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I don't care about an author's appearance. I read a book for its content.
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I've read this and wasn't impressed. The Da Vinci code didn't do much for me either.
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I wouldn't be attracted to a book just for its gore. Even so if there's gorey stuff I'd have to be in the mood to read it. I also have to agree that the more fictious the setting or story it means the gorey stuff is easier to read about. I just finished the last of the books by Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy. One of the main characters is a torturer who had been tortured in the past and there is some details of what he does to some people. I just read faster to get that stuff out of the way.
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I tensed, inhaled and caught the scent of a stranger. The hairs on the back of my neck rose.
"Dad?" a voice called.
Men of The Otherworld, Kelly Armstrong.
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I've just finished The Vampire Lestat and I must say he is now my firm favourite character. He, like Louis, is also a tortured soul and isn't as hard hearted as I expected him to be after reading Interview With The Vampire.
There are books dedicated to Armand and Marius in the series so maybe my opinion of them will change after reading these, but at the moment I'm not too keen on either of them. We shall see!
I've read them and my opinion didn't change. Happy reading anyway:)
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Azoth squatted in the alley, cold mud squishing through his bare toes.
The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks, book one of The Night Angel Triology.
I knew there was evil in the world.
The Trouble With Demons by Lisa Shearin.
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Hmmm, well Bram Stoker did start out the whole tragic/tortured vampire thing. Anne rice's rogue Lestat gets to have many adventures. Charlaine Harris's Eric is entertaining as the desirable but dangerous guy in the Sookie Stackhouse series. JR Ward has a sort of hip hop approach with her boys from the Black Dagger brotherhood series. Sherilyn Kenyon has Daemons and Darkhunters with an intriging Acheron. Many others do the macho man thing that draws the ladies. I'd have to go with Lestat as others have already mentioned. Louie is nice though and I don't care for Armand or Marius.
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I'm the opposite; I find that no movie director can present me with images more disturbing than those I can conjure up in my mind under the influence of skilful writing...
*sigh* I agree. That also means that no movie would be as imaginative or as entertaining than what I can imagine.
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I go for tittle then synopsis then the first page followed by a quick scan through the book to see if I like the style of writing.
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I've read Brent Weeks's Way of the Shadow about a street child who becomes an appretice to Wetboy (assasin extrodinaire). I think this is a great start for a new writer.
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I last read this book in my teens and I still remember it. Especially an poignant part where the guy is in a caf
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Predictability won't necessarily put me off a book. It would depend on my mood whilst reading. Sometimes familiarity is comforting however I would enjoy a happy ending more in familiar plot, say for instance, if changes in how that happy ending comes about. At other times twists and suprises are quite a delight.
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When I was a teen I'd try to read in the car/bus etc since I had an hour plus commute to school and the same to return home. I'd get nauseaous so when someone told be this could be the reason I stopped. It turned out that stress and adolescence were the cause of the nausea since in the maternal side of my family migraine headaches were common in the teens when stressed out. The nausea was the aura or start of the headache by the time I got home the headache would kick in even when I wasn't reading. Now I read when I travel and thankfully migraine headaches are rare.
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Ah, but is he a villain? The matter is far from decided; I should know as I'm currently in the midst of writing an essay on the subject. Shylock is a usurer because Christian society won't allow him a more dignifid profession, he has spent all his life being spat upon, called names, discriminated against in every possible way - such treatment would hardly make anyone into a saint, in my opinion.
I don't go the full length of some critics and class him as a wronged hero; undoubtedly by the end he's lost all proper sense of right and wrong, but to class him as a clear cut villain is I think also inappropriate. Personally I like to think of him as someone who was made into a villain - more or less like Mary Shelley's Creature from "Frankenstein", the only difference is that in Merchant the side the author is on is less explicit.
Someone once said that in a good play, everyone is in the right. Or, as Merchant proves, in the wrong (the added cast of backstabbing, forunehunting, intolerant, misoginistic Venetians isn't exactly in the right, either). Such is the genius of Shakespeare.
That's what makes him so good. Nothing is clear cut. Being bad isn't just purely horrid. It can be an average person having a bad day or being disrepected. He just went a little over board with his anger.
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I've used bits of paper, used envelopes, book marks and even a used crisp packet. There's this cute bookmark in the shape of a worm its obviously a book worm:lol:
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I live close to two branches of the public library. Both are meant to be a local library, while the big library is in the city center. I loved my local branch when I was younger, and I remember most kids did. Even now the two branches focus on children a lot, but they don't just do books. Oh, no.
There's storytelling, reading from books, family days, youth corner (where teens pick the books). There's music and films, magazines... computer access. Both branches do regular topic tables - books about a war, a person, a genre, for readers.
The libraries also organise reading-help - recruiting booklovers who do volunteer work by reading at hospitals, homes for the elderly and ill and generally where people can't read themselves.
I still like going there once in a while and get some book advice, but generally the local branches don't have that much of a supply. But - you can order whatever you like and have them delivered to you local branch. That is something I really like.
It's great to browse the big libraries as well.
My local library's packed when it comes to story telling. There's a crowd of push chairs just outside the children's library at this time that you have to swerve pass sometimes. I think they'll have to do something about pushchair parking soon as the crowd is getting bigger.
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Aren't most writers these days curbing fanfiction with copyrights? I'd heard there's been trouble and lawsuits. I've never read fan fiction simply because I've never sought it out.
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If you're talking Shakespeare then Shylock in Merchant of Venice is good.
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My local library has computers with internet for free for up to an hour. There's also a wireless connection point so you can bring in your laptop and have free internet connection for as long as the library is open. It opens til 7pm weekdays and even half day on sunday afternoon. You have a choice of sitting on the comfy sofas, armchairs, desks etc. There's the study room, Art gallery, children's library room and teen corner. Like most libraries these days you have dvd rentals, music cds, homework clubs, book clubs and other social clubs. There's even a little caf
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I liked the Famous Five, The Magic Faraway Tree and some of the boarding school books by Enid Blyton. The Hardy Boys were great as well and who could forget The Chronicles of Narnia. Little Women and Jo's Boys were great classics.
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really You'll be relieved to know neither of them is horror; they're gothic novels (the Romantic ancestor of horror novels) and, while they both contain supernatural elements and nail-biting moments, they are mainly concerned with emotions and ethics. "Dracula" could be considered the first vampire romance of all time, and "Frankenstein" is more about the dangers of playing God and hate crime as a vicious circle than anything else.
That's why I enjoyed them. They both had sad bits and I consider Dracula to be a sad love story.
R.L. Stine. I used to buy his books by the truckload, YA genius he was. the "Night of the Living Dummy" miniseries and "Say Cheese and Die" were easily his best. I remember that when my first tentative novel (age: 11) was compared to his work I thought it the best compliment ever!
I have my nephew's "Say Cheese and Die" on my shelf.
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Here's a synopsis of the first book, Dark Lover
In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the blind leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuries ago. But, when one of his most trusted fighters is killed - leaving his half-breed daughter unaware of his existence or her fate - Wrath must usher her into the world of the undead - a world beyond her wildest dreams
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Check out Frostbitten.
http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/aFrost.htm
The wolves are back in the main focus and it looks as if Ehlena is going to kick butt again. Under Frostbitten on the left hand side you can click to read the prologue and chapters one and two.
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I read this book some time ago as well as the sequel Armed and Magical. There is also another book to follow called The Trouble with Demons coming out soon in this Raine Benaires series.
Raine is the female protagonist who finds things for a living. Unfortanately she finds an object without anyone having requested her to do so. The object had been stolen and is wanted by all power hungry sorts. Raine is unlucky that the object seems to have bonded with her so she cannot part with it and live. Raine is an elf who come from a dubious pirate/thief family there's also goblins involved some of which are sexy and a young spell singer protog
Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris
in Horror / Fantasy / SF
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I've read the first and the fouth, and the fifth book in the series. Eventually I'll come across the others. It has an interesting setting. Vampires in the country side. With all the other supernaturals turning up at one point I thought Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny might show up. I'm aware of the True Blood tv series but I have never seen it. This is a fun easy read series.