Kevin's Watch

Heh. I'm just curious if anyone out there is slower at reading Runes than I am so far. I bought the book the day it came out, and I'm currently only on page 105, I think. At this rate, I'll be done in July.

Anyone else savoring every minute of Runes? Heh.-jay

Heh - I got mine early November and have read it and four other books since.

I just got mine about a month ago, and I was going pretty slowly and only reached about page 85 (I'm a slow reader to begin with, truth be told), but now I have stopped reading "Runes .. " completely in anticipation of the group read here at The Watch in the new year.

I finished Runes and then decided to start over and read them all again. I am currently savoring Lord Foul's Bane again. I decided that I am going to go slow and drink in every word. It is wonderful reading.

^^Heh, well you have me beat then.

Murrin wrote:Heh - I got mine early November and have read it and four other books since.

Then you don't belong in this topic. -jay

I'm not going much faster... I think I've actually gotten to the second half of the book, though. Not stuck

Spoiler

on Kevin's Watch with Anele

anymore like Jay was for a while . But I have an excuse: I had about twelve books to read for class this semester, many of them equally as thick as Runes.

Ranks right up there with:
"Four months later, I was still in the barrow-downs!"

"Oh yeah? Well I was at that bloody birthday party for seven years!"

^Haha. I loathe that birthday party.

Thank God Runes didn't have a birthday party.

Spoiler

Linden is finally off that damn Watch! Yay! Heh.

-jay

P.S. I found my copy of Fellowship. The bookmark is at the very begining of Chapter 8 - Fog on the Burrow Downs. I think that makes 8 or 9 years and counting since I last read it. I'm on a roll. Hehe.

kevinswatch wrote:^Haha. I loathe that birthday party.

Thank God Runes didn't have a birthday party.

Spoiler

Linden is finally off that damn Watch! Yay! Heh.

-jay

Spoiler

The Watch is off the damn Watch!! It's Kevin's rubble now!!!

kevinswatch wrote:
P.S. I found my copy of Fellowship. The bookmark is at the very begining of Chapter 8 - Fog on the Burrow Downs. I think that makes 8 or 9 years and counting since I last read it. I'm on a roll. Hehe.

Watch the movies - faster!!

[Or listen to them on unabridged CDs!!]

I bought it Oct 16th I'm on page 480...

I bought the book on Oct. 21, but I'm only on page 44. Yay! I'm slower than High Lord Jay! (Where's my Sloth Award?)

I've decided to wait until the new year to get back into Runes, because presently I'm simply having too much fun in the world of Mordant's Need. I'm re-appreciating just how good MN is. I'm committed to the MN chapter discussions until we finish AMRT, so I don't want MN and Runes both competing for attention in my mind. That's what happened with MN and WGW, so my contributions to both dissections suffered as a result. SRD deserves better than that. I guess I have a one track mind, kind of like SRD.

Hey, it doesn't count if you're reading something else...heh. Runes is the only thing I'm reading now. If you can call it reading...heh.

And yeah, I already saw the LotR movies. I'm just happy I can sound somewhat knowledgeable about the series, and don't have to read the stupid books. Hehe.-jay

Creator wrote:

Spoiler

The Watch is off the damn Watch!! It's Kevin's rubble now!!!

ROTFL! Think they'll rename it? Or would that be too confusing...

Spoiler

what with Kevin's Dirt already floating around?

Think Covenant will ever get anything named after him?

Jay wrote:And yeah, I already saw the LotR movies. I'm just happy I can sound somewhat knowledgeable about the series, and don't have to read the stupid books. Hehe.-jay

Stupid?!?! stupid?!?!

Blasphemy!!!

Lord of the Rings is a pain to read. Fellowship nearly killed me.

I would rather beat myself in the head with a cinderblock than re-read LOTR. I'm glad I made it through the first time, but never again.

BTW, I've been reading Trinity by Leon Uris for 7 years now. I'm on page 42.

CovenantJr wrote:Lord of the Rings is a pain to read. Fellowship nearly killed me.

Ditto

I got Runes the day it came out, read the first chapter and went back to finish the books I was in the middle of.

Then I decided I'd read the chronicles all over again and then read Runes but my friend is borrowing them all

In conclusion, I have you beat.

In conclusion, I know more than you about runes! Ha!

In further conclusion, does this mean you finally finished White Gold Weilder, Claire?

kevinswatch wrote:Heh. I'm just curious if anyone out there is slower at reading Runes than I am so far. I bought the book the day it came out, and I'm currently only on page 105, I think. At this rate, I'll be done in July.

Anyone else savoring every minute of Runes? Heh.-jay

yeah, i think i got you beat...im not gonna read it till they all come out...


though i may just join in on the group read, however...i obviously didnt get in on the first ones...

I'm on page 460 of Runes, currently. I've had it since about two weeks after it first came out, I guess. I only read at night for about an hour, then I doze off. I consider myself a fast reader when I want to be, though; I read half of A Storm of Swords in about 12 hours.

I was re-reading all the Covenant books; got to about One Tree, but couldn't wait any longer! I guess I'll go back to re-reading it after Runes.

Also, you people who found LOTR a pain to read are wimps. Try the Silmarillion. And if you're feeling really brave, try anything by James Joyce (Finnegans Wake, in particular).