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techwizard
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Re: What Books have you purchased recently?
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October 28, 2013, 01:23:53 PM »
wow, for $200 that seems like a pretty good deal for so many books
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Zagnorch
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Some of you might be happy to know I've decided to broaden my literary horizons, and give this a shot:
[img width=325 height=474]http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y409/Zagnorch/LotR1_zps95319fc7.jpg?t=1383077812[/img]
[img width=438 height=434]http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y409/Zagnorch/LotR2_zpsddfab048.jpg?t=1382991534[/img]
Hey, for $1.99, why not at least try.
Wish me luck...
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Shadow Kisuragi
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techwizard fanboy.
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Zagnorch
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Quote from: Shadow Kisuragi on October 29, 2013, 03:40:11 PM
techwizard fanboy.
Ummm... this wouldn't have something to do with Techwizard's ava, would it? 'Cuz I really have no idea. Just goes to show how deeply my ignorance of
LotR
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techwizard
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Quote from: Zagnorch on October 29, 2013, 03:21:22 PM
Some of you might be happy to know I've decided to broaden my literary horizons, and give this a shot:
Hey, for $1.99, why not at least try.
Wish me luck...
this pleases me, i hope you enjoy them! if you have access to a copy, i highly recommend starting on The Hobbit. it isn't 100% required reading to get LotR, but it definitely enhances the experience and will make a lot of references in LotR clearer.
as for my avatar, that's Feanor, a character from The Silmarillion, which was another Tolkien story set in the same world as LotR but thousands of years earlier. it was published over 30 years after LotR, posthumously, and is definitely not required reading as it can be very dry if you aren't a big fanboy. it's written as a collection of myths, and reads like a history textbook, but is still great to me and a lot of fans.
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techwizard
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October 29, 2013, 11:47:46 PM »
also a lot of people i've seen who weren't ready to put their all into finishing the book always seem to stop within the first half of The Two Towers. unless you completely hate it, try to force yourself through that section because i hate seeing people leave it unfinished there when they didn't even get to some of the best parts.
the only other thing to note is that the style of the first half of Fellowship of the Ring is much different than the rest of the book, more childish in some ways. it gets darker and more epic after that.
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October 30, 2013, 07:29:48 AM »
You have my support Zagnorch, but be careful, I got married because she was named after a character in the books. Okay, maybe that wasn't the only reason but I use it when it suits me.
I was actually going to recommend you start with the Silmarillion but only as a joke because it's not at all a good place to start if you aren't already a fan and techwizard would have jumped all over me for doing that.
And remember, if while reading these books you start to think, "uhg, this stuff happens in every fantasy RPG, book and movie, and I think D&D does a bunch of this too" well, this is where they all got it from. Nearly all modern fantasy owes at least something to Lord of the Rings.
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Zagnorch
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October 30, 2013, 07:33:05 PM »
Quote from: nupoile on October 30, 2013, 07:29:48 AM
And remember, if while reading these books you start to think, "uhg, this stuff happens in every fantasy RPG, book and movie, and I think D&D does a bunch of this too" well, this is where they all got it from. Nearly all modern fantasy owes at least something to Lord of the Rings.
Oh, I am well aware of this fact. Only thing is,
Legend of Zelda
notwithstanding, I've never much cared the whole medieval/renfaire-set-swords-and-sorcery-mystic-quest genre that
LotR
practically single-handedly popularized. Hopefully, I can overcome this antipathy, and become engrossed in the journey...
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techwizard
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October 30, 2013, 08:39:59 PM »
Quote from: Zagnorch on October 30, 2013, 07:33:05 PM
Quote from: nupoile on October 30, 2013, 07:29:48 AM
And remember, if while reading these books you start to think, "uhg, this stuff happens in every fantasy RPG, book and movie, and I think D&D does a bunch of this too" well, this is where they all got it from. Nearly all modern fantasy owes at least something to Lord of the Rings.
Oh, I am well aware of this fact. Only thing is,
Legend of Zelda
notwithstanding, I've never much cared the whole medieval/renfaire-set-swords-and-sorcery-mystic-quest genre that
LotR
practically single-handedly popularized. Hopefully, I can overcome this antipathy, and become engrossed in the journey...
besides a few points, LotR is pretty mild on the actual "sorcery/magic" stuff, discounting the Ring itself. the most fantasy part of it is mainly in the creatures and races. The Hobbit is much more heavy handed on both counts, but it's also aimed at a younger audience so it's less about realism and more about a fun adventure than LotR.
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The Metamorphosing Leon
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Re: What Books have you purchased recently?
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It's mild but it still spawned it. I think people just kind of inferred Gandalf shooting fireballs and such.
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techwizard
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Quote from: The Infinite Leon on October 31, 2013, 10:57:39 AM
It's mild but it still spawned it. I think people just kind of inferred Gandalf shooting fireballs and such.
true, and gandalf is still magical in LotR, he's the main source of that sort of thing, besides some obscure things the elves and nazgul do.
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Re: What Books have you purchased recently?
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Just bought Dr. Sleep by Stephen King.
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techwizard
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i said i would resist buying more until i finished what i already own...well, today i bought 5 more used books! so my goal of reading everything i own is going swell. oh well, they were cheap paperbacks($9 for all 5)
The Aeneid by Virgil (translated by W.F. Jackson Knight)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (translated by Edith Grossman)
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides (translated by Philip Vellacott)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
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techwizard
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the local Friends of the Library booksale is this weekend...foreshadowing.
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SirPsycho
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[img width=700 height=525]http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g436/gpro83/20131113_214347_zps83c2a2e8.jpg[/img]
Had a pretty nice haul today, a couple of these are dupes but I like the style and this reprinted series will make it easier to track the chronology of the Drizzt stories. Gonna send the WoW book to a buddy though.
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