quote:Originally posted by Ultra Jorge: I just read a classic...The Hobbit!
I read it when I was 12 and enjoyed it but didn't love it. (I was a big Llyod Alexander fan though as a kid)
I loved it this time around. I haven't read a book this fast since high school. Read it in 5 days.
I want to read Fellowship of the Ring next . . .
I remember Lloyd Alexander, but I didn't read a lot of him.
The Hobbit is so fun. The story was originally a newspaper series for children. So, you won't find any of the Lord of the Rings books to be a 'fast read', I think. Just a wonderful read!
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From: Salem, Oregon USA | Registered: Aug 2003
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Texasville and Duane's Depressed by Larry McMurty. I never liked either one of those books the first reading, little day to day things keep reminding me of them and I go back to them every once in a while. His books always seem better about the third or fourth reading.
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For some reason, I seem to have completely lost my taste for fiction. So far this summer I have several history books. Funny, I was never much interested in history before, but that seems to be all I want to read now. Thus far I have read books on:
WWII The Revolutionary War The Civil War (by Bruce Catton - highly recommended!) The Conquest of America The Birth of America, from before Columbus to the Revolution and I am now reading another, more detailed book on the revolutionary war.
Up next on my list is a book on WWI and a book on ancient Rome. Tonight I think I am going to check out books on landmark Supreme Court cases, the Old West, and maybe gangsters.
I have no idea what's gotten into me - other than a lot of historical information that might make me a good Jeopardy contestant.
From: Cincinnati | Registered: Jul 2003
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Taste's change over time. Don't worry about it. I go through phases of what I like to read. I might go from scifi to westerns to police mysteries to spy to bio's to historical....just enjoy where your mind leads you.
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Actually, I saw recently that Robert Heinlein has a new book out - sort of. After his wife's death a few years ago, an outline was found for a new novel. Spider Robinson was selected somehow to write a book based on the outline. The book is called "Variable Star" and I think I am gonna have to check it out next time I go to the library. Has anyone read this, by the way?
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"Variable Star" must have been ok since I read the whole thing yesterday. Actually, it was good, but not great. There are a lot of references for us diehard Heinlein fans, although I thought the book really plodded along at some points. The ending seemed a bit of a cop-out, too. Robinson basically swiped an ending from a different Heinlein book and used it here. I wouldn't recommend reading this unless you are a diehard Heinlein fan.
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami for the umpteenth time. It's just marvellous!
From: Dorset, England | Registered: Oct 2008
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I read everything by Richard Yates, who wrote Revolutionary Road, over the summer and they are some really GREAT books!
Also recently enjoyed Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs. It's a hoot!
I'm reading one of Sherman Alexie's short story collections. I wanted to know more about life on a native American reservation! But I'm finding his stuff quite unsatisfying, he doesn't really give anything proper endings and is quite repetitive.
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I just finished Gone With the Wind, which I have not read since I was 17. I also have been on a Heinlein kick, rereading Starship Troopers and Tunnel in the Sky.
From: Cincinnati | Registered: Jul 2003
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Lance, my wife and I were just trying to figure out if either of us had a copy of Gone With the Wind. I know I read it, but maybe it was my mom's. I haven't read it in ages either. And Starship Troopers is on my list of books that I reread every year or two. Pity about the movie.
From: Douglasville, GA | Registered: Jul 2003
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Really? I actually enjoyed the movie. Not great or anything, but I like watching it. Don't gag, but I even like watching the movie of the Puppet Masters. I understand what you mean, though - neither movie captures the flavor of the book. Actually, the only movie that seems like a Heinlein movie (but isn't) is a made-for-TV movie called Star Command.
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I think I liked Puppet Masters, but it's been a long time since I watched it or read the book for that matter. I'd like to see a big screen take on "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" although I bet they'd drop most of the politics in favor of the action stuff.
I didn't like the way the movie version of Starship Troopers drifted into satirizing the military even if the book went a bit far in the other direction. Paul Verhoeven just wasn't the right director for it, I think. Plus, everything else aside, who would do a "Starship Troopers" movie without the cool MI Suits?
From: Douglasville, GA | Registered: Jul 2003
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I agree with you on the absence of the MI suits. I have no idea why they weren't included. The thing that really bugged (pun intended) me about the movie is this: If you are fighting something with a decentralized nervous system, why in the world is almost everyone using projectile weapons? Doesn't make a lick of sense to me.
As for which Heinlein book I would like to see made into a movie - hmm...I think Tunnel in the Sky would make a cool film, but that might just be because I read it recently.
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