Just curious but what fiction books do ppl in this forum read?
I just read Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, and I'm a shameless n00b Discworld fan
Books to Read
Lensey Namioka's Chinese AMerican kids having these conflicted cultural idea between the "West" and "East" is another one of my favorites. It can be condescending the way she writes things but some of her novel are actually fun to read--like the Yang siblings series
Soe Hok Gie's biography--by John Maxwell, a bio on Indonesia's cultural revolutionary
stuff by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
used to read HP until Order of The Phoenix really dissapointed me
I'm sadly one of those people so "behind" in books!
Soe Hok Gie's biography--by John Maxwell, a bio on Indonesia's cultural revolutionary
stuff by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
used to read HP until Order of The Phoenix really dissapointed me
I'm sadly one of those people so "behind" in books!
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GeorgeC
Ben wrote:I am re-reading Lord Of The Rings at the moment, after a slate of quick thriller reads and Harry Potter.
Not read LOTR since being a teenager, and finally watched the extended Return Of The King the other night, so it put me in the mood.
The LOTR books are a LOT easier to read after you turn 20 for some reason.
I had an easy time getting through The Hobbit but it was a chore for me to read the LOTR books in my early teens.
I was so turned off by them that I didn't re-read them (and completely read The Return of the King) until the movies came out!
(Fortunately, I KEPT my paperbacks of LOTR so I didn't have to spend that money again OR borrow the books from the library.)
Of course, by that time I had taken a course in speed reading so it was a breeze to get through the slow part in The Fellowship of the Ring.
That book is by far the worst-reading book in the whole trilogy... A bunch of Fellowship got cut and sections of The Two Towers got moved into the film versions of Fellowship and Return of the King.
Still, if these books were written today, they could probably be anywhere from 10-25% shorter than Tolkien's length. Personally, I agreed with all the cuts Jackson made from the stories and the movies DO serve the novels well. There was a ton of stuff in Fellowship that really didn't have to be in the movies in my honest opinion...
Now if only somebody could do justice to Alexander Lloyd's "Chronicles of Prydain." Disney's Black Cauldron just doesn't cut it.
The movies played with story structure, but I agree that there was nothing that felt missing, especially in the EE versions.
That's why I wanted to go back and read again, to pick out those bits I'd forgotten. When you watch the movie, it all comes flodding back and you don't miss the bits that were cut (or at least very rarely).
So I'm going at them again. Wonder if they get even easier reading after 30?
That's why I wanted to go back and read again, to pick out those bits I'd forgotten. When you watch the movie, it all comes flodding back and you don't miss the bits that were cut (or at least very rarely).
So I'm going at them again. Wonder if they get even easier reading after 30?
