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That's the way to get books <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I convinced my mom to do so <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

though harry potter is not really my kind of fantasy i really like the books

I'm done Dean Koontz's Frankenstein - Part 1 : Prodigal Son . It was very good. I like the way he did the Frankenstein idea. Its based in the current time, but the actual traditional story of Frankenstein has already taken place. Now, 200 years later, Frankenstein's monster has found peace in himslef, but is terrified to discover that his maker is still alive too. How is this possible. You see the side effects of Frankensteins new experiments and all that is going wrong with the evil science. It seems the monster has become human, and the human has become a monster. 200 years can change a person. The police are caught up in a bunch of grusome murders, and two dectectives will be pulled into the unreal terror that is going on in their city.

Sound interesting? If it doesen't, its because I suck at explaining stuff. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" /> But its a great book. Probably my favorite, or second favorite Dean Koontz book so far (haven't read too much yet).

Took me ten days to read. At about 47 pages per day. I have the second book, though I need to read something els before I move on to others. The third and final part of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein will be out this summer (so long a wait <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> ).

The book I have to read right now is The Mysterious Island , by Joules Verne. You may not know this french writer, but you must know some of his stories. Others of his include 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth and From the Earth to the Moon . Any ring a bell? 20 000 Under should, being a very popular story. Its facinate that he wrote all this Sci-Fi stuff in the late-1800s <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> . Submarines were not even invented yet!

He and H.G. Wells are my heros, for writing Sci-Fi and having great ideas in that subject waaaay before other people were even close to imagining it. Wells was writing even more far-out stuff than Verne at the beginning of the 1800s!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasEek.gif" alt="" /> War of the Worlds , The Invisible Man , A Modern Utopia , etc. Wow.

Killerzzz

I am in the middle of Richard Adams "Maia" it is hard to believe he wrote watership down, I mean when I read this book I keep thinking of Luc <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Finnished Doctor Glas some days ago. Really liked it, a bit short though. It only stretched over one summer <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />. And the main caracter acually DIDN'T get the girl <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />!

Übereil

Finished the neverending story today. On first glance, it seems to be a simple fantasy story, but this is not true. In fact, it's a story about growing/growth and the journey to one's self ...

@ Alrik
I think you would like the movie too, it's with Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

euh no it isn't

You're mixed up with Finding Neverland, a film about the writer of Peter Pan.

I have seen one late movie about the neverending story, but due to philosophical reasons I chose not to watch the films. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> I rather like to create my own films in my head. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> Imagination is what keeps this realm alive ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

By the way, I think my next novel will be "Hard Contact" , the novel for the game "Republic Commando".

And I'm thinking about how to get the book "Water shows the hidden heart" by Roma Ryan. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

@ Wazzz

Yep, you're right, got mixed up here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Yea, but its always fun to watch a movie after the book, and go:
"They did that wrong! ... They did that wrong!"
And then you descriptively explain to the person next to you all the differences between the movie and the book while they roll their eyes and tell you to stop talking but you keep going because you are fascinated by the comparison...

But maybe its just me who does that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Silly Killerzzz, always explaining stuff waaay too much when noone wants to hear what he has to say. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

Actually, I'm not that kind of person. Well, with LOTR, I knew the differences fairly well, but I didn't bother, because I considered it simply as an "artistic interpretation of the books". It's up to the artist to cling to every detail of the original or not. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

And when I write "philosophical reasons", I do mean it so. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

No it isn't, you just feel pissed because you wasted 70 kr on a movie the director screwed up <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />. Remember Harry Potterand the Chamber of Secrets, I HATED it. I totally HATED it. Whorst movie I've ever seen. The first movie wasn't that bad though, despite some minor faults.

Übereil

Meh, I am still amused by the differences of book-movie. Even more than amused; I'm interested in the differences. I analyze them, compare them, see what changes they did, how they could have done it better, how they had reason to do it that way event if it didn't turn out perfectly, how they did it well, etc.

I guess I'm an analitical person, not so mutch as critical. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mage.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

I do that too, Killerzzz, so you are not soo much more of a analyst then I am. Besides, it's fun to do that. Why should a movie be complete the same as the book? Then it's not really worth seeing it anymore, since you already know what's gonna happen.
What I also like to do, is when I see an actor, I want to know in what movie I saw him/her before. I never forget a face, so even if I saw some movie several years ago, I never forget the actors faces.

Gal, I can see Pulp Fiction over and over again, and that's not because I have bad memory <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />. Knowing what's going to happen is nice the first time you see a movie/read a book. But that's not what make you see/read it again (obviouslly). You read/see it again because you think it's worth seeing again. And you watch the film for the same reason. But at least I get disappointed because the movie isn't like I remembered the book, even though it's not suprizeing I didn't experience the book like the director did.

Übereil

Just finished Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub. It's the story of a writer who's sister in law suicided, and her son (actually the writer's nephew) disappeared a few days after, while he was obsessed by an abandonned house of the neighborhood. It was nice to read and well written, but I found that the story was lacking a bit of originality and was not absorbing as I would have expected. That book has gotten the Bram Stoker prize as best fantasy novel; personally I would say it's rather a thriller with a bit of paranormal rather than fantasy, though. Yesterday I began Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.

I just finished reading Guy Gavriel Kay's Last Light of the Sun .
I *love* Kay's work...very contemporary fantasy...magic and myth and the most likeable and messed-up characters.....and stories that have shades of grey...not just black&white....
The only "series" Kay wrote was The Fionavar Tapestries and that was only three books. All the rest — Tigana, The Lions of Al Rassan and others were single books.
Other than that, the last book I read was a dragon boat coaching manual...LOL

Wow... A month later, and I haven't finished that darn book yet ( The Mysterious Island ). Its good, but I haven't found the time to get to it. I'm only 258 of 629 pages through... I've only read 17 of the days, at less than 16 pages per day... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" /> At this rate its gunna take me, like, 25 more days! I need to find some reading time and thats for sure! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

Well, I've reached the peak of my embarassment, and have finally finished with The Mysterious Island ! Don't get me wrong, it was a very very good book. It just took me forever to finish it because I've been so busy for the last few months (and the months to follow, methinks <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> ).

Here's the facts:
- I started reading it December 14th, 2005
- I finished it March 16th, 2006
- Thats 93 days (if I counted correctly)
- I only read 35 of those days
- I read at a rate of approximately 17.97 pages-a-day
- Thats slow! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />


I feel comfortable reading 30-80 pages per day (all depending on my reading time).

Well, The Mysterious Island was an amazing book. Very nice. I loved it, and it was worth each damn day it took me.

I hope to read more of Jules Vern in the future, but I've got over 30 other books on my 'to-read' list.


Right now I'm starting From the Corner of his Eye by Dean Kootz. Another great author, I have read a few of his books and I really like his style. So far, this one is great too and I can't wait to really dig into it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />



Heh, thats me rambling on about my reading life again. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

P.S.: Oooo! And to correct myself: I said ealier on that H.G. Wells wrote at the beginning of the 1800s, but he really wrote at the very beginning of the 1900s . My mistake. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />