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Depending on asking price, whatever looks tasty on the pre-theatre menu or a kebab-a-like
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I've seen it and loved it too
the plot might not be entirely original (it owes a lot to Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, for instance, as well as Alan Moore's V for Vendetta comic), but it's incredibly well acted and filmed; visually it reminds me of The Matrix but I found Equilibrium to be scarier and more important, if you will. Definitely one to watch out for, and don't forget the hankies (for those in the know, I shall just say this: puppies
and, tread softly for you tread on my dreams 
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Windmill, as I tend to fall off treadmills.
Caf or Decaf?
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I have a copy of Poems and Songs of Fairyland: an Anthology of English Fairy Poetry which dates back to 1888 and has never been read, so much so that I've spent a good while this morning gently prying half of the pages open with a letter knife. Shame someone seems to have taken a munch out of two pages though
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Univerze - thanks for posting that; obviously, there is hope yet
a proper The Vampire Lestat movie... now that I would queue up in the rain on one leg to see!
... *everything within my being starts objecting all at once* no, no, no, noin Pride & PrejudiceDarcy proposes to Elizabeth in a living room, while in the 2005 version of the film, he proposes in the garden, while it's raining, so the whole scenery is beautiful and sensual, more romantic.
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I dream every night, in Burtonesque Technicolor; in the morning I can remember a dream or two at least, and they're usually nightmares. Without fail I wake up in the middle of dreams when my alarm goes off, and spend the rest of the day feeling shattered. I also know for a fact that my reading material influences my oniric activity, to the point that I've stopped reading before bed pretty much completely as I seem to have become impressionable with age - even sociological YA 'horror' such as Daniel Water's Generation Dead will get me envisioning the coming Apocalypse in my sleep...
... so textbook, aren't I
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Today I read a couple of pages of Eyes Like Stars on the bus (must... finish... in view of the sequel's imminent release!), and skim-read Elizabeth Smart's I Sat Down at Grand Central Station and Wept, or something to that effect, in work. I thought it was great in places but not so great in others; I just wish she'd gone all out with the literary references and cut down on the mundanity, because if she'd done so we would have had a shorter but in my opinion much tighter, coherent, gripping work.
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Picking up from where Pontalba's excellent advice left off, I'd suggest getting the collection valued at an antiquarian bookshop but trying to sell it on eBay first with the price quoted by the antiquarian as a reserve; that way if anyone bids more than that, fabulous, and if not you can take the lot back to said antiquarian for the original asking price.
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I am a genius. Dinner was pasta and apple sausage bites cooked in Chinese 5 Spice, ginger, medium curry powder and milk; all was topped with a handful of king prawns cooked in the above spices thickened by flour. It was glorious.
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I managed about 10 minutes of The Queen of the Damned - just what were they thinking?!
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... in Interview (which I nonetheless love, having seen it before I read the book), Armand
is also played by a 30-something Antonio Banderas, when in fact he's meant to be an eternally young teenager with 'the face of a Botticelli angel'
I understand that using someone actually Armand's undead age might have been frownable upon but surely they could have used a young-looking 18 year old or something...?
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I am resisting the temptation to comfort-eat, barely I might add. Someone care to recommend something to do with myself rather than stuff my face with Mars planets, Milky Way bars, Nutella straight from the jar and Pringles in quick succession?
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Alas I can't, as I don't actually remember the title or the author, just the cover and the fact that I cried buckets when I read it:lurker: sorry I couldn't be more helpful.Care to tell which book it is anyway? -
Welcome to the world of my woes
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W.H. is a short novel, but a novel nonetheless
as far as I was able to ascertain, all CWs of Oscar reprint the journal short story, which is significantly shorter. -
XD ROFL - don't get Giulia started on the historical inaccuracy of that film
that said, I really couldn't have cared less; it's one of those films that pushes all of your emotive buttons so well that it makes you shelve reality for as long as it lasts, and maybe a bit longer. -
A chocolate Slim-fast shake half of which I've spilt on the bed
and an Eat Natural bar with brasil nuts, sultanas, almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts '... and nothing dodgy.' -
It was printed as a standalone in 1921; my bibliography sez:
Wilde, Oscar, ed. by Holland, Vyvyan, The Portrait of Mr W.H. : The Greatly Enlarged Version Prepared by the Author After the Appearance of the Story in 1889 but not Published (London: Methuen, 1958 [1921]).
However, there's been Complete Works published since then, including the 'official' Collins one, so do not ask me why I cannot seem to find the text of the standalone ever reproduced in a CW. It's no longer than Dorian Gray, or one of the plays...
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@ Noll:
.People like this... as an actually unemployed, actually seeking work, actually differently abled person who hasn't received a penny in benefits for the past five months because some computer reckons OH's part-time work can pay rent and food for the both of us, I find this a spit in the face.
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You see (pulls information of of dissertation-shaped hat
), W.H. was first published as a short story written for a journal; the much longer, revised version didn't see print until the 20th century because supposedly the manuscript went AWOL during the auction of Oscar's things at the time of his arrest. For ages I have been trying to find a Complete Works of Oscar which included the longer W.H.; sadly, to no avail.'a complex, involved gem for the researchers and historians of literature among us.' - I must say, this does sound rather like my cup of tea
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Noll - I feel your pain.
I hate it when things backfire. I hate it when you try and protect people's feelings, their feelings get hurt regardless and then they feel like they have to hurt yours just to balance things out. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.
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I would add to the so-called reasons for the American remake the fact that it was probably felt that the original contained far too little blood & gore to be marketed as horror...
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Frankenstein is one of my favouritest books ever Nienna, I so hope you like it
it's not the easiest book in the world but it amply rewards those willing to dedicate it time, I feel.Kylie - happy Wickeding
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When I was younger, so much younger than today I used to read a 200pp book a day with one or two 500pp+ books going along the side; right now - what with lack of time/concentration and presence of stress, I'm lucky to read a 200pp book in a month... it'll often take me a lot longer than that *hangs head in shame*.
What is the one thing that makes you enjoy/not enjoy a book?
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... be warned however that the Vintage LesMis is a veritable brick of a book
I picked a copy up today in a shop and had to put it back down immediately as my poor wrist protested!