books

[juldea]

Currently reading: Trinity by Leon Uris.

A piece of historical fiction - I think - about Ireland in the 1900s. I haven't gotten a specific date from the book yet, but it's about a generation after the potato famine (someone who was a boy then is a grown man burying his father, now), so perhaps right around 1900? Ok then, anyway. It was slow for me to get into, because it was so filled with (1) vernacular, (2) Catholicism, and (3) history. For someone who plays around with the SCA, I am not very much a history person. Luckily londo has been around for the first 12 chapters so that I can stop every few minutes and ask him for clarification. Including, "Wait, is this serious? Were Catholics really treated like this?" I foresee this book being a struggle for me, just in having to wrap my brain around the incredible cruelty of the human race.

Speaking of londo, he was in need of a book to take to the emergency room too (that's why I started mine) and, in spite of the knowledge he had about the series, picked up Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World from me. MUAH. He will now be sucked in!! Good thing I have most of the books to lend him... (And, according to the official website, there should only be a total of 12 or 13 in the final series. However, this doesn't count the prequels. ARGH.) ;)

The problem is that, in watching him read it, now I want to restart that series too. :-/

Comments

[tpau]

i sugest Leon Uris' Exodus as well. good book. historu\ical fiction of palestine in 1948ish

[christhegeek.livejournal.com]

This is the Wheel that never eeeeeeends, yes it goes on and on my frieeeeends....
Still, the first five books are a lot of fun, even if the series starts to wind down afterwards. Munchie's middle name is Perrin because Perrin was both Blix and I's favorite character. Yes, we're geeks and we know it ;)

My mother's side of the family was actually heavily involved in the beginnings of the IRA for your above stated reasons, but immigrated to America when things started getting out of control (i.e. bloody sunday, etc) Because the quarter of my genetics that isn't French is fighting Irish, baby ;P

[christhegeek.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that is the funniest icon I have EVER seen!

[eustacia42.livejournal.com]

y'know, the weird thing about that series, for me, is that every time i start to read them again, i get this weird not-a-cold-but-sure-kinda-feels-like-one disease thingy which only goes away when i stop reading them. maybe i'm just on crack, but i've started to think the books have something to do with it, lol...

[laura47.livejournal.com]

oh wow, i was just telling zalice about that book, hadn't thought about it in years. I read it when my (Catholic) family and I headed over to Ireland. It is definitly early 1900s, as it is in the time period leading up to the Easter Rebellion (1916) and Civil War (1921).

The sequel is much less good.

I remember that book very fondly.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

*nods* I'll give it a check if I like this one!

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that was Munchie's middle name! It makes me happy, no worries... I'm just as geeky. ;)

See above re: lack of history knowledge... I know that Bloody Sunday is an event that happened in that whole struggle, but that's about all I know. I wonder if I'll learn more from this book.

A Game of Thrones

[tragicstory.livejournal.com]

Having read EVERYTHING Jordan has written (even the Connan stuff) I hands down recommend George R R Martin's Series A song of Ice and Fire. By far the best fantasy book I have read in ages(including the last 2 books by Jordan)and I have bought over 5 copies to give to friends because it is THAT GOOD (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553573403/qid=1115257910/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-4374286-0250467?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)

[crimson5.livejournal.com]

Jordan is the only author I've ever seen that spends an entire 900 page book setting the stage for the rest of the series. Not alot actually happened in Crossroads, but it sets up all the major plot elements for conclusion. I don't think any other author in the world could have gotten away with that.....

Re: A Game of Thrones

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Already read it and waiting in anticipation for the next one to come out!! ;)

[idonotlikepeas]

I gave up on Jordan after Lord of Chaos, The Book In Which Absolutely Nothing Happens. I might get back around to him someday, if I feel like it, but in the meantime I could read nine hundred pages of something else and get more enjoyment out of it. ;)

[londo.livejournal.com]

Hey, man. You don't hear anyone talking about Two Towers like that, do you?

[idonotlikepeas]

Yes. Yes, I do.

(Tolkien also has an excuse, since he never intended for the Lord of the Rings to be three seperate books to begin with.) ;)

[londo.livejournal.com]

I believe the appropriate term for me to use here is 'pwned.' Man... I'm awed by the succinctness of that summary. Not sure if I'm glad or not that I didn't see it before reading the book myself.