Univerze
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That there's a Twilight Sucks forum. No kidding. I was looking for something that had nothing to do with Twilight (Elvish tattoo art) and somehow I got to a pic that would have to be on that forum, well it wasn't, or not that I could find. But seriously.. a Twilight Sucks forum? People who say how sad it is that people love Twilight? Well I think it's sadder that people bother to make a forum about that. Right?
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Does anyone remember the dutch song? It was sooo awful, funny thing was most people in my country hated the song.. it's like, old folklore stuff but none of the good things about that. It's as ancient and not Holland as tulips, clogs, windmills and cheese. The image foreigners may have of Holland but it's just a tiny bit of us that actually like these things.
The girl who sung that song lives in my town, actually like 10 minutes from my house, and is related far off to some cousing of mine, don't know if she's related to me, I hope not.
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Wow that is a fab tattoo - lucky you it not hurting, I fainted with both of mine!
Lovely to have one in memory of your dad - I am planning to get a simple angel done on the inside of my wrist in memory of mum when I pluck up the courage...
Well I can imagine anyone fainting from the way it felt when they were doing my tattoo, you sure it wasn't because of the nerves or anything? I mean, I wouldn't even call it pain really, just like this little bit of burning sensation, not entirely unpleasant either..
But I love wrist tattoos too, and I don't see this one being my last tattoo, people say they're addictive and maybe it's a good thing I can never make up my mind and I don't have that much money, this one cost me 150 euros, so that's not an amount of money I can spare a lot.
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So, the day did come today, and I got pics. The tattoo still looks a bit scruffy, of course it still has to clear up, not to mention the one pic where literally just took off the wrappings.. For those of you who don't know, the name's my dad's, he died of cancer in october.
I loved getting it done, honestly, it didn't actually hurt a bit. Was a weird feeling, like burning pressure a bit, but i could barely feel he punctured my skin with the needle.
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^Ditto, sort of. In that genre I just read Laurell Hamilton, but I haven't read the last two books yet because honestly, I think 15 to 22 euros is too much money for a bad quality paperback.
And I don't miss it. Might pick it up again, her books used to be my comfort reading, I loved and knew the characters so well. Now, it's more Jacqueline Carey, because her world is so vivid to me, and her books are very emotional, and full of wanderings to far off places, guess I need that now. I can pick up her books anytime, and I always love them.
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I'm an animator trying to find out who (or what) is behind a series of grizzly murders, whilst trying to avoid the new local master vampire and also the most powerful voodoo priestess in the area.
Anita Blake? Avoiding Dominga Salvador?
Can't remember which book that was in though, the Laughing Corpse?
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Non-alcoholic, is some sort of tea, or coffee, just plain coffee with milk and sugar, or cappucino or latte machiato or something. Sweet anyway.
Fruit juices I adore, preferably with mango or pineapple... my fav fruits.
Alcoholic, I love some sweet or semi-sweet white wine, can't stand the dry kind. Not a fan of red wine. Maybe some cider, can be good too. I don't do stronger liquors anymore, not worth the hangover really, and i get those when even drinking a little liquor. But I love the white wine. However, I rarely drink. I live with mom, and she hates alcohol, her dad was an alcoholic and, at some point in the past so was dad. So her tolerance is low. So when going out, birthdays and holidays, that's all.
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Michael Ende's Neverending Story, Garth Nix's Old Kingdom trilogie (think these are YA books), some Thea Beckman books are great even when reading them now. Harry Potter obviously. "Torenhoog en Mijlen Breed" by Tonke Dragt, a Dutch writer, havent read it in a while but it's just a lovely book, taking place on Venus, but a Venus different than what is, a Venus covered in high, lush forests that break down anything sythetic, and believed to be inhospitable to men too, with a native intelligent species living in these woods. I don't know IF it's been translated, it probably has cause it's not a new book (read it when I was little, that's 20 years ago or sth) and it's quite famous.
But there are some more, can't think of em now.
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Listening to Brian Tyler's OST of Children of Dune, it's awesome too, how could I forget that.. amazing music.
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Any Wheel of Time book, by Robert Jordan, generally towards the 1000 pages, but at least something like 800. Am going through them too fast still though.
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Sisters of Mercy - A rock and a hard place
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75% first time, wasn't paying much attention to be honest..
second time 100%, what they should do though is have times in it when the color IS what is written, from what I can remember it's always not the color spelled.. 
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Well, guess I am part of the undead. Come here so I can eat your brains.
But that book by Dan Simmons sounds definitely worth trying, though I can't imagine it scaring me. I do picture everything vividly when reading, so that's not the problem. Sometimes when I read a scene, I just sit there staring into nothing picturing it. But I don't know, it has never scared me since being a kid. Also I can have dreams that would be nightmares normally and just wake up to find them fascinating. Blood, gore, ghosts etc.. I am just usually loving the detail I dreamt those dreams in. I am no psychopath, I swear.
But like I said before, not even horror films scare me most of the time, so can't imagine a book doing that. Will look into "the Terror" though.
Edit: Yes, my local library has "The Terror" in english. And I must add too, I loved the Hyperion series, at least what I can remember of them, think I read them somewhere around age 13??
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I'm quite certain that Univerze has read at least Exquisite Corpse by the same author, maybe she would know about Lost Souls as well?
Edit: I believe Univerze mentioned EC in the most disturbing novel you've ever read -thread
Okay, wow didn't see this before. But yeah, EC is disturbing and quite explicit in its sexual and other (torture, cannibalism, necrophilia?) descriptions. But Lost Souls isn't a bad one, I mean it revolves around sex a lot, because it's vampires.. you know, exchange of bodily fluids.. but the sex scenes themselves aren't bad, they're not very descriptive or anything. It's a mild book, but well.. it's quite sexual all over, if that makes sense? Everything is described like everyone in the book just has one thing on his mind (sex that is) when you scratch a little deeper than the surface.. and for me that's fine cause I sort of think like that too.
Ehm. Anyway, if this doesn't bother you, you should read this book, to start reading Poppy Z. Brite I'd start with this one, OR Drawing Blood. The sex scenes are more descriptive there (and pretty much just between men) but this book definitely has got more surreal imagery in it, a thing PB is very good at. Things I remember most from her books are the colors, the way she describes them. Colors and the feel of different places. So, well, I love Poppy Z. Brite, but I think that with her books it's love or hate, pretty much. No middle way. There's also some books out there with short stories she's written, so if you doubt about reading a full book, try one of those?
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I was gonna say I always use photobucket too, just tinypic for images that are random and I don't want to clutter my photobucket albums with them. For resizing, ehh I just use photoshop? Unless you just mean file size resizing and not pic dimensions resizing.
Okay, you know how when you say a word too many times it can look funny? I have that with resizing now. Anyway, if it's for making the dimensions of a picture smaller, photoshop works too, and it's not that difficult to use, some of the finer editing stuff can be a
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Lord of the Rings! Amazing music.
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About 100-150 pages of The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan today, read while sitting in the sun.. ahh bliss.
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Ow, not too far from me then, I live in Gelderland, of course you know Nijmegen, with the Vierdaagse.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix..
Great, as always.
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Welcome!! You'll find this a lovely place to be, I sure do. And your reading tastes are like mine, fantasy's my first love, and I also love the classics. Not too big a fan of thrillers though..
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Anything that involves religion, or any of its machinations.
Why?
Well, I'm an atheist.
Well, so? Me too, atheist or agnostic I'd call myself. But still, I pick up books like Umberto Eco's In the Name of the Rose. I mean, it's fiction. I read Harry Potter, books about elves etc. If you consider books that involve religion another sort of fiction, they're readable. Doesn't go for everyone, but if you don't read books just because they involve religion, there's lots you can't read right?
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Affirmation - Savage Garden
Oww lovely, I still have both their CDs somewhere, used to love their music, and I had the biggest crush on the singer. Can never remember if he was Darren or Daniel.
Listening to Marilyn, My Bitterness by the Cruxshadows. <3
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I don't know any books that scare me. There are few films that do, but books, never. They can creep me out, but I have never been scared of any book (since I wasn't a kid anymore that is).. so don't know if you'll succeed, good luck hee hee.
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Hmm, I don't know, I know the female was able to communicate with the humans, but can't remember the rest. Mind you, I was like 11 max when I read this. 17 years ago.
And it's not one of those Larry Niven books. I don't like his style anyway, and those cats in the book I (we) mean were not doing interstellar travel or anything I think, just like tribal villages etc. Not reached that level of technology yet.
Can I read this book?
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Well I haven't read any of those I think, but I picked the next bit off this site:
That's just one review though, there's probably more floating around answering this question. Couldn't get on to the official Robin Hobb site because of some database error, so don't know what they're saying about it.