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end up in the bedroom with the cat
Cat!!! Cats are fun
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You a fan of Schumie I suppose? I should introduce you to my friend. He worships him :|
I'd like to know what you feel about Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier I've seen this book on the bookshelf at my favorite shop a lot and would love an opinion.
Jodi Picoult huh? Isn't someone a huge fan of hers on this forum? I remember seeing the bookshelf picture.... come out you.
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Ok, I'll give King one more try. Cujo failed my expectations and the moment I learned that
he was a rabid dog
I lost interest in it. I didn't really think his attempts to make it seem like
Cujo was possessed by a serial killer's spirit
worked for me. It never got a drop of sweat from me.
So I want to know if there's a King book that should make my spine tremble. Books have made me cry. They've made me laugh. They've made me expectant and whoop whenever I needed to. But ever since my last Goosebumps book since I was 12 no book has ever made me scared. Period.
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I've always wanted to read this book!!! I need to be reminded the next time I go to the shop.
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lol I do that with certain words. Happens daily. Hard to avoid it sometimes. Especially when writing about 1000 words a day.
Yesterday the word was "eerie".
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Books that jump around in time. One page you are in a memory the next someone is dreaming about the future, then for a paragraph you are in current time, back to a dream. Ugh, I just can't keep up when they do that. I think that is why every time I try to read Withering Heights I just can't get into it. I spend so much time trying to figure out did this already happen?
I'm guessing it'd be pointless to say The Time Traveller's Wife achieves the time jumping, in the very literal sense, quite well?
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I sort of envy people who can read a lot of nonfiction. I'm afraid my head is in the clouds far too much to enjoy nonfiction.
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I just finished Mark Haddon's A spot of bother. I had read Curious Incident a couple of years ago, and had been meaning to pick up this one ever since. I really enjoyed his work, pity that he has not yet written more adult books.
I hardly remember A Curious Incident, but I read the Reader's Digest version of it....
But I remember liking it.
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What can I say? Good things come in small packages
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True. I wrote my first story when I was seven. Or six, I think.
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I was actually considering starting a thread to ask which is King's scariest work. But then again, I can just ask you
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It just feels odd, that's all. I mean some authors are against movies and stuff. What would happen if JD Salinger's family decides to allow people to write a biography about him?!
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Oddly enough, I used to love Stine's horror books back in the day but now I find horror books don't work. I didn't even shudder while reading Cujo
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I remember I counted it as the biggest compliment ever that the first novel I ever wrote (at 11 years of age) prompted another kid to say that 'This is as good as a Goosebump'.
At age 11? Heck, that should still be the peak of the complements you can expect. After all, we're almost near the age of the writers we wish to be like, atleast the age at which they started. 11? That's absymal.
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haha reminds me of my short-lived loved for RL Stein's books.
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Good points Vinay. I have never thought about it before. I think they should be free after say 50 years after the author's demise. so I voted no.
I think they're currently so 75 years after the writer's death.
I can definitely see where you're coming from and have voted yes, but like you say most free books are only classics which have been around for a longggg time, so I don't think it'll ever happen with modern releases because people want to pass their rights down to children etcThat' makes sense. Yet seems unfair when certain heirs just choose to disobey the author's decision and do stuff like sign movie rights or write sequels just to milk the series.
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Did I say hello? Guess not.
HELLO!
lol
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Ah sleep.
It's like a husband-beating wife who also cooks well. Can't live with her, can't find the strength to read without her.
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I've always wondered whether it'd be possible to write my books off as under the public domain and therefore uploadable to Project Gutenburg in my will. OK So I'm only 22 and unpublished. Yet.
Many books are in the hands of the corporates. Classics of fiction that should be free are being released with various connotations and notes and for that we end up paying a lot.
But while some publishers charge a very little amount (Wordsworth) for the books, others (Penguin) charge absymal amounts for books without living authors.
I just can't understand the logic that'd say that there intellectual property of a father should pass on to the children either. Unless of course, said child is milking the work for what it's worth in the manner of sequels. *cough*Christopher*cough*Tolkien*cough*.
Same goes for music and art.
Why should we pay bigshot companies for the classics that no one is getting any royalties for?
Think about it, as a writer, the first reason to write should be to be read. And charging money for it only comes so that the writer will be able to write more. (Don't go looking at Rowling, she doesn't count till she releases more books.) If the writer didn't need the money, then the books should be free!
If there is a way to make my books free post my death I will. Of course companies should still be allowed to print the books and sell them, we wouldn't have leather bound books if left to ourselves. (gasp! Yes Giulia, I know you're almost fainting at the thought) But if some people enjoy reading the ebooks, then they should be allowed to. Or to print it and get it bound themselves.
I hope all this just doesn't seem like immature ramblings though.
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haha Welcome.
Trust me. You'll hate this place for making you buy more books :|
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The Acts Of King Arthur And His Noble Knights?
That's a phase that comes and goes I guess. Right now we have fantasy fiction flying left and right. Maybe in a decade no one will even read fantasy fiction any longer.
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Heddy. I like that name. It's nice enough to say it twice
Welcome!
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You have me sold, anyway. I've always wanted to read books based on Arthurian legend and have never done so because I don't know where to start.
yay!
That's the best place to begin. Try to find a copy of The Once And Future King by TH White that contains all five books.
1. The Sword in the Stone (1938)
2. The Queen of Air and Darkness (1939) (published separately in somewhat different form as The Witch in the Wood)
3. The Ill-Made Knight (1940)
4. The Candle in the Wind (First published in the composite edition, 1958)
5. The Book Of Merlin (written 1941, published 1971) (Posthumous)
I wonder if there's an illustrated copy somewhere. It'd be a pretty magical copy with illustrations. My copy of The Book Of Merlin has illustrations. Merlin looks so perfect in them. It's quite clear to see how Merlin became the definitive old wizard with his eccentricities. After all, he is what Gandalf, Saruman and Dumbledore try to be. And White's portrayal, I'm not sure Tolkien ever read White's book (Wasn't LOTR published in the same year as the first book?), is just that.
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Time is the variable, sadly. I will watch all of them soon. I'm waiting for my Netbook so when I get that I get 6 hours extra time to do stuff on the journey home from college. (Yes it takes me 3 hours to and 3 hours from. Silly place is on a friggin hill in a forest 60km from the city limits!)
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Has anyone watched these? There are quite a few noncommercial fan-made movies based on the mythos of JRR Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings which are actually good enough to watch. And besides, they're free!
I've only watched The Hunt For Gollum and I say I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Here is a page where you can find descriptions of some more. Parodies included.
There's also Born Of Hope which I haven't seen, but apparently a lot more work has gone into it than into THFG so it must be good. This one is about Aragorn's parents and the birth of Aragorn himself, I understand.
Books on the age of exploration
in Book Search and Reading Recommendations
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I think you can find Marco Polo's log in some form... or his own book.
For the middle east there is a particularily good book.... Argh I can't remember which!
Alberuni's India? Something of the sort... lol
And welcome to BCF. We supply fun, freedom of speech, idiotic modes of passing the time, justifications for being a book worm and apparently the mods are in charge of dishing out Jaffa cakes.