Dark_Silence
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solefald said:I saw the movie to do a friend a favor and if the book is in the same way like this horrible stupid boring senseless movie...oh dear. another book for burning.
What is it about exactly?
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solefald said:
I liked the movie, I don't think it was THAT bad... not the best thriller I have seen of course, but at least. I read the book before seeing the movie, it helped hehe
just finished reading "lautlos", quite entertaining, very well researched, and especially funny if you know your way around cologne, where the story takes place. it's basically about an assasination attempt on bill clinton during the g8 summit.
I don't feel obliged to read it. What i meant was that i wouldn't have bought it.Kathleen23 said:
And i'm never ashamed of reading or listening to anything, i prefer my own judgement and taste whenever i can afford having a first-hand opinion.
I haven't seen the movie yet, so i can't tell. People say that the book is a pageturner. I have to admit though, that at places it bores me and it makes me want to skip chapters and/or switch to textbooks. I also have to admit that i'm a very impatient person and that i get bored easily.solefald said:
Oh, i have that one in my "to read" list, and also on a bookshelf. I started reading it at some point but i was too busy with school and it did seem too complicated, so i gave up very fast. I still intend to read it though at some point.sole said:
I don't have that one, but i've seen the movie (which i liked a lot). Is the book too different from the movie?mardybaby said:
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well perhaps it isnt fair to criticize a book I havent read(as far as I know its more easy literature for the beach), but the mediahype about the movie and the book was really annoying-they even sell it in the supermarket beside the sweets!
as marduk mentioned it, Umberto Eco is a really fantastic author who wrote great intelligent books, sadly most people just know The Name of the Rose(and the movie, one of the best movie adaption of a book-based story) but his other stuff is worth to read 10 times
@siren the first 10 pages of Focault`s pendulum are really complicated but after that the book and the story flow into greatness.read it you wont be dissapointed
as marduk mentioned it, Umberto Eco is a really fantastic author who wrote great intelligent books, sadly most people just know The Name of the Rose(and the movie, one of the best movie adaption of a book-based story) but his other stuff is worth to read 10 times
@siren the first 10 pages of Focault`s pendulum are really complicated but after that the book and the story flow into greatness.read it you wont be dissapointed
solefald said:
as i recall, i did stop somewhere around page 9. next time i'll be patient and go past that.
If anybody can put their hands on Amelie Nothomb's books... please read these. It's dark but so funny and sarcastic. They are small books, not even 200 pages each I think, but the stories are amazing... and they are not expensive books.
I don't know if there are english versions... but if anyone can read french here, you have to check this out!
I don't know if there are english versions... but if anyone can read french here, you have to check this out!
Dark_Silence
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Have already read Amelie Nothomb. These are easy and fast to read books, but indeed very good. You take it and then you dont want to stop reading...
The author herself is a bit strange, i think.
The author herself is a bit strange, i think.
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Right now I'm reading (or trying to) a book called "Beowulf". I haven't been able to read a lot since I was in finals, but now that I'm on vacations :danceboy: , I'll try to.
Quite complicated, since tis olde, olde English. Here's a paragraph of the book so ye understand me:
* ahem *
Hehe I love it 
Quite complicated, since tis olde, olde English. Here's a paragraph of the book so ye understand me:
* ahem *
" ...In the days of this our life here, high-born and free.
Bade make ready for him a rider-of-the-sea,
Quoth he'd seek this War-King, o'er the swan road, he!-
Seek this noble Chieftain, 'for that't is men he needs."
The canny carls did chide him... "
Bade make ready for him a rider-of-the-sea,
Quoth he'd seek this War-King, o'er the swan road, he!-
Seek this noble Chieftain, 'for that't is men he needs."
The canny carls did chide him... "
Hehe I love it
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Lil' Bloodred Ridin' Hood said:
I had to read that for the English class when i was in the USA. And that is only the translated into more modern English version. We also read a part of the original one, in so very old and odd English, I couldnt understand anything.
I also had to read "The tame of the shrew" by Shakespeare. It is hard to read , because the words arent in the same position than in normal language, and he uses words that dont mean the same thing today, or that are not used anymore. Even people whose native language is English had some difficulties to understand...
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@Sirenoulitta: Yes, the book is different from the movie in the sense that movie can focus only on some aspects of the whole plot. Although I completely agree with solefald, that most people know only this one, because of the movie, The Name of the Rose is above all a fantastic project. Eco wanted to write a middle-age novel, not only to set it in the middle ages, but also to subordinate everything to this idea, i.e. when Adso sees some constellation in the night sky, Eco went so far as to check whether he could actually see that in that time, etc. etc. Its a great great novel. The Pendulum is basically a joke - a very sophisticated, Ecoesque parody on all the conspiracy novels like the one from Dan Brown. Its so well written that you can read it in multitude of ways, and the same totally applies to The Name of the Rose - even more, actually.
Sole is also right about the fact that the other works from Eco (I personally prefer his essays, semiologic works and articles) are worth reading, too.
Sole is also right about the fact that the other works from Eco (I personally prefer his essays, semiologic works and articles) are worth reading, too.
@mardukito: ok, you convinced me, i'll certainly read those two as soon as i can!
andn thanks for the review, i always like having an idea before plunging into a book.
andn thanks for the review, i always like having an idea before plunging into a book.
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The Pillars of The Earth is a brilliant book. I've read my copy of it so many times it's falling apart.atchoum said:
I'm reading "The Matarese Circle" by Robert Ludlum good book, it's not often you read about two enemies who have to team up together to "save the world" that don't end up trying to kill each other in the process
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Dark_Silence said:
Yeah, olde English is really hard to understand, but I guess with practice you'get the hang of it
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Cocksucker Blues pt.4 of Underworld by Don DeLillo
"Acey told me she was at a party and she said to a man,
What do men really want from women? and he said, Blowjobs
and she said You can get that from men"
"Acey told me she was at a party and she said to a man,
What do men really want from women? and he said, Blowjobs
and she said You can get that from men"
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I'm usually reading a few books at once. I just finished Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show. Amazing book. I recommend any of Clive Barker's books actually.
I'm also re-reading the Vampire Chronicles(Anne Rice). Speacking of Anne Rice, what do you guys all think of the turn in her direction? Her last book being on the life of Jesus Christ!!
I'm also re-reading the Vampire Chronicles(Anne Rice). Speacking of Anne Rice, what do you guys all think of the turn in her direction? Her last book being on the life of Jesus Christ!!
