Univerze
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I've never really watched CSI, past a couple of epsiodes of the Miami version, and that was only to lust after Emily Procter! (she was better in The West Wing).
Emily Procter! Come on, she looks good but that squeeky voice of hers is annoying.
There's better ladies in CSI.
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Just finished Abhorsen by Garth Nix. The final part of a trilogy. Probably not quite as epic feeling as something like His Dark Materials but still one of the best fantasy series I've read (not that I can say I've read many but...be quiet).
Such a satisfying ending.
Love those books, they're amongst my favourites too. Have read them several times over already, but then that's easy cause they're such fast reads.
I read about a hundred pages of the Eye of the World again, just a bit more and I am done.
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Except the books I have to read for uni (and those are few these days), I always read for pleasure. Even educating myself is pleasure, so everything I read is for pleasure.
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Chaplin
Summer of autumn?
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I will be watching the crossover marathon of CSI. All three CSI's working together in a crossover crime, going from one city to the others. Lovely. Will be fun to see em all work together. Yay.
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But Katrina is looking to increase the variety of genres covered by black authors in the bookshop where she works, as her manager insists on keeping them seperate from books by white authors, and the only books the shop has by black authors are virtually all perverse in nature. That's why she wants help finding suggestions, to increase stock diversity.
Okay, now I started reading this thread and this baffled me. I, like some others mentioned here, don't know and don't care what color of skin the authors of the books I read have. I think it's ridiculous that this manager would place the books apart from the rest of the books, why on Earth would someone do this? They wouldn't even dream of doing that here, and honestly I think a lot of people would be offended by that. I mean, what does the race of the author has to do with what books they write? I'm sorry I can't give you any advice on more authors, because like I said I have no clue what they look like when I read their books (unless obviously books by authors like J.K. Rowling and King, who everyone knows), often I even don't know if they're male or female unless the name gives it away. That's the way I like it. Adds to the mystery.
But honestly, that this manager hasn't been accused of being a racist yet. Or am I pushing it now? That's what we would be inclined to do here.
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Nothing yet today, is still early and I mean to get some uni work done first. Yesterday I managed to read about 150 pages of the Eye of the World though, am a little over halfway through it, and day after tomorrow part 2 will be delivered.
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You know, I have quite a few books that were bad buys, that I don't read or have another copy of (usually when at first I have the dutch one, then when my english approved I bought the original english) but I can't even begin to think about giving them away. I don't have that many books, but even if I know I am never going to read them again, I can't give them away.
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Hello sweety!! Sooo nice to finally see you here, or well, you know what I mean by see hee hee. Hope you enjoy it here, like I said, people are friendly and the discussion plenty and good.
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^Oh it's the same here. I think it's on telly four nights a week. Annoying really, you never know which channel to watch since one's showing older ones, other newer and the other newest. Is the same with House.
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Oh, that's just something that always happens to me when I read too many books in a series in a row. I tend to want a change when I have read several. Can be solved by just reading two books at once, having a totally different book alongside to switch to when wanted, but right now I don't know if I have it in me to keep up with two books at once. Emotionally tough times now and all.
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Think I will give CSI a go then, it's ALWAYS on living
You really should, though you should try each one.. there's Crime Scene Investigation (which is New York), there's CSI Las Vegas, and CSI Miami. Each one's different. Las Vegas is my fav, then used to be New York but recently I started to like Miami more. Don't judge it on just one of the three.
But yeah, it's very much worth watching, I am not adoring them like I do some other series (say, Stargate), once I have seen an episode I've seen it you know. I won't re-watch them much, unless there's nothing else on telly. But yeah, they're great. -
I love em. Am re-reading the first book now, has been years though, and thought I barely remember anything, but guess I do. Is fun coming back to this after years. I only have read about the first 5 or 6 of the series, and am really looking forward to reading all of them. Though I might take a break somewhere again, these books are quite long (yay) and reading them all back to back might get me to be a little bored with the series again. But I really love them, I love that it's such a big epic fantasy story. My style.
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Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic, Andy Serkis. Really amazing to see how they created Gollum, and I think I really like Andy Serkis.
I got this book as a present from someone who knew how much I liked the films (and who has given me several other artbooks about it too) and only recently started it. -
Tonight, as every friday.. CSI Miami, then Lie to Me, then CSI Las Vegas.
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You know, I have been thinking about reading this for ages, the author being from my country and all. But I just can't get myself to do it. The Dutch literature I have read I have found notoriously boring, and I have read (for school) some other work of Harry Mulisch, can't remember which one, and found it almost not readable. The plot idea appeals to me, but the rest.. hmm.
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I was totally blown away by The Road, i just found the tale of a not too distant future overrun by cannibals and devoid of hope an absolute shocker and the movie was just as stark. I cannot say for sure right now if such a view will last for years into the future but certainly the book, in my opinion, has more chance of outshining the likes of Angels and Demons and Da Vinci Code.
Oh I agree on it being better and lasting longer than the DaVinci Code, but there's nothing so shocking about the Road.. over the years I have read so many tales like it, post-apocalyptic tales set in a world after some disaster, often nuclear too. The cannibals, the world existing of nothing more than things left, things destroyed, no one left to make them work or repare them.. there is nothing particularly inventive about that. The only thing that sets the Road apart for me, is that it's bleaker, and just that little less hopeful. But it's crossed that line for me, where it goes from just being dark to damnright depressing. You know, where it leaves a bad feeling for a while after you've read it, like a bad taste in your mouth.
See, I don't hate the Road, and it wasn't that much a bad read either.. I just don't think it's as revolutionary as everyone claims.
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Well, I agree on the DaVinci Code. I think I didn't even get to 100 pages in that one, was bored out of my skull and the writing style to me was horrible.
Also, everyone's fussing about The Road.. Cormac McCarthy. In my opinion, not that special, too bleak and just didn't find it as much of an intriguing read as I expected to.
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Nope. I never read a magazine. Haven't really in years. I mean, I don't think they're worth what they cost. They're so expensive! Plus most of them don't really interest me.. or what's in them I could read online. IF I would read anything it's Metal Hammer, National Geographic too, or ehh.. no that's it. I hate gossip magazines, and the glamour and fashion ones.. well usually I don't like the stuff in them. I'll stick to books.
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Oh yes that part was sad, I was holding back the tears then
Holding back tears? I was just crying then, then again I am a lightweight when it comes to crying when watching films, I easily do so.
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Also, Saoirse Ronan won an IFTA for her performance in the movie, hard to believe she is only 15, incredibly mature girl.
Oh I lover her in City of Ember, even though that turned out even more a kiddie film that I expected, but she is a great actress. So that's a plus for the film.
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Yeah see, I didn't recommend his short stories cause I don't much care for them. They're just giving a hint of an idea, and then poof, it's gone. Over. Before it's even begun. I like long books, and especially long SK books. Plus, I think the atmosphere in the stories is not really King, since he usually does this elaborate getting to know the lives of the people involved in his stories.. and you don't get that in stories.
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See, I LIKE Tommyknockers.. but then again I read it when I had read so so much of his other work already..
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Hello, my name is Kim and I have never read an Stephen King
Any suggestions on a good starting point?
I agree on the books SKM mentioned above, and like to add, I think it would be best to start with his earlier work. Most of us agree that those are the best, and often scariest.
But yeah, he's famous for books like the Shining, IT, Carrie, Firestarter (almost forgot about that one, but I do love it), Tommyknockers, hell, all of his earlier work. At first I'd stay away from books like Desperation (though this one is fascinating, I just think it's non-typical SK), Hearts in Atlantis or Cell. Those are, to me, not really Stephen King. I too, adore the Stand and Talisman, the sequel to the Talisman (Black House) is a little less good, but still worth reading.
But really, where to start. There's so much. You could always start with short novellas like Cycle of the Werewolf (adapted for film as Silver Bullet).
You know what, check this out, and see which book appeals to you most.
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Well in a twisted way I guess I could see her point, but even if she didn't mean it in a bad way, the idea that her brain works in such a way shows you how deep-down she does think of black people as other.
And I agree, the books are listen alphabetically anyway, so anyone coming to look for a particular author would have no problem finding them. 