Univerze
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^haha I agree on that one too. But that was more casting than story.
Funny too, how he suddenly went from having reddish blond curly hair, to straight and black hair... at least they did that better in Queen of the damned, Armand isn't that young there as he's supposed to be, but at least the hair's right. Oh, and that age frowned upon, they could use Kirsten Dunst as Claudia, being that young, then they could use a younger Armand!!
Another one from that same film..
the ending. In the book, Louis feeds off Daniel, who recovers and goes to trace down Lestat. In the film, I think they couldn't have this, Louis being the good guy, so they changed it so that Lestat feeds of Daniel.
And let's not mention Queen of the Damned?? That horrible mashing together of the second and third book in the Vampire Chronicles, :roll:made so many changes to story lines, that nothing makes sense anymore.
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Oh. One of my fav books, and I do like the film, I don't see why they changed so much, but especially this is pointless. IN Interview with the Vampire
Louis wants to die in the beginning, because his BROTHER died.. in the film they made it his wife and child.
What, was it too implausible for the general public to have it the original way? Tsss.
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Depends for me too, mostly on how much time I have, how tired I am (unfortunately I am tired a lot after all the
that's happened to me in the last years), and how much I like the book. Oh, and the language counts too, reading in english is just a tiny bit slower than reading in dutch. Contemporary english reads a lot faster too. But generally, I am a fast reader. If I have the time and like the book, then I'll finish a three to five-hundred page book in a few hours. -
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Lays salted potatoe crisps.. mmm.
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I did not mean to offend you Univerze, I am sorry, I have just never got round to seeing 'Titanic', so despite my post, I don't know whether I would like it or not, I understand why you will not be watching the film soon, I am sorry about your Dad, thinking of you.
Oh, wait, I didn't mean to come across as if you'd insulted me, cause you absolutely didn't.
Just meant that hating Celine Dion wouldn't be a reason not to watch the film, because it really doesn't have all that much to do with eachother, think (can you see how much attention I payed to it since I don't even really know for sure) that that song's only played in the film without her singing. 
But if you're in the mood for sappy, obvious, sometimes hilarious romantic films, then I'd think you'd enjoy this, as long as you don't hate Leonardo or Kate.
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Well I love both Lord of the Rings and Avatar. I went in to seeing Avatar expecting to be disappointed, so maybe that help. I loved every minute of it. Second time around, same thing. I sat there grinning like a kid the whole time. Yes, the story isn't much, yes, it's more action than story, but when a film looks like this and feel so much like a fairy tale, who cares? I was totally, utterly charmed. Only thing I liked less was that the Na'vi were a little overly based on some African and Native American tribes in my opinion, you could almost see those tribes in certain scenes.
But what can I say, guess in my heart I am still a kid.
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What I hate about covers, to the point where I'll go buy another version for the next book in a series, is if the cover art has NOTHING to do with the contents. Like, having a character that doesn't resemble the descriptions in the book or something, so that clearly the artist hasn't read the book.
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^Since all it has to do with celine Dion is that ONE song, that doesn't really matter. I liked Titanic, dad used to love it, and I've seen it too many times. That song was played at my dad's funeral cause he wanted it, so won't be watching the film again anytime soon.
Oh, oh oh. I have one. Paranormal Activity. It was SUCH a hype, scariest film ever, and this guy at work said he couldn't sleep after watching it. I almost fell asleep watching it, and it was SO annoying, the only reason I kept watching was because I was hoping it would get scary sometime. Nope.
The Resident Evil films. They were hyped, of course, because of the games, and don't get me wrong I like watching them, especially the first, but they're not great films, actually they're quite boring and just.. meh.
The Dan Brown films, both, they're okay-ish films, better than the bit of the DaVinci Code I managed to plow through, but I don't see the hype. I don't like Dan Brown.
Bet there's more, guess I will have to think a bit on this, I tend to get my hopes up for films and then I find them utter
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Well a lot of Jules verne's work is downloadable for free at Project Gutenberg but I have never really done that, also not with other writers. Nothing beats a real book.
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Ehhh. My country? *thinks long and hard*
Ehhhh.
I give up.
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^Oh I agree, he's adorable. No wonder indeed.
And yesterday, they were advertising on telly that they're gonna air Armageddon on this telly channel again, and I KNOW it's not a weird crush, but I have to say it, cause I realized, had almost forgotten.. that I adore Liv Tyler.
I seriously love this woman, she's gorgeous and seems so.. nice. My type of woman.
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@ Kell: Oh I hate hate hate Jack Black, hate the sort of humor that comes with his films and I just can;t stand the guy. Plus, I think he's hideous. Can you see how much tastes can differ hee hee.
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^I had the same thing at first, I was baffled with the political intrigue, and all the names and such. Usually not my thing. But when I pressed on and especially on second read, I adored the book.
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So, think this might be the first thread I've started since I have joined this forum. I've looked and looked but couldn't find a thread on this writer, let alone this series. Can you imagine how shocked I was, this being one of my favourite series ever. I am currently re-reading the first book of this series, for the fourth (or something) time.
To see if you guys know this, if not, to enlighten you further..
Mind you, I have never written a review(-ish anything), here or elsewhere, apart from the horrible ones we had to do for language in highschool. So be patient with me.
Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar.
This is a series of novels that play in a sort of alternate history medieval Europe.
The main character, Phedre, is born in the country of Terre D'Ange, which would in our world, mean France. However, alternate history lines.. so.. from the blood on Jesus (Yeshua Ben Yosef) on the cross, and the tears of Mary Magdalene, from the womb of Mother Earth, is born the sacred Elua, worshipped in all of Terre D'Ange.
Elua was rejected as true offspring by the one god, but instead he realmed the Earth, joined by eight of god's own angels.. one of these being the angel Naamah, who lay with strangers to free Elua from captivity, and to feed him and the company of angels who joined him. They settled in Terre D'Ange, however after the true one god saw that they'd spread their progeny across the Earth, he let them go to the true Terre D'Ange, the one that lies beyond this life, and where all men go after death.
Elua, Naamah and all the other angels have since become sort of gods, worshipped and honored in all of Terre D'Ange, each angel having his or her own province in which his or her own blood runs thickest, since these angels have bred amongst humans.
Most of all, there is the service of Naamah, a service that reighns in the Court of the Nightblooming Flowers. Thirteen houses situated in the city of Elua, each having his own creed, but the main being, "Love as Thou Wilt".. Elua's creed. Thirteen houses of courtisanes, worshipping their gods through the act of love.. physical love.
The protagonist in this series is Phedre, a girl being born from an unwanted union between her mother, adept in Jasmine House, and her father, a merchant. They sell her to the main House, Cereus House, at age four, to be able to be together and make a life for themselves.
Phedre, however, is not a normal girl. She's the first anguissette to be born in centuries.. a girl who enjoys pain as pleasure.. literally. The angel Kushiel, of punishment, brandished her with his mark.. a bloodred mote in her left eye, a bright red spot in the brown of her iris..
Phedre is adopted in the household of Anafiel Delauney, a man that is more than he appears, and he turns her into a spy.. to play the game of courts and more.
Well, so far for the synopsis or whatever. I could go on for a while.
These series are amazing. It's.. like no other books I have ever read. the alternate history is fascinating, these people not only believe in their gods, they accept that they are part of daily life, and in these books, they are.
To read this was heart-wrenching, intoxicating and stunning. The books are beautifully written, language and the pictures they paint alike. It is hard to describe this in a language not quite my own..
These books are great for anyone who likes reading medieval-ish books, books about intrigues, court life, and of course, the life of a courtisane. However, these books might be about a courtisane, don't let it fool you into thinking they're overrun by sex scenes. They're not. The sex scenes are there, but they're very much part of the plot, nothing overtly done, and mostly, they're brief.
Though they are something most people wouldn't consider even remotely attractive (pain playing a great part in them, as does humiliation and begging), since these days, it would be considered BDSM. If you're not too abhorred by this (since it's Phedre's nature) then I'd very much consider reading these books.
After this, there's the Imriel series, same author, different protagonist, one that plays a minor part in the two latter Kushiel's legacy series. They're amazing too, and I love Imriel more than I love Phedre, but since you have to read the first books first..
So yeah, umm. Anyoe know/love these books?
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I would try a lot of meats. I actually eat horse meat every now and then, it's easily available here and I like it lots.
Ostrich you can get here lots too, but i have never heard of some of the other. But I'd try it, I'll try most things (not everything!!!) once. -
I can help you out with the werewolf thing.. those are films, they're called Ginger Snaps. Therer are three films, in the first the older sister, called Ginger (both sisters are close in age, and are outsiders, they wear odd clothes and have never had their periods) gets bitten by a werewolf, changes physically and mentally while her sister starts to try and stop this. Second film,
the older sister has died,
and the younger one is in a mental institution, and trying to stop herself from turning into a werewolf too by injecting herself with something made out of wolfsbane, this purple fluid.
Rings a bell?
Ginger Snaps (part 1)
Ginger Snaps: Unleashed (part 2)
Ginger Snaps Back : The Beginning (part 3)
They're nice films, but a bit bad at times, as most werewolf films. Still, worth watching, yes.
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I am a girl raised to be a servant of Naamah, in the land of Terre D'Ange, I'm an anguissette, born to find pleasure in pain, and eventually I will become one of the greatest courtisanes this land has ever known.
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http://www.lovereading.co.uk/news/19724908
Twilight is one of the most complained about books....I'm surprised
Read about this too today, and some of the other books on this list. Haven't read Twilight so can't judge, but seems to me, it's a very.. proper book, as in, very much not sexually explicit etc.
Ah well, wouldn't mind knowing where most complaints come from. It's the US, so what, the Bible belt? (no offence to anyone living there or being very religious.. )Also, disturbed me that a lot of these most challenged books have as a theme homosexuality. What, that's disturbing, or are they worrying kids might "catch" it? I mean, seriously.
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75-ish pages of Kushiel's dart, by Jacqueline Carey. Gah, this remains one of my favourite books ever.
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I sometimes make it, though never the sweet version. I always just use eggs, salt, pepper, maybe some red pepper, and some milk, sometimes the milk we put in coffee since it's a little more, ehh.. fat? Dunno. But I always make the savoury kind, usually when mom and brother are eating friend egg on bread for dinner since I hate that. Every now and then for lunch, here we'd do that with the egg/milk mixture, leave out the pepper and add cinnamon.
Keep wanting to try, but you know, never get around to it. I like savoury things more anyway.
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I have a thing for something happening to fingers.. as in I can't stand it. IN real life, or in films. I can cut myself deep anywhere but there and not care, even if it hurts, but cut myself in my fingers, and I almost pass out. So I hate it when in a film, someone's fingers get broken, cut off, or sliced into. Always nice with the torture films these days, things inserted under fingernails, or fingernails being pulled off.
The Cabin Fever shaving scene counts for me too, ewww.
Oh, and about Seven.. how about the murder for lust? The idea of that guy, with the big freaking knive, and the way it would slice everything up inside? Gahhh, makes me sick even thinking about it.
Oh, teeth. Anything happening to teeth. Smashed in, pulled out, whatever. never used to bother me, but when I was 15, I had four molars pulled and got braces for a year. Got my teeth nice and straight, but have this fear of anything happening to teeth since then. Oddly, I am not the least afraid for the dentist, even when I had to go to the dental surgeon last year to have a molar pulled (because it split in half during eating!!) I didn't care much for it.
Another one.. eyes. Poking out the eyes, seeing a needle going into an eye (like even in House happens sometimes) eeeeeek!
Smashed in heads. When you see a film/series where someone smashes anothers head in with something, you know, the lovely blunt force trauma? Just the idea.. oh my gosh. A while back there was this one episode on telly of, I think it was CSI, this coach from a football team got his head bashed in during sleeping, and just in the morning, he got up, made coffee, brushed his teeth (even though they were smashed in too, that made me sick, watching him brush teeth while they were falling out and bloody), get the paper while he had half if his head smashed in. Brain damage.
That made me sick, cringe, and was the worst thing I'd seen in a while. Yuck.
You know, I could go on like this for a while. You'd think I wouldn't watch anything anymore, but even though these things make me cringe, or sometimes because they make me cringe, I still watch these things. Is like me still going on rollercoasters while I am scared of heights.
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I love cooking and am not bad at it, and it doesn't matter if I follow a recipe or throw together my own things and see what happens. Unfortunately, I could use some practice. See, I rarely cooked before I moved out, then moved in with my (now) ex-bf, he was a very picky eater, not at all into trying new things, and would gladly eat his favourite dishes three times a week. Sometimes it even went so far that he'd have his food, and I would make sometihng else cause I couldn't stand another day of say, spinach with sausage.
Then, we split, moved back in with my parents, and tadaa. Dad and brother both incredibly picky eaters too, brother hates anything veggie, seriously, if you throw something like peppers into food, he bitches and moans.
And dad never was up for trying new food, and he thought it funny I liked to try a lot of things. Now, since dad died, I cook a couple times a week, but am hindered by brother's dislikes. Because, I could cook something my way, but it takes the fun out of it for me to have him dislike it much. Am just silly that way.
But yeah, am a decent cook and most recipes I could follow, though I have to watch out, I tend to overcook and overspice things.. but have learned to watch out for this.
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Sitting in the library trying to work when a group of people come in together, all laughing and messing around, getting no work done and distracting others. Trust me, when it is them trying to do their dissertation I'm going to come back and them off so much!!!
Ahh see, we at uni have this love two parts in our library. One's for groups, where you can talk, do group assignments etc. The other is a strict silence zone, just work alone, no talking, not even whispering. They have someone present at all time to keep this in check.
Blessed silence.
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Well I watched the film several times (maybe thinking it'd make more sense the more times I watched it?
) because I love vampires.. and think Stuart Townsend was yummy as Lestat.. although, seriously how can they cast him, he's not blond, and if there's anything specific about Lestat's looks in the books, there's his blond hair!! And Aliyaah was gorgeous. Even though she kinda missed it when being Akasha. Oh and I love Marguerite Moreaux. Kind of have a crush on her. 
So lots of gorgeous actors, and the soundtrack's nice too. But the story, ehhh. No comment. 