[Quiet Man Cometh]

Ivan Denisovich complete! Which book next?

[Moonshadow]

I am reading a very interesting book called The Book of Strange New Things.
I thought it was going to be more...idk. But anyway it is still a decent read.
I thought I would love it more, it is hard to describe but I am glad I am reading it. I'm trying to give myself a goal of 50 pages per day of my fiction book. I am doing very well this year.

[Moonshadow]

I finished The Book of Strange New Things and it really did redeem itself. It was pretty good. I have already read 27 books this year, my goal was 40, so I am sure I will meet my goal. I need to update my reading list!

[trystan830]

ooh, i finished my reread of the Handmaid's Tale! it wasn't as 'bad' as i feared. XD

new book in my sig =)

[Quiet Man Cometh]

My local used book store had a copy of The Last Wish that they obligingly brought in from their larger store that it further away. My book list is getting large again.

Looking around in the store today, I discovered that C.S.Lewis actually wrote a sci-fi trilogy that I've never heard of. Looked interesting but all the books were new and I wasn't about the spend the extra money. I'm going to add The Screwtape Letters of his to my reading list.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

The Scarlet Gospels finished! So many books complete! Such progress!

Taking a break from genre books now and starting The Princess Diarist. At this rate, it would seem I shall spend my summer reading instead of looking for that job I was going to try and get. I wouldn't mind.

[Moonshadow]

Quiet: I tried reading that trilogy by C.S.Lewis I did not get very far. Just 50 pages into the first book, I did not like it too much so I stopped.

I really do need to update my list. I just started a really good book called The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz. I'm up to page 81 and it is really good already.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Ugh. I want to read today but I have a headache and am probably affected by the heat here and just can't focus enough to read tiny print. I tried three times in either book and it's just not happening.

The Hellbound Heart is eluding me. I'm trying to find a copy but refuse to pay the $18 the bookstore wants, but no luck at either my regional library or the used bookstore. I may finally take a crack at Dune. Which has been sitting on my shelf for God knows how long. There is a category for that. ;)

[trystan830]

ooh, Dune! one of my faves!

[Moonshadow]

I should read Dune again, I read it a long time ago and it didn't impress me.
Is it possible just to read Dune and not any of the sequels? I read Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion and I felt I should have stopped at Hyperion and not read the sequel. i did not think it added anything, just finished the story, but I liked the way Hyperion ended.

[trystan830]

Dune: personally, i'd read them all, but that's just me. but yes, i think you can read just Dune and not the sequels or prequels.

[Moonshadow]

I'm not a real fan of sequels. I like to read one book and then be done. Very rarely have I felt that a trilogy or a sequel was worth it.

[trystan830]

to each their own. everyone is different, i've always said, and that includes what you like to read. =)

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Dune has been on my list since I saw the mini-series (haven't seen the old movie with Sting) but mostly since an acquaintance of mine and myself had a three hour debate on which was better, Dune or Lord of the Rings, except he had never read LOTR and I had never read Dune.

It was largely a debate on escapism, metaphor, and philosophy.

[trystan830]

ah, but it's a good question.

i've read the Dune series; and i've read LotR. it's on my list to re-read again eventually.

i've seen the scifi mini-series and the original Lynch movie (the one with Sting), and i've seen all the LotR movies.

and after thinking about it since i first saw your comment this morning and am now able to answer 'which is better, LotR or Dune?' by hard and fast, no-question-about-it answer is 'Both.'

[Quiet Man Cometh]

They are different entities, it would seem, which was probably why our conversation when as long as it did.

Changed my mind on The Princess Diarist and, instead, picked up Death by Video Game. A non-fiction book on gaming and how we attach ourselves to it, to be overly simplistic about it. I'll probably read it on the ferry when I head to the Island to visit my dad this weekend, if I don't get distracted by the magazines I have, as well.