[March] What are you reading?

[d4]

Just finished the part where Merry and Pippin meets Treebeard.
Have PJ explained to us why Treebeard (in the movie) is tricked into going after Saruman, rather following the counsel of the Entmoot?
I find this very strange.

i'm guessing PJ changed it from the book so that every major decision is coming from one of the main characters. so that instead of the ents deciding for themselves to go to war, they need the hobbits to convince them.

just a thought.

 

[Pielorinho]

i'm guessing PJ changed it from the book so that every major decision is coming from one of the main characters. so that instead of the ents deciding for themselves to go to war, they need the hobbits to convince them.

That's my impression. Because he had to cut out a lot of the dialogue and description in order to get the movie down to under ten hours, he risked making certain lesser characters totally irrelevant. Getting M&P to be instrumental in the razing of Saruman's tower gives them an important role in the salvation of Middle Earth.

I'm now reading Oryx and Crake, a postapocalyptic novel by Margaret Atwood. Creepy.

Daniel

 

[Taelorn76]

rigth now I am reading The Highwayman, as well as Authurian Legends. It's a collection of stories based around King Author.
On deck is Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.

 

[Eregion2]

I've just started Terry Brook's Shannara books, Scions of Shannara to be exact. So far it's ok, not the absolute best, but still promising.

I've read all of Dan Brown's books.(i.e. Angels and Demons, the Da Vinci Code, Digital Fortress, and Deception Point.) They're all good, but they all follow the same pattern, he needs to change the story line a bit in his next one.

Also, Bernard Cornwell's The Archer's Tale, Vagabond, and Heretic are great, except he should have had Thomas find the Holy Grail at the end of Vagabond, and never have wrote Heretic, it's just to prolonged.(just like this thread, don't you think?)

Guess that's it.- Eregion2

 

[knitnerd]

Medieval mysteries

I have been working my way through the Owen Archer mysteries by Candace M. Robb. They were reccomended by a man who saw me reading Sharan Newman's Catherine LeVendure mysteries.

 

[Tetsubo]

Grassland by Richard Manning. A fascinating read about the area on the North American continent that we call the Prairie.

 

[Wolf72]

just finished Angels and Deamons and Deception Point by Dan Brown (ala the Da Vinci Code) ....

both were okay, but the man throws so many plot twists and narrow escapes in that I got kinda bored ... started skimming paragraphs to find out if they had info or were another 'harrowing escape/survival'.

the Da Vinci Code seemed to have about the right mix of twists and escapes without overdoing it.

 

[DaveStebbins]

For audiobooks, I finished Sunset in St. Tropez by Danielle Steele and am about a third of the way through Dickens' Oliver Twist. Next in the queue is a non-fiction book about raising teenagers called Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?

Speaking of non-fiction, I was actually able to finish my first hardcopy book in two or three months. It was an autobiography called Underneath It All, by Traci Lords.

-Dave

 

[tetsujin28]

I hardly ever read fiction, though I'm going to go back and reread the REH Solomon Kane stories over holiday.

Right now I'm in the midst of about 15 books on Constantine and Eusebius.

 

[WayneLigon]

So far, still working on Illumination, by Terry McGarry. Unfortunately, I looked at the back cover copy for the sequal, The Binder's Road, which has a major spoiler for the first book on it. Dang. But Illumination is still a very good book. Just about done with it... then probably either The Coming of Conan or Conquerer's Moon. Or maybe the second book to A Cavern of Black Ice.