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[eruvadhril]

AUGH LOST WOW! We saw the first three episodes last night *pets digital reciever box thingamagig*. Locke is creepy. Sawyer is a JACKASS and I HATE HIM and they should totally eat him first. Why is it that, at the end of the third episode, there was happy music for everyone until we got a shot of Locke's face, and then HE got Shelob's Tunnel music? I like Locke. I also like Charlie and Sayid and Hurley.
Pregnant Australian Woman sounds American half the time.
Shannon should be killed and eaten second.
How long before we meet Crazy Danielle?
Hey, House is on tonight! Yay.
I want to read something new. Suggestions, anyone?

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Suggestions, anyone? BUT OF COURSE!

[randomcashew.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what you have and haven't read. Here's a list, go down it as you please (and don't forget the value of rereading):

Silmarillion -- JRRT
The Book of Lost Tales -- JRRT
The Lays of Beleriand -- JRRT
King Lear -- William Shakespeare (my "Billy")
Guards, Guards! -- Terry Pratchett
Thief of Time -- Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms -- Terry Pratchett
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [trilogy] -- Douglas Adams
Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury
1984 -- George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies -- William Golding
A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle
Contact -- Carl Sagan
Mystery of the Blue Train -- Agatha Christie [alt. title: Murder on the Orient Express, same book]
And Then There Were None -- Agatha Christie [alt. title: Ten Little Indians]
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass -- Lewis Carroll
The Magician's Nephew -- C. S. Lewis -- then read the Narnia Series
The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger

If you're really on the Tolkien Trail, and you've read the ones above, go for the official biography
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography -- Humphrey Carpenter
He got unrestricted access to Tolkien's papers. But I preferred
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century -- Tom Shippey
or even
The Road to Middle-Earth -- Tom Shippey

Humphrey Carpenter ALSO wrote a FANTASTIC biography of Tolkien's reading/writing club, The Inklings, which made me appreciate Tolkien's social life more.
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends -- Humphrey Carpenter

Finally, the QUENYA LEXICON in
The Lost Road and Other Writings -- JRRT

And even more about Beren, Luthien, and Third Age people
The Book of Lost Tales II -- JRRT
*note: volume I is a waste.

Thusly, I faithfully submit my recommendations,
Becka

Re: Suggestions, anyone? BUT OF COURSE!

[randomcashew.livejournal.com]

Note: Lost Tales at the top should read 'Unfinished Tales'. It's much better, especially the notes at the end -- stuff about Queen Beruthiel's Cats, Grima's story (!), and the five istari.

Re: Suggestions, anyone? BUT OF COURSE!

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

... Wow. I've gotta get to the library. I think that I've read about... a third of that list.

[nazgul-number-7.livejournal.com]

Yikes... I don't know what else to recommend. Becka pretty much covered totally everything in her list. I second the Terry Pratchett and Madeleine L'Engle books, but I also think you should read "Richard III" by Shakespeare (bearing in mind, of course, that Richard really wasn't that villanous).

Re: Suggestions, anyone? BUT OF COURSE!

[randomcashew.livejournal.com]

A shroe, a shroe, my dinkgom for a shroe...

Re: Suggestions, anyone? BUT OF COURSE!

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

What is that? Richard III for the Dyslexic?

Re: Suggestions, anyone? BUT OF COURSE!

[randomcashew.livejournal.com]

Ring Kichard the Thrid.
From a Python Sketch.
The man wrote only in Anagrams.

But Ring Kichard the Thrid was a spoonerism. It was a point of heated discussion.

Re: Suggestions, anyone? BUT OF COURSE!

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a valid point.

[uncommontheif.livejournal.com]

no sawyer grows on you trust me, but like sayid *squeels!*
Yeah its good good and goodo! ^^ read the bell jar! YOU MUST READ IT!

[uncommontheif.livejournal.com]

*tries to hipnotise and ends up sending self to slepp*
"I uh and Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

Locke = yes very creepy, watch him carefully cause he's interesting...
Sawyer = jackass. But he has the best one liners apart from Charlie and (occasionally) Hurley
Sayid = awesome
Pregnant Australian Woman = Claire. I ship Charlie Claire, watch out for ths shippiness as the series continues
Shannon = biatch! Wait till episode four, Walkabout, she's a hell bitch to my poor Charlie *pets Charlie*
Crazy Danielle is first met in episode 9, Solitary which is a Sayid backstory episode.

Any more comments or queries, send me an email for I am the Lost queen!