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    A question of popularity

    in General Book Discussions

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    I never quite understand why people go off bands when they become mainstream. I'm pleased that a group I've enjoyed have had success and (hopefully) made a shed load of money! But that's just me. :yahoo:

     

    I don't understand it, either. I'm always really pleased that said band is doing well, but my interest seems to...just...err...wan? You know what I mean? Oh, probably not, because of what you said, actually! :smile2:

     

    I truly appreciate what an idiot I am. Truly.

    McRecommends

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    I'd get stupidly wound up, finding myself near apoplexy over such silly things as The X Factor (if singing is your dream, mate, go and frickin' do it, bonehead!), despairing at the jazzed up news, snarling at vacuous presenters. So I did what people advise. I turned it off in 2003 and never turned it on again.

     

    Nice. :smile2:

    A question of popularity

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    I have this strange thing that is totally bonkers and uncalled for, but, let's say there's a band that I've supported and followed for years and I've waxed rhapsodic about how great they are and 'you should listen to 'em, they're GREAT!', all this stuff, then - when suddenly everyone thinks they're amazing, I go off them a little.

     

    What the hell's wrong with me? Is it like "My work here is done!" like Tyres off Spaced? I loved The Da Vinci Code - even looked forward to it coming out, but then there was all this hype over his new one and I couldn't be bothered to get it. Silly me. :smile2:

    McRecommends

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by Mac
    Forgot summat...

    Gah! You watch, some mug will murder Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series next! If they do, I'm complaining. I don't know to whom, but I will!!!:smile2:

     

    (which reminds me...)

    McRecommends

    in Past Book Logs

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    The Dark Is Rising Sequence is in my top 10 favourites and has been reread on a regular basis since I was 9 :D Just make sure not to watch the awful movie adaptation that they did a couple of years back :smile2: I was so disappointed with it and also mighty glad that plans to turn the rest of the books into movies were dropped!

    I couldn't bring myself to watch it. I was absolutely appalled that they changed Will's nationality and (I'm assuming) age to fit into an American audiences taste. I appreciate that film is a different medium and that they have to be judged on their own merits but, honestly, when it happens to something I love it makes me want to weep!

     

    The trailer made me want to shoot the producers, anyway. :yahoo:

    McRecommends

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by Mac
    Thought of more...

    Well, I've reached my limit on how large the post is allowed to be, so I'll start a new one here. I'll have to keep locating this one, I guess. Happy days. :smile2:

     

    Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising (series). I read this when I was a youngster, it being perfect reading for early secondary school aged kids. I've mentioned them in a thread somewhere, stating how they still have a place in my soul and all that. I loved them. Seriously recommend them to anyone with kids.

     

    Ursula le Guin - Earthsea (series). Another set of books I read when I was a youngster. I adored these books - I think I mentioned these on one of Michelle's threads. Again, I seriously recommend these.

    Books that make you look "cool"

    in General Book Discussions

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    Well if they read other stuff besides the hypes too, and make up their own mind about the books, then possibly, it's not a bad thing. However, some of these people only read these hype books...

     

    I'm inclined to agree. When all the kids in school were reading the latest Harry Potter thing, I was thinking 'Hang on, this is just a fashion thing!', because they were all carrying around Harry Potter and the Whatsit of Doodah. I used to grumble a bit about it, but then other teachers were saying how great it was that it was encouraging them to read. My argument was that this was all they were reading. Purely because everyone else was reading it.

     

    I can't make up my mind. It's great that it opens up the possibility of future reads and different authors, but really annoying when it's simply 'cool' to be holding such-and-such a book. :smile2:

    Books that make you look "cool"

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    Haha I hate people seeing what I'm reading in public. I made a book cover for that very purpose and if the books a hardback I always take the fly cover off to make it harder for people to see!

    I do this as well, but only because I'm a total nut-job and can't bear the thought of damaging any part of the book. I am Mr Hospital Corners when it comes to keeping my books in good condition. A total freak. Somebody should give me an injection...

    Noll's 2010 Reading List

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    I adored Father Ted - Dougal is just amazing!

     

    There was a simply brilliant moment during an episode where the priest who talked constantly was left alone in the lounge (Ted, Dougal and Jack having cleared off) sitting on the sofa. He turns round and notices the throw over the back with Jesus embroidered upon it and he says "Whoa! It's yourself!" and carries on gassing.

     

    Magic stuff.

     

    Tremendously off-topic. Sorry Noll. I'll look forward to reading the review, though. :smile2:

    Books that make you look "cool"

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    Any book by Haruki Murakami or Neil Gaiman or any book that you are enjoing so much you are riveted to it in a public place.

     

    There's nothing cooler than an engrossed reader that has switched off from the world (while keeping a discreet eye out for fires and potential muggers!).

     

    Totally agree with this...

     

    I agree. I keep my Twilight reading at home if I can. I try not to read Dan Brown or Twilight in Public.

     

    I think The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is kind of cool at the moment, I see a lot of the books from the series on planes and trains.

     

    What a great thread!

     

    Also with this - although I always struggle when something I discovered when it first came out then goes 'global' and every man and his dog are reading it, saying "Oh, this is, like, so cool la la laaa" - irrational and deeply unfair to any author lucky enough for this to happen to them, I know. I'm a freak. A big freak.

     

    I think reading any classic makes a person look literarily (?) cool. But seeing someone sitting down with a battered, clearly re-read copy of some Dickens or Hemmingway or something - makes them look like they're really into their LITERATURE, as opposed to reading. Which I think makes them look cool.

     

    I'm here with Noll, as well. Although I was sitting on the tube once, happily reading my old copy of The Iliad and a chap in a suit said "Tw*t" as he walked past me. Now, granted, he could have been suffering from Tourettes, it might not have been directed at me or I might have offended him in some other way but, however it came about, it still made me go "Hmmm..."

     

    I used to read Dan Brown's stuff in public before The Da Vinci Code came out. But again, I really struggle with him now (see above) :smile2:

    Five facts...

    in General Chat

    Posted

    New ones for me:-

     

    1. My middle name is 'Action'.

    2. Whenever I give out 5 facts about myself, I always lie for the first one.

    3. As I do with the second one.

    4. At night, whilst my mind sleeps, my body takes itself to wild parties and has mastered The Macarana.

    5. I used to believe I was one of the angels Blake was convinced he'd seen, but then I realised that I was born in 1973 and told myself not to be so stupid.

     

    None of the above are true. :smile2:

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