anime_scholar>> check the first page. Knerd has a list of where everyone's post is. Just click the spoiler, find your name, and click it. It should direct you to your post :3
i would believe legolas would be in reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy. He's a elf that's all I can remember and it looks to be misspelled if it is in reference to that.
I'm on book 80 now! Officially over halfway done with my goal! With close to six months left, right on track!! :glows with happiness:
I'm also halfway through my manga/comic list.
I need to get in here more to talk, my classes have been consuming all my time. @_@
I will buy about 3 books at a time and read those xD
I never know what books i'm going to have or what order I'm going to read them in.
If you start making lists reading become more like a chore than an enjoyment.
Thank god, I finally finished Venetia Kelly's Travelling Show. I started writing a little review on Shelfari for it, but didn't really finish it since I don't like spending so much time on something I didn't like. D= Maybe I'll get back to it tomorrow.
Here t'is:
SPOILERX
When I closed the back cover of this book, I surprised myself by saying, aloud to no one but myself: "I finally finished this shitty book," and felt rather pleased.
I haven't read Frank Delany's other books, and after reading this one I think I can be sure in saying that he is the kind of person who loves telling stories, but he doesn't share the same love of plots and crafting a piece of work
The first 70 pages are backstory, and the book should have started at a very specific event just after -- even the book jacket makes it seem that that is where the novel starts. The author also doesn't care if he jumps 50 years and back in one paragraph, which he does often. He also recaps everything that has happened so far in the middle of the book, as if your fingers are broken and you couldn't review it yourself, if so inclined.
I also feel that the ending of the book trailed off into nothing because the author *ran out* of story. That made me very sad, even though I was glad the book was almost over. I think the book could have done very well as a sweeping epic, 800 page sort of book, or as a shorter, 300 page book. In general length and otherwise, to keep this short, it was just an awkward read.
There were two things I *did* like about this book. I liked how it was set against the backdrop of an election, though I don't think that was used to its fullest potential, and I liked Venetia Kelly's relationship with her ventriloquist dummy.
I just started The Great Perhaps, which is brilliant so far. The first chapter is a perfect example of how you *should* tie in a real life/world event with a piece of fiction. Just effing great.
lol, thanks Bulby XD I think I'll finish them tomorrow because I got some stuff I have to cut and paint :d
EDIT: Knerd, what's a legolas? o.o a ghost or something like that? o.o
Like AishaLeigh said, Legolas is a character from The Lord of the Rings. :yes:
He is one of the Wood-Elves from Mirkwood. In one part of The Fellowship of the Ring, he is stuck on a very snowy and stormy mountaintop with the other characters, but he is barely affected by it. While the others are afraid of freezing to death, he wears light boots and can walk over the snow without making a dent in it. Therefore, he leaves no footprints behind him.
It's been a while since I last posted, so I figure it's time for a status report, haha.
I think last I posted, I'd finished 2 books, but I'm up to 6 now. The most recent 4 were:
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
I've got 7 other books in progress too, which are:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Time Paradox by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd
Shyness by Philip Zimbardo
The Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Existentialism edited by Walter Kaufmann
Maia by Richard Adams
Man, I really want to go read now. Too bad I've got homework to do. ):
@Bulbasaur: I only read this many because work is so dull. I usually finish a book per shift. Plus a manga or two. xD I guess I just read fast as well. ^_^ I consume books like most people watch TV. For game systems I'd go for the PS3, I've had a DS since the lite came out and I only got four games for it recently (and they're all Final Fantasy). I had other games but they got boring pretty fast. Also, tattoo and books are always top priority. ^_^
@Lavinia: Oh! Oh! Me, me! xD Let's see, I'm still working my way through Sex Lives of the Roman Emperors, technically I'm still reading Master by Collette Gale (but that's not a book I like to bring with me), I'm working on the Absolute Sandman Vol1 - it's comic but it's huge - and on top of that I'm reading both the Xanth (Piers Anthony) and Noble Dead (Barb & JC Hendee) series'. So yeah... I have a problem with that. XD
I'm reading, like, three different books right now. I'm not particularly interested in any of them at the moment, but Amazon is SLOW AS SH!T in shipping. Got 4 GOOD ones on the way ;)
@Lavinia: Haha, your username confused me for a minute. Yes, I thought the book was quite good, but I'm a devoted fan of Le Guin, so I love pretty much everything she does. Lavinia is based on the Aeneid, but told from the point of view of Aenias' second wife; it has Le Guin's typical mellow and thoughtful pacing, but if you don't mind that, I would recommend it. Sometimes re-tellings from a woman's point of view bother me, because they're not very realistic or accurate, but I thought Le Guin did a fantastic job on that front.
Oh and I'm almost always reading more than one book at a time. As I mentioned above, I'm currently reading 7 books right now, some more actively than others. I've been working on a couple of them for several years now (namely Existentialism, since it's a collection of essays, so it's easy to pick up and drop again.)
