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21 hours ago, megustaleer said:
You were right first time. You joined BGO before the last crash, and had to re-register. There was some problem with the re-registration, which David sorted out for you and you re-registered, just as you thought, in February 2013. your first post from then is still to be found, 5th post down, here - -https://www.bookgrouponline.com/topic/4214-currently-reading/page/163/#comments (Sorry, I am having trouble getting the Link button to work)
Since we changed to Invision as our host we have been trouble free - no more crashes, but David was taken ill at the end of 2013, and sadly died the following February.BGO has never really recovered.
I am so sorry to hear of his passing.
Thank you for explaining to me what happened.
(yes the link button is broken at the moment unfortunately, but it should be fixed once the forum is hosted with the new hosts).
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15 hours ago, Marie H said:
I'm looking forward to the Feb read-a-thon, as it looks like wintery weather this weekend, so it will be nice to be all cosy reading time.
I totally forgot about it to be honest
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To be fair to myself, the past couple of weeks have been rough, we had a loss in the family
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I'm reading The Pillars of the Earth together with a friend, all through February, and each day I am planning to read the assigned pages/chapters. So I will be reading that on the read-a-thon Friday, Saturday and Sunday too. I'm currently also reading Boys Don't Cry but I expect to have that finished before the weekend. I'll have to see which of my graphic novels, graphic memoirs, comics, illustrated children's books, I feel like reading.
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On 29/01/2021 at 4:54 PM, Hayley said:
I very nearly bought The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet a few years ago because one of the things that really appeals to me about science fiction is the exploration element and I thought it would be that kind of book. Like I loved watching Star Wars as kid mainly to see the different planets (wanted to live on the moon of Endor with the ewoks). But then I saw a couple of reviews of the book that said nothing really happens in it and it’s really just about the handful of characters living on a ship together. So that kind of put me off buying it! I don’t remember seeing your review though Gaia, I’ll have to have a look for it.
I found it for you, here you go:
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I'm currently re-reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (together with a friend) and reading Boys Don't Cry by Malorie Blackman. I'm enjoying both books.
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Oh wow, hi everyone!! How nice to see/have some more people! I am so sorry BGO will close
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I was a member of BGO a long time ago, in 2013. I remember though that at some point something went wrong, and some (months? of) posts were lost. Since I was a new member, that meant all of my posts at the time, from what I recall. So at the time I did make a few more posts after that, but at some point I stopped going there. Ah, I've just logged in to the Book Group Online forum, seems I registered in February 2013 but if I look at the earliest post I made, it was in August 2013, and I see that what I'm typing was after the posts were lost. Now I regret not having stayed
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14 hours ago, Lau_Lou said:
Ready Player one by Ernest Cline
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (I have only read Ready Player One, which I liked a lot at the time, years ago. I've heard mixed things of Two though, not sure that I'll pick it up to be honest).
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12 hours ago, Hayley said:
I did know that! And I love our theme. If it's possible to keep it that would be great (I was just assuming it wouldn't be possible!) but if it looks like it's going to be way too much work then please don't worry about it. I wasn't expecting to be able to keep it. Is there any extra information you need from me that you don't have access to already?
That's good to know, and thank you
. It looks like I have AdminCP access, so that should be enough .
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On 20/01/2021 at 10:49 AM, Madeleine said:
The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins (sorry if that's a bit of a cheat...)
Well book 1 is called The Hunger Games so I think it counts
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The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
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For Your Eyes Only ~ Edenbridge
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That's lovely, Muggle Not!
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Thank you so much for all your work, Hayley!
(P.S. to respond to the announcement, my partner and I made the theme. I wasn't sure if you knew that, but if it is possible and not too much work to make it work with the new forum version, I'm sure he would help me to work it out, if you like. We love the theme but if you want to try something different by ie. downloading a free theme or such, then I don't want to stand in your way).
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7 hours ago, Raven said:
Star Trek: Lower Decks has unexpectedly - for me, anyway - popped up on Amazon Prime, and I watched the whole series over the weekend (10 x 25 minutes episodes over 3 nights isn't that taxing!).
It's basically Futurama meets The Next Generation, and moderately adult in content, but it has some good stories, some good jokes and overall I quite enjoyed it, although it did take a few episodes to get going.
I'm pretty au fait with the various incarnations of Star Trek, but even so I'm pretty sure half the references went straight over my head.
I wasn't expecting it either, but it was a pleasant surprise! I quite enjoyed it too
. I'm pretty sure a lot of references went over my head too, my partner recognised more of them as he has seen things more often than I have. But yes there were a lot of references and he probably didn't catch them all either.
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On 21/01/2021 at 1:24 PM, Brian. said:
After a rather muddy walk this morning I am going to make a start on The Girl Who Reads on the Metro this afternoon.
I have this one on my TBR! A friend of mine read it and she liked it a lot (so I ended up buying it when I found it with a good deal). I hope you like it too!
On 21/01/2021 at 7:55 PM, Lau_Lou said:thank you
I am just unsure of what to read next by her.
Hmm, well to my knowledge, her later / more reeently published books are more thrillers (or thriller-like), whereas most of her earlier works are more contemporary fiction rather than thrillers. So I guess it depends what kind of mood you are in. I have read these ones: My Best Friend's Girl, The Flavours of Love (from what I recall this felt like the first book when the author tried out to make it part thriller and part contemporary fiction), That Girl From Nowhere and From There to Here (a short prequel story to That GIrl From Nowhere). I really liked / or loved all 3 novels and I liked the short prequel story. I have a lot of her works on my TBR, out of those I have heard the most about The Ice Cream Girls, but since I haven't read it myself yet I can't tell you if I like it. I would say, go by which one appeals to you most, but if you have to buy or loan it (ie you don't have any more of her books on your TBR/shelves), I guess you can also by what is available or price/cost etc.
QuoteJacqueline Wilson is one of my favourites. Not all her books I think are great, but this was just awful. Much better books to be read. I must apologise because I swore in my last reply to this topic. I am unsure if I can edit it. I will remember to put in asterisks in. Not that I make a habit of swearing but you know when there is just no other word to describe someone. even if they are a fictional character.
I don't mind the swearing but if you like I can edit your post to make it say 'd*ck' instead? I think you should be able to edit it, as far as I know all members that have more than a small amount of posts (so the badge of your profile says 'member' or 'advanced member' and not 'new member'), should be able to edit their own posts. Yours says 'member' and you have 700+ posts so it should be possible, I think. If not, I'm happy to do it for you, it'd only take me a few seconds. I really don't mind but I won't do it without you giving me permission.
I could also ask Hayley to look into why you can't edit your posts if it turns out you can't and it bothers you that you are unable to do so (it would require admin profile so I can't do that anymore, but it should be easy to check).
QuoteI am so glad I have started it. Again a book I have been meaning to read for ages. My friend told me she was re-watching the film and said she needed to read the book and it spurred me on. So going to watch the film afterwards. I must admit I struggled with it at first, but I am thoroughly enjoying it now. I love how we get to see more than one character's point of view.
I'm glad you are liking it! Yes, I love that too! Most (almost all?) of Jodi Picoult's books have points of view from more than one character (at least, I've read a lot of them, and I think all novels have that except maybe her very first novel (which I DNFed / abandoned), her novellas and short stories usually don't have this feature).
QuoteI have this on my tbr. I haven't read anything by this author either. Sorry you aren't enjoying it so much. Hoping it does get at little better for you.
Thanks
. It didn't (what a load of toss dumpster fire was that! 1.5 star), but ahh they can't all be winners (so far worst book I read in 2021, but then again January isn't over yet 
). The Adrian Mole diaries are much more liked by this author, in comparison, I will try them at some point.
QuoteNice to have those comfort reads. Ones you can go back to time and again. I think about re-reading favourites. I use to be of the mindset of not re-reading because of all the books I want to read that haven't yet. Now I think why should I not revisit the stories I know and love.
Oh yes I love that
. I used to re-read a lot more as a child and young teenager. I didn't have much money to buy lots of books and I loved the comfort of reading a book I already loved. I didn't know much about the book world, nor had information of what would be released etc. I went to libraries lots, and often when I had finished my loans and couldn't yet go to the library again, I'd re-read a book I owned already. Or for example, when we went on holidays, camping, I'd bring some of my owned books, because I'd probably finish my library loans too soon (at the time children (at my town's library) were allowed a certain amount of loans on their card (8? 16? I think it was 4 fiction and 4 non-fiction at first, then later on when I was allowed the 'star' subscription, I was allowed 8 fiction and 8 non-fiction) and since I read fast.. yeah. My mum actually took me to two libraries because one wasn't enough lol (the one in the town we lived in, and the one in the next town over). That all said, there are also library loans I remember re-reading! Mostly books I loved the first time around.
1 hour ago, Chrissy said:Have just finished a trilogy by Angie Sage, Tod Hunter Moon. A really enjoyable read. It has given me a hankering for a visit back to her earlier series of Septimus Heap. I may actually do something I haven't done in years, and read another book alongside this re read. Gosh, I am feeling quite overcome by this development. Not since my degree all those years ago have I done parallel reading. I will have to go rummage for this 'other' book.
I'm glad you really enjoyed Tod Hunter Moon! I read the first two books of the Septimus Heap series (based on your recommendation!) but then stopped (as I got in the mood for something not-fantasy I think).. I should go back to it again at some point (I will but.. so many books to read...
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I have been doing parallel reading / reading more than one book at once, more often in the past year. I hardly ever did that in the years before then, I did do it when I was in high school as we had to read literature / literary works for Dutch and English class and I also wanted to read a book of/for my own (that was not-literary). I've been doing it more often the past year, because I've been reading books more often with people from BookTube and usually they have a schedule of so many pages or chapters a day. So I read in my 'own' book when I have finished those pages/chapters but I still have more time and feel in the mood to do more reading.
Good luck with the rummage
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I love Dune and IT too, 5 stars both from me also. I'm glad you were still able to do some reading using your Kindle
. And it's kinda cool that long books became a feature unintentionally! Usually at least for myself, really long books can intimidate me so I don't pick them up as often as medium size books (then again, I have more medium size books on my TBR, than really long books.. but still). Yay for your experience with Charles Dickens! I've only read some of his short stories (with A Christmas Carol being my favourite by far), not any novel. I'm glad you loved both novels you read by him.
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May they both rest in peace
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13 hours ago, Lau_Lou said:
My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson -
overall a 4 star read and looking forward to reading more by the author.
I read this book many years ago and loved it. I actually found My Best Friend's Girl by coincidence, in a charity shop in the UK (while visiting my boyfriend and his family). I had never heard of the author or the book (this was also way before I knew of the book community, before I found BCF, before I found blogs and YouTube etc). The book's syopsis on the back, sounded appealing to me so I bought it. I loved it. To this day, I haven't heard much about it, in comparison to some of the author's other novels (for example, I hear more about The Ice Cream Girls which was also published some time ago but recently got a new cover). But I loved My Best Friend's Girl at the time, and it made me go and buy more novels by the author. So far I liked or loved all those I have read (and there are still more to read). I'm glad you enjoyed it! I hope you enjoy the next work from the author that you pick up
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QuoteShopaholic To The Stars by Sophie Kinsella - I liked this story following Becky however, again I felt it a little too long. Think it could've been wrapped up some time before it did. I still enjoyed reading it on the whole. Just probably not my favourite of the series. 3 stars.
Agreed. It was definitely not one of my favourites, but still an enjoyable read. Excluding book 10, Christmas Shopaholic, which I have not read yet, I enjoyed the first few books in the series more than the last couple of books.
QuoteWerePuppy by Jacqueline Wilson - I am going through reading all of her books. Came across this one (never heard of it before) this follows Micky and his 4 sisters. 3 older 1 younger. One night they watch a scary film about werewolves. Micky becomes frightened of them and dogs in general so his mum buys him one to "get over his fear" just no! The story itself was just okay but the characters were awful. His little sister bullied him and allowed her friends to too. His father was a complete dick and made him feel like a failure at any given moment. The rest were okay but not really much to write home about. There is a follow up to this which I may read just because it is very short. 1 star.
Wow, this sounds terrible! And I have read and liked some books by this author. I had not heard of this one.. but it doesn't sound good at all.
QuoteCurrently reading My sister's Keeper by Jodi Pilcoult and The Dry By Jane Harper.
I read My Sister's Keeper years ago and loved it. It made me buy and read more books by Jodi Picoult, as that was my first one. I re-read My Sister's Keeper somewhere in the past few years and liked it a lot still (there is also a movie, so I remembered the story more because I saw the movie twice as well. Even though there are some significant differences between the two). I hope you enjoy it!!
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I'm currently reading The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year by Sue Townsend, with 2 other people. So far it is okay.. it has aged / is dated. I don't think it will get a high rating from me but I'm glad it is at least readable as one of the two people I read it with, has DNFed (did-not-finish) / abandoned it. I have not read anything else by the author, people have told me this is definitely not her best work. I have a couple of the Adrian Mole diaries so I will give those a go at some point.
Alongside it I'm currently rereading Verdriet met mayonaise by Carry Slee. It's a Dutch children's book and I have re-read it several times in my life.
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Nice to see you again, Ian!! How've you been?
Any favourite books you read in 2020 you want to tell us about?
I'm glad your first two books read in 2021, were both 5 stars!
8 hours ago, ian said:Oh boy. I've managed to post this 5 times. Sorry folks. How do I remove?
You can delete posts you've made double but I don't think members can delete their own double posted topics. No worries, I'll take care of it
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How nice to see a revival of this thread! I have learnt more about myself since I wrote that first original post, but first I will reply to the new posts.
On 14/01/2021 at 3:28 PM, Lau_Lou said:Like a few have mentioned I can not see a character very vividly. More of a blank canvas. Hair and body shape but not a full on facial features. Also if the author is describing a lay out of a house for example i can only imagine it so far. It's not really easy for me.
Athena, it is interesting you say about having the way a character looks in your head only for the author to describe them later on and its completely different. I read a book a few years ago and the main character had brown curly hair (how I for whatever reason imagined her) then the author goes and mentions her blonde hair. I was like no her hair isnt blonde! My brain just could not change it.
Another thing is if a character is driving. The driver always is sat on the right hand side. Currently reading shopaholic to the stars. Whenever Becky is driving of course she'll be sat on the left hand side as she is in LA but i will always picture her sitting on the other side.
Oh wow that is really interesting about the driving! I'm trying to remember if I have that too, but then with the left hand side as that is how we drive here in NL. I'm trying to remember if I've read a book set in Britain in which a car was driven.. but I don't recall any right now.
On 15/01/2021 at 10:59 AM, Madeleine said:Sometimes I do imagine a certain actor fitting the description of a character in the book, for example I only saw Nicole Kidman as Ada in Cold Mountain, maybe it was written with her in mind? I never pictured Jude Law as Inman though. Other times I do the same as Lau Lou, ie a sort of blurry image without definite features, except for maybe hair colour, I think I have a sort of generic idea of what a character would look like and then project that onto the written description. I think once some books are filmed the authors do sometimes alter the characters in subsequent books to match the actor/s more, I think this happened with the later Inspector Morse books for example, and once I have a physical image of an actor then it's hard to shake that when I read a book featuring their character. Poldark was a difficult one - sometimes I can see Aiden Turner in the book, other times it's Robin Ellis, even though I've only seen a handful of the original episodes.
Yes I find it hard to imagine the book characters too if I've already seen the movie, I end up just picturing them as their movie / TV version. I usually prefer to read the book(s) first, though on occasion that ends up not being the case.
On 15/01/2021 at 11:44 PM, Raven said:I don't know if I'm unusual - well, more than the obvious, anyway - but I have a very visual imagination and "see" books as I am reading them, like a mini movie is being projected on the inside of my tiny brain (the same happens when I listen to film/TV scores etc. I see the images that were on screen as I hear the music, but I digress...).
When I read a book, I "see" characters and places clearly, but in some cases there is a bit of an odd twist on this, because quite often the characters I see are a little "cartoonish" in nature. It's hard to describe in words just what I'm seeing, but George Smiley, for example, I think is described by le Carré in one of his early books as being reminiscent of a frog (or possibly toad like?) and ever since I read that I've always imagined a slightly cartoonish frog/toad [human] wearing a raincoat, but at the same time I've also always associated Alec Guinness with the character as well, so throw in a bit of Obi Wan (actually, one of his Ealing characters would be better) and you have a bit of an odd mental mix (in more than one way...)**
That sounds cool
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On 15/01/2021 at 11:44 PM, Raven said:Like willoyd, above, I don't like seeing film/TV adaptations of books I am interested in reading before I do read them. I stopped watching Game of Thrones after the first series as the show - good though it was - didn't match the mental images I had of the characters and settings, so I stopped and will watch it after Georgie boy finally finishes his written saga (assuming he ever does...) and I have finished reading it (yeah, I know the ending of the TV series sucks!). This is a bit of a double-edged sword, however, as I have a copy of The Martian I am pretty sure I will never read, but I cannot bring myself to watch the film without having read the book first!
I too am waiting for him to finally finish the series! I have seen the first four seasons of the TV series but not more than that (the books were still ahead, which I read first before watching). I lost interest in the TV show because our TV signal at the time was 'buggered' is maybe the British way of saying it, so it was impossible to watch season 5's episodes without lots of signal interruptions, sound loss and image loss. My boyfriend wants to see the rest of it after re-watching it all at some point, but I've kind of lost interest and tbh I prefer the books over the TV show. I read the books before I watched the show, well the ones that are out, the first 5 novels. Ugh I want the 6th and 7th book already.. it is taking so long.. I feel like he seems to (have) spend/spent more time on the TV show and other books (like the history one? Fire and Blood) rather than the actual novels. Of course, he's allowed to do whatever he wants, I just would like to read the last 2 books in the series and finish it.
On 15/01/2021 at 11:44 PM, Raven said:Back to the inside of my head (sorry) and there are mental images from books I have read that are still very strong in my mind, many years after I first read the passages that inspired them. The planet of Echronedal and it's fire driven eco-cycle, as described by Iain M. Banks in The Player of Games; a Cockchafer droning over a hedge in HG Wells The War of the Worlds (and the Martian manoeuvrings that play out around that scene); a city on the edge of collapse, in John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (along with the story of the Triffid's origins). I could go on, and - obviously - all of these books are science fiction novels, which leads me to wonder whether vivid visual imagery is more easily conjured when the source material is more unworldly, although there are a lot of books I have strong visual imagery for that are contemporary and otherwise far more mundane (I developed a very strong and vivid mental image of the character Emma in David Nicholls novel One Day, for example, that is still with me many years after I read the book).
I too have certain images in my mind from specific books that I recall. It's cool you have that too! I really liked The Player of Games (I can kind of see parts of the 'game' in my mind as I imagined them back then) and The War of the Worlds.
On 15/01/2021 at 11:44 PM, Raven said:I've read a lot of Mike Gayle's novels. For those that have not, these are contemporary novels that he started writing from the point of view of the male character in the story, and as someone who is roughly the same age as him the subjects he was talking about and the culture around them struck a chord with me (life post-university, relationships etc.) More recently, his books - to my mind - have veered away from the male confessional genre (books in a similar ilk to High Fidelity and Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby) and more towards Chick-lit. I can't say I've enjoyed his more recent books as much as his earlier ones - that were more relevant to myself - and they sometimes seem to be a little too far-fetched in the leaps the plots take, but they are generally enjoyable, life-affirming stories. Anyway, back to the point, Mike Gayle is black, and for some reason, after seeing him being interviewed on the BBC program Bookworm - many, many moons ago - I have (for the most part) visualised his main characters as being all black as well - although I am pretty sure that isn't the case. I don't really know how the visual part of my brain came to that conclusion.
The second example, and one that may surprise some - given how much I type about these books - is that it took me nearly half of Rivers of London to realise Peter Grant wasn't white (and once I realised that, it took a lot longer to realise his dad, in subsequent books, is). It also took me several books to realise that the rivers themselves are almost all black as well. Re-reading the books, I don't know how I missed it as it is clearly described from the start but, for the first reading of the first few books, I had a mental image of Fleet as being an upper class, elderly white woman, when she is anything but! The only reason I can think to explain this is that I know Ben Aaronovitch is white, so I'm guessing that on some level my brain was thinking white author equals white characters... My mental image of Peter now, btw, comes largely from the graphic novels.
I didn't know Mike Gayle is Black, nice to know! I know nothing about him, I won one of his books in a giveaway many years ago. I haven't read it yet, nor any of the otehr books by him that I bought after winning the giveaway one, whenever I saw them on a sale or saw them cheap. Yes I find that if skin colour is not described at all, often white authors write white main characters. Definitely not always, but often. And many older books written by white authors, don't mention skin colour until a character of colour appears in the story, and then their skin colour is described, but not the skin colour of any of the main (presumed white) characters. I call this 'white-as-default'.
On 15/01/2021 at 11:44 PM, Raven said:I sometimes wonder if the vivid images my mind conjures up are - in part - due to me being a relatively slow reader, and that gives my mind more time to fill in the detail (I have friends who can rip through a book in an afternoon, and remember nothing about it a month later other than they enjoyed it, whilst I can usually remember the plots and characters years after I have read them).
I know now how it works for me (see below), but it is totally possible that for you it has to do with being a slow reader and therefore your mind having more time to fill in the details.
On 15/01/2021 at 11:44 PM, Raven said:Now that I am typing this, and thinking about it in more depth, I'm also beginning to wonder if there is a link between the stories I enjoy the most and the ones I can see most clearly in my mind...
It's not 100% the case for me, but I can certainly see that it could be hte case for someone else!
On 15/01/2021 at 11:44 PM, Raven said:*Especially when you read what follows...
**Yeah, okay, I'm not sure this is going to give you, the reader, an accurate impression of what I actually see in my head space, but - hell - hopefully this is entertaining you, if nothing else!
It was definitely entertaining!
3 hours ago, Madeleine said:Be afraid, be very afraid...... or maybe great minds think alike? You make some interesting points, fascinating to see how people visualise things in different ways.
Small point - I thought they got the Game of Thrones casting pretty spot on, and I agree with LoTR too, great casting (except maybe Liv Tyler as Arwen, who hardly appears in the books compared to the films), a shame another version is being made but t then it is now 20 years since the first film came out
20 years!! Wow. I liked the LoTR films. I was not a fan of The Hobbit films. I have not read the LoTR books but I have read The Hobbit (and prior to seeing the films). In the case of The Hobbit, I much prefer the book. By making one book (and not a huge one at that) into three separate movies, they added stuff.. I felt the actual plot that is in the book, was drawn out in places. I haven't read the LoTR books but the films are very good (and better than The Hobbit ones imo, shrug). When I watched the first LoTR movie, before the others were out, I was unaware it was going to be a trilogy, and I didn't know much about the original books. So I was kind of disappointed that after a long movie it ended on a cliffhanger / open ending rather than end properly (going to add a spoiler here just in case):
Spoiler(basically I was waiting for the characters to get to Sauron's place where they should put the ring in the vulcano thingy?)
And I was disappointed when that did not happen in the first movie. My sister and also my brother loved all the movies. Some years later.. when I watched all of the LoTR movies, they were the extended versions that my parents have on Blu-ray, and.. I'm never doing that again..! I find it hard enough nowadays to concentrate on a 25- or 45-min episode in a TV show. Watching a film that is 4 hours long, times 3.. nope. At the time we divided each LoTR film into 2, so we'd watch 2 hours at a time. I haven't seen a movie in some time, most days I don't have the energy nor the concentration for a movie, and nowadays most movies are 2 or 2 1/2 hours long and not 1h 30 mins anymore.
I watched the 3 Hobbit films on 3 separate times, I think as the Blu-rays came out after each film was released and my dad bought them / was gifted them. I can imagine if you love the universe of LoTR that you like the movies, but I don't, so.. shrug. I know it is one of the most quintessential fantasy stories, and one that was super important to the beginning of the genre. Yet it was always my sister's, and to a lesser extent my brother's thing, when I was a teenager, not my thing. At some point as a teenager I started reading adult fantasy, and it was those books I loved, not LoTR. My sister tried to read LoTR when she was a teenager, but she said the Dutch translation (that my parents had at the time) used a lot of unfamilair words so she gave up.
I know I've gone off topic, but one of my favourite elements of fantasy (epic high adult fantasy is my favourite) is magic, particularly when the main characters / the heroes / the good characters have magic and that it is not just an evil thing.
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Okay now onto the bit of information I referred to in the beginning of my post.
I have since writing that first post, learned that I have (self-diagnosed) partial faceblindness, or prosopagnosia. I have trouble remembering and identifying faces. I mostly recognise people by their hair and skintone, and I do not take in the details of their face much. It is easier with people that I see very often, but with people I see less often it can be hard. It happens sometimes that I'm watching a TV show or movie and have to ask my boyfriend, is this a new character or am I supposed to recognise him? I remember once my boyfriend was watching a movie and I tried to see part of it after I got downstairs or whatever, but there were 2 main characters who had a similar hairstyle and haircolour, and I just could not tell them apart. My boyfriend did not have such issues and he could follow his film allright.
I feel the fact that I have trouble with faces in real life, definitely has something to do with how I imagine characters in my head.
And recently, I 'met' someone online who said in a video, she has something similar, I don't recall the name now but she can't imagine much at all, no images are in her mind when she reads (I'm trying to remember). And she thought it was because of that, that she read faster and read more books in a year than most other people she knew in the book community. Because she didn't spend time imagining the book because she can't (which can be difficult with other areas in your life, and feel isolating, I can imagine).
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It sounds like a terrible read.. !
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I loved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (really liked book 2 in the series, book 3 was allright), and have To Be Taught, If Fortunate on my TBR. I have heard from other people who have read both, that The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet was better. I can't verify this myself until I've read the novella, but I thought I'd let you know anyway.
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, book 1) by George R. R. Martin
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What a shame The Girl Who Reads on the Metro was not great for you
. I hope you will have a 5/5 star read to review / to read too.