His Dark Materials discussion

Has anyone read this book?
I've been reading alot of Norse-mythology lately and this is a really cool book =D

I want to read the poetic edda and prose edda too. they look interesting.

I have sooooo many books I want to read >.>>.>.>>.>>>...>.>>>.>>.>>>>..>>

Dante's inferno, divine comedy
Paradise lost
The illiad
romance of the 3 kingdoms
GOTTA FINISH WATER MARGIN
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I love to read =D

haven't read it...what is it about?

reading is tha booomb.

it was written by some anglo-saxon dude in the 8th century. it's an epic poem about this scandanavian warrior who goes to this hall in denmark that's having alot of trouble with this big monster dude named Grendel who keeps killing people to kill Grendel. the he kills'em and everyone's like wooo! and stuff and then he has to go kill Grendel's mother who's all pissed off. so he kills her too and becomes king later and like 50 years later or somethin' this dragon comes to his kingdom and he goes out and fights it and he kills it, but it ends up killing him too.

pretty famous story. they made a few movies about it, but they changed a bunch of stuff from the poem that I don't like. =(

o.o

ivy saw:
the first few sentences...then KILLINGKILLINGKILLINGKILLING.

hehe jk. sounds interesting...

sounds... cool, but not quite something i'd like... maybe i'll give it a try wen i get the chance

xD yea it's pretty violent. but most norse tales are. =P

i dont mind violent...

yea me neither. not too much though. if it's like alot alot and nothing but violence with no story, it's SOOo boring..

I liek it when it's used sparingly ya know?

though the book is about a norse warrior who fights monsters, so you're gonna have it pretty violent!

*grins* i dont mind violent, so long as theres a plot. and gore makes me shiver and go "eww, gross" othr than that though, no probs here ^^