What are you currently reading?

[Kadushu]

Just finished the Mabinogion. I can see how it influenced Tolkien.

 

[Pattree]

You’ve got some stamina to manage that. I can read it as a series of long winter tales. I’ve no time for the layers of “significance” that some people over-lay it with.

 

[Kadushu]

You’ve got some stamina to manage that. I can read it as a series of long winter tales. I’ve no time for the layers of “significance” that some people over-lay it with.

Stamina?! I finished Das Kapital just before Christmas. I was down to my last quark of sanity by the end of that!

 

[Pattree]

Try The Communist Manifesto.

 

[HillBill]

Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne atm. This copy i have is over 100 years old. The print is very small. Need magnifying reading glasses just to see it. The pics make it look larger than it is. (bad eyes these days)

Untitled by Mark Hill, on Flickr

by Mark Hill, on Flickr

 

[Kadushu]

Try The Communist Manifesto.

I will once the paramedics are on standby!

 

[johnnytheboy]

Reindeer: An Arctic Life by Tilly Smith

£3.52 on eBay

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[Keith_Beef]

I finished this a few days ago.


The story begins with a Japanese photographer accompanying a group of climbers in the Himalayas, and getting his hands on one of the two Vest Pocket Kodak cameras that were carried by Mallory and Irvine on their fatally failed Everest ascent of 1924.

Before finishing this manga I ordered a second hand copy of The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine, so that's in my pile of books to read.

 

[Steve27752]

Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl.

 

[FerlasDave]

 

[Tengu]

Dodgy title and iffy layout.

But I bet its a super book. Is it?

 

[Keith_Beef]

Dodgy title and iffy layout.

But I bet its a super book. Is it?

I found it more deliberately ambiguous... Who was terrified? Magellan, the people who financed the expedition, the crew members, the autochthonous populations?

 

[johnnytheboy]

 

[biscuit]

You might read of the Witches in their own group and read Equal Rites later only then recognising the Weatherwax/Ogg character before it split.

I ... didn't realise that split had happened. Oops

And that's having read Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, and Witches Abroad, more than once (albeit a good while ago).

 

[biscuit]

I did however notice there was a difference between Granny in Equal Rites and Granny in Wyrd Sisters / Witches Abroad, and had put it down to character development.

 

[Pattree]

I think character development is exactly what it was.
It wasn’t any part of the plot; there was no magical split. In Weird Sisters her characteristics from Equal Rites had been shared (and developed) in two directions).

 

[Kadushu]

I finished the Dune prequels last week which were okay but... I'm about halfway through the original Dune now and the writing is in another league.

 

[slaine_23]

Dune is a book I’ve read multiple times, it’s great, the prequels however are pants, not at all comparable to the original. As an aside, don’t waste your time on the recent dune universe tv series - absolute guff.

 

[slaine_23]

Working my way though the Xeelee series from Stephen Baxter. The scale is vast, but I stick to the impression that these are not happy books. Tremendous reads all the same.

 

[JB101]

Just finished these