That is one of the most profound, beautiful things I’ve ever read! It’s so good to know you’re reading it! Good luck with it, not only is it big, it’ll take a while before you can actually say you’re reading it fluently, so to speak, it’s a tough tough read the darn thing. Tell me when you read the tale of the Grand Inquisitor. It was the first thing I read from the Brothers Karamazov, and what made me buy the whole book and read it (I remember being surprised the book wasn’t a “book of short stories”, and that the Grand Inquisitor was one of the only tales in the whole book).
Bleh, I have to read about 50 pages/week in each of my engineering textbooks(I have 3). Most of the time the topics are interesting and I absorb the information quickly, but this week’s chapter in Digital Fun. was so bloody boring that I found myself just dragging through each page, actually looking forward to doing the chapter problems(just to break up the monotony). Oh well, at least it’s behind me now, I can finally move on to the other books(oh joy!! ).
Currently reading the Silmarillion again, by Tolkien.
I like this book much more than The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, because the story has just more interesting aspects for me and it takes place in such a vast world.
Tell me how both of those turn out. I’m sitting with a copy of The Brothers K right above me, but I abandoned it because I need to focus on schoolwork now…
Picked up EWLD again. I can’t say that I care much for LaBerge’s writing style… he strikes me as arrogant, but there’s always something for a lucid dreamer to learn in that book.
I just got a new book for my class today.
One of the 12 or so we read over the semester.
It is called “Mythology” by Edith Hamilton.
I am looking forward to this book, it seems to be a good one.
Have you noticed that the way that Iain Banks writes is very dreamlike? His descriptions of surroundings are like dreamlandscapes: immense and bizarre.
When I searched the internet on ‘Iain Banks’ and ‘LD’ I wasn’t disappointed to find this quote of his: "Most of my dreams are lucid, and have been since I was a very small child " (see https://www.literaturefestival.co.uk/2004/banks.html)
Isn’t that amazing? Here’s a man who’s entire body of work is heavily influenced by LDreaming!
You should read his book ‘The Bridge’, which is about a guy’s continuous dreaming while in a coma…
finished Sister of my Heart, which was reading for school, but i fell in love with the book instantly.
If you like big adventures and stuff it’s not the book for you, it’s just a book about life, but it’s fantastic, and (i won’t give anything away), just when i thought i couldn’t be more pleased, [spoiler] The twist at the end was so awesome, a real shocker (ps: thought this required spoiler tags so that it doesn’t tempt people to just read the end, they wouldn’t understand the twist anyway!)[/spoiler]
Good luck with it, not only is it big, it’ll take a while before you can actually say you’re reading it fluently, so to speak, it’s a tough tough read the darn thing. Tell me when you read the tale of the Grand Inquisitor. It was the first thing I read from the Brothers Karamazov, and what made me buy the whole book and read it (I remember being surprised the book wasn’t a “book of short stories”, and that the Grand Inquisitor was one of the only tales in the whole book).
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(ps: thought this required spoiler tags so that it doesn’t tempt people to just read the end, they wouldn’t understand the twist anyway!)[/spoiler]
