Kell
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I doubt we'll be watching the Dr Who Xmas Special this year. We gave up watching the show because we couldn't stand Matt Smith in the role and that sidekick lass, Amy Pond, was so bad she was making us sick every time we saw her. I think we'll just wait till the Dr regenerates and then take another look - but only if Amy Pond is long gone by then!
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I'm just watching a Christopher Eccleston episode on Watch now - it's the first Slitheen one...
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I tried to read Eragon, but felt it read like it was written by a 15-y-o boy with a fantasy fetish. Given that I WAS written by a 15-y-o boy, that shouldn't really be surprising - LOL! I felt the writing lacked maturity (which, again, is fair enough when the author's age is taken into account) but I just couldn't get on with it at all.
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Mac, I love you. You always make me laugh.
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I'm with Mac - I wan't find of Cather in the Rye either. I found it very dull and I really didn't get on with Holden Caulfield at all. Perhaps I came to it too late to readily identify, but I suspect I wouldn't have liked it as a teen either.
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I buy almost all my books either second hand, from bargain bookstores or from supermarkets. The only time I buy from bookshops is when they have sales or I have vouchers.
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I can't drive, so I walk pretty much everywhere, or get a us if it's a bit far. Hubby drives though - we have a dark metallic gunmetal grey Seat Ibiza which we bought new this year at Easter.
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hot, buttery salted popcorn - yummy!
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Homemade pizza with pepperoni, pineapple, sweetcorn and mozarella. Mmmmmmm - delicious!
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Gleaned from Wiki (so you'd have to look into what you could get for free):
Q:
- Roberto Quaglia
- Erica Quest (a pseudonym of Nancy Buckingham and John Sawyer)
- Jorge Queirolo
- Amanda Quick (a pseudonym of Jayne Ann Krentz)
- Julia Quinn
U:
- Jenny Uglow
- Lisa Unger
- Tomi Ungerer
- Harilal Upadhyay
- John Updike (The Witches of Eastwick is VERY goo d- borrow it from your library!)
- Leon Uris
- Emma Maree Urquhart
X:
I'm sorry, I couldn't find any for X!
Y:
- Agustín Yáñez
- Michael Yarwood
- Dornford Yates
- Richard Yates
- William Butler Yeats
- Tamar Yellin
- Frank Yerby
- Jane Yolen
- Rebecca York
- Banana Yoshimoto
- Than Yutthachaibodin
- Ed Young
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- Gary Yukl
- Lin Yutang
Hope that's of some use to you.
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I detested The Lovely Bones. I thought it was a bad story and badly written.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin irritated me so much because it had great promise as a story, it was just de Bernières writing that made I found almost unreadable. I know lots of people love it, but not me.
I liked the story. I didn't like the ending. I'm with you on the writing - I thought it was quite wordy but it didn't bother me because I was backpacking when I read it and was grateful that it took me so long to read.
I couldn't finish it - it was just so dull!
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Not as many as I used to, as I now pass so many on, either to my sister, or selling them on Green Metropolis, or leaving them at a Book Crossing site.
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Yoda (I used the force)
Luke SKywalker?
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My reading seems to have taken another dip as I've got several chunky books no the go at once - LOL! As a consequence, I've decided to have a look at some Edgar Allan Poe via DailyLit in November so that even if I do't get my chunky books finished, I can feel I've finished something - LOL!
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Okay I'm not sure of this guy's name and I'm feeling a bit too lazy at the mo to look him up, but he's on a show here called Criminal Minds. He's a psychologist and has long hair. I don't know what it is, but sometimes I see him and I can't stop looking!
You mean Dr Spencer Reid, the young one? He's cut his hair off now and looks much better, so I'll second him! The actor's name is Matthew Gray Gubler andhe's just darling! Makes me want to give him a huge hug.
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I really didn't like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Snoozer. To be fair I only made it to page 225, but that was far enough.
I made it almost halfway through, but got shot of it after that as I found it exceedingly dull and incredibly predictable. I later discovered that the prediction I made literally a couple of pages into the book was bangon the money, meaning that reading the rest of the book would have been pointless anyway. If I can work out what's going to happen within a couple of pages, then it must be blindingly obvious - to my mind, it's bad writing to make things too easy to spot - I like a little bit of mystery and intrigue.
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Quite by coincidence, I'm reading a vampire book - Denied by Pat Brien. I've been reading it a while now, but it's a bit of a chunker and I've been quite busy, so I'm still going with it. It's pretty good though.
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Tim Curry was gorgeous as Frank N Furter, and also as Rooster in Annie. Not so much these days though. Shame.
I have a bit of a crush on Patrick "Jean Luc Picard" Stewart - sexy voice and fine features. He might be a lot older than me, but wow!
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I've never been able to read Lord of the Rings because Tolkien goes on for pages and pages of description when he could be getting on with the story, and then, just as he's starting to get back on track, people burst into lengthy songs or start speaking Elvish. I gave up on The Hobbit too.
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon is awful - he begin sentences with "and" and "but" and then runs sentences on like long lists, "And this and this and that and the other and this too. But then that and this and this and that..." for entire paragraphs. On top of that, the story is exceedingly dull and he takes too long in the telling - very badly written, and yet we were expected to read and study it for Higher English. I never did finish it as it was so dire.
The Twilight Saga is quite possibly THE most over-hyped piece of tosh I've ever read. I've said it before and I'll happily say it again - Meyer can't write for toffee. Her characters are wimpish and needy and she has no flair at all for contruction or progression. I really cannot understand why so many people go gaga over them!
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - I found this very cold, clinical and emotionless and had great difficulty identifying with the narrator - I just didn't feel anything towards her at all. Nothing much seemed to happen and despite her month in New York, her life seemed very dull. I got absolutely nothing out of this - it felt so disjointed and I felt it had very little flow. It felt like such a chore to read this and I kind of wished I'd put it down early on and given up on it – I would have done if it hadn’t been chosen for a reading circle and been so short.
Eragon by Christopher Paolini - Reads like it was written by a 15-y-o boy (which I think it actually wad). Unfortunately, I found it to be horribly turgid like trying to read a D&D manual (which is possibly what inspired it in the first place!). I couldn't get very far into it because it was so bad.
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver - Incredibly predictable. I'll let you read my full REVIEW to see exactly what I hated so much about this one though.
As you can see, I've found quite a few popular books dire...
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Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu is great.
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If those are funny, then I must have had a humour bypass - I didn't even smirk once while reading them!
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I can only think of older ones:
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Babooshka - Kate Bush
Ballad of the Cursed Anna - Jonathan Kelly
Teacher - Jethro Tull
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Personally, I think it's a mistake to release a 3D version unless it was originally shot in 3D as the quality is never as good. All the production companies are at it though - take, for example, the Harry Potter films (of course, I've extended beyond what is currently available, but you can see it's going to happen this way already):
- First film is released on DVD
- Special edition is relieased on DVD
- 2nd film released
- special editon of 2nd film released
- 3rd film released
- special edition released
- box set of films 1-3 released
- special collectors' box set of films 1-3 released
- 4th film released
- special edition
- 5th film released
- special edition
- 6th film released
- special edition
- 7th film pt 1 released
- special edition
- 7th film part 2 released
- special edition
- special editon of pts 1 & 2 of 7th film together
- special collectors' box set of all films (with parts 1 & 2 of film 7 on seperate disks)
- special collectors' box set of all films (with parts 1 & 2 of film 7 on same disk)
- 3d editions of each movie released individually
- special 3D box set edition released of all 7 movies together
- 10th anniversary special collectors' editions of each film individually released
- 10th anniversary special collectors' edition box set of all 7 films released
- same for 25th anniversary
This is happening for more and more franchises now. Just look at how many different versions and box sets and collectors' editions there are of the Twilight films and they've not finished filming that series yet - and the last one is getting split in two as well, if I remember correctly!
It's all about squeezing as much cash out of the fans as possible. Even Cameron rereleased Avater back into the cinemas not long after its first run - with a few minutes of extra footage o entice people to come back and see it again, even if they'd already seen it - a total scam if you ask me!
new Jane Eyre film
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I saw a version with Ciaran Hinds and Samantha Morton which certainly delivered in the plainness of the leads - they both looked decidedly plain (despite her being quite a striking-looking woman). It was made for TV in 1997, but not bad at all, if I recall.