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| Author: Posted: Sep. 8, 2002 | This Page Viewed: 7,021,661 |
Question of the Week: 103 - 3/17/2003 What Are You Reading? What was the last book(s) that you read or what favorite book would you recommend to others? When in the bookstore or library, which section do you head for first? Do you prefer fiction or non fiction? Do you read mostly for enjoyment/entertainment or for knowledge/information? What media besides books do you read? What is your literary skeleton in the bookcase (such as comics, fashion mags, tabloids, showbiz gossip, sports)? |
| Reponses: There are 95 responses posted to this question. | Reverse Sort |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | Mar 19th. at 9:40:44 pm EST |
| Duvessa (BA, Argentina) | Age: 22 - Email |
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I am currently reading The Mists of Avalon, written by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I am devouring it! I can't get my eyes to stop reading it! (It's been a while since a book captured me this way) It's incredibly well written, well characterized, it gets your attention, and as a wiccan who was raised as a catholic, it offers extremely interesting views from both religions when the story changes its point of view from Morgaine to Gwenhwyfar (and others) , even if enhaced by the 6th century strictness. It's highly recommendable- you get to love the characters! I've been a bookworm since I was taught how to read, but lately I tend to lose myself in fiction/fantasy. It's a nice get away from everyday's problems- you gotta have one. When I turn more serious and leave the fiction shelf, I might go anywhere else- I tend to read those books which 'call' me. I try to learn from both the good books and the bad books. |
| BOOKS!!!! | Mar 19th. at 10:47:36 pm EST |
| Skye Silverstar (Edmonton, Alberta) | Age: 19 - Email |
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I LOVE books!!!! I read about everything except romance, but mostly I love science fiction and fantasy. If I can recommend anything to fellow readers it would be anything written by my two favorite authors: Robert Heinlein, and Spider Robinson. My Dad actually MET Spider Robinson! In Fantasy I really like books written by Anne McCaffery, especially her Rowan series. Other random stuff I like are: The Sevenwaters Trilogy, I forget who writes it. Stuff by Shakespeare, like Romeo and Juliet (Hee, okay, I like some romance.) The Raven, a poem by Edgar Allen Poe. Anything written by Silver Ravenwolf. A hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, a trilogy in four parts, by Douglas Adams. Stephen King books. The Harry Potter series. There's more, but that's some of the best, enjoy! |
| What I'm Reading | Mar 20th. at 12:05:19 am EST |
| A.T. Crowtiger (Nebraska) | Age: 43 - Email |
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I'm currently reading Lady of Avalon (second time) by Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Book of Druidry (first time) by Ross Nichols. I just finished Lord of the Rings (20th or 30th time-I lost count) . Absolutely my favorite! Peace! |
| What I'm Reading | Mar 20th. at 6:31:16 am EST |
| Mabon Titania (Scotland) | Age: 26 - Email |
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Just finished reading 'To ride a Sliver Broomstick' by Silver Ravenwolf (again) , currently reading 'The Sacred Art of Stealing' by Christopher Brookmyre (for the 2nd time - it's fantastic!) , and 'The Stand' by Stephen King (for about the gazillionth time) . I usually have 3 or 4 books on the go at the same time. I recently read both Christopher Reeves autobiographies, and also the Michael J Fox one (I got them for Xmas & they're well worth a look - they've led such interesting lives) . |
| I Am Reading................ | Mar 20th. at 9:35:09 am EST |
| Allison (USA) | Age: 41 - Email |
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I have been so distressed with what's going on in the world that I have decided to read The Kalevala yet again. That is a book I can escape into and it creates an excellent diversion for me. |
| Repeat Offender ;-) | Mar 20th. at 11:09:56 am EST |
| Brenna Ce'Dria (Savannah, GA) | Age: 20 - Email |
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Right now I'm reading, for the 8th or 12th time, David Eddings' The Mallorean and I'm currently at the end of book 3 of that series. With everything going on in the world right now I feel the need for a story I know ends happily in the end. I've read the series that goes before the Mallorean, The Belgariad, about 30 times now, but I just got first edition hardbacks of the entire Mal. series and even tho it's a bit darker than the Belgariad, I spent a lot on money on those beautiful hardbacks, and I intend to use them, lol. Anyone interested in fantasy that hasn't read any Eddings yet I definitely recommend the Belgariad to. It's lighthearted even when it's deadly serious, and has some of the most endearing characters I've ever read. |
| Good Series | Mar 20th. at 3:01:38 pm EST |
| Anjie (North Dakota) | Age: 20 - Email |
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I recently finished the "Witches of Ellian" series, by Kate Forsythe. (pardon my poor spelling) It's a realy good series. The witches in the book follow wiccan traditions and such. only they have "insta-magick", as I call it, like being able to produce a ball of fire in their hand by thought. Anyhow, it's a very well written series. It takes up 6 books, and it's the kind of series that I couldn't put down. |
| Pure Escapism! | Mar 20th. at 8:17:43 pm EST |
| Cerridwen Moondaisy (Pittsburgh, PA) | Age: 31 - Email |
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Right now I'm decompressing with light-hearted fare. Janet Evanovich's "Hot Six" is currently occupying space on my nightstand (do read the Stephanie Plum series if you like whimsical murder mysteries) . I recently finished "Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett--pure genius! I highly recommend the Discworld series, and especially the Granny Weatherwax stories. And if you'd like a peephole into the nature of humans (and animals) , including theoretical exposition on the concepts of nationalism and patriotism, do read Robert Ardrey's "The Territorial Imperative". A favorite passage of mine is as follows: "The fate of nations might always be at stake, but never the fate of man. Such times are gone. You and I know that we live in years of strange grace. It is a time of peace enforced by terror, an era without precedent since those terrestrial apes who would someday be man first emerged from the forest galleries of the African Miocene. It is an interlude which mathematical probability dictates must end at some unpredictable date in ten or a hundred years--or even tomorrow--when the wheel stops and the ball falls on double zero, when the house wins and all customers lose, and total accident or total cynicism at last finds us out. We face, in other words, Judgement Day. And when the day comes, natural selection must make a grave decision. For all of its show and all of its splendor, just how much has the natural experiment with the big brain been worth?" (1966) |
| I'm Reading... | Mar 20th. at 8:35:09 pm EST |
| Lucine (Salisbury) | Age: 17 - Email |
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I'm busy reading my Biology and European History text books but in between I'm reading snatches of Witch Crafting: A Spritual Guide to Making Magic by Phyllis Curott. It reminds all over again about why I became Wiccan. I've also just begun Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip. She writes beautifully, if you get a chance read anything she's written. My favorites have been The Beasts of Eld and the trilogy The Riddle Master. |
| Strange Timing As Usual! | Mar 20th. at 10:19:22 pm EST |
| Sarah (Ontario (Canada, not California)) | Age: 30 - Email |
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I am just about to finish "The Demon in the Freezer" by Richard Preston. Nothing about reading all about smallpox at this point in the space-time continuum to make you want to seal up your habitat with duct tape and plastic sheeting. I picked it up out of Dad's pile a couple of days ago - I'd been meaning to read it for a while, but was trying to cut down the size of my unread pile (which I still keep adding to, drat it all!) Didn't even think about war starting up and the resultant threat of bioterror attacks. I really recommend it, but you might want to wait awhile. I read a lot - average about two books a week. I read mostly fiction, 'cause I read for enjoyment. I like mysteries, chick lit, some more serious literature. I usually make a pass by the pagan section of my local bookstore, and frequently pick up something new and tempting (my local library doesn't have a pagan section, but then again, it doesn't stock anything else tempting either) . Love Douglas Adams (reread most of the Hitchhiker's trilogy recently) , Phil Rickman, Lauren Henderson, Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon... this list could go on forever, these are just the authors who jumped to mind quickly! What else do I read? I read the paper daily, plus my local weakly ... oops, that should be weekly, since weakly is more a comment on content or lack thereof. I read tons of magazines, because I'm living at home and my parents subscribe to 50+, so there they are, and I'll read what comes to hand. The deep dark guilty secret of my reading is - soap opera magazines. Again, I read them because they're there. I never watch soaps or read the magazines when I'm not home, but my mom watches 4 soaps, and if I'm downstairs (eating, reading mail/paper) then they are there and I'm stuck (changing the channel just gets me in trouble) . |
| What I'm Reading | Mar 21st. at 6:15:14 am EST |
| Lisa (Melbourne, Australia) | Age: 13 - Email |
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I read quite a lot, for entairtainment and knowledge. At the moment I'm reading a book called The Diviner's Son by John Marsdon. I've just started it but it seems really interesting. It's about a man who's wife and daughter were murdered, and they are trying to solve the case. I'm not sure what else is happening in the book at the moment. I'm also reading Altars Made Easy by Peg Streep, I'm not very far into it but it is quite interesting. At the moment it's just explaining about Sacred Space.It's a book for people of all religions and beliefs. One of the best Wiccan books I've read is The Idiots Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft by Denise Zimmermann and Katherine A. Gleason, it has alot of information and is really easy to understand. |
| Update On Current Reads | Mar 21st. at 6:25:35 am EST |
| clio (York PA) | Age: 30 - Email |
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I just finished "We Were Soldiers Once and Young" and have now picked up the Penguin Classics edition of Thucydides' "History of the Pelopennesian War". Blessings to all :) |
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