Univerze
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Nope, it doesn't, and I have checked but I can't seem to find the book amongst hers. If only there would be a proper site with all book covers.
@dvaessen: that book cover does sound familiar. If I am not mistaken, these cat like creatures had this sort of hook on the end of their tails, like, a bony hook. Ring a bell?
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Oh we have two sorts of teabags, one for one cup of tea, and the other for a whole pot. But honestly, we barely know teapots here for real use, try to find a teacozy here, pff. Hard quest.
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Finally started book 4 in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.. the Shadow Rising. Ahh is good to get back to this world.
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I also love tea, but try to avoid the heavily caffeinated stuff as I know that caffeine isn't good for you. I tend to drink Roobosch (sometimes known as Red Bush) which is a South African tea free from caffeine, tanin and virtually everything else. It is a bit of an acquired taste, but is served in exactly the same way as ordinary tea, with milk or lemon (I prefer milk). I have about 3 or maybe 4 mugs a day.
We call it Rooibos.. I like it lots. Also nice when there's stuff added to it, you have it in several tastes. Including honey, but am not a fan of honey. Just drink it when I have a sore throat. I love coffee, and hate de-caf, so could never not drink caffeine.
Also, we here don't drink tea with milk. Ever. Just sugar. Lemon, also not much here, in iced tea yes, but not in hot tea. I learned to drink tea with milk with a friend in the UK, and learned why you guys HAVE to have milk in it.. you make your tea way stronger! We just dip the teabag in water for a little while, don't leave it in there for minutes!
Oh, and why don't you guys have teabags with strings on it, way easier.
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It may surprise you but The Road has a very eerie and macabre atmosphere attached to it, all ashen skies and deserted cities. Has a very unworldy feel to the whole tone of the book.
You kidding? I thought it was dull and very little about it was unnerving, so little actually that I remember not much of it, if I have to describe what stuch by me best of that book is "grey".. landscapes, people, and, unfortunately, also grey as is kinda boring. That's just me though, have heard loads loving it.
I have to agree on H.P. Lovecraft. He has the same atmosphere of other-worldliness, things that are so horrible they ruin the mind forever. I don't like there are just short stories by him, but they are good none the less.
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I love tea, especially when I'm sick of coffee hee hee, happens sometimes, plus I never drink coffee after dinner time.
I love green tea, and have several, with mint, or with papaya and some other exotic fruit, that's great. Peppermint tea, or rooibos are some of my favs too. Earl Grey, sometimes. Cherry and cinnamon tea, love all things cherry and cinnamon sooo.. oh and melon tea, with cantaloupe melon is good for summer days.
I love the tea they call "morrocco" over here, it's got cinnamon and peppermint, thought that would be a disgusting combo, but it's actually nice, if you're in the mood for it.
I love so many teas, I think I might have like 20 different kinds, I really love fruit teas and green teas so there's lot of choice. However what I just can;t stand are teas that have some sort of flower in them. Jasmin, Rose, you name it. I tried, but just makes me feel like I am drinking perfume, especially since I had both Jasmin and Rose perfume in the past.
So no flower teas for me. Anyone know how (eglantine) rose hip tea (what a weird name, we call it rozenbottel) tastes? Is it flowery?? Have been meaning to try but am a little hesitant.
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Are you sure this isn't it? I mean I googled the synopsis (yes, the entire thing) and over and over, from different sites you just get the book you mentioned. Otherwise I have no idea.
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If it's the book Crissy mentions it's not the book I am thinking about, but I might have the same problem, can it be that this book's a kid's book, or YA? It rings a bell, is this on a world where there are storms with very high wind velocities, the book I read might have been on Jupiter (I know there's no life possibly there but the book pretends it's different than what we know of it).
Anyway.. although the energy levels etc and aerial creatures don't sound familiar, it's possible I have been looking for this book for ages too. Also, read it in Dutch. Are we sure it's not a Dutch book? I know dutch sci-fi is rare, but still.
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^A bruise, really? I tried those but they didn't work for me, no bruise but barely half of my hair removed.
Now I epilate with one of those little devices, those machines? It hurts yes, but it's worth it. I learned that maybe I am more mature than I thought. Was rethinking the chat I had with my friend when we went into town today. We chatted over tea, and thinking back that was quite an adult convo. Hee hee.
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Univerze, I just wondered what you meant by "urban fantasy"?
Let me give the link, since I don't feel up for giving a proper definition myself.. I didn't think of the term either, and think it's sort of silly.
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Dvd 4 and 5 of season 8 of the X-files. Me loves X-Files. I've got such a big thing for Mulder.
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The Neverending Story. No doubt, even though it's nowhere really true to the book, I have read the book several times already too, but this movie is my childhood classic.
I haven't seen the Princess Bride, I know, it's horrible I haven't.. it's in my dvd cabinet, I bought it last year but haven't gotten around to watching it.
I love Black Books too, so funny.
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The eighties was mostly awful. I was lucky I was a goth so I had The Cure and Siouxsie.
Just The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees?
Not Clan of Xymox, Bauhaus (some in the 80s), Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim and ehh.. there's probably more. Ahh, how can I forget Depeche Mode?? Listen to them frequently.
I love most of these.. So the 80's is good. Love the feel of this music, so different from these days.. though I love the 2000's too, lots of great bands, and there still are so the 2010s will be good too.
Not a big fan of the 90's. Though there's probably some good music in each decade, I don't know much older music than the 70's or something, I know it, but don't listen to it. Then again I was born in 1982 so..
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^No I agree, I refuse to read more Dan Brown, I didn't LOVE the films, but thought they were okay, I tried to read the DaVinci Code and didn't get very far cause it bored the heck out of me.
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^Hey, didn't know there was another Dutchie around here. Hello!
I refuse to read chick lit. Those books about women in high high heels and their society life.. blahblahblah. You know, the book version of Sex and the City. And all those tv series made for women.. I don't watch those, and such books I would find even worse. Nu-uh, give me good sci-fi and fantasy any day.
Also, so far, I refuse to read the Twilight books. Yes, so far, since I don't discount me ever reading them as a possibility. Just to see what the fuss is about.
Oh and I have gone off most urban fantasy, they just all seem the same. I read Laurell Hamilton, and will stick to that. I have two keri Arthur books in my bookcase, and have read more in this genre, but once you know one writer's work, the rest is more of the same.
Anything else... ehh. Books that are too much like real life. I read for escapism, so to read books about someone getting cheated on or getting cancer (say this book that's famous here and just been made a movie of "Er komt een vrouw bij de dokter").. I am not reading those. I don't want to read about anything that I can live in real life.
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Well there's good and original fantasy out there, you just have to look really hard. Or you have series that the writer intended to be LotR-like.. like some books in the Wheel of Time series. Terry Pratchett writes humoristic fantasy right? That's what has kept me from reading any of his books, I don't like my books to be too funny if you know what I mean.. I like books that make me laugh or smile incidentally of course, but the bits and pieces I have read about TP make me think I won't enjoy those books. I like heavy, dark and intense fantasy.
Philip Pullman is good I agree, only read the first in the series so far, when I finished that years ago the later parts hadn't been released or translated yet (just checked, yeah can be not released, read it somewhere in my teens and the Subtle Knife was released in 1997, I was 15 then). They're on my to-read list. Though the film the Golden Compass made sure I didn't feel like reading it for a while. Didn't particularly like the film. Ehh back on topic. Who was it that said alternate realities? I like that too, alternate history etc. Which is what I like too in the Kushiel's Dart series.. it's almost our own world, only not. But we could use some more alternate history novels.
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More decent original fantasy.. most fantasy books seem to follow Tolkien's example.. an ancient evil arises again, a fellowship
of people have to make a long and hard journey to counter it and save the world, there are some losses along the way.. well you know what I mean. Some sci-fi that's not a space-opera sort of thing.
But most of all, since I love these type of books but they are rare, and decent ones most of all, some proper post-apocalyptic books. And I don't mean the type where the world has resorted back to medieval society really, those are plenty.. that's when you sort of get fantasy books. No, I mean the first few years after the apocalyps, the first few centuries. And I like details about the apocalyps, not some general disaster that happened, without more info.. I like the science to be good too, if you know what I mean. I hate reading books where the science is so general or flawed.
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I was reading upon the black hole theories too, about how it could be potentially be a wormhole to another galaxy containing the opposite matter to ours. It's crazy
Truely it is, which is part of why I love it. This is one of my fav subjects in astronomy and astrophysics, if only I was smarter I'd understand it better.
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@Cookie.. oh no, that's a HORRIBLE pic of him, he looks all goodguy-ish. He needs to be a bad guy, he looks better as Snape does now, really.
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Sometimes.. However I don't read many books these days that aren't already by an author I know or from a series I've read the rest of, I mean I set myself to finishing all those series before trying something new, keep losing gtrack of where I am in series and then having to start over. Blah.
But I don't read many books before I get to the right one, most of the time, since I first sit around thinking about what I like to read at that moment. I can think for hours about what kind of book I'd like to read.
And sometimes, there's nothing better than re-reading a book you've read a million times. So then it's easy.
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Well not much more to add. I love this film, I love Christian Bale, always have, Sean Bean is my true love though.
This film does feel like a mash up of several dystopian books (not films) but that can only be a good film. It suggests a future that might be, though I think it never will, think there's enough people going against it to prevent it. Still, the idea.. Good film.
Oh and as a defence, I do LOVE the Matrix too. Keanu Reeves might be as he's acting the same part over and over in every film he does... but I do love the Matrix trilogy too.
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I heard a rumour that Anne Rice is in talks with movie producers about remaking Lestat and QOTD as two separate movies, therefore restoring order in the world
From the Anne Rice website, in July 2009:
Please be assured that I personally want to see films based on all of these books , and once again let me state that my agents work constantly on possible film projects.I love movies and always have, and it is something of an irony that as of now, only two faithful adaptations of my work have been done. Never have I stood in the way of a production. On the contrary, I have sought to be open in negotiations and in development. But film is a collaborative art form, and the author
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You know I have never read more from CB than "Hellbound Heart".. and that just because I loved the first few Hellraiser films, not cause they're that good, but because pain as pleasure intrigues me. Always has. Though honestly, in this book, and the films, that's taken a little far as to a point where it scares me.
But I liked the book, more moderate than the film, or maybe that's cause seeing it is different than reading it.
Old-ish sour cream... is it safe?
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Hee hee I'd throw it away. But I'm fast to do that if I don't trust food anymore, don't want to end up with any kind of food poisoning. So I usually try to buy so little of something it gets finished in a few days.
Or just throw it out.