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Ach, so you already knew I don't get easily disturbed myself, but I have to say the . I hope the book will prove to satisfy you morre than the movie

There's some pretty disturbing stuff in the book, so consider yourself warned! It's good so far nonetheless.

I'm sorry, but that's how the forum works My TBR has grown with about 200 titles since I joined about 2,5 years ago. I'm afraid I'll never be able to reduce it to two-digits! Many people have said it before, but I'll say it again: this forum should come with a warning! I'm glad you've found Jasper Fforde, his Thursday Next -series is really great

Like others have already said, my tastes haven't really changed but the scope of genres, authors and titles I read nowadays has definitely expanded. From here I get recommendations of novels that I wouldn't know to pick up otherwise. I think I wouldn't have started reading The Twilight series if it wasn't for the fan base on here I've also found a lot of great thriller authors thanks to the thriller readers! Jeffery Deaver, Karin Slaughter, Kathy Reichs... I've always enjoyed reading classics but nowadays I'm more determined to read them every now and then and not just once a year. It's also much more enjoyable to do the Rory Gilmore challenge with the awesome bunch of people who are determined to do likewise.

The book is WHACK But it's very readable and quite enjoyable at times. Short, as well I started reading John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In. I bought this book last year in English and started reading it but didn't get quite far. Now I found the book in the library and in Finnish and started reading this copy. I think I shouldn't read any English translations of Swedish novels, Swedish is so easily translated into Finnish and they are so much more similar than Swedish and English. I might give away my English copy.

Finished the novel. I don't think I had much to add to what you'd already said in the thread, concerning the bizarreness of the novel

I started and finished this book today. What an odd piece of literature! I picked it up because it's on 1001 Books list and Rory Gilmore book list, and because Nick Hornby mentioned it in The Complete Polysyllabic Spree. And it is a classic. I had no notions of what the story would be about. I didn't read the blurb all the way but did notice that Voltaire was a great filosopher and the story is about a young man. So I kind of thought the novel might be very difficult to read and it might be full of philosophical ponderings. Instead, I got to read about the most bizarre series of events. People dying here and there, only to be discovered that they were alive years later. When I was reading this part, I was astounded! Birds could've made a nest in my mouth and I wouldn't have noticed a thing, it was so wide open. I mean, it's a bloody classic! If I were to write about monkeys going after women and all that, who'd read it in 2010 and 200 years after that? Not one single person. And I dare guess it wouldn't become a classic. The book was totally bizarre. I guess I might've missed out all the philosophical ideas and all the hidden meanings and symbolism and all the literary and academic stuff, I've never been any good at philosophy. To me it was just a very odd book. I did enjoy reading it though, which I find even more bizarre

I find it very odd in a way. It's very readable and quite short, and it's alright so far (I've read maybe one third of the novel), but the characters go through quite unbelievable stuff and they just kind of find themselves here and there doing this and that and the plot is racing forward with no direction I guess that's the way novels were written back in the day. A bit strange but still an okay read, do try it!

I'm currently reading Candide by Voltaire.

I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, from the Rory list. I really enjoyed this one! At first I had a difficult time getting inside the main character's head but the more I read the more I liked him and maybe even understood him. I know Kylie's read this one as well and I think I can speak for her as well when I say this one comes with a recommendation Anyways, those of you who've been reading The Complete Polysyllabic Spree may have noticed the chapter where Hornby discusses M�tley Cr�e's book The Dirt. This one seems to me like a really interesting read and Lucybird and I were discussing maybe having it as a group reading sometime in the future. Anyone interested? There's no rush, it's just a thought.

I finished Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower and I really loved it Don't know what to read next though.

I hate it when other people do it well and make it seem so easy, I've never gotten the hang of it Edit: Beyonce goes hola hooping in her music vid Work It Out and she doesn't just do it in the normal way, she includes that one particular dance move, I don't remember what it's called. She's got skills, I envy her

I'm really glad to hear you've finished it and truly enjoyed it, Nollaig I'm still reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It's really great but I haven't had time to read it as much as I would like to.

Tearjerker is one of my favorites from the "ballads", as in slower songs. The beginning of the song always gives me chills, it's so beautiful and so melancholic. When I got the album, the first couple of times I couldn't listen to it without getting my eyes a bit teary Ah, now I get what you meant by calling them underrated. The nu-metal genre is a bit difficult and I don't even know any people who'd like to use the term to describe a band. Anyways, nice to know you're into their music as well, I guess we established that throughout our numerous posts BTW, QotSA is always a good choice too Listening to Korn, again.

Glad you got another 45 minutes of sleep and rest It would be nice if one could leave one's brain in a hanger somewhere when going to sleep, right? I don't remember us being so obnoxious when we were younger either. I think it's like every generation gets worse than the previous one. I definitely agree with you on the whole materialism relating to the issue. "When I was younger, we used to walk 30 km to school and we didn't have shoes!" Well, usually the names are not translated to Finnish in fiction. For instance, Walter doesn't turn into Valtteri and Henry into Henri. The translators use the English names. But in the case of Harry Potter, it's different. I think because the names aren't all the usual kind of names but they mean something particular in English, something that relates to that character and his/her personal traits. Harry Potter is Harry Potter in the Finnish translation, and Hermione Granger is Hermione Granger. Sirius Black is Sirius Musta ('musta' = 'black') and Snape is Kalkaros (for the reasons I already talked about). So it's not like all the names are changes, only the ones that seem to have a special meaning in English as well. I didn't know about Ziegfeld Follies but I wikied it and wow I'm really impressed! You've got some great roots, peace, what with you Dad having been a musician as well Have you seen the films? Wouldn't it be cool and sort of surreal to see her in them? Listen to you, trying to capitalize even book titles! McCarthy would be proud! (I'm sorry, I couldn't stop myself when there was such a great opportunity ) For me, the question would be more like "why would you capitalize all the words in a title?". I would understand if you spoke German because they capitalize nouns, but you don't do that in English so why would you do that in book titles? Does it stem from the Germanic origins, meaning you also capitalized nouns in Old English? Trust me, the Finnish way makes more since

I'd prefer to use the adjective 'wiser'

I will, I will!

I'm listening to Korn on Spotify yet again. I've just discovered the beauty of the song Alone I Break! I had no idea they are underrated? I mean, I don't actually know the Finnish consensus of the band but I figured they're doing pretty good here and so I thought they'd be doing great elsewhere as well. Too bad it that's not the case, people are missing out! They have really original songs, morbid ones and humorous ones as well. How many bands have invented a song on the known gimmick of the label A.D.I.D.A.S?? They've also done some great covers, the Metallica song and The Lowrider, which is really fantastic. I've also just discovered their version of the Pink Floyd song We Don't Need No Education which I think is better than the original one. You've actually seen them play live?? I'm soooo jealous The acoustic versions are overall excellent as well, they do a couple of songs I thought would be just absolutely impossible to play as acoustic versions.