The Book Thread - Page 4

Defiance · April 5th, 2011, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Shankao

Yes!!

Yeah! So many people are missing out on a lot of (insert your preferred adjective here) Northern-European literature because it's only been translated into English, but not castellano

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lefay82 · April 5th, 2011, 04:59 AM

i've started to read spellbound.
i'm impressed of how easy it's for me to read in english.
i had never tried to read an entire book in english (yes stupid me) and i'm starting to like it very much because it isn't traumatic or difficult at all!!!!

for now i'm at page 50 so nothing has really happened, the main character hasn't meet vintersorg yet to be more clear ahahah

i don't even know if this encounter happens in the first book or in another one of the saga...let's see what happen.
for now it seems interesting, those ice people are misterious and strange

lefay82 · April 8th, 2011, 04:19 AM

okey yesterday i ended it.
surprisingly no trace of vintersorg in the first book. i tought he was one of the main characters, but i was wrong, clearly.
let's hope at least he's one of the misterious ice people

it was a strange reading, it ended up to be a fantasy tale mixed up with an erotic novel

i mean, through the writing you understand that the writer is a woman and not a man (the only fantasy novels i has read before this were all written only by men and it's a totally different approach)
anyway i did like it, but i'm not that particular when it comes to reading, i mean, i have my own taste, and there are things that i like more or less, but i'm a devourer of written words, i read everything, i would read water's label if there wasn't anything better to read in the neighbourhood....so....in the end i liked it, and that morbid curiosity to know how it ends has taken control over me again...and i could not stop me from buying from book 2 to book 6, which are the only ones translated into english, and i'm already into panic to know how many book still have to be translated and how much time will i have to wait

i don't know why, but i'm really pathologic. when i begin something i cannot stop and i need to see its end. that's why i don't understand how some of you are able to leave a book in the middle of it. sounds impossible to me!!!!

lefay82 · April 11th, 2011, 04:18 AM

while waiting to have book 2 delivered i've started to read odd and the frost giants. it's a book by neil gaiman, it's a sort of tale inspired to nordic mythology, and in particular to the theft of mjöllnir.
i had never read anything of gaiman, but i've heard good words about him, so i tried. and above all, it was the only decent book in english i've found in the bookshop ahaha

Defiance · April 11th, 2011, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by lefay82

while waiting to have book 2 delivered i've started to read odd and the frost giants. it's a book by neil gaiman, it's a sort of tale inspired to nordic mythology, and in particular to the theft of mjöllnir.
i had never read anything of gaiman, but i've heard good words about him, so i tried. and above all, it was the only decent book in english i've found in the bookshop ahaha

You haven't read anything by Gaiman?!?!?!? Your life has been purposeless until now! You must read The Sandman!!!

lefay82 · April 11th, 2011, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Defiance

You haven't read anything by Gaiman?!?!?!? Your life has been purposeless until now! You must read The Sandman!!!

ahaha okey! i'm gathering tips about which one to read next, i got some options and "american gods" seems to be the most voted

but i'll accept your precious advice too, as long as i find it somewhere

yes, because i've ended odd's story too....

(well it was really really short, 120 pages)
now i've started with the saga of gisli son of surr....but maybe i'll have witch hunt (book two of the ice people) delivered tomorrow. so....let's hope!!!!

tobz · April 11th, 2011, 03:49 PM

Neverwhere is a very cool story by Gaiman as well, have sadly not read the book but I have the film-version and it is pretty bizarre and very enjoyable.
Stardust, his collaboration with Terry Pratchett is also a good choise (though I expect you have read Terry Pratchett before? Otherwise something ill, like a badly boiled codfish might end up in your bed while you sleep... You have been warned.)

Defiance · April 11th, 2011, 04:47 PM

SAAAANDMAAAAAAAAAAN!

phantomfreak · April 11th, 2011, 06:06 PM

Currently reading:

Defiance · April 11th, 2011, 07:26 PM

I've seen the Swedish movies, don't really feel like becoming a "fan" of Larsson after them but they're OK.

lefay82 · April 12th, 2011, 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by tobz

Neverwhere is a very cool story by Gaiman as well, have sadly not read the book but I have the film-version and it is pretty bizarre and very enjoyable.
Stardust, his collaboration with Terry Pratchett is also a good choise (though I expect you have read Terry Pratchett before? Otherwise something ill, like a badly boiled codfish might end up in your bed while you sleep... You have been warned.)

no fishes have visited me tonight

i've seen stardust and i enjoyed it, i'll probably read it as soon as i find it.

no i didn't read anything by terry pratchet. don't know why. i mean, the genre it's not exactly my cup of tea, so that's probably why i haven't read anything for now, i was into some other kind of stuff in the last years (i mean old stuff), but never is a word that doesn't belong to my reading-dictionary so i will surely read something a day or another

Full Spectrum · April 12th, 2011, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by phantomfreak

Currently reading:

Everybody reads, I don't have to.

tobz · April 12th, 2011, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by lefay82

i mean, the genre it's not exactly my cup of tea, so that's probably why i haven't read anything for now

Well, the thing with Pratchett which really makes him better than the rest (for me) is that he is making as much fun of the genre as he himself is writing it. He takes all the 'normal' fantasy conventions, and then turns them on their head, or just look at them from a more practical point of view. Read, and you'll see what I mean

CHUK · April 13th, 2011, 12:15 AM

Anansi boys its a good one!

lefay82 · April 13th, 2011, 04:06 AM

thanks for the tips eveybody

but i didn't find anything at the bookshop yesterday

they only had "stories" by gaiman but i'm not in the mood to read short tales or novels now. i've bought the road by cormac mccarthy (i've seen the film and i liked it very much) and the cronicles of something (winter autumn summer and what else?) by hickman and weiss, all the trilogy in one single enormous book

i paid 14 euro for it, for something like 1000 pages, let's see if we only have quantity or also quality

and witch hunt has arrived this morning so it has the priority on everything else!!!!

Elvina · April 15th, 2011, 05:19 PM

omg lefay i'm so jealous, i wish i could swallow the books like that...

it would take me forever to read all the stuff you read

lefay82 · April 16th, 2011, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Elvina

omg lefay i'm so jealous, i wish i could swallow the books like that...

it would take me forever to read all the stuff you read

i've always read a lot, since childhood.
i remember that when i was about 6 or 7 i spent a lot of time reading, while my other friends spent all their time playing. my best friend, who is my friend since we were 6, always remembers me with fun that when we was at the elementary school i used such difficult words for a 7-8 years old girl that she didn't even know their meaning and had to ask the teacher or her parents

i think this is the greatest gift my father gave me, one of the few nice memories i have of him, sadly. he was a publisher, so i inherited his love for books and the written word. he was a writer too...
as a Man he sucked, as a humanist he was a great personality...

i'm already seeing the end of witch hunt. only 40 pages left.

Elvina · April 16th, 2011, 05:21 AM

i read a lot when i was at school, too. In the summer school vacations that last the whole 3 months in Russia i was pretty damn bored so books were one of the few entertainments i could enjoy all day. At some point there were almost no books left in the library that i had not read

I remember spending 1-2 hours in the library before i could find something even remotely interesting... At that time i read just about anything, even very boring stuff

But even back then i was a slow reader. My friend who always went with me to the library could read a 350 pages book in 2 days while it would take me at least a week of almost continuous reading... And with all these years this problem has grown so much worse that now it prevents me from reading at all

lefay82 · April 17th, 2011, 07:18 AM

i think i'm a quite fast reader. i suppose i can read 30/40 pages per hours. in the past i had much more free time, and i was reading more than now. now it's normal to read a 300 pages book in 3-4 days, before i could read a 600 pages book in 2 days

but that was all about time...much more time to read.

anyway i've finished witch hunt yesterday, no vintersorg have entered to story yet.
the second book was more disappointing because it was slower and with less happenings than the first one....and...i have to stop here because book 3 is ordered but hasn't arrived yet

Laila Lumberjack · July 2nd, 2011, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Allfader

Yesterday, after getting my paycheck I went to a bookstore and asked, hopeless, for some Dostoyevsky books. It had 'The brothers Karamazov' in a beautiful edition of 2 volumes, so I bought it and I'm currently reading it. Probably tomorrow I'll look for some other interesting stuff. I need to expand my Poe and Nietzche collections.

Because of my recent interest in existentialism, I bought "The brothers Karamazov" a few weeks ago as well, also a beautiful 2 volumes edition from 1910. But I didn't start reading it yet.

Currently reading a lot on archaeozoölogy, archaeobotanics, stone age research in the Netherlands, community involvement in archaeology, heritage preservation in Bulgaria, and Anglo-Saxon amulets made of amber.
Having to finish a bunch of essays and a thesis before September while I could have been making the best of summertime if I wouldn't be such a notorious procrastinator, is not a joy.

In my spare reading time I'm now reading Bertrand Russel - A history of western philosophy + Ryan & Jetha - Sex at dawn: the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality (I surely recommend this one, especially if you want to know just why monogamy is not natural)

phantomfreak · August 31st, 2011, 12:56 AM

I will be starting this tomorrow:

Vampyrian · August 31st, 2011, 05:05 AM

I'm currently in the middle of the second 'Dark Tower' book, 'The Drawing of the Three'.:S About damn time I got around to reading this. Bought the first three and I'm having a blast. Going to order the next four soon.

Naglfar · August 31st, 2011, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by walkyr

Currently reading a lot on archaeozoölogy, archaeobotanics, stone age research in the Netherlands, community involvement in archaeology, heritage preservation in Bulgaria, and Anglo-Saxon amulets made of amber.

Having to finish a bunch of essays and a thesis before September while I could have been making the best of summertime if I wouldn't be such a notorious procrastinator, is not a joy.

You didn't even need to add that following section for everyone to know you are a graduate student procrastinating from your actual work by reading other stuff that could be construed as work for people that aren't graduate students ^_^

I suffer from the same sickness

monoxide_child · September 2nd, 2011, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by phantomfreak

I will be starting this tomorrow:

is this the newest one?

phantomfreak · September 2nd, 2011, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by monoxide_child

is this the newest one?

No it is only the second book, there are currently 5 books in the series out.

April 5th, 2011, 04:59 AM	#77 (permalink)
lefay82 Per aspera ad astra Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: italy Posts: 1,938	i've started to read spellbound. i'm impressed of how easy it's for me to read in english. i had never tried to read an entire book in english (yes stupid me) and i'm starting to like it very much because it isn't traumatic or difficult at all!!!! for now i'm at page 50 so nothing has really happened, the main character hasn't meet vintersorg yet to be more clear ahahah i don't even know if this encounter happens in the first book or in another one of the saga...let's see what happen. for now it seems interesting, those ice people are misterious and strange __________________

April 8th, 2011, 04:19 AM	#78 (permalink)
lefay82 Per aspera ad astra Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: italy Posts: 1,938	okey yesterday i ended it. surprisingly no trace of vintersorg in the first book. i tought he was one of the main characters, but i was wrong, clearly. let's hope at least he's one of the misterious ice people it was a strange reading, it ended up to be a fantasy tale mixed up with an erotic novel i mean, through the writing you understand that the writer is a woman and not a man (the only fantasy novels i has read before this were all written only by men and it's a totally different approach) anyway i did like it, but i'm not that particular when it comes to reading, i mean, i have my own taste, and there are things that i like more or less, but i'm a devourer of written words, i read everything, i would read water's label if there wasn't anything better to read in the neighbourhood....so....in the end i liked it, and that morbid curiosity to know how it ends has taken control over me again...and i could not stop me from buying from book 2 to book 6, which are the only ones translated into english, and i'm already into panic to know how many book still have to be translated and how much time will i have to wait i don't know why, but i'm really pathologic. when i begin something i cannot stop and i need to see its end. that's why i don't understand how some of you are able to leave a book in the middle of it. sounds impossible to me!!!! __________________ Last edited by lefay82 : April 8th, 2011 at 05:05 AM.

April 11th, 2011, 04:18 AM	#79 (permalink)
lefay82 Per aspera ad astra Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: italy Posts: 1,938	while waiting to have book 2 delivered i've started to read odd and the frost giants. it's a book by neil gaiman, it's a sort of tale inspired to nordic mythology, and in particular to the theft of mjöllnir. i had never read anything of gaiman, but i've heard good words about him, so i tried. and above all, it was the only decent book in english i've found in the bookshop ahaha __________________

April 11th, 2011, 03:49 PM	#82 (permalink)
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Defiance I vårens ljusa kvällar Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Midway through Infinity (or Ottawa, Canada). Posts: 4,850	I've seen the Swedish movies, don't really feel like becoming a "fan" of Larsson after them but they're OK. __________________ My music collection! My pics "The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people". - Chomsky

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April 13th, 2011, 04:06 AM	#90 (permalink)
lefay82 Per aspera ad astra Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: italy Posts: 1,938	thanks for the tips eveybody but i didn't find anything at the bookshop yesterday they only had "stories" by gaiman but i'm not in the mood to read short tales or novels now. i've bought the road by cormac mccarthy (i've seen the film and i liked it very much) and the cronicles of something (winter autumn summer and what else?) by hickman and weiss, all the trilogy in one single enormous book i paid 14 euro for it, for something like 1000 pages, let's see if we only have quantity or also quality and witch hunt has arrived this morning so it has the priority on everything else!!!! __________________

April 15th, 2011, 05:19 PM	#91 (permalink)
Elvina Tree-Hugging Space Elf Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: the lowlands Posts: 993	omg lefay i'm so jealous, i wish i could swallow the books like that... it would take me forever to read all the stuff you read __________________ PAGANRoots Youtube channel - metal / folk / gothic live gigs.

April 16th, 2011, 05:21 AM	#93 (permalink)
Elvina Tree-Hugging Space Elf Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: the lowlands Posts: 993	i read a lot when i was at school, too. In the summer school vacations that last the whole 3 months in Russia i was pretty damn bored so books were one of the few entertainments i could enjoy all day. At some point there were almost no books left in the library that i had not read I remember spending 1-2 hours in the library before i could find something even remotely interesting... At that time i read just about anything, even very boring stuff But even back then i was a slow reader. My friend who always went with me to the library could read a 350 pages book in 2 days while it would take me at least a week of almost continuous reading... And with all these years this problem has grown so much worse that now it prevents me from reading at all __________________ PAGANRoots Youtube channel - metal / folk / gothic live gigs.

April 17th, 2011, 07:18 AM	#94 (permalink)
lefay82 Per aspera ad astra Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: italy Posts: 1,938	i think i'm a quite fast reader. i suppose i can read 30/40 pages per hours. in the past i had much more free time, and i was reading more than now. now it's normal to read a 300 pages book in 3-4 days, before i could read a 600 pages book in 2 days but that was all about time...much more time to read. anyway i've finished witch hunt yesterday, no vintersorg have entered to story yet. the second book was more disappointing because it was slower and with less happenings than the first one....and...i have to stop here because book 3 is ordered but hasn't arrived yet __________________

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