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Fiona

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  1. I loved Othello, too. A great play.

  2. I can agree that the hype is, very off putting and I'm glad I got into them before the hype took over. I never really read a lot of reviews or critics or keep up with that stuff anyway - usually I just 'notice' it but don't read much about it anyway. I however, think the books are still very good and very much my favourite series that I've yet to read. I can still remember the feeling of utter excitement after I read the first book. The second book came out soon after I read that and the wait for the third I remember being excrusiating. I don't reckon they'd have been a hype without the attention from the readers/public already. Anyway - hype or no hype. It hasn't just got kids reading. It has got kids thinking. Okay, not about maths or Shakespeare but if you go on line and you read the theories and discussions all about Harry Potter - it's got a lot of people talking and I don't think that's cos of the hype. It hypes it up some more, but they're obviously enjoying it very much. If anything creates that amount of passion in people, then its a good thing even if they hype annoys you. It annoys me. I get really peed off every time I see another bloody advertisement for the Deathly Hallows in Waterstones. They have one on every other bloody bookshelf. The merchendise, the movie hype the critics the this and that. It's amazing to think how bloody hyped up it is. But to hell with it. I don't care if people say she's not that good of a writer. Isn't she? She's wrote a hugely popular, much loved and extremely good story. She may not be Shakespeare or Charlotte Bronte or Ian McEwan. Maybe she uses too many adverbs or ellipses or this that and the other. She however has woven an extremely intricate story and characters, magic and imagintion together and that's what makes a good book. Not how good the actual technical writing is - because I've read good writing and the story is absolute rubbish.
  3. I forget, then remember and then I have to remember all the books I've bought and read etc. I've got 158 up so far. Soon I'll have to pay a subscription. :/
  4. I don't think I have found any book disturbing yet. I have found some movies disturbing, but I think that is because I've been forced to face things I find disturbing in a more graphic manner. With books - you can always tone your imagination down! The Green Mile disturbed me - the movie. I read that bit in the book though and it wasn't as bad as seeing it on screen. That really made me feel utterly horrible after watching that - but had I read it I probably wouldn't have been so effected.
  5. I loved this series - but I'm completely stuck on The Fiery Cross - it is just so slow and boring I can't get past the first 400 pages. My favourite books were Crossstich/Outlander, Voyager and Drums of Autumn. I keep re-reading my favourite bits. I'll have to attempt TFC again - maybe just read it in dribs and drabs.
  6. Hazeltree - yeah Diana Gabaldon is a good example of someone who writes first person fantastically well. Her characterisation is spot on and I think that's important and hard to pull off. I do like first person, but as it's been mentioned here, it has to be really good. First person for me should be really detailed and intimate. First Person POVs who come across as flat provides no characterisation whatsoever. I've read more third person, but I think that's just because it is more common. I'm not put off my first person, or third person. I'm put of my present tense though - that's probably harder to pull off then first person because it always sounds so... false and to me - unrealistic. Other examples of books written in first person which I have enjoyed are the Sevenwater trilogy by Juliet Marillier and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingswood. Those are the ones which come to mind straight away.
  7. Yeah, that is bugging. I'm currently a little annoyed that I can't currently buy The Ruby and the Smoke by Phillip Pullman without Billie Piper's face on the front cover. That really bloody irritates me. I watched that on TV - and she really can't act that well, imo. So having her face on the front cover annoys me. Don't have anything against the actress - I don't know much about her apart from she seems quite nice - I just don't want her face on a book I'm reading. I hate books with photographs on the front cover anyway.
  8. Yes - that bugs me too. Actually thinking of it, a lot of things bug me about some books. Pink covers, the 'a novel' thing and oversized author names. I don't think I go out of my way to avoid that as such, but it is a turn off. I don't really think I have amny books where the author is larger then the title, which probably means I do avoid them. I hate it with movies when they do that as well. I avoid Brad Pitt movies and Tom Cruise - I know there are other actors with big names out there as well - but their names are kinda different. They're not just actors. In fact, their name is often bigger then the film. I hate that. Just cos the author wrote it, or the actor is in it doesn't make it a good book or film - whatever.
  9. I've read Raven's Gate - and I have the first book of the Alex Rider series ready and waiting to be read. I thought Raven's Gate was okay - not the kind of book you thing WOW at though. I'm not racing to by the next one, but I probably will read it at some point. Might see if I can get it from the library if I dare venture to the kids section without looking silly... hehe. The writing style felt a bit formulated and y'know... nothing original. In fact, it wasn't amazingly original to start with. The descriptions of people and stuff were all so stereotypical in a way. Like the mad red haired chemist guy with thick nerdy glasses. Maybe he was trying to portray the stereotype quite obviously to seem too weird but... And the way Dravin, was it? Well one of the characters pressed his hands together and rested his chin on his finger tips thoughtfully - it just feels a bit - unoriginal in style and predictable. Good story and entertaining though.
  10. Yeah, I know what you mean. I can't stand books which have 'a novel' printed on the front cover - so I purposefully avoid them out of protest. Why do they do that? I try to avoid 'clever novels' too - there's a lot of them out there now though.
  11. I think I read quite a few from that series - starting with that one. I think it was before I even saw the movie. The books were quite good and I can't remember which one bored me, causing me to stop. I'm not usually drawn to vampires and the like but it was a good book. I'd like to read it again, actually. Hmmm. It might have been Queen of the Damned or Vampire Armand I stopped at actually, I can't remember!
  12. I even made a typo when trying to type typo. I used to be a pretty good typer, honest but it is this stupid laptop I'm sure. :/
  13. Look at that nasty type... I meant EVER read not written. Obviously I could never write such a fantastic trilogy. Silly me.
  14. Read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read read!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is one of THE best books I have EVER written. Great writing, great characters, gripping story and fantastic all the way through. It is so imaginative and brilliant. You don't need to be a fan of fantasy, I'm not a fan of fantasy as such... this is different. It is fantasy, but it is also um... based in this world too, but with a bit of imagination. It isn't all dwarfs and pixies rear up for a fight against evil war lord with a magic egg or whatever. It is so much deeper and better and the bestest of books ever to be written. READ!!!
  15. Good thread! I would have said 'The Inheritance of Loss' but I've started it - would be interested in other people's opinions of it though who've read it.
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