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I'll have chicken breast...

Excuse my ignorance, what is korma?

There is nothing like the pleasure, the overwhelming sensation of being in one of those little,but very book-crammed, bookshops; you pick up a book and turn slowly the pages, as if you had to study how it is made. Unfortunately I've been reading in a different language from the one spoken in my contry So all I have to do is: buying english books from the net the bright sight is they're cheaper than italian ones

I absolutely agree. The first thing one has to consider is the book (be it a novel, fiction, non fiction or else), then, ince you've read everything you'll proobably start enquiring infos about the author or the book itself; looking them up in the intro or on the internet or elsewhere. It's too schoolish not to say wrrong, to start from the other side. The pleasure of reading comes first.

Pizza is expected to be served tonight

I find it annoying even with trailers: I can't stand them making a sort of pr

I absolutely agree with this. If you love reading, it doesn't matter if for a short while you don't want to. trying to impose to yourself something to read might work but I don't think it's right. Don't want to read for a while. Then don't. If you like films, tv series, going to theater, music, well do these things instead. you'll be to your books before you think.

As INTRODUCTION, never. It's not a stated rule for me, but I prefer generally to read it after I've read the book in question. I want to read the book possibily before anyone told me how he think it is or how I am supposed to read it in order to understand.

I should listen to your advice and go with the flow...but I just can't. I'm not resigned to let things happening without me having guessed hard before they eventually do. It's in the nature of the show, for how much it has changed, it has, in my opinion, is peculiar way of being in playing with the viewer. last ep for example: at first I thought it definetly stated who was the bad guy and who was not (Linus/Widmore). But then I realized that they could both have used poor John for their purposes, and only as far as they got what they needed, which in the case of the former has already been accomplished. And then ther's the death-to-life issue, which is not small thing, as already happened with Christian. Even if the show has changed a lot from the first season (it was like a film that first season, very well shot), I keep liking it and be mindboggled by it

I'm from Other european contry (please state in thread)...and the country is Italy

It is true that time may not be a variable in the definition of the term, while the universal acceptance could: but nevertheless it helps. I mean, a classic speak to the very heart of the reader, no matter the historical period it has been written into, it will always find a way to the reader's soul because ther's a constant you will always find in a classic: the human being. this is out of time. so the passing of the latter may just be a sieve through which non-classic books get caught, and not an element of the definition.

Let me know what you think when you finish it.

Unfortunately the serie seems not to be up to the original standards: the mistery atmosphere is sort of vanished, the different stories once well knitted are now shattered and lacking depth. the plot and the world of Heroes is resembling every episode more the one showed in the X-men. I always hope in that plot twists which I've enjoyed in the past series. I agree with you Mia about the highlightened things, but Sylar and "Robin"?

the point is that ther's no way you can (magically) turn a book into a film. the film will always be...another thing. each has its own peculiar way of being, of dealing with the spectator/reader. they shouldn't be compared as if they belonged to the same category. they don't anyway. the time allotted for each of them is different, the way a film can use lyrics to convey a message which is hidden or implicit in the book. the only point which is shared is the underlying facts, not even the story, because often this is bent to please the viewers. I don't say you can't appreciate a film which is based on a book, I only say go to the theather without expecting to feel what you felt reading, because this will never happen.

It's true...It feels like she were a XIX cent. writer: she has something of Austen in her veiled social critic, in her sharp clever phrases which highlight in few words a whole character. Regarding the footnotes, these are amazing, as if they were short stories attached to the main novel, adding layers on layers of magic to the novel, as magic mirrors which help the reader entering misterious worlds.

The last book I read, The Remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro.

I just pop in to suggest you a very good book which deals with the question that started the present thread: "The rights of the reader" by Daniel Pennac. As the original title suggests ("Like a novel" , which I think is better than the english one) it is both about the passion of reading and the duty of reading. Quite enjoyable and entertaining.

It is as if you had Chesterton, Austen and Tolkien all mixed up in a compelling story...

absolutely if you have any time read it...it's really worth it all the 700 pages...

Has anyone ever read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke? One of my favourite piece of fantasy.

...Bono and Gandhi, in the name of love for pancakes, and Cesar started panicking, because the 15th of March was approaching...

I used to read them in one sitting when I was at school (had more time to read then- sigh)...Usually I enjoyed reading in one sit books I had already read or thrillers: a couple of Lehane's were devoured in the rainy September days then.

...have a bunch of them, but Gandhi had eaten them all so he only had to...