What are you reading?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well a couple days ago I read an instruction manual on how to assemble a bed from Ikea

And are you still confused?

No...lol

You should have seen the one that came with my executive desk a few years ago. When I disposed of it, I couldn't find the instructions and had to hire a handyman to help me disassemble it. All I have left of it is the drawer unit.

[Easy Bakes 253]

All you need to do remove all the allen screws.

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[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

All you need to to remove all the allen screws.

You can't find them unless you take it apart in the right order. This desk was meant to be assembled once, then never moved.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Till it falls apart.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Till it falls apart.

It was built like the Maginot line. I paid around 2G's for it in Ikea's business furniture section.

[RipRap 4,400]

Le Dame aux Camellias by Alexandre Dumas (fils)

Medea by Euripides

I'll be reading some more to get my 63 points in School (and I wanted to challenge myself too!)

[Rymac91 15]

I'm reading Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper(free kindle format book). Not too far in, and the little fuzzies make me think of a more primitive ewok.

[Easy Bakes 253]

I'm reading Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper(free kindle format book). Not too far in, and the little fuzzies make me think of a more primitive ewok.

great book that one.

[Easy Bakes 253]

I'm reading Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper(free kindle format book). Not too far in, and the little fuzzies make me think of a more primitive ewok.

great book that one.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Le Dame aux Camellias by Alexandre Dumas (fils)

Medea by Euripides

I'll be reading some more to get my 63 points in School (and I wanted to challenge myself too!)

I know you are something of a linguist. Are you reading Camille in the original? It was made into an opera by Verdi called La Traviata.

Enjoy the Euripides. Medea wasn't a very nice lady.

@Rymac91: Enjoy Little Fuzzy. There is at least one sequel. Fuzzies are a lot smarter than ewoks. The whole thing is a bit of a space opera where greedy capital loses. If you are reading Piper, don't miss the Paratime Patrol series.

  Edited October 8, 2011 by A Nonny Moose  

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

The Incredible Journey for fun.

[emperordaniel 1,281]

Just finished reading The Two Towers, it took me 6 hours to read the whole thing

[Alejandro24 575]

Well, lets see:

Déjame Entrar (Let The Right One In, or Lat Den Ratte Komma In) by John Ajvide Lyndqvist. Reading this by second time.

Algunas Notas Sobre Creatividad by Jorge Fregoso. A book about the creativity, notes, advices and techniches of creativity and learning.

Fundamentos de Física Volumen 2 (Fundamentals of Physics Volume 2) by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker. My book of physics.

And others: Sears Zemansky's Fisica Universitaria by Young and Freedman, Cálculo by Ron Larson, Ecuaciones Diferenciales con Problemas con Valores en la Frontera by Dennis Zill... and more.

  Edited October 10, 2011 by Alejandro24  

[airman15 4,112]

So far I am almost done reading the book They Cage Animals at Night. I just started the final chapter (14, there are 293 pages total) and so far the book has been the most bittersweet reading experience I had to date.

[emperordaniel 1,281]

I stayed up late last night to finish reading The Return of the King It had a somewhat unexpected ending

Now to get the movies...

[Easy Bakes 253]

I stayed up late last night to finish reading The Return of the King It had a somewhat unexpected ending

Now to get the movies...

the ending of ROTK should have been filmed as written.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I stayed up late last night to finish reading The Return of the King It had a somewhat unexpected ending

Now to get the movies...

the ending of ROTK should have been filmed as written.

The scouring of the Shire would have made another movie.

[Barbarossa 51]

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  Edited September 8, 2012 by Barbarossa  

[emperordaniel 1,281]

Pfft, no it wouldn't. In fact, it shouldn't have even been included in the books. Just "closing time" and not worth noting. Kind of like the first several chapters of The Hobbit.

Currently, I am reading A Clash of Kings, on my way to remembering this series before I read the new (less than spectacularly rated) A Dance with Dragons in queue at that thar liberry.

Barbarossa

I disagree that the scouring of the Shire would have made another movie (at most it would add another 15 minutes or so to ROTK), but it would have been cool to have it in the film... one of my 10 favorite scenes in ROTK is not going to be in the movie

(for those who were wondering, I haven't watched the movie yet )

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I disagree that the scouring of the Shire would have made another movie (at most it would add another 15 minutes or so to ROTK), but it would have been cool to have it in the film... one of my 10 favorite scenes in ROTK is not going to be in the movie

(for those who were wondering, I haven't watched the movie yet )

Actually, it appeared in ROTK in summary. There could easily have been a spun out version if you backtracked on the doings of the Shire during the whole LOTR, with a few flashbacks. Could have been milked for another box office sweep. The nefarious doings of the defrocked Saruman might have been a pretty good horror film in a sad sort of way. A large number of middling important characters were kind of swept out with the trash at the end.

Enjoy the George R. R. Martin. That is a no punches pulled science fiction/fantasy novel.

[Former User 1875 1]

I tend to read a lot of books at once, so here's my list

Ray Kurzweils 'The Singularity Is Nearing'

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time: book IV

Some book about geology

The MYST trilogy (nearly done with that one, but still)

[Barbarossa 51]

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  Edited September 8, 2012 by Barbarossa  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I gave up on the Wheel of Time series. It turned into a set of potboilers.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Finished 1st Lensman.Cant find Galactic Patrol so I Started on

Air Apparent-Piers Anthony one of the Xanth novels.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Finished Air Apparent

Starting on the 1000 pages of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

[emperordaniel 1,281]

Finished the film of The Fellowship of the Ring; about to watch The Two Towers

[Easy Bakes 253]

Finished The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon

have not picked a new book for evenings.

Still working on the 1000 pages of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

[Barbarossa 51]

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  Edited September 8, 2012 by Barbarossa  

[Easy Bakes 253]

Decided on Man-Kizn Wars 2. a set of short stories set in Larry Nivins Known Space universe.

concentrating on the events during the several human space vs Kzinti empires wars.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Barbarossa has taken a step that I have often taken as well. Rereading something after a long interval will find new meaning and content. I was introduced to Le Comte de Monte Cristo in either grade X or XI French Authors class. In our schools, if you take a language, there are (used to be) two papers to get the credit: language (mostly grammar with some sociology and geography) and Authors which was the literature of the originating country.

Reading something in the original can be quite enlightening because translators always interpret things, no matter how well intentioned. For instance some of the things in Caesar's Gallic Campaigns are nearly untranslatable. You have to know the culture and the times to read some of this stuff.

A good example of how a crime story becomes a romance is the story Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. The original is told by the lover, not named Don José, who is awaiting execution (by garrote) in a Spanish prison for the murder of the heroine. It is a short story, and the hero is a Basque bandit.