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Old 03-02-2007, 05:23 PM   #721
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I want the new Potter book.
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Old 03-02-2007, 05:33 PM   #722
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well, you're just going to have to wait, like all the rest of us.

(drums fingers impatiently)
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Old 03-02-2007, 05:34 PM   #723
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or, you could be a total PotterNerd, and buy the book that's come out . . . about what's going to be in the book!
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Old 03-02-2007, 05:39 PM   #724
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I thought it was out already... when then?
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Old 03-02-2007, 08:16 PM   #725
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Started the Heimskringla from the beginning again. This time a published (as opposed to downloaded) version. Has more copious footnotes and is a bit easier to follow - although I miss some of the terser language from the previous translation.

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Old 03-02-2007, 08:54 PM   #726
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Old 03-02-2007, 10:37 PM   #727
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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," Book 7, is slated to be released July 21.
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Old 03-03-2007, 08:36 PM   #728
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Cloud, your name wouldn't be Miranda Priestly now, hmmmmm?

(I am currently reading The Devil Wears Prada.)
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Old 03-04-2007, 12:29 AM   #729
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i am reading "the elegant universe" by brian greene.
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Old 03-04-2007, 02:35 AM   #730
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I'm re-reading "The Hobbit" - can't wait for them to make a movie!
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Old 03-04-2007, 07:39 AM   #731
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A movie? Of The Hobbit? Never happen. Next you're going to tell me somebody's going to film The Lord of the Rings.
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Old 03-04-2007, 01:49 PM   #732
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Unfortunately, Peter Jackson isn't doing The Hobbit. There's a big money brouhaha between him and New Line. And New Line's license is about to expire, so they may try to rush it through.
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Old 03-04-2007, 02:24 PM   #733
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clark. Got a hardback copy for $5 at Half Price Books, and so far it's enjoyable. The style of writing is kind of mock-Dickens, so it doesn't exactly let you get lost in the story, but it definitely succeeds at being amusing.
The first chapter hooked me, then a lot of the middle bored me. It's a heck of a project to read through!

I thought it was more faux-Austen than mock-Dickens ... overblown comedy of manners style and all, I loved the footnotes.

There are a lot of interesting little bits in this book, it's just unfortunately inconsistent.
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Old 03-04-2007, 06:38 PM   #734
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I just finished A Feast for Crows. now i have to wait for book 5.. i hate that shit.

I read Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn last summer whilst on vacation. Now i've got the other 3 books, and have just started Grass for His Pillow.

Pretty cool.
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Old 03-04-2007, 09:55 PM   #735
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I'm about to start another reread of the Song of Ice and Fire series in anticipation of book 5, jim. Best series ever written in my opinion.

As of right now, though, I'm reading Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley.
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