September - What are you Reading?

[Mark]

Re-reading Beowulf for a literature class.

Wel, that was interesting. I had not read the Seamus Heaney translation before. He certainly does his best to capture the poetic meter of the work.


Pressing on with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

 

[Pants]

Watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix made me want to read the books, so I've burned through the first three and I'm about to start on number 4. They have all been, surprisingly, quite good. Though Chamber of Secrets was kinda lame I guess.

I still have Hal Duncan's Vellum, Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself, and Scott Lynch's Red Sea's Under Red Skies in queue.

 

[Wombat]

Done with Post Captain; busily chewing through H.M.S. Surprise.

For me, Patrick O'Brian is like peanuts -- it's hard to stop once you get started...

 

[Chairman7w]

Man, "Dies the Fire" was just too hard to muddle through. I set it aside and started "A Feast for Crows" again.

 

[sckeener]

I just started Janny Wurts 'Curse of the Mistwraith'

So far it is good....

 

[Tolen Mar]

"Children of Hurin' came in. I'm not sure about it. I'll finish it, to be sure, but it just doesn't seem the same. Something is a bit 'off' in the telling. Maybe because now it's Christopher and Adam Tolkien doing the work (as opposed to just Christopher, too many cooks?).

 

[Krug]

Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder.

 

[Tolen Mar]

Finished 'Children of Hurin' yesterday. The underlying story is good, as ever, but like I said, the telling just seemed flat to me.

As I was checking out a couple of videos yesterday, the patron before me returned 'The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: Here, There Be Dragons.' Its by James Owens. An Atlas describing all lands ever mentioned in myth and fable, and a dragon ship that can take you there...

Throw in pursuit by some mysterious 'wendigo' bent on getting that atlas, and several literary allusions. Seems pretty good so far.

 

[megamania]

Currently I am rereading Alan Moore and Gibbon's Watchmen.

Next I have the newest RA Salvatore's Drow collection which I am looking forward to reading.

 

[Pants]

Starting on Order of the Pheonix tonight.

I was up till 1:30 last night finishing off Goblet of Fire. I haven't read anything this regularly in a long time. I'm horribly addicted now. I had to buy Order of the Pheonix and Half-Blood Prince so that I could continue reading when I finished each book.