And I should care that you don't get out much, why, exactly?

If I read Bill O'Reilly's newest book, will your head explode?

I have the Robin Wood tarot and Tarot Made Simple. Didn't even realise Robin was a she :redface:

Any good? I love Norse mythology

I have just started Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla.
Am in the unheard of situation of having books to spare, rather than rereading the ones I have.

To read-
The Island - Victoria Hislop
The Python Years - (diaries) Michael Palin
I Can't Stay Long - Laurie Lee
Desert Royals - Jean P Sasson (trashy, but was part of a 3 book deal)

and a couple more I picked up by habit in the charity shop but can't even remember.

Feel like a bulimic at an all you can eat buffet - happy, but slightly overwhelmed :)

i'm actually reading Atlas Shrugged.....

ha ha ha

"actually" - as if this is a crazy idea

no, more like, i always hear people talking about it on here, so i figured i'd read it. seems like most of you have read it.

What a bunch of egg-heads! Just kidding.

The Fountainhead adaptation (screenplay by Ayn Rand) is pretty cool. Starring Gary Cooper.

If by "cool" you mean "extremely boring," then I'm right there with you.;)

I'll be the first to admit: there are no car chase scenes, and only one explosion.

LJ, why...why are you reading Ayn Rand?

why ask why?
 

:borg:

curiosity? plus, i like to choose longer books ( audible dot com ) to listen to on my commute. more bang for your buck, what? i'm halfway through the first half of the first volume. i guess i like it so far. it's not putting me to sleep like moby dick did.

In a word, no.

It's not that it's a terribly bad book, but it's a rather dry and scholarly account of the myths, doesn't relate them in full, but does give an interesting perspective on how the myths are and were expressed in some other cultural practices of the region.

I liked this edition, but any version of the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda should do for a start.

Not a bad book. I was talking about Rand in another thread- I'm no great fan, but she does have some interesting points. I read a lot of work by people that I find severely offensive- she's one of them. But she does have her good moments. And for the people who found it boring? How? There were (if I remember correctly) three different ways to read that one narrative. That's genius. She's just not a genius I like. So Lj be aware.......there's more than the obvious within those pages.

I'll agree it's interesting... but there's one chapter about 3/4ths of the way through that you can just skip. You don't need it. You'll know it when you get there. It's nothing but one long speech and there's nothing new said in it, so just save yourself the time and flip ahead to the next chapter where stuff starts happening again.

i'm listening to it on mp3, so i can kind of fade out when it gets redundant. I'm finding it a bit over acted, and unnaturally repetetive in dialogue. her repeated use of the phrases "no one can blame us" and "I can't be responsible for unexpected events" by the 'bad guy socialists' is a bit... unbelievable?