument varies from purest blood to purest thought and simply who has the most firepower. Though don't get me wrong, not all dictatorships are pure evil gained through a military overthrow.

Something else that I always found funny about europe. The kings and queens were all related to each other. So whenever someone went to war, he or she would go to war against a relative. Talk about a dysfunctional family.

And consider the inbreeding at the same time, 'cause if it weren't a fellow royal you were marrying, you weren't marrying.

Reading the last book in the Eisenhorn trilogy, Hereticus. Good stuff

A few days ago I finished with the Tamuli trilogy, before that I'd been reading the Elenium by the same author.

Right now I just started in the chronicles of narnia books, so far it's fun but then I'm only on page 10 orso

edit, I'm already on page 250 orso, this book really fly's by, but it's definitly worth the read

I just finished reading The Armegaddon Rag by George RR Martin. And anything written by Martin, it was fantastic. This is actually not high fantasy, like the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series is, but it's more of a heavily 60s pop culture, thriller. It focuses on a reporter/novelist who is following the story of a resurrecting 60s band called The Nazgul (and yes, it's Tolkien inspired). Only there's a really cool and seedy plot going on underneath this whole story.

I really liked it and I would definitely recommend it if you like George RR Martin or you have a particular facination with the 60s.

I´m currently reading a biography of Dolly Parton, she´s one kind of a woman and artist...And she´s from Pigeon Forge, one of my favourite places.

I actually have met a woman who knew her personally....now if I just could get in contact with her again....

Anyway it´s most interesting to read about Dolly´s childhood and how she got famous and stuff....

I just finished reading the history of tamriel that comes with the collectors edition of Oblivion. It's actually quite good!

Well, I recently just read a Frank Miller Graphic Novel. It's one from his Sin City series entitled "That Yellow Bastarde". Pretty good story (it was one used in the movie) and the artwork is pretty unique with the film noir kinda style it uses. It's definitely a gritty story, so it definitely not for everyone. I recommend it though.

Right now, I'm reading the second book of the Serpentwar Saga by Feist. It's been good so far.

I just finished reading Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and its sequel Batman : The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Very interesting look into the future of The Dark Knight. I highly recommend it.