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Love it! I'm surprised that nobody has posted the first sentence of Prousts book yet. I remember watching the tv films of 'Anne of Green Gables' as a teenager. I recently found them again on YouTube. When I read the comments, I found out it was a book adaption. One day I'm going to read the books. If I ever can get through all the books I yet have to/want to read. Have you seen the films? Do you like the books better? People on YouTube commented that the last movie was too different from the book.
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If I know and like the author I just read on the cover what the book is about, but if I've already read it and just want to buy it, I check the book on any spots or damages and decide if it's worth buying. If I don't know the author, I read the info on the cover and the first few sentences before deciding to buy it or not. Sometimes I do buy a book because of it's cover. Like this book, 'Pop & Artvertising', a subject which actually doesn't interest me much: http://www.boudewijnbuch.info/buchimages/pop&artvertising.jpg I bought it because of it's unnusual shape for a book and it wasn't too expensive for my budget. Otherwise, I might have taken it from a library to read it once, but not bought it. I don't do it very often though. Another weakness is buying different types of notebooks, or just books to write something in, even when I don't need them at that particular moment. Sometimes they have such an unusual shape or I like the design, and if the price is affordable for me, I just have to buy them.
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Random Quotes: p123, para5, next 3 sentences
sadya replied to Kell's topic in General Book Discussions
'Maar de heftigheid was vals. Hopeloos. Ze was nu op een afstand van me, haar kleine schouders strak en vastberaden, haar stap snel, als van een klein meisje, dat op zondag met haar ouders aan het wandelen is en vooruit wil gaan en doen alsof ze helemaal alleen is.' (roughly translated as: 'But the vehemence was false. Hopeless. She was now at a distance from me, her little shoulders tight and resolute, her step quick, as of a little girl, who goes for a walk with her parents on Sunday and wants to lead the way and pretend she's all alone.') 'Dagboek van een onsterfelijke', translated from 'Interview with the vampire' by Anne Rice. -
I remember seeing Ben Barnes acting in a childrens movie, 'Prince Caspian' (though Chronicles of Narnia wasn't just a childrens book). He was ok
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I like your understanding of the characters, very interesting, though I don't know if I would agree or not, because I had read it once many years ago with a different understanding of life and prose. I remember thinking that had Anna Karenina lived in a different time and place, with different choices, she could have reached something wonderful and would have been remembered for greatness instead of living the tragedy that her life became. Then I woke up completely from the book and realised it's just a character from a book and not of real life. I've forgotten most of the characters now, but I still also remember .
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In the newsletter of a bookshop (DonnerBoeken) they gave us the second chapter (in Dutch). Here is a link: http://www.selexyz.nl/content/Het_spel_van_de_engel/Hoofdstuk_2.pdf (by the way, I hope it is allowed to post a link like this here) I finished 'The Shadow of the Wind' yesterday and I am very impressed. Zaf
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Who is the Vampire to beat All Vampires?
sadya replied to Christie's topic in General Book Discussions
Thanks for the advice. Then Anne Rice it is. After that I'm going to read Bram Stokers 'Dracula'. Very curious and excited! I hope the book 'Interview with a vampire' will be as wonderful as the movie. -
When I don't find books in the library or I am too curious to wait weeks or months before I can receive them, I also read them online. There are many sites. But you won't find many contemporary books online as far as I know, due to copyright issues. Here are another few links: http://www.literaturepage.com/authors.php http://cf.hum.uva.nl/dsp/ljc/ (classics of Dutch authors, for in case anyone reads in Dutch) http://onlin-literature.com/ http://manybooks.net/categories/ http://readbookonline.net/fictionNovel/ http://e-book.startpagina.nl/ (Dutch site with many links)
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Who is the Vampire to beat All Vampires?
sadya replied to Christie's topic in General Book Discussions
I haven't read any book of vampires and draculas yet, which is strange now I think about it, because I have seens so many movies about this topic. From the movies I've seen, I like the vampires played by Cruise and Pitt most, they weren't really scary for me, not even the one played by Cruise and the movie wasn't just a great story, but also funny. I been planning on reading novels about them for quite some time though. But I want to read so many things Is it better to start with the classic Bram Stokers Dracula or doesn't it matter what one reads first? (after reading the reviews on this website, I got some of those books which seemed a good read from the library, one of the titles I got is 'The Historian' by Elizabeth Kostova, from what I understand, it seems to have a bit of dracula or vampire stuff in it, after finishing another book, that one is my next read) -
The most disturbing work of fiction that you have ever read
sadya replied to Oblomov's topic in General Fiction
Right now for me the most disturbing read is this thread, just before going to sleep! I was too curious not to read this thread and see what the books were about. -
Does anyone else ever dream about the books they read?
sadya replied to Glowmay's topic in General Book Discussions
Not just books, movies and films too. Doesn't happen very often though. Sometimes I just like to really crawl into the skin of someone from a book or a movie and then it's more intense and more likely that I later dream about it. -
I'm not familiar with the work of this author, but the topics he writes about have made me curious enough to read something and see if I like it. It sounds fascinating, but if it really is for me, I'll only find out by reading it myself. In a newsletter of a Dutch bookshop they offered to let us read two chapters recently. I signed up and am waiting now to receive those chapters and see what his style is like. Actually, I'd rather read the first book first from the beginning, but I've become very curious! They are allowing us to read chapters two and three of the second book on 18 may. (why not chapter one?) The newsletter also said it's part of four books. I just reread the newsletter and I missed a link they had placed for the first chapter. I hadn't read the whole newsletter carefully, so I didn't see that. Here is the link for chapter one for anyone who reads in Dutch, provided by Donner Boeken, hope it works: http://www.selexyz.nl/content/Het_spel_van_de_engel/Hoofdstuk_1.pdf
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I've read it some years ago and remember being very impressed. The pace didn't bother me. Liked the writing style and the setting. The characters were nicely developped in the end. It's one of those books that can be read again some day.
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I've read many different views about his relationship with Constance, both negative and positive. Personally, I'm also inclined to think he did love her. Even after he lost romantic interest in her, he never ceased to respect her and love her in his own way. That's the way their relationships comes across to me anyway.
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I adore his work. I don't like the French pronounciation of 'Proust', even though it is of course the accurate one. I always use the English pronounciation which often causes librarians to laugh at me when I request one of his volumes of 'Remembrance of things past'. I read the volumes as I could get them. I had no internet for a while, so I read what I could find in the local library, translated in Dutch. The first volumes were difficult to find for one reason or another. And you can't skip one volume. I noticed that when I had first read 'Time Regained' out of curiosity to see what the hype was about (they praised Proust in a book about writing stories yourself). Immediately liked him. Then I found the first few volumes in our library and afterwards it was difficult. So when many months later I had internet, I read the rest online and also got the Moncrieff translation. I had to get used to the style because it was different from the style of the Dutch translation of course. Didn't stop me from enjoying the rest of the volumes though. To know more about Proust and his work, I joined some yahoogroups and people were discussing the different translations in English. They said that there were many errors in the Moncrieff translation and praised one of the new translations. Someone else said that she preferred the Moncrieff translation because the style appealed more to her. I wouldn't know. Personally I liked the Dutch translation I had found of the first volumes better. There were many wonderful phrases and I wrote many sentences in my notebook as a remembrance. One quote which made me laugh: "Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written yawning." (from 'Seascape, with frieze of girls', everytime Marcel tries to begin writing, he can't and it disappoints him, he starts musing on why he finds it boring to write something and his thoughts end with the above quote)
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Though she is very interesting, I don't like Becky much, my favorite character was also Dobbin. An exellent book, but I remember when I read it, thinking that Thackeray sometimes simplifies certain things a bit too much, like Amelia I think. It's been a while though, one or two years ago that I read it, so I could be wrong. One of the things I liked about the book was that Thackeray gave each character of the book, even unimportant characters, something original which only defines those certain characters. Most writers only do that with the main characters. I used to dislike all descripitions in books and often skipped them to go on with the story. That changed when I came across books of authors who could describe things or people in a fascinating way. Now I do read descriptions sometimes. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I might this week. Still want to watch the movie version of the 'DaVinci Code' as well. I don't know which movie I'm going to watch first.
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I will never forget when I had first read this book. It's been one of my favorite books ever since. After reading a funny quote of Oscar Wilde, I became very interested in him and discovered his wonderful plays. Never would I have guessed he could also write something as amazing as 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. There are some very interesting articles about interpretations of the book on this website: http://www.oscholars.com/TO/Appendix/library.htm In one of those articles, I had read this quote of Wilde: 'Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks of me: Dorian what I would like to be - in other ages perhaps'. I don't know in which one of those articles this quote was, so I googled and found the exact words of that quote here: http://www.victoriaspast.com/OscarWilde/OscarWilde.htm
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Oscar met Bosie after he had written and published the book. Perhaps it must have been like Dorian Gray came to life for him, when he was introduced to Bosie.
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I read it some years ago, but never finished the last few pages. Don't exactly know why. I liked it enough to keep it for another read some day. That was a few years ago. Still have to reread it and this time also the last few pages.This thread is a good reminder for that.
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I like to read both and I probably read as much fiction as non-fiction. There are many different kind of non-fiction books which interest me. I like biographies and autobiographies. For a while, while still growing up, I became absorped in supernatural subjects and read mostly about anything supernatural or paranormal abilities. Now it interests me less, but I still like to read about it sometimes. Also history topics and books about how to become a writer yourself, literary criticism. Anything that seems interesting.
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Same here. I don't really like the current system either. One of the reasons is also how a bookcover is always ruint because the scan info has to be put on it, so you can't always read everything that's written on that side. But I must admit, it is easier to use. My children just love it. But I too miss my childhood library with it's own system back then. We never had any grumpy librarians in that library, they were always friendly and always willing to help you. I liked the way the books were organised. Very often there were more books than the available space, so they just made room for them somewhere. It was almost systematicaly unorganised, if that makes sense, that was one of the charms of that library. And the librarians could always find every single book in the library, no matter where it was. Now that library doesn't excist anymore. We have this nice huge building now where you can find most books. The system is much better, you can order books even from libraries in other countries in Europe, if they don't have them in Holland. Yet, it doesn't really feel like a library to me. I used to get so excited whenever I went to the library in my childhood. It was like a day out for me. I looked forward to going to the library, even days ahead. Could spend the whole day there. It felt like home. But nowadays, the current library doesn't even feel like a library. There are too many things which have nothing to do with a library, for example, games so children can make noice while playing them although you are in a library (!), a television (! in a library !). It doesn't even have the look of a library to me. In it's attempt to be of this time, to appeal to the people of this time, and the future, it's gone beyond being a library which is what it's main purpose was supposed to be.
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I had a metal one too, with a butterfly. But I stopped using it because it folds the paper a bit. Sometimes I take unused postcards. I used to have different bookmarks, I always bought them when I could afford them, just because they were cute or nice. But since my daughter started reading books some years ago, I've lost most of them. One bookmark is never enough for me, because I often read two or three books during the same period. We even had trouble finding bookmarks. So one day my children and me sat down with lots of paper in all shapes and colours and we made many bookmarks. For most of them, I just used pinking shears on nice paper while my children enjoyed making drawings on their bookmarks and gluing stuff on them. For a long time we had plenty of bookmarks. But by now most of those are lost too. It's back to unused postcards and the very few selfmade bookmarks which aren't lost yet.
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To be honest, my life is mostly reading books. Don't have much of a social life and actually don't regret that. It's my children, my books and me. And a very few friends with whom I get in touch once or twice a year and some family members who sometimes show up once or twice a year or we visit them once or twice a year. That's it. For the most part, my life is only books. And movies. I could live without the movies though, but not without the books. I could even live without other human beings, but not without books. Is it unhealthy? I don't know, but I don't think so. I don't have a problem with it. I couldn't often mix well with other people either, though as far as I know, I don't have any disorder, I used to be extremely shy while growing up though. I've always mostly read books in my life. They helped me through my childhood and are helping me now through the rest of my life. Nothing makes me happier than having a nice read or reread.
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I agree, DaVinci Code wasn't that wonderful, I read it after it became so popular, just before they started to make the movie. I liked the book, the information was interesting (and yes a lot of stuff of 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail', one of it's authors said on discovery channel that it was a hoax and they had made it up and he didn't want to back the 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail' anymore). The story was ok
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sadya replied to Maggie Dana's topic in Book Buying
Thanks for those websites!