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    Oh yes, I really really loved it!! I don't think I'll see the movie, now.. having enjoyed the book so much I think I'll keep my personal view on the Lisbon sisters. Am I wrong?
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    Just started The virgin suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, it seems really good!! Two days ago I finished Portnoy's complaint...I'm still shaken.
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    Scarlett Thomas and Herman Melville
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    I read about the "Sophie's Choice" behaviour in a university book for Psychology students. I don't remember the name because I read it years ago. Doctors made experiments upon mothers: they built up dangerous situations for their children to see which one mothers would choose to save first. If it's called Sophie's choice behaviour I think you can guess which was the choosen one in the great majority of cases. I will try to find out the name of the book, I'll let you know as soon as possible!
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    Absolutely true.. we know Sophie much more through the flashbacks than through the descriptions of her given by the author. But still, it's so painful!! I read about the psycological elements of the so-called Sophie's choice (the behaviour of mothers in particularly dangerous moments) and it was even more sad reading Styron book then!
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    I read it years ago, after I saw the film and I enjoyed it really much! It's written in a wonderful style, that really engage the reader. But I found the flashbacks so painful..
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    It does make a lot of sense!!! Much more than the italian title: Theory and Practice of everything. Anyway, the book is really good.
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    I don't have a Kindle and I borrow everything I read at the public library. I was waiting to get my form filled holding this book about serial killer behaviours written by a famous doctor and the scary glances people threw at me made me feel a little dirty. But I put up my most dangerous face and everybody looked away.
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    I will give her a try. Well, she can't be glued to Harry's robes for all her career, can she? Maybe the book won't be published in Italy, though. We miss so much down here..
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    That's exactly the reason why I don't read diaries or unauthorised biographies. Sometimes I don't even read books written postumously if I'm quite sure the author would be uneasy about that. I mean, some authors work for ages on their books, they write and re-write passages. How could I be sure the pages I read are exactly what the author wanted to say?
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    I just finished Green, the last of the trilogy after Red and Blue .. well, at least that's how they are titeled in Italy. Anyway, they are really good! Gwendolyn is really tough: she learns how to deal with her "gift" and with the shadow fo her family. But I can't stand Gideon: too perfect to be real!
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    I really enjoyed The Host, much more than the Twilight saga. But I'm a little bit worried about the movie: sometimes the film version is worse than the book.
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    It's really tough.. probably I would take The end of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas and Sartoris by William Faulkner. I love stalking my mind..
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    I'm eating my sad green apple with my 9 sad corn flakes!! I suffer of hyper insulinism, that is to say I've been starving for the last 6 years.. When I read about food in books, it's really a torture!
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    Italy. In the north east of the country. I live in a small village on the river Po, not too far from Venice.
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    This is the book I wish I had written!! The ties that binds Cathy and Heathcliff are so insane, but strong and everlasting that make me longing a foul kind of love like this! It's obsessive and unhealthy, I agree with some of you.. but love is not always fair. It shows itself in many different ways.. and it may be evil as well. And, in my opinion, I think the monologue of Cathy about that dream she had of being flung back on the top of Wuthering Heitghs and that she understood that she is Heathcliff it's one of the best in classic literature!
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    I love this book!!! It is one of my fave! I remember, though, I used to think Holden was too strange to be true: I mean, all this self distruction going on. But now i work with teenagers I truly understand how real was the character of Holden! And I realise how happy my adolescence was!
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    Well, I read PS. I love you a couple of years ago and i quite liked it. I read it in italian, obviously. But last week I bought the original version and it was really different. Not the plot, but the style, the words used.. It's far much better in English! Ahern writes in a very simple way, she doesn't want to teach or something, she just wants to entertain .. and make people sob! Nothing wrong with it, in my opinion!
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    Hi there!

    Eleonora replied to Eleonora's topic in Introductions

    Bene grazie.. that is to say very well, thanks. Roland Butler, why italian? Thanks everybody!! I'm reading Druids (Morgan Llywelyn) and Stardust (Neil Gaiman)... and re reading Harry Potter and teh Order of the Phoenix, you know, it's the book I read everytime I'm not well: Just being operated and I need something to cheer me up! I've got loads of fave author, but lately I'm really into Scarlett Thomas. I think she's amazing!!
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    Hi there!

    Eleonora posted a topic in Introductions

    Hello. My name's Eleonora and I'm 29. I'm italian, live in the north east of Italy. I was looking for a cool forum to swap info about books and found this one. Hope you don't mind having a stranger here.
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