Bookends discussion

Please tell us your favorite book.

I think mine would have to be Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult. That is my favorite that I have read recently. I love so many, but this is definately one I would recommend.

too many to mention on here :) but i do love Kristen Britain, as you already know Maeve

Divergent and the Hunger Games

Maeve wrote: "Go Aragorn! (Me and my friends are always arguing over whether Aragorn or Legolas is better. The answer is pretty obvious I think. Aragorn!))"

Of course Aragorn is better!!

my fave books are percy jackson and artemis fowl.

i admit in the films i find him hotter (I know boo! i have a thing for orland bloom) but in the books i totally prefer Aragorn

Divergent or HUNGER GAMES!

i only started the 1st page of LOTR before i gave up on it.eugh! its so....boring.

Dhriti wrote: "i only started the 1st page of LOTR before i gave up on it.eugh! its so....boring."

it took me a while to really get into the first book but once i had gotten past Brie I totally got into it!

i may have spelt it wrong, but the place/town in the first book where they are supposed to meet gandalf but he doesn't show

my friend is still trying to make me read it...*sigh*

I don't have a fav book theirs to many!

what?

oh right yeah, sorry i have problems with spelling

LOTR, ASOIAF, Malazan book of the fallen getting there, and Illiad/Odyssey

that one is good, hamlet is some neat half-mad man :)

Razmatus wrote: "LOTR, ASOIAF, Malazan book of the fallen getting there, and Illiad/Odyssey"

Homer is good...but Ovid is better! His Metamorphosis is way better than either the Illiad or the Odyssey!

well, Illiad and Odyssey were "only" two myths after all, while Metamorphoses encompass all legends from beginning of times till Caesar, I believe... so the match wouldnt be too fair, would it, lol

lol you wouldnt believe me how I got to read Oresteia :D
a US band called Virgin Steele made a rock/metal opera based on it, called The House of Atreus, really a great rendition of the piece as I found out again after reading the thing

@maeve: hamlet would surely make for a great doom metal singer LOL

Maeve *Mord Sith* wrote: "Ovid bores me. Homer on the other hand, well, the Blind Bard cannot be beat. I snored all throughout Meatmorphisis. My personal favorite is Sun Tzu."

I intend to read Sun Tzu sometime... I am struggling to find the edition I want in printed edition though... all versions of Art of War I am finding seem to be with commentaries aimed at managers and other bs... I want the old Gilles version with his elaborate and clever commentaries :P

I love way too many books to mention in one thread, but I was a huge fan of "Photographing Fairies." Very whimsical!

well, in all honesty my favourite piece of literature right now is actually The Shipwrecked Sailor which is a Middle Egyptian story that I'm translating for my hieroglyphs exam on tuesday!

Maeve *Mord Sith* wrote: "Razmatus wrote: "Maeve *Mord Sith* wrote: "Ovid bores me. Homer on the other hand, well, the Blind Bard cannot be beat. I snored all throughout Meatmorphisis. My personal favorite is Sun Tzu."

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those arent precisely explanations, those are more of further explorations, and examples :)

Becky wrote: "well, in all honesty my favourite piece of literature right now is actually The Shipwrecked Sailor which is a Middle Egyptian story that I'm translating for my hieroglyphs exam on tuesday!"

havent read much of historical fiction on ancient egypt, but I gotta admit they had interesting pantheon of gods :P

yeah they did! i've read quite a lot of ancient egyptian stuff, most of it is very, very bizzar! for example, the shipwrecked sailor comes up against a giant serpent who's beard was longer then 20 cubits (a cubit is about the length of an average man's forearm) whose body was gold and whose hair and eyebrows were turquoise...

I liked the part of a PC game called Titan Quest set in ancient egypt - especially the giant scarab :)))

bast? who the hell is bast?

I believe it was the cat goddess?

that would be Baset then, believe me i do Egyptology at University

checked internet... it says it has different spellings into english, bast, bastet, among others :)

baset is the egyptian

as opposed to a world leading egyptologist who specialises in ancient egyptian, yeah i know who i believe more

and im an egyptology student specialising in the language and texts, i know how to pronounce things as do my lecturers all of whom are published specialists

my american lecturer say Baset, as does the german one, the sicilian one, the canadian, all of them say Baset

whatever, not even worth it

i care so much

ok lets not argue about the spelling we all know what is meant so that important, right :)?

bast is my favourite egyptian goddess too:)

I dunno i think when it comes down to it im gonna chose Sehkmet or Hathor

I dont know that much about their powers, but I liked both the goddess who brough life-giving floods on Nile, and then Anubis cos he is so death/black metal dude like :D

oh i like maat too, and thoth is my favourite god (djehuty in ancient egyptian). if you are going for the whole dead thing, osiris would be better seeing as he is the god of the dead, and he is actually dead as well!
river goddess = Anuket

but Anubis has that cool mask and that curved sword I think :D

Maeve *Mord Sith* wrote: "this is baset
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awww, I bet he would like to pee on a real pyramid? :D

thats not a mask, its his head. the egyptians drew the gods like that to get across the feeling of something different to themselves, of non-humanness

yea, gotcha :)

did the egyptians have something like an equivalent to greek/roman hound of the underworld? something like a beast guarding the entrance to the world of the dead

well, Anubis led you through your journey to the afterlife and then your heart was weighed and if you failed this test your heart was eaten by a kind of half dog half crocodile thing, whose name i can't think of right now, but no there wasn't really a guardian

then Hades might have been a tad cooler cos of his hound :D

i'd take "the devourer of souls" any day

anyone read "the red pyramid"?