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Post by blackest_knight on Mar 8, 2009 14:20:49 GMT -5
Then you'll have to wait  |
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Post by Angry Sandwich on Mar 9, 2009 11:46:50 GMT -5
Started reading the Golden Compass finally. Hopefully I'll be able to get through it before Titans shows up. Kinda sucks that I've already seen the movie. Making it harder to get into the book now that there isn't any kind of mystery  |
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Post by blackest_knight on Mar 10, 2009 20:30:06 GMT -5
just remember that the end is different. Well, they cut off the end of the Golden Compass in the movie, so that is something to look forward to  |
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Post by Angry Sandwich on Mar 10, 2009 23:16:06 GMT -5
Yeah, but how different can it be? I mean really?
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Post by blackest_knight on Mar 11, 2009 18:09:34 GMT -5
believe me, it is awesome and seemed to come out of nowhere (for me anyway)
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Post by Angry Sandwich on Mar 12, 2009 15:45:47 GMT -5
Well, finally finished reading the Golden Compass. I must admit that it was unexpected and yeah, the movie ending was so very much NOT the ending. I didn't much care for the book though. I don't know, even when it got to the points that I knew nothing about it felt like a chore to read |
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Post by blackest_knight on Mar 16, 2009 21:53:15 GMT -5
sad. I really enjoyed it. Definitely don't read the next book then - it WAS a chore to read (lol, although if you read it, it is possible you will enjoy it) *shrug*
I read Death of a Transvestite by Ed Wood, and then Batman: A Death in the Family like right after so I could distance myself from Ed Wood's Fantasy Land.
I'm currently reading First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Burton. The intro and prologue were rather tedious, but it has been a lot better after them.
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Post by richard on Mar 16, 2009 23:20:05 GMT -5
How is First Footsteps in Africa, it sounds curious; but maybe that's just an ongoing interest in African history of mine... I'm currently trying to get through Way of the Bodhisattva. I always like Buddhist sutras, they're always written in epic poetry form which is made of win.
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Post by blackest_knight on Mar 17, 2009 2:56:22 GMT -5
It's alright. Some of the description is fantastic. But then there are other parts when Burton starts listing off geneologies of people, or "Here, have a list of a whole wack of people who you won't remember about and don't seem to come up ever again." I'm about 100 pages into it, which isn't bad (it's about 300 without the appendices)....but then I wasted a lot of time on Amazon.com tonight when I hit one of the geneologies I mentioned...
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Post by Angry Sandwich on Mar 18, 2009 13:07:16 GMT -5
Totally off topic but wow, this thread has been read over 1,100 times so far. I think thats a record for this forum.
Also, I'm about 100 pages into A Knight of the Word and I'm really enjoying it. I'm very curious as to where the story is going and if my suspicions are correct. As the sayings go, if something appears to good to be true, it probably is.
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Post by blackest_knight on Mar 19, 2009 19:48:20 GMT -5
Whatever your suspicions are, they are most likely true...I found A Knight of the Word very predictable.
I finished First Footsteps yesterday!!!!! I can start writing the paper on it!!!!! Yay!!!!!
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Post by blackest_knight on Mar 21, 2009 19:27:58 GMT -5
I'm not reading them yet, but remember those books that I told you I picked up for really cheap yesterday? It was like 6 books for like $3? Well, it turns out that those six are only HALF of the series! So now I'll have to get the other 6! Also, I bought another book on ebay.... |
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Post by Angry Sandwich on Mar 21, 2009 19:38:34 GMT -5
And the other six? You just know they'll end up being 3 books for $60  Also, be careful or you may become addicted to ebay . . . more so. |
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Post by blackest_knight on Mar 21, 2009 20:16:40 GMT -5
I am not addicted to ebay!
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Post by Angry Sandwich on Mar 21, 2009 22:24:54 GMT -5
yet
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