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« Reply #420 on: January 17, 2011, 04:46:PM » |
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I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I am currently on the second half of Fellowship.
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« Reply #421 on: January 17, 2011, 05:23:PM » |
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I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I am currently on the second half of Fellowship.
how you liking it>? It is rather excellent, I think. Tolkien's writing style is fascinating, and the Catholic themes in the book give a great message. |
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« Reply #422 on: January 17, 2011, 06:29:PM » |
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I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I am currently on the second half of Fellowship.
how you liking it>? It is rather excellent, I think. Tolkien's writing style is fascinating, and the Catholic themes in the book give a great message. what fascinating about his style in particular? |
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wanna buy me some ice cream? | ice cream in latin: LAC GLACIALE [frozen milk] | fyi, i'm not catholic . . . yet!
"twerp, you couldn't dominate a cabbage, it'd make you look like an idiot" -- my new best friend
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« Reply #423 on: January 17, 2011, 06:54:PM » |
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what fascinating about his style in particular?
I'd like to know that too!! :S And does it ever escape the pattern of 5 pages walking, 5 pages of eating drinking and singing, 5 pages of walking and so on ? |
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« Reply #424 on: January 17, 2011, 07:10:PM » |
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I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I am currently on the second half of Fellowship.
how you liking it>? It is rather excellent, I think. Tolkien's writing style is fascinating, and the Catholic themes in the book give a great message. what fascinating about his style in particular? Well, let me give a quotation (the one that appeared in a recent xkcd comic): "Far above the Ephel Duath [a mountain range] in the West the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach." I find that to be rather inspiring. Especially because it is a Catholic work, and the "light and high beauty" to which it is referring is a reference to God. I just think the way in which it is written has a nice sound to it. I cannot comment much about the "5 pages walking..." thing, though, because I am only one sixth through the whole thing.  |
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« Reply #425 on: January 17, 2011, 08:05:PM » |
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Stephen King's Under the Dome. King is one of the authors I read when my brain can't handle serious stuff. I'm particularly enjoying this one because it reminds me of how he constructed the life and characters of a small town in earlier books like Salem's Lot and Needful Things. I'm already halfway through the book and I can't wait to see the villain get his comeuppance...  |
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« Reply #426 on: January 17, 2011, 08:06:PM » |
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Sometimes I think I'm the only one that doesn't really care about Steven King.
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« Reply #427 on: January 17, 2011, 08:08:PM » |
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Sometimes I think I'm the only one that doesn't really care about Steven King.
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« Reply #428 on: January 17, 2011, 09:01:PM » |
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Sometimes I think I'm the only one that doesn't really care about Steven King.
You're not. lol I've never touched one of his books. Ditto. |
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« Reply #429 on: January 17, 2011, 11:12:PM » |
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Stephen King's Under the Dome. King is one of the authors I read when my brain can't handle serious stuff. I'm particularly enjoying this one because it reminds me of how he constructed the life and characters of a small town in earlier books like Salem's Lot and Needful Things. I'm already halfway through the book and I can't wait to see the villain get his comeuppance... I read that a few months back. Loved it. |
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