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Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves Soundtrack
Well i've been here for about a day now. Seems to be a pretty nice site in my opinion. That hockey thread took off like a madman. Very cool though that there are that many hockey fans floating around. Didn't find too many threads on books though. Gotta remedy that. A few people have read/heard of Homer's works so that's a start.
I figure this would be a good time to mention some of the books i've read:
Lord of the Rings(5 times through High School)
The Hobbit
The Silmarillion
The Wheel Of Time Series(I stopped at 5 back in december on my third romp through)
The Shadow Wars
The Sword Of Truth(Only the first three)
The Sword Of Shannara
The Liveship Traders Trilogy
The Road Less Travelled(3 times)
Dracula
Moby Dick
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Aeneid
The Argonautika
MacBeth
Currently reading Antony And Cleopatra
Most of them above liveship traders i read during high school. Major fantasy fan back then. As you can see by MacBeth and Antony And Cleopatra there i'm just starting to read shakespeare again.
One of my new year's resolutions was to read throughout the year on a sort of timeline. I was about to read beowulf before Odyssey but decided i may want to do this again next year and didn't want to just reread the same things over again. But all of those greek pieces were all along the same timeline(along with a slew of unmentioned tragedies) ending with The Aeneid which very conveniently transferred me into the roman era. I read a little cicero but got a little bored and ordered Antony And Cleopatra from the library. MacBeth got here first so i went ahead and read it in a day and so after this will be Julius Ceasar.
From there i plan to move ahead a few centuries to read some Chaucer. Then skip ahead some more and begin with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and well, read a TON of the classics from Twain, Charles Dickens, and the like.
After them, which i hope will be around august, i'll read 3 or 4 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes(Hound Of The Baskervilles for one) novels.
Then starting around the time Fall Quarter 2004 starts(sometime late september) i will, for the first time in 4 years, reread lord of the rings again. That will bring me to the 1950's.
Haven't really thought of what i'd read to end the year with something released around 2000 but i may just pick up at book 6 of the wheel of time series which was around 1994 or so.
Anyways that's my comment on books for today.
Be At Peace
Dan
2003 Final CD Count: 57 New CD's Made
2004 Year To Date CD Count: 34 New CD's Made
Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves Soundtrack
Well i've been here for about a day now. Seems to be a pretty nice site in my opinion. That hockey thread took off like a madman. Very cool though that there are that many hockey fans floating around. Didn't find too many threads on books though. Gotta remedy that. A few people have read/heard of Homer's works so that's a start.
I figure this would be a good time to mention some of the books i've read:
Lord of the Rings(5 times through High School)
The Hobbit
The Silmarillion
The Wheel Of Time Series(I stopped at 5 back in december on my third romp through)
The Shadow Wars
The Sword Of Truth(Only the first three)
The Sword Of Shannara
The Liveship Traders Trilogy
The Road Less Travelled(3 times)
Dracula
Moby Dick
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Aeneid
The Argonautika
MacBeth
Currently reading Antony And Cleopatra
Most of them above liveship traders i read during high school. Major fantasy fan back then. As you can see by MacBeth and Antony And Cleopatra there i'm just starting to read shakespeare again.
One of my new year's resolutions was to read throughout the year on a sort of timeline. I was about to read beowulf before Odyssey but decided i may want to do this again next year and didn't want to just reread the same things over again. But all of those greek pieces were all along the same timeline(along with a slew of unmentioned tragedies) ending with The Aeneid which very conveniently transferred me into the roman era. I read a little cicero but got a little bored and ordered Antony And Cleopatra from the library. MacBeth got here first so i went ahead and read it in a day and so after this will be Julius Ceasar.
From there i plan to move ahead a few centuries to read some Chaucer. Then skip ahead some more and begin with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and well, read a TON of the classics from Twain, Charles Dickens, and the like.
After them, which i hope will be around august, i'll read 3 or 4 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes(Hound Of The Baskervilles for one) novels.
Then starting around the time Fall Quarter 2004 starts(sometime late september) i will, for the first time in 4 years, reread lord of the rings again. That will bring me to the 1950's.
Haven't really thought of what i'd read to end the year with something released around 2000 but i may just pick up at book 6 of the wheel of time series which was around 1994 or so.
Anyways that's my comment on books for today.
Be At Peace
Dan
2003 Final CD Count: 57 New CD's Made
2004 Year To Date CD Count: 34 New CD's Made
ravgonfly:
that's a lot of books...more power to you. Happy reading!
recordandplay:
Welcome to the site - are you at OSU? 