If you could recommend just one........

I am very excited about some of the suggestions and will choose one or two to read before we go down. I will not bring a book (at least I will try not to) on vacation as I have a tendency to get lost in a book and ignore all else around me. This vacation is dedicated to socializing - something I do not do enough of in real life - so I do not want to be tempted away.

 

Just so I can run for all "all-time nerd" award. Does anyone know this line?

"Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you *stand, Men of the West!*"

 

or this line "I'm your huckleberry"

 

Ha! Aragorn speaks the truth....

Lord of the Rings, Return of the King

-semi nerd at heart :headbanger:

 

Sad isn't it. I just watched the series AGAIN while working out over the past week. Caught the conclusion last night and remembered how much I liked that short speech.

 

We recently re-watched the extended versions but still haven't re-watched Return of the King. Now, I have to watch it this week. I love Tombstone too!

 

Okay here are my favorite lines of all time - bolded (and my favorite book). Just a kid with a wonderful imagination at play.

Tom skirted the block, and came round into a muddy alley that led by the back of his aunt's cowstable. He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment, and hastened toward the public square of the village, where two "military" companies of boys had met for conflict, according to previous appointment. Tom was General of one of these armies, Joe Harper (a bosom friend) General of the other. These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person -- that being better suited to the still smaller fry -- but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp. Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.
As he was passing by the house where Jeff Thatcher lived, he saw a new girl in the garden -- a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair plaited into two long-tails, white summer frock and embroidered pantalettes. The fresh-crowned hero fell without firing a shot. A certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a memory of herself behind. He had thought he loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; and behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality. He had been months winning her; she had confessed hardly a week ago; he had been the happiest and the proudest boy in the world only seven short days, and here in one instant of time she had gone out of his heart like a casual stranger whose visit is done.

 

How about a quote from my all-time favorite movie------

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"


opcorn:

 

Shit, shit shit....I know that line and heard it recently.

 

I'm guessing, but was it Al Pacino where he played a the head of a law office corrupting a young lawyer and his wife. Can't remember the title, but a very good movie.