Kell
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I've not read The Running Man, bnut it's the basis for the film of the same name starring Arnie Schwarzennegger - pretty decent film, but from what i've heard, nowhere near as good as the book (as per usual!).
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That's a VERy good point, Adam - it might actally increase readership! Now THAT'S a wonderful thought.
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Dictionaries are fantastic! When I was at college, I used to open my dictionary every morning at a random page and choose a word. I would then try to use that word at some point during the day.
I really sould take that up again - it was a lot of fun!
Whenever I come across I word I don't know, I reach straight for the dictionary - or nip over to Dictionary.com - to look it up.
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Now, that's upset me quite a bit. What if other publishers follow suit? I LOVE having hardbacks - they last longer and they look nicer on my shelf.
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Drop the price and change the design (maybe they should get Apple on board!) and then I might consider it.
I agree - Apple always seem to have really cool or sleek designs. It could just look SO much nicer than it does!
So I'm a superbookwormaholic.! Sue me.!
Nothing can take away the textural feel of a book hard/paper back, ooooh and the lovely smell of it too, and another thing, they look great when finished reading them, sitting nestled on your book shelf/case.
Anyone disagree.?
Me too - Nothing will ever replace physical books for me, but it would be handy if I was travelling anywhere - I could have SUCH choice to take with me.
But then, deciding WHICH 200 books to download would have me wracking my brains!
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It's a really nice idea, but it's WAY too pricey and it looks like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I don't like how it looks at all - I think it looks cheap and slightly tacky. If I'm paying $400 for something like that, I want it to look sleek and have a brushed metal finish and changeable covers! My full thoughts HERE on my blog. -
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I must have around 1000, but my shortest answer to your question is NOT ENOUGH!
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I've only read two of them, but I loved them both - Life of Pi and The Interpretation of Murder. Both very different and both with their own merits.
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Welcome to teh forum, Renius! I hope you'll enjoy sharing your favourite books and authors with us.
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Do you find yourself drawn to one particular genre? Or do you bounce around?
I used to stick mainly to horror when I was younger, but nowadays I make a concerted effort to try different genres and authors, and generally mix things up a lot to keep them interesting. I discovered, over the last couple of years, a love of historical fiction, and this year, an adoration of some of the classics! I've also been exploring foreign authors a lot more, purposely searching them out on occasion!
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anything written by jane austen (purely cos my mum watches pride and prejudice at least once a month and if i ever read about mr darcy id want to burn the page)
That's a shame. Perhaps you could try Northanger Abbey instead - it's quite humourous and a very clever satire on Gothic novels. It's my absolute favourite of hers that I've read so far (much as I loved P&P, it didn't match up to NA in my opinion!).
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Atonement is a shocker. Almost everything I hate in a book in one place. And, as always, because it's a book about authors and writing, it's loved by book reviewers and Booker types, despite being a desperate failure of imagination on the part of the writer, and despite Booker judges being all authors and therefore, really, the only people who "get" it. Utter pish.
I am SO glad I didn't bother with it then! It really didn't fancy it anyway, but you've confirmed that I most likely wouldn't enjoy it. Thanks, Andy!
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Title: Rebecca
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
ISBN: 1844080382
Publisher: Virago modern Classics
First published: 1938
No.of Pages: 428
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Synopsis:
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again... Working as a lady's companion, the nameless heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers... Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.
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Title: A Room with a View
Author: E. M. Forster
Publisher: Librivox
First published: 1908
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When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon her return to England, she is forced to choose between free-spirited George and her more conventional fianc
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Albert Einstein...
Albert was SO CLOSE to being on my list, but I decided to balance the male/female ratio and invited Cleopatra instead - they were evens on choice and I was trying to decide which to invite.
Actually, can I come along as an extra person to everyone else's dinner parties? They all sound like wonderful mixes and would be very interesting. I would, or course, promise to polish my wit till it was sparkling!
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Which of your books have you most enjoyed writing, and why?
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1. Cary Grant - smooth, sophisticated, handsome, intelligent and with an excellent sense of humour, he'd be the perfect dinner guest.
2. Terry Pratchett - Quirky, clever and the most exquisite satirist living today (in my opinion). And I'd get extra insight into all his Discworld characters.
3. Queen Elizabeth I - One of the best loved monarch's England ever had, she was a woman ruling in a man's world. I'd love to get her perspective on things today.
4. Cleopatra - Another ruling woman who played by her own rules and refused to share the throne with her brother. Ruthless and passionate - I think she'd be one of the most interesting conversationalists in the room!
There were countless others who I would love to have included, but the limit was four, so those are the ones who made the cut. Four very different people from very different eras and situations - and I've even balanced the place settings with equal numbers of men and women!
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I have that one too. How did you get into my flat???!!!
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Are you raiding my bookcases? I have Valley of the Dolls waiting on my shelf too!
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You finished it already? I've only finished chapter 2! Right enough I'm listening to it on my iPod while I walk to and from work, but crikey! You must have been going like the clappers!
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I listened to the first chapter on my abortive walk to work this morning. Looks like it could be good. I did see the film years ago and loved it, so I'm hopeful that the book will be even better, or at least on a par with its film adaptation!
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I've not been in much of a reading mood lately - my mojo seems to be on the fritz! I've ditched several books recently because they just weren't engaging me, despite being critically acclaimed novels (Brick Lane and The Mystic Masseur) and even though I'm enjoying my current read (The Identity Factor), I'm finding that if I read for longer than about 20 minutes, my mind starts majorly wandering and I end up having to re-read chunks of text to get back to where I was.
It's very annoying, as I really do want to read this book (I started reading it on 7 November, and here we are almost a week later and I'm only on page 158! That's VERY slow reading for me!
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Another set of identi0kit books I'm refusing to read due to the publisher's lack of imagination on cover design is all the dog books about lately. It started with Marley and Me, but since then, I've seen books about loads of other people's dogs too, including (to name but a few):
Now, I want to point out that I am a dog-lover and have had dogs myself, but I'm willing to bet that, with very few exceptions, the stories of these dogs will be almost identical to the story of ANY dogs ANYWHERE and that dog owners will recognise many of the escapades in these books (I can't say for sure as I've never read them and have no intention of doing so, but I think I'm fairly safe in surmising this!). Every pet owner likes to think that their pet is special in some way - and they're right - their pet IS special - TO THEM. I just find it amazing that all these people are able to cash in whittering on about their dogs!
How many books do you own?
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Fireball - I LOVED Perfume and still sold my copy on, as I knew I'd probably not read that one again. The Da Vinci Code I enjoyed well enough at the time, but since then it's lost a lot of appeal for me in my mind as I've subsequently read similarly-styled novels that were far better written - funny how that happens, eh? - my Dad has my copy at the moment as nobody had bought it yet (yes, it's listed for sale too).
I acquire so many new books every year (well in excess of 100 per year, I'd extimate), that if I kept them all I'd have no room to move! I keep those I know I'll read again, or are part of my collections by various authors I adore, but over the last few years I've realised that there are many books I WON'T read again and therefore are taking up valuable shelf space that could be given over to new books. It also means, once I've sold them, that I have extra funds for those new books.