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    Year of Birth Challenge

    in Reading Challenges

    Posted · Edited by chrysalis_stage

    I was born 1986 and there are only a few that seem to interest me, they are:

     

    Stephen King - It

    Louis L'Amour - Last of the Breed (I like the sound of this)

    Tanith Lee - Dreams of Dark and Light: The great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee

    Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead - (sequel to enders game)

    Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic

    Roger Zelazny - Blood of Amber

     

    The corrected edition (revised) of H.P Lovecraft - Dagon and Other Macabre tales

    What's Your Book Activity Today? - Take 6!

    in General Book Discussions

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    Last night I started Jay Asher - Thirteen Reasons Why, and couldn't put it down, so finished it as soon as I got up today, now I think I'm going to read L.J. Smith - Vampire Diaries: Vol 1

     

    Loved those books when I read them a good 8 years ago! I must re-read them sometime in the future. I hope you enjoy them!

     

    I read some random short stories by Charles Bukowski last night also some more Wuthering Heights. I have been focusing on Kakfa on the Shore today though, it is so good! :lol:

    What's Your Book Activity Today? - Take 6!

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted · Edited by chrysalis_stage

    I found an old book I loved as a kid - I knew I had it somewhere, I just hadn't suceeded in tracking it down. It's only about 186 pages, I might read it tonight.

     

    I'm intrigued, whats the book called and by whom? :tong:

     

    I have been reading some of my Icelandic books again today - I am about a third of the way through a book on the history of literature in the country, which is all fascinating stuff with translations of some of the Eddaic poems and so on. I have also read a few more chapters from one of my favourite sagas - Laxdaela Saga, which is the tale a love triangle between a woman from Breidafjord and 2 foster brothers, both of whom married her at different times and were intensely jealous of each other. Wonderful stuff !

     

    Oh that sounds interesting reading Talisman!

     

    I'm just reading Wuthering Heights and Kafka on the shore.

     

    I got two books in the post today though which made me happy

    1. Charles De Lint - Greenmantle

    2. Kenneth Oppel - Dusk

     

    also waiting on a third - The devil in me - Christopher Fowler

     

    :D.......must go read :lol:

    Wuthering Heights

    in Music / TV / Films

    Posted

    Eh? :D What do you mean by that?

     

    I don't know whether to try the book or not now. Like MuggleMagic, I enjoyed it - but I probably wouldn't if I'd read the book first.

     

     

    I think Poppyshake means there were too many adverts and it messed up the flow the programme. If so I agree, I kept putting my telly on mute as the adverts came on as they are so annoying.

     

    I think you should still try the book, I'm half way through it myself and enjoying it! :D

    What's Your Book Activity Today? - Take 6!

    in General Book Discussions

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    Echo:

    Goblin Market and Other Poems - Christina Rossetti

    Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness - Edward Butscher

    I Am a Cat: Vol. I - Natsume Soseki

    The Somnambulist - Jonathan Barnes

    Women of the Asylum - Jeffery L. Geller

    Edie: An American Girl - Jean Stein

    Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen

    Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America - Ann Powers

    Phantom Prey - John Sandford

    Kappa - Ryunosuke Akutagawa

     

    Wow, you got some great books there, Happy reading! :D

     

    I am 9 chapters into Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami. I loved the bit when the characters mentioned Franz Kafka's story - In the penal colony and said how they loved it because I did too. :D

    Wuthering Heights

    in Music / TV / Films

    Posted · Edited by chrysalis_stage

    I did like it overall although I do obviously see flaws in it when comparing to the book. I know how different it is to the book, with Cathy saying things Nelly really said in the book for example and it skipping sections and altogether moving along too fast. It would have been better being longer and having more parts.

     

    I think the best actor was Tom Hardy who played Heathcliff. :lol:

     

    IMO if they attempted to made an adaptation so similar to the book I think people would still moan that it went on for too long or that bits were still left out.

     

    I enjoyed the Yorkshire accents making it more raw and not so poncey and the deeper love affair between Cathy and Heathcliff of this adaptation and am aware it is not like the book but I still liked it and tried to see it as a stand alone piece which took inspiration from the book, book to film is never ever the same. It is similar to the case of Frankenstein, we just have to be happy we know the truth and original ideas. :D

     

    Edit:-I also enjoyed ITV's use of the camera, especially the beginning. It seemed immediately like this was going to be a more modern take imo and think if BBC did it, it would have just been like all the others which are brilliant but all have the period drama feel immediately and may not draw in alot of viewers that do not normally like that feel. Thats just what I'm thinking right now anyhoo.:D

    True Life Crime

    in Crime / Mystery / Thriller

    Posted

    That sounds really interesting so I'm adding it to my wish list :D

     

    I went through a phase a while back of reading true crime and covered Jack the Ripper, The Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Fred & Rose West....ooooh a few others too but I ended up terrifying myself! :D I was a nervous wreck and became super vigilant when I was out on my own.....in the city centre.....at noon. It was ridiculous!

     

    However, I think I might get myself along to Waterstones to see what they have to offer :lol: When I'm having nightmares, I'll only have myself to blame eh! :D

     

    Good to hear it's on your wishlist :D

     

    I've heard Sondra London is one of those that likes to have 'close' relationships with criminals so she gets the truth out of them which can only be a good thing I guess.

     

    :lol: Yes you can scare yourself if you read too much at once.

    Has anyone read...?

    in General Book Discussions

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    It's out on October 15th - I was lucky enough to get an ARC but I've not read it yet!

     

    Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone has read The Affinity Bridge by George Mann? I keep getting recommendations for it and the other 2 in the series - this is the blurb from Amazon.

     

    "Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen and journalists. But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. For this is also a world where lycanthropy is a rampant disease that plagues the dirty whorehouses of Whitechapel, where poltergeist infestations create havoc in old country seats, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where nobody ever goes near the Natural History Museum."

     

    I have had this book in my amazon basket for too long I keep umming and ahhing on whether to buy it too as it sounds really good! :)

    Favorite TV Theme Songs

    in Music / TV / Films

    Posted · Edited by chrysalis_stage

    Some I love that I can remember off the top of my head are:

     

    The Addams family

     

    Trap door

     

    Pinky and the Brain (cartoon)

     

    Black books

     

    Firefly

     

    Stargate Atlantis

     

    Xena

     

    The Munsters

     

    Charmed - the smiths song

     

    Roswell - dido's song

     

    The Pink Panther (cartoon)

     

    Xmen (original cartoon)

     

    I could go on and on and on :D

     

    edit: I love the ending of the farscape opening

    Fantasy book about shapeshifting people?

    in Book Search and Reading Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by chrysalis_stage

    Hi guys!

     

    This has been bugging me for too long now, it wasn't long ago I saw this book in borders but it was in a Cambridge bookstore and I am no longer there to go back and look :D

     

    From what I remember it was in the fantasy section and it was written by a woman who wrote the books or started writing books at a young age, late teenager.

     

    I remember it being about people that can shapeshift into animals I think it was and from what I remember there was a woman who was to fall in love with some man who she possibly wasn't allowed to. :S I think it was kind of tribey too....ah :motz: I just can't find anything on it anywhere :tong:

     

    So if any of you have any ideas of anything remotely similar by a female author as I said above I would appreciate it. :D Thanks!

     

    Edit: I forgot to say it isn't a stand alone book it was in a series, cannot remember how many though.

    Autobiographies and Biographies

    in Non Fiction

    Posted

    I recently read 'Jonathon Ross's book - Why do I say these things?' and I absolutely loved it! I love his show so I thought I would give his book a go seeing as it was going cheap in the supermarket, although I'm not one for auto/biographies really it made me laugh so hard and forget about my worries at the time. Definitely recommend! :tong: I loved the chapter on his pets, I read that section twice and laughed equally as hard both times. :D

    Do you pick up unknown authors?

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted · Edited by chrysalis_stage

    I love exploring new authors it is exciting, I am constantly on the look out for new ones to add to my collection. :lol: My boyfriend is the opposite at the moment he likes to stick to one author and read all they have, atm it is Stephen King and he said he hopes to find another author once he is finished with King to do that same thing, each to their own as long as they enjoy what they read. :D

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