Univerze
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Well I'll give it a thought about what more books to recommend you, you seem to love the same books as I do, am a big fan of post-apocalyptic books (well anything really) too. Though I have never found a series about this unfortunately. Maybe if you involve some sci-fi, there might be something. Let me think.
However, one book I can recommend, even though you say you don't want to read single books... is Stephen King's the Stand.. it's over 1000 pages long, so it's not like you'll read that in one day.
I love this book, it's one of my favourites, and I have read it several times. The film, if you've seen it, gives a decent representation of what the book "feels" like, if you know what I mean, but the film's way more shorted, the book's just more detailed, elaborates more. It's about a plague (a sort of flu virus) killing most of the world's population, and the survivors being caught in a battle for good or evil, they have dreams about either Mother Abigail, this old black woman (good), or Randall Flagg, a modern incarnation of an ancient evil. They side with either of both, trekking though America to join either of both groups. It's a long, calm story, and I like the atmosphere in the book a lot, in a way it is Stephen King, yet also it is not.
If you like (post-) apocalyptic fiction, I'd give this one a try.
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^that comment makes that I am now sitting here with this huuuge grin on my face. Hee hee, shiny indeed. Must watch it again soon.
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Am from the Netherlands, and from the city of Nijmegen. Not a small city, not much to do here however.
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Turned 28 at the beginning of this month, and must I add, it's lovely to be on a forum where the majority is around my age or older than me. Makes for much better discussions too.
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^Me too. I adored Firefly and was so sad it got cancelled.. and then the film. Yay.
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Just had some pizza, hawaii (ham and pine-apple) and some with spicy sausage and peppers. Yay for sunday unhealthy food.
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The third Mummy film's on telly now, something with the Dragon Emperor. I don't really care, cause this film I don't like, the first two are okay.
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Pet Sematary, actually the first time I really watched it, got scared of the sedond one when I was a kid, and neve bothered with the first one. It was not bad, kinda funny where it was supposed to be scary though, as with a lot of Stephen King films.
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Currently just one at the time, but usually two or something. I only pick up the second book if the first isn't going quick enough, I can't keep my head to it (say, when I am tired) or I have suddenly this strong urge to read another book. Usually then one of the two is a re-read.. I never get plots mixed up, have no trouble there. However, currently the book I am reading is keeping me happy, so no need to pick up another.
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When there is a LOT of hype around a book, like there is around Twilight, it absolutely ruins it for me. The hype annoys me to the point where I don't want to have anything to do with the book. It's gotten 100 times worse since the books have been made into movies. I don't have patience for fangirls who swoon over movie characters. The whole thing makes me ill. Maybe it's because I do all my swooning privately, I don't know.
But if a book has a lot of critical praise, then I'll most likely check it out, but not until years later. I'm honestly just lazy, and I already have too much to read.
I couldn't agree more..
I don't know all of why I hate reading books that are hypes, but I guess part of it is overexposure.. you see it everywhere, all the time, on tv, in stores, magazines, internet etc.. you get sick of it. Is like this great song you love until you hear it played every hour on the radio and can't stand it anymore soon enough.
Partly too, is that I hate trends. I think it's a stupid idea. Like with clothing. Some goof somewhere decides that this and that is cool to wear this winter (f.e.), and before you know, it's all you can buy in the stores, and you see everyone everywhere wearing it.
Like with those skinny jeans. I hate them. I love flared jeans, but they're hard to get hold of here, so I sorta make my own. I don't really do trends, unless I really really like it. Sometimes that happens. Like with the Harry Potter books. I had never heard of them till the first film came out, and I adored the film so before the next one came out I read all the books.
So it's not that I absolutely resist trends, it's just that they usually don't appeal to me. And I am not saying I'll never read those hype books.. recently I tried reading the DaVinci Code. Didn't particularly like the film. But wondered what everyone was on about, so I picked up the book from the library. Pff, overhyped and boring very much. Couldn't finish it.
So I don't say I'll never read Twilight (and actually I adore vampires for like.. more than 15 years now) even though they seem like kiddy vampire books (I like my vampires scarier and sexier).. I might one day.. but not anytime soon.
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Difficult question. Hmm. Gonna name a few that just pop into my head now, who I come up with can change every day though..
Sean Bean, I love this man, I think he's got charisma and he seems like a really nice guy who you could have a nice night with chatting away.. and the fact that he's smoking hot doesn't bother me either.
Dr Who (preferably the David Tennant incarnation hee hee), can you imagine the stories this guy has? And maybe I could get him to take me for a ride on the Tardis too..
Stephen Hawking.. cause I adore astronomy and astrophysics (even though I suck too badly at math&physics to fully get it). Though a dinner party with a man like this would be a bit awkward, but he's got a brilliant mind. Probably would rather follow classes by him than do a dinnerparty with him because there wouldn't be much of a discussion going on.. he'd be explaining me things all the time.
Ehh.. maybe Emma Watson? I adore this girl, she's gorgeous and seems very likeable, have seen interviews with her and she seems like a fun person to be around. And did I mention she's drop-dead gorgeous?
Well I love my eye candy too...
Hmm. Maybe I should try for two different dinner parties? One intellectual one and one hottie party? Cause I don't see this one happening, three hotties and one brilliant mind hee hee. Not to say the hotties aren't brilliant here.
I don't really get all of you who want to put their favourite authors up here. I don't want to meet them.. for me, the books are works of art, worlds of fantasy, and I think it takes away from the mystery of a book to fully realize there's a mere human mind behind this. So a short, brief meeting to express my appreciation for their work, and maybe a signing would be good, but no deep discussions please.
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Oh and i have to say this too, what's it with everyone loving Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Is the book very different from the film, because I hated the film. Hated, hated, hated. One of the few Depp films I cannot stand.
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14/15 in 7,5 minutes.. got a little distracted on language, since English isn't my native language. The one mistake I made was just plain stupid, I didn't quite look right at the words hee hee. Sloppy.
And I just looked up what grammar school was since I had no clue. Sorta like secondary school with latin, ancient greek and lots of science? I've done that, had one year of ancient greek before I dropped it, not very interesting, and I have had a few years of lessons in latin.
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Well if they read other stuff besides the hypes too, and make up their own mind about the books, then possibly, it's not a bad thing. However, some of these people only read these hype books, and don't think what they themselves think of those books, when you ask them for an opinion, they pretty much give you the opinion they think they're supposed to have..
I guess I am a bit of a snobby reader myself.. though there are some people that would see me as not a very "good/high-class" reader maybe, since I barely read outside the fantasy/sci-fi/horror genres. Many people seem to look down upon these genres, as if it's worth less than other books. -
Well generally I read everything as long as it's got nothing to do with every day life, or our every day world. So this genre topic really, horror/supernatural/fantasy and sci-fi.
But in the horror genre these days there seem to be so many of the same books. (Okay in every genre but now we speak of this one in particular)
So many ghost books, of someone that moves to some old house, usually after they've had some traumatic experience and then strange things start happening. Bah. Like you have so many movies like that these days, there are so many books like that too. Not saying there can't be good books in there, but I am just disappointed when I pick up something that seems like a nice horror book and you get something like this.
Besides that I don't really know, for me there's very little book that actually are horror, and I read mainly fantasy these days.
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I have never read any of the Dr Who or Torchwood books, I adore both series, but I have just never read any books of series I love. I love Star Trek, Buffy, Angel etc, so there's plenty if I wanted to.. but somehow it feels to me like they wouldn't live up to the series. Also, I always get the feeling they would be like, easy books. You know, an easy and cheap read? I don't know if they are, I just know to me, it would feel like I am cheating on the rest of my books by reading something from a TV series. I'm weird, I know.
Plus, when I read, I want something new, or some world explained to me in words, not in pictures. I like to develop my own characters, the sight of them, not go by how they look in the series. Which is why I hate reading the book after I've seen a film (though for instance with Anne Rice's books, the image I have in my head of the characters is very different than the film(s)).
I think the change from seeing all those things, to have them described would maybe be too much. That the chance would be high that I'd hate the books just for that reason.
Hard to describe really, but I think that, except for when I really run out of anything to read, I won't be reading any of them.
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Currently I am F'nor, rider of a brown dragon on the planet Pern, where the dragons are used to fight all-consuming spores called Threads falling from the sky, cast to this planet from a nearby planet. We've just discovered fire-lizards too, and I now have this golden queen fire-lizard.
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Well I agree with who it was that said I think any (okay most) people reading in public is cool. Seeing them read books I adore makes them look cool in my eyes, since then I'm like "hey a kindred soul"..
Plus, living in the Netherlands, I love seeing people read books in English (or any other language besides Dutch, unless I think it's their native language)... because it shows they've mastered another language well enough to read in it. And that requires a certain level of intelligence, I love smart people.
What I don't like seeing people read, what makes them look "uncool" in my opinion, is any books that's part of one of those hypes. You know, Twilight, Dan Brown, you name it. Those books that everyone's reading now, everyone suddenly thinks they're cool, where if you'd let them read it a few years ago before the hype, they wouldn't have thought much of it.
I myself generally resist reading these hype books, just the fact that they're part of a hype makes me not want to read them. I hate hypes, I hate trends etc. -
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^Ah I've never read any of her short stories.. mainly cause I don't like it that short stories are so, well, short. When I love something I want it to be a big, long, book.
But she can have a very disturbing style I must agree.
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A slice of white-bread toast, with some cheese.
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Kell, those are lovely, and I agree, 13 pounds isn't that expensive..
I was going to recommend the Collector's Library ones Bookjumper mentioned, I have given someone Dracula as a present like that once.. they're pretty, and I love hardcovers. Yes, I agree, they're quite small and the paper is quite thin, but they're so much better than the Penguin Popular Classics or Wordsworth (have one of each, the Penguin one I'd never buy again, it's such a horrible color too).
Those Collector's Library Editions are lovely too, but pricey.
The Collector's Library smaller ones are very affordable, I payed 8,95, but that's in euros, they're 8 pounds I think. *checks* yup.
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Ugh, haven't read anything today yet, am due to leave for work in a few minutes and that's usually got me so tired by the evening I don't know if I'll get to read anything today. You know, sometimes your head wants to read but your eyes don't?
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Ugh, am browsing my online bookshop-site. Anne Mcaffrey books, am almost bouncing around, so many good and exciting books to read, wanna read them all, right now!
Ahh, me and sites like this, sometimes it's just bad for me. *bounces around some more*
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Well I used to be on a certain music forum.. for a not too well known Swedish industrial-ish band. The fans used to be okay, my age or just a little bit younger. Now they're more known, and you can tell by the newbies that join.. lots of teenagers, and early teenagers too, and their idea of a good discussion often is to discuss which band member is hotter.
What do I care, I just love the music. :motz:Topics have become less serious and more random. So I went looking for another forum hee hee. This one's gooood. 