I'm reading quite a few Terry Pratchett books on and off.
Once I've got the money to spend, I'm going to buy "Let The Right One In". I loved the original movie (and refuse to watch the American remake..), and I've always wanted to read the book since.
What are you reading? (Literature)
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Once I've got the money to spend, I'm going to buy "Let The Right One In". I loved the original movie (and refuse to watch the American remake..), and I've always wanted to read the book since.Actually watched the movie two or three days ago! Have to admit I started watching the American version ( I didn't know any better) when my friend entered the room, looked at the screen and turned around to give me a deathglare. I was immediately given the Swedish version on DVD. Liked it a lot! Still gonna watch the American one to compare, though. But pretty dark stuff, didn't know there was also a book around! Should check it out aswell then.
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Posted this in the wrong thread before, woops.
I have been considering Kindle. I own a Droid X, which allows me to use a Kindle application, but I am torn on whether it is really worth it.
As any lover of literature could probably ramble on about, better than I, a good part of the experience as you read a novel is the physical. The feel of the paper, the slightly wush of a page being flipped, the ever consistent scent of its materials. The way you smack the book together when you have finished reading and the air flies out, the final waft of scent flowing into your nostrils, the sound of that smack… When you sit down and read a book, whether you have brought it with you on a train, or are sitting on a couch, everything feels just right and satisfying as you digest the information laid out in the text.
But I read a short sample of a novel using the Kindle application and I was simply... unsure, if not interested. On one hand, it is ever more convenient. After all, my phone I carry with me everywhere and I could have access to my book any time I was in the mood to read it. I could possibly get more reading done this way. But I am just so torn. After all, the things I illustrated above, those "experiences of the book". Though they could just be romanticised in my mind. Maybe none of it really matters, because at heart there shouldn't be any true difference in how you read something.
I couldn't tell if I liked how it read, still though. With the tinier pages and normal sized font, the bright-to-my-eyes blank white background... Eh. I'm just not sure. It'd be a waste of eight bucks if I got a book and just couldn't bring myself to care.
But I'll plunge in and try it out, see how it all goes. Can't decide what I would like to read, though.
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"Tale of two cities" by Charles Dickens, almost half way through. It is a very good book so far.
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I received "Gypsy" by Gypsy Lee Rose for Christmas. Starting that after I finish this post.
How ironic.
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"Tale of two cities" by Charles Dickens, almost half way through. It is a very good book so far.
yeah I read a few books by Dickens he's really a great author… I haven't read "Tale of two cities" though, the best-selling single-volume book ...
I received "Gypsy" by Gypsy Lee Rose for Christmas. Starting that after I finish this post.
How ironic.
Definitely ironic Gypsycarts reads"Gypsy" by Gypsy Lee Rose.
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Im reading One Piece Manga right now, chapter 600!!
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I'm reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and I like it better than I thought I would. It's about people telling about people telling about people telling about people.
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Starting my Agatha Christie Collection again, already read every book of Agatha Christie twice, but I must do it again, they're so awesome and I already forgot most of the endings, except for the iconic ones.
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I got swamp man by donald goines for christmas along with two Cornel West books. These will be the first cornel west books I read. Kinda expecting alot.
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Some Medieval detective fiction for me. Right now I'm juggling St. Peter's Fair, part of the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Both feature monk detectives of sorts (William in Rose is very much an expy of Holmes) tasked to solve murders that take place either in their respective abbeys or the surrounding town. Cadfael has to solve the murder of a merchant during an abbey fair with the backdrop being a squabble between the abbey and town over how much the abbey should pay for the fair, while William and his assistant Adso are tasked with solving the death of a monk at an Italian abbey, thought to have been pushed from a tower window.
It's interesting to compare the two. St. Peter's Fair is very sunny with a large cast of characters, some more colorful than others, with a rather whimsical writing style. By contrast, The Name of the Rose is much darker and grim with lots of dry discourse on religious debate and human nature. Of the two, The Name of the Rose is probably the more fascinating, but the Cadfael stories are much easier to get in to.
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I'm trying to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but keep getting interrupted by stuff I have to read for school.
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The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
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I'm reading the Cirque du Freak series~ My friend basically forced me to start reading it (she checked it out for me) and due to her enthusiasm for it I decided to give it a chance. Once I started I got hooked.
I started three weeks ago, before my week vacation, and I was borrowing the books from the library. By the end of the first week, I'd gotten up to the fourth book and I needed the fifth, but someone had already checked it out. So after the week vacation, on tuesday this week (no school on monday), I asked my friend if I could barrow her volumes 5 and 6 of the series to read them, since those volumes were still checked out from the library. Afterward, I returned the books after two days, checked out another two from the library, one of which I've finished and turned in and the other I'm close to finishing. I've checked out the next two in the series so I can begin reading them during the weekend once I finish the 8th book.
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I m not reading but i m about to read the magic of big thinking
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Finished Fellowship of the Rings. If I recall correctly, I am 4 chapters in to 'The Two Towers.'
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The Road . You might have seen the movie. I haven't.
The book is VERY depressing.
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Right now I'm rereading The Dark Tower series. :) Halfway through The Gunslinger so far. Man, the ending of that one almost made me want to quit the series, the first time around. :D
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It's funny…I've read every Stephen King novel except for his DT ones. I don't know why.
I've just never picked one up.Speaking of King. I'm reading Full Dark; No Stars right now.
I'm just into 1922. Quite the demented story.
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@Zoro's:
The Road . You might have seen the movie. I haven't.
The book is VERY depressing.
yes, and "blood meridan" is a fairy tale of hope and joy. he writes beautifully tho.
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It's funny…I've read every Stephen King novel except for his DT ones. I don't know why.
I've just never picked one up.You'd probably get more of a kick out of them then, since there's lots of tie-ins and references to his other works. Try the first one out. :)
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Shōgun by James Clavell. It is the first in the Asian Saga.
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@Zoro's:
Shōgun by James Clavell. It is the first in the Asian Saga.
and the best of the series IMHO-but ymmv, of course. (Not saying that the others were bad, I guess it was that they were more modern, which appealed to me less. Plus I have an attraction to Japan since I have such a connection through my husband to the country)
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Since I don't have any new book to read so right now I'm reading the last book of Harry Potter (Deathly Hallows) for the Nth time. :)
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Bought Les Misérables today; got the last copy in town.
It started with me knowing a few songs of the musical, and my French Assistant telling me of Victor Hugo. Then Rupert posted the video of 'Do You Hear The People Sing?' which I listened to on loop; then I found the multilingual version which was just mindblowing and listened to it for ages. Then on saturday night I watched the brilliant 1998 adaption with my favourite actor Liam Neeson in it. It was superb. So fantastic.
I'm now doing it for my French Presentation (I band this word around a lot; it's not a presentation really. Basically, you write a page of French on a topic, with an intro and a conclusion etcetera and you memorise it so you can reel it off naturally to an examiner in a speaking exam.)
Wasn't expecting OVER 1000!! pages. Especially since I'm nearly through with 'The Two Towers' and then have 'Return of the King' and 'The Hobbit' to read, and I had wanted to read 'A String of Pearls' straight after that, but that's on hiatus now I guess since it is in Ebook form anyway.
I can't read two books at a time. It feels inappropriate.
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I can't read two books at a time. It feels inappropriate.
Really? Sometimes I will have a stack of 5 or 6 books and I will go through a couple chapters on each one and then switch to the next in the pile.
As of right now I am finishing up the 2001 Space Odyssey series. Great series but the discontinuities between the books were a little jarring at times.
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Really? Sometimes I will have a stack of 5 or 6 books and I will go through a couple chapters on each one and then switch to the next in the pile.
As of right now I am finishing up the 2001 Space Odyssey series. Great series but the discontinuities between the books were a little jarring at times.
It doesn't feel right for me. I have to go through them one by one or I just feel all wrong going about it, like I'm not committing myself to properly immersing myself in it.
Like I knew when I started 'The Fellowship of the Ring' before Christmas that I'd be going straight from there all the way to 'The Return of the King'
And then went and bought 'The Hobbit' to get my psyched for the faraway film and to have be able to go in and make an informed fan's decision on the quality; so now I'll have that to read after I finish ROTK even though it's a prequel :cwy:
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Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo.
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The Chartehouse of Parma:Stendhal
I never read something from him,and I wondered how he writes.
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Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo.
That's interesting, is it some sort of remake of the Edgar Allan Poe one?
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I am reading my course books… yawnnn.. i have my term end papers day after tomorrow!!
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@Mrs.:
That's interesting, is it some sort of remake of the Edgar Allan Poe one?
No. It's a pen name of Hirai Tarō , Japan's first modern mystery writer.
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I have been hearing a lot about Clive Barker recently so I have been wanting to read some of his stuff. Anybody have any suggestions? Opinions? Greatly appreciated.
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You may not want to.
The man likes to supplement actualy scary stuff happening with excesive like people beasmearing themselves with their own feces for no aparent reason.
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@No:
No. It's a pen name of Hirai Tarō , Japan's first modern mystery writer.
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http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krvi41EQ6K1qzi51yo1_400.jpgWould you recommend it (to a Poe fan)?
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Well alot of it are detective stories. And I know Poe wrote and practicaly invented the genre.
The first story "The Human Chair" is nice, and so is "The Caterpilar" . I haven't finished it yet so I will eventualy post on what stories are worth reading.
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@No:
Well alot of it are detective stories. And I know Poe wrote and practicaly invented the genre.
The first story "The Human Chair" is nice, and so is "The Caterpilar" . I haven't finished it yet so I will eventualy post on what stories are worth reading.
Okay thanks, maybe I'll look into it, that is if the book would miraculously be available in my country.
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@No:
You may not want to.
The man likes to supplement actualy scary stuff happening with excesive like people beasmearing themselves with their own feces for no aparent reason.
Oh damn! Thanks for the heads up.
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I got the opinion of someone far superior to me in the department , plus my own reading of Weaveworld to go by.
Someone else can of course, disagree. If you want a good story, go and read the King in Yellow, it's good and it's free.
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Ironically, going with someone today to get a Theory Test Book into Waterstones, I spotted the 'String of Pearls' (the original novel of Sweeney Todd) I'd looked for ages ago; in the quite poor classics section.
Another one to the pile. Getting through Two Towers quite fast, then onto Return, Hobbit, Les Miserables, and then String of Pearls.
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Saw this thread after seeing this video, perhaps you all identify with it as I do.
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Ironically, going with someone today to get a Theory Test Book into Waterstones, I spotted the 'String of Pearls' (the original novel of Sweeney Todd) I'd looked for ages ago; in the quite poor classics section.
Another one to the pile. Getting through Two Towers quite fast, then onto Return, Hobbit, Les Miserables, and then String of Pearls.
And you couldn't go to Wordsworth's website ?
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@No:
And you couldn't go to Wordsworth's website ?
Pardon ?
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Sorry for repeating.
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http://www.wordsworth-editions.com/book/sweeney-todd-(second-edition
I don't order over the net, and went to Waterstones on my lunch break.
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oscar et la dame rose : a very nice book
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@No:
Any specific reason ?
My Dad has the credit card and he works away from home a lot of the time.