This book is being made into a movie. I typically don''t enjoy books that are made into movies, because movies so often seem to lack the ability to develop characters like a good book; I hope this is an exception.
I should try that Monnie!!! Several years ago (before the Peter Jackson set of movies came out) I tried to read The Hobbit and couldn''t get into it. I put it down and finally months later was so irritated that I took it with me on a plane which forced me to read it for lack of having anything else to do. Once I got into it, it was great. However, I tend to glaze over when there are pages and pages of intricate descriptions of things. I think that''s why it''s taking me so long to get through the LOTR. I go through phases of not being able to put it down, and then leave it for a year at a time! I''m somewhere in the middle of The Two Towers. I will have to get DH to read it to me.Date: 12/24/2007 2:03:10 AM
Author: monarch64
FG, I feel that the only way to get through any J.R.R. Tolkien book is by having someone read it to you, hee hee. My mother read us his works when my brother and I were maybe 4 and 8, and on...and even then I was scared beyond belief. I digress..I wanted to tell you to have your DH read it to you if possible, JRRT''s works are so much better when they''re sort of fed to you in chapters! Sometimes DH and I read to each other, there is something so comforting and just ''nice'' about being read to even when you''re a grown-up!Date: 12/24/2007 12:57:52 AM
Author: FireGoddess
At some point I should finish reading ''Lord of the Rings.'' I''ve had a bookmark halfway through that thing for YEARS.
Date: 12/23/2007 7:53:55 PM
Stephen King is my favorite. But the Dark Tower series is one of the best stories ever written. Ever. I hope you girls have read it.
Yeah, they were good! The author uses "Sophie Kinsella" as a pseudonym; her real name is Madeline Wickham (or something like that). She wrote a few books in her own name but I haven''t read any yet.
Oops, I knew that. I''ve read Emily Giffin''s books but for some reason I had the "Shopaholic" series in my head at the time. It''s the author of the Shopaholic books that uses a pseudonym.
I read "The Lovely Bones" and "Lucky" last year around this time and like them both. They''re making a movie of "The Lovely Bones"...I forget who''s supposed to be starring in it.
Same here! I just kinda lost interest in it. The whole "message" was cool, but it lost something in the translation. I heard the author was on Oprah not too long ago- would''ve like to have seen it, just to learn about what she''s up to now.
dark tower rocks.Date: 12/24/2007 6:43:53 PM
Author: Fancy605
Date: 12/23/2007 7:53:55 PM
Stephen King is my favorite. But the Dark Tower series is one of the best stories ever written. Ever. I hope you girls have read it.
Oh, I very much enjoyed the Dark Tower series.
It seems like I am always reading some type of kiddie lit (to preview it for my students) right now I am reading something called Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (I can't recall the author right off hand)
As far as big kid books go, right now I am working on The Godfather. I am hoping that the book shaped present under my tree is I am America and You can Too by Stephen Colbert. If so, that will be the next thing I read.
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