What book are you reading now?

Ska wrote:I can't believe myself sometimes, but for as big of a Harry Potter fan I am, I don't own the whole set of books. I was 9 when the first one was released

Debaser77 wrote:
It definitely looks like Ebert is not long for this world. I'll be inconsoleable when he passes. Recent controversies aside, the man set the gold standard for film criticism.

On to book 4 of WoT: The Shadow Rising....


whose brilliant idea was it to re-read the series???

Joshua wrote:

Debaser77 wrote:
It definitely looks like Ebert is not long for this world. I'll be inconsoleable when he passes. Recent controversies aside, the man set the gold standard for film criticism.

Agreed. It was hard to read that piece in Vanity Fair and have to face his mortality. Ebert is just one of those guys that I never imagined not being around.

Spoiler:

"We're kind of haunted by Moby-Dick," Hoare says. "We live with this notion, still, of the whale being a ferocious creature. I've been in the water with sperm whales. They are the most timid animals. They're freaked out by a dolphin. They are not these leviathans of yore."

Still, up close, these massive mammals can't help but inspire awe — and fear — as Hoare discovered a few years back, during a trip to the Azores, islands off Portugal's coast.

"I was snorkeling toward this pod of 12 female sperm whales," Hoare says. "As I swam to them, one of them detached from the pod and came swimming toward me, at which point I lost control of my bodily functions. I was utterly terrified. It was like having a granite cliff swimming toward you.

"At the last moment, as it came close to me, it turned and looked at me directly in the eye — the most challenging encounter that any writer could have with his subject. And then it dove ... and just vanished."