Book Bucket list

[Gusington]

I don't have any hair to have color. I guess if I I let what is left grow it would be brown with bald highlights.

[Martok]

Poe, however, Poe is a GENIUS!  My favorite story is, "The Cask Of Amontillado".  If you've not read it, you should find it and do so.  NOW!

Yep, that's my favorite Poe story as well.  I also have a great affection for "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Masque of the Red Death", but "Amontillado" definitely tops my list. 

I don't have any hair to have color. I guess if I I let what is left grow it would be brown with bald highlights.

Same, except it would be a dark blonde. 

Hey, we should form a club!  Then we could get jackets. 




EDIT:  What on earth is it with me always leaving intransitive verbs out of my damn sentences??! 

[Gusington]

Would the jackets have hair?

[bob48]

Would the jackets have hair?

No - only the shirts  :)

[Martok]

Would the jackets have hair?

Only on Thursdays and every other waning gibbous. 

[Gusington]

That's a lot more than I have now.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

No offense 'phro, but I have absolutely no desire to service you guys...

And we have no desire to be serviced by you.  No offense ;-)

None taken.  :P 

I haven't read War And Peace, but I did read the first eight Wheel Of Time books.  That's a hundred and forty seven years I will never get back.

Wuss!  You quit just when it was getting good!  ;D   


Seriously, though, I don't blame you.  The 7th-10th books are where the series really slows down, where most folks say "screw it" and give up...and the 8th and 9th books (Path of Daggers and Winter's Heart) are especially bad in this regard. 

I'm personally glad I pushed through them so I could get to Knife of Dreams (book 11), as things finally pick up again (and in a major way) -- it's like Jordan knew he didn't have that much longer to live, and so did his level best to start wrapping up a bunch of the sub-plots -- but I definitely can't fault anyone who's unable to do so.

Same here. I finished all of them. I was very disappointed with the late middle books. The ending was a bit of a cop-out too.

[MetalDog]

I don't remember at what book and who they chose to do it, but, Jordan died and another writer was called in to complete the series.  It's my understanding that at that point, the books gathered momementum and were finished fairly quickly.

[Martok]

I don't remember at what book and who they chose to do it, but, Jordan died and another writer was called in to complete the series. 

Jordan died after the eleventh book Knife of Dreams was published.  Brandon Sanderson (author of the Mistborn novels I enjoy so much) was hand-picked by Jordan's widow to finish out the series. 

It's my understanding that at that point, the books gathered momementum and were finished fairly quickly.

That's my impression as well.  (I myself wouldn't know, as I'm determined to wait for the final book, A Memory of Light, to be released in paperback next year before I purchase the last three novels.)  However, Jordan himself really picked up the pace in Knife of Dreams; from what I understand, Sanderson's merely increased that pacing by another notch or two. 

[MetalDog]

How about The Illiad and The Odyssey?  Have we all read those?

[Bison]

Not in Greek.

[Barthheart]

How about The Illiad and The Odyssey?  Have we all read those?

Definitely on my list. I started the Illiad when I was a kid and couldn't get too far and just never got back to them.

[Martok]

How about The Illiad and The Odyssey?  Have we all read those?

"Yes" to The Odyssey, "not yet" to The Illiad. 

[MetalDog]

Before any of you go back to them, it wouldn't hurt to peruse Bulfinch's Mythology first.  Give yourself a refresher.

[bob48]

How about The Illiad and The Odyssey?  Have we all read those?

Yep - got copies here. Both worth reading, although I enjoyed the Odyssey more than Illiad.