What Do you Read

Frapalino said:
Except anything south of Austin and west of I-35 sucks. Houston fits that catagory. Sorry. :wink:
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I disagree....you son of a *****.


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After checking the map and realizing Shiner, Texas is not in the area I said. I have to amend my non-suck regions of Texas to include Shiner, Texas home of Shiner Bock Beers. The finest beer for the most reasonable price. You should try it out if you're ever in the area.
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I heartily agree....you son of a *****.

Back on topic-

My absolute favorite book of all time is Lillies of the Field. It inspires me like nothing else, makes my imagination go crazy, and gives me the wonderlust. It is the perfect length to sit down and read in one sitting. I recomend it.
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I might check it out....you son of a *****.


Ok, I'm done now, back on topic.
 
Pandrio said:
I got halfway through The Two Towers and stopped...
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I always make it about 100 pages into Return of the King before I realize that I just don't care anymore. The last full book, and each half is a book on its own, is all about Sam and Frodo, then we jump back to a cast of characters that I wasn't too thrilled with in the first place, leave the only ones I really dug (Ents), and take another book to run with them. I've never finished it.
 
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The American Gods book I got from the library is now overdue. I haven't read any of it for about a week and a half, but I want to finish it. Stupid fines.

I've also got the Tarzan Biography that Phillip Jose Farmer did. I'm looking forward to reading that.
 
Baxter said:
I always make it about 100 pages into Return of the King before I realize that I just don't care anymore. The last full book, and each half is a book on its own, is all about Sam and Frodo, then we jump back to a cast of characters that I wasn't too thrilled with in the first place, leave the only ones I really dug (Ents), and take another book to run with them. I've never finished it.
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Oh my god, same here. :D

This is funny considering the fact that Return of the King is one of my all-time favorite movies.
 
ProjectX2 said:
The American Gods book I got from the library is now overdue. I haven't read any of it for about a week and a half, but I want to finish it. Stupid fines.
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Take it back to the library, pay the fines, and I'll mail you my copy, which you can keep as long as you need it.

I'm serious.
 
LOTR is my favourite movie of all time, and I can barely read the books. I think the only one I read the whole way through was Two Towers.

The movies are a lot better than the books. Even the characters are better. Frodo and Sam are a LOT cooler and more realistic in the films and Gandalf is an ***-kicking thunder wizard instead of a delicate old man who constantly complains about how weary he is.
 
Planet-man said:
LOTR is my favourite movie of all time, and I can barely read the books. I think the only one I read the whole way through was Two Towers.

The movies are a lot better than the books. Even the characters are better. Frodo and Sam are a LOT cooler and more realistic in the films and Gandalf is an ***-kicking thunder wizard instead of a delicate old man who constantly complains about how weary he is.
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I find this post funny

You admit to not reading all the books all the way through, so you lost out on characterization on the people in the story.

Then you say how they are represented better in the movies than the books.

Which is funny. Because Frodo and Sam I felt were represented better in the books than the movies, and Gandalf was represented as a bad *** fire mage in the last book, where in the first book he's weary, not because he is an old man, but because he knows how far this journey will take him.
 
Ultimate Houde said:
I find this post funny

You admit to not reading all the books all the way through, so you lost out on characterization on the people in the story.

Then you say how they are represented better in the movies than the books.
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I thought about writing the same thing, but the fact that I never finished it either made me stop.
 
You make a good point, Houde, but I feel I did read enough of the books to understand the characters. I skipped select parts of Fellowship and only gave up on RotK after the Ring was destroyed when Tolkien decided to tack on all the aftermath crap with the leftover Orcs taking over the Shire or whatever. What an anti-climax. I was so happy when Jackson ended the story where it should've ended.
 
I prefer the movies to the books.

And no sweat, Seldes. I paid the fine and renewed the book today.
 
Planet-man said:
LOTR is my favourite movie of all time, and I can barely read the books. I think the only one I read the whole way through was Two Towers.

The movies are a lot better than the books. Even the characters are better. Frodo and Sam are a LOT cooler and more realistic in the films and Gandalf is an ***-kicking thunder wizard instead of a delicate old man who constantly complains about how weary he is.
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I only made it through the first hundred pages or so of Fellowship of the Rings.

Tolkein somehow confused a novel with a ****ing history textbook. The writing was just so dry and plain...

I prefer the movies. I can't say whether the characters are portrayed better or any of that, but it's about a thousand times less grueling to work through than what I've read of the books.
 
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Back in 4th grade or so, I read all of the Rings books, along with most of Tolkiens other novels. I liked to pretend that I knew what the **** was going on. However, as boring as Tolkiens' writing is, I still think the movies were worse.

Now-a-days I read a lot of books on Martial arts, philosophy or otherwise. Other than that I read a lot of Crime/Suspense novels, and pretty much every Star Wars book ever published.
 
moonmaster said:
Tolkein somehow confused a novel with a ****ing history textbook. The writing was just so dry and plain...
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That always confused me with him. The Hobbit is easily one of the best fantasy novels ever written, and at no point does the Dryness ever seep in. But then you read LOTR and its like eating 5 saltines in under a minute without a glass of water. Its so god damn dry.
 
Planet-man said:
I skipped select parts of Fellowship and only gave up on RotK after the Ring was destroyed when Tolkien decided to tack on all the aftermath crap with the leftover Orcs taking over the Shire or whatever. What an anti-climax. I was so happy when Jackson ended the story where it should've ended.
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Because you didn't finish that section, you missed the part that made it work.

Seriously. Its like, 30 pages. How hard would it have been to finish?
 
Planet-man said:
You make a good point, Houde, but I feel I did read enough of the books to understand the characters. I skipped select parts of Fellowship and only gave up on RotK after the Ring was destroyed when Tolkien decided to tack on all the aftermath crap with the leftover Orcs taking over the Shire or whatever. What an anti-climax. I was so happy when Jackson ended the story where it should've ended.
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I felt the Shire was the best part of the book
 
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