<BR>Hello!<BR><BR>Yes, me again! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-rolleyes.gif"border=0><BR><BR>Since Mahima asked (so basically, it's her fault! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif"border=0>), here'S a LITTLE MORE (again!) about me, but this time it's, at least related to books... (In which case, am I still supposed to post here or elsewhere? <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif"border=0>)<BR><BR>So, as for reading (yeah, I know, it's about time I get to it since it's the whole topic of your group <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif"border=0>), I feel like I might be qualified here. I've been a bookworm since I first learn to read and although real (adult boring) life doesn't leave me with much time, I'm still very much one at heart. <BR><BR>I remember back then, I would spend my summers at my mother's and we would go each night to the public library and borrow the maximum amount of books allowed. First of course there was comics, but after, I can remember reading the whole Black Stallion series. (I know, I know, no master piece here but hey... those guys got me through pretty rought times back then... <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0>) These were my first encounter with the concept of series and I've been loving it ever since. <BR><BR>In highschool, I was introduced to Frank Herbert's Dune masterpiece (which I read entirely... which reminds me there is two House of... waiting for me to read them somewhere in my house... which THEN, means I did not technically read all of them yet... but does it count since they're from his son? <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif"border=0>). Since it was at about the same time I started to religiously watch Star Trek TNG, it got me going in the whole science fiction genre (and English since basically, TV is where I learned English <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0>). <BR><BR>There was a point where I read an awful lot of something that could be described as chick historical lovestories novels, which I read because the story would take place around the middle ages or some other very inspiring era and were easy enough to read in English. This is when I started to read almost exclusively in English. <BR><BR>The first books I bought in English were some Mercedes Lackey, including Oathbound I think, which I loved. At one point my cousin got me hooked on Anne Rice, the Vampires Chronicles, of course! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0> I've read all of them too.<BR><BR>I also have a treasure of individual books that are all special to me. Some by famous authors, others that are from not very famous people. But that will have to be left to another post (some of them I don't even remember the title, just the cover. I'm pretty visual you know! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif"border=0>) <BR><BR>I can remeber a whole story written from a cat's point of view, with a bunch of other creatures... The cats even had a religion! <img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif"border=0>. <BR><BR>There was also a big novel about the amazons during the last days of Troy. Very well written and a bit sad too. <BR><BR>Oh and some adaptation about the princess of the swans tale, with a big black swann on the cover... <BR><BR>And Tyran, from Isaac Asimov. There is so much, I could spend the night coming up with more and more titles...<BR><BR>I'm not much into horror (I know, I know, he prefers to be referred to as a suspense writer.., but still) but I loved Stephen King's Eyes of the Dragon. <BR><BR>Oh and also a tiny book on a magician with a big secret, which was written either by Mercedes Lackey or Marion Zimmer Bradley. Can't remember exactly.<BR><BR>What else? Well let's say it's enough for now and if I remember something else I'll tell you later. As for Tolkien, I've only read the Fellowship and part of TTT, but unfortunately in French (which is rumoured, by the way to be one of the worst translation ever). I'm planning to start the Silmarillion as soon as possible and it's a certainty that the rest will follow. some of them are already lining up the various selves of my house, waiting to be discovered and savoured.<BR><BR>See ya!<BR><img src="http://www.tolkienonline.com/mb/i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif"border=0><BR>EoL