What book are you reading RIGHT NOW?

It's "Return of the King". I also have to disagree with you there Kozmo_Naut - I don't think it was the best book of the series. I think it was the worst book. Sure, it had some good and really good parts to it, but it lacked the suspense of the first and second books. Now, the battle in The Two Towers at that fort...that's one of the best battles scenes I've ever read. It really drew me in. Return of the King wasn't nearly as personal, it was almost detached. Overall, it was the poorest showing in the series. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad. I'd give it about a 6 out of 10.

 

I agree with Jarinor. The last book, while good, wasn't quite as enthralling to me.

The Two Towers was my favourite.

 

I'm on the last 100 pages now, and can't wait till I'm finished.

I am really looking forward to read The Neverending Story again...

 

I am reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series, book #4, and i can't remember the name.

But i recommend the series to any fantasy readers, cuz it has a whole new world and some new interesting races and ideas.

And Terry Pratchett rocks! The only reason i haven't read all of his books is that some were either not released in the US or they are very rare.

 

Currently in the bathroom I have The Tenth Commandment by Lawrence Sanders (mystery/suspense) and Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl. I've read them both before, but I can't afford new books.

If you like Adams and Pratchett, you might also like Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor (who is actually two people). It contains a few god phrases in Esperanto, too. You might also want to take a look at Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series. Excellent sci-fi with a sense of humor.

 

only just finished reading RED MARS by Kim Stanley Robinson (4-5hrs ago) and i'm about to start reading the other two in the series (GREEN MARS, BLUE MARS) tomorrow.

 

been reading old Perry Mason novels, bought them at 50sen each at the local bookshop. quite interesting. a bit stereotyped though.

 

None :roll:

 

Third book when the gates has fallen and gandalf faces the morgul lord and and then the crock yelles and then "rohan had come atlast"
The feeling starts in the neck and spreads trough the body as if i had injected some drug in my neck. hahhahaa. I read it another time in easter. Easely the best book ever written. i just love that book my precious myyyyy precoius. Was really disapointed over the movie though. The battle in helms deep is still really cool though.
I have read trough many of the wheel of time novels even though they are good they can not beat my precious. NO book can.
Anyone of you read anny of the warbooks by Sven hazel?

 

The Lord of the Rings: The King Returns

Bias: How the Liberal Media Distorts the News

 

I liked Two Towers better, myself...

Never Ending Story was good, but it lost track about halfway through and started being a random, rambling book. It made a better movie, for once.

But I promised Pratchett quote 11.5 hours and about 20 posts on this thread ago.

Here's some Pratchett numminess.

He's an excellent author. The way he combines comedy with an actual plot is incredible - all of his books have the comedy coming straight out from the characters and the locales. He sacrifices nothing plotwise for the sake of humor.

 

I'll have to look into...most of the aforementioned books...Pratchett especially, comedy makes everything better.

Qilitikal asked what Hitchhiker was about, I answer: life, the universe and everything.(the answer's forty two, by the way)

 

is anybodie a xanthie??

if so I'm on #10, VALE IN THE VOLE.
if your not a xanthie, then you should get A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON. By PIERS ANTHONY.



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i love xanth... my favorite is "the color of her panties" :grin:

 

I am reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

 

Anyone know when the 3rd book of the "war of the souls" for dragon lance, is supposed to come?