The "what are you reading" thread:

[Alinestra Covelia]

I went back to read the Earth's Children books. The first four were by far and away much better than the fifth one.

I was able to get my hands on "The Valley of Horses" when I was 12. And my life was never quite the same again.

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


Prose, not poetry. No footnotes.

Unless you're really into 14th century Florence, it's probably very difficult to understand why he introduces all those characters in hell. He wrote in Florentine dialect, and many of the people he talks to in hell lived in Florence at the time. Dante imagined most of his readers would know who he talked about.
In paradise he talks much about theology, and the references to Thomas of Aquino's Summa Theologica are endless.

Explanatory footnotes really come in handy...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Footnotes are ESSENTIAL for the Divine Comedy. Otherwise, you have no clue what's going on.

And I prefer the poetry to the prose translations.

[Richelieu]

I was stuck an extra day at my sister's over Christmas because of bad weather and i picked up Twilight. It is really bad.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The writing is horrible. The story is somewhat alright (I like vampire lore), but scary enough the first book is the best of the series

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


Footnotes are ESSENTIAL for the Divine Comedy. Otherwise, you have no clue what's going on.

And I prefer the poetry to the prose translations.

Yeah. I give. I've now switched over to Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

[Alinestra Covelia]

My friend gave me "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. I think I'll read it before term starts again.

[snoopy369]

Don't read it right before bed. It's not a 'horror' story, but it's just as likely to give nightmares if not more, I'd think, for an empathetic person.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It's pretty freaking good though

[Traianvs]

Richard Dawkins' 'The God Delusion'

His style reminds me of several Poly members

[DirtyMartini]

just gave up on "against the day". I think I could like this book if I could sit down and read it for 4 hours at a time. I can't, so I get lost and I get bored.

started "anathem" by Stephenson, but haven't gotten very far. anyone read it?

[snoopy369]

I have it on the shelf but haven't gotten around to it yet. It sold really well, though, around Christmas

[Jon Miller]

I just read regenesis, now back to jonathan strange and mr norrel (which I got for my flight, but only 1/2 finished during my flight).

Jm

[Jon Miller]

The writing is horrible. The story is somewhat alright (I like vampire lore), but scary enough the first book is the best of the series

Thanks for the warning, I won't touch the others then.

JM

[Jon Miller]

I went back to read the Earth's Children books. The first four were by far and away much better than the fifth one.

I was able to get my hands on "The Valley of Horses" when I was 12. And my life was never quite the same again.

I liked them as a teenage male. haven't really been interested in picking them up again (not sure where I stopped either, but know I didn't read the 5th)

JM