Reading.

hakkie · Reading.

What are you all reading just now?

I have just finished Bram Stokers Dracula, had never read it before, and it is absolutely nothing like the films, it was really different, was good.

Am going to read Terry Pratchett - Nation next, he makes me laugh.

PixieSnowBunny

I love Pratchett, he's one of my favourite authors. I've just finished the Potter books - again and I might start on the Belgariad series by David Eddings next.

Blondie

I adore the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer. The film Twilight was in the cinema in November and it comes on DVD in a few days, well Twilight is the first book of four and the whole series is brilliant. I just read them over and over again. I've just finished Twilight (my fourth reading) and i'm gonna start my 3rd reading of the rest of the saga. I found the film almost as good as the book (although they missed out my favourite scene in the movie) the 2nd book is being released as a movie in October...cant wait!

I really really recommend it - i didnt think i'd enjoy them and picked it up because my sister had read them and i needed something to read, i havent given them her back yet...i am completely and utterly obsessed!

hakkie

Chloe loves the twilight series as well Blondie. I haven't read them, but will watch the movie. She tells me you will either love them or hate them.

Pixie what does David Eddings write about, I havent heard about him before?
Chloe keeps telling me I need to re read all HP again.

urbangirluk

I'm really into Louise Bagshawe at the moment, I'm halfway through Glitz, I've already read Sparkles and Glamour, they're good chick lit if you like that sort of thing.

Lady Rachel

I'm reading a book called Plain. Can't remember the author's name.

It's a bout an Amish girl who falls pregnant, hides the pregancy & then the baby is found murdered. A brilliant book. And I have no idea what is going to happen. I'm nearly finished

hakkie

Sounds interesting Rachel, can you tell me the author?

Blondie - I have started Twilight, good so far, she has just had the car incident!

Blondie

ooh the car incident...there are still some great bits to come!

angel101

under the skin kate sharman or something similar - its a pretty strange book - but one i picked up in greece.

that and accident and emergency x-rays made easy - i wonder how that one will end??

PixieSnowBunny

hakkie

Thanks for the link Pixie, am gonna check them out at the library this coming week.

Blondie

OMG SO EXCITED!!! Twiloght coms out on DVD tomorrow...i've seen the movie twice and its great...i am completely and utterly obsessed with Edward Cullen!

hakkie

Chloes is on route from play.com!

Lady Rachel

It's called Plain Truth & the author is Jodi Picoult.

When I've finished I will send it to you hakkie. It was a freebie from work & I don't normally read a book more than once.

Blondie

hakkie

Thanks Rachel. :)

I seem to be in a reading glut just now, am still enjoying Twilight, Blondie thanks for the recommendation.

Warrior

I'm a big fan of Ben Elton's books and right now I am reading his book "High Society"

Louise (Admin)

Hey Mr Warrior. Long time no see around here.

PixieSnowBunny

*ghost-woman*

Well i just finished ready a book of jokes lol.....got some wicked jokes in there lol im gonna post some on the forum for ya all to read :)

urbangirluk

Lady Rachel

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Lady Rachel

hakkie

Pixie,
Rachel sent me the Jodie Picoult book Plain truth, I will send it to you once I have finished reading it.
Thanks Rach

PixieSnowBunny

Thanks chickie

Lady Rachel

No probs Hakkie.

urbangirluk

PixieSnowBunny

Not wierd at all. I absolutely hate it when I lend a book out and it comes back with the spine broken. That's almost as bad as when people fold the page corners down to mark their spot in the book

hakkie

Agreed on that one Pixie!

Lady Rachel

hakkie

I can read a book and it still looks like it hasnt been read Rach!

I buy toothpaste in them things you cant squeeze!!!

Lady Rachel

urbangirluk

hakkie

You can have a book from me anytime Rachel, i'll just not ask for it back!

Lady Rachel

Your too kind.

hakkie

Pixie,

Have finished Rachels book, twas good, if you send me your addy I will forward it to you

Thanks Rachel, I enjoyed it, I didnt suspect the very end!

Lady Rachel

Glad you enjoyed it. It surprised me aswell.

I've just finished reading the Boy in the Striped Pyjama's. Oh my, that is a fantastic book. I then watched the film this afternoon.

I definately recommend the book before the film but the film was still very good.

hakkie

Chloe got me that book a while ago Rachel, I enjoyed it a lot.
I havent watched the film, as i cant see how there can be any suspense as I know the ending!

I may watch the film at some point as my mum has it

Dolly Dimple · Re: Reading.

Blondie

the first thing i do when i get a book is break its spine. It doesnt feel comfortable unless i do that and i turn down the pages too!

but then whenever i get new dance shoes i spend hours working on them until i've broken the cast...so maybe its just me. But my books look really worn out and i like them looking that way!

I've just finished the Secret Scripture...fantastic - really well written from 2 perspectiveits about an old woman in a mental hopsital been there most of her life, the story is how and why she ended up there. She writes and its also told from her doctors perspective...brilliant and with a superb twist i wasnt at all expecting!

I'm just about to re-read Angels and Demons so i can remember the plot in time for the movie coming out

Louise (Admin)

Blondie

My sister is like that, if she lends me a book and she sees me even turning over a page she goes mental...so i dont bother borrowing them off her anymore lol but whats the point of having a book if you can be rough handed with it and really get in to it...altough i dont read in the bath anymore as i dropped a book in once and then when it had dried the pages had stuck together and gone all crinkly and i dont like that lol.
although i do have to wear gloves when i read...i absolutely cant stand the feel of paper!

Louise (Admin)

Really?

I must admit I'm like that with Polystyrene . . . especially of someone rubs two pieces of it together . . . Oooh, I feel a Topic coming on . . . .

Blondie

oh no just thinking about polysterene makes me cringe!
paper especialy printer paper, and when the paper comes out of the photocopier warm and the ink smells i cannt stand that at all. I feel like the paper make my hands really dry. if the paper is glossy though then thats ok!

PixieSnowBunny

PixieSnowBunny

Got the book yesterday, already finished it. It was great, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Does anyone else want to read it? I'm happy to pass it on.

Dolly Dimple

I'll have a read.... that's if you don't mind xx

Midgie

I am reading "War and Peace". I absolutely love it! This is my first Tolstoy book to read, but I plan to read more of his work when I have completed this book.

PixieSnowBunny

Dolly Dimple

Received the book this morning - thank you so much Pixie xxxx I'll pass it on when I've finished, just give me 6 months

Midgie,

War and Peace that book could be used as a door stopper

Midgie

Hahaha...I know!! I have a copy of the paperback edition. I often fall asleep at night reading it! Two nights ago, my hubby got all huffy with me and said, "Can you move that d**n book". It had slipped under his pillow and he couldn't sleep...hahahaa!

Now I know what to do if I want retaliation for something he has done...slip War and Peace under him while he sleeps!

Seriously though...I am loving War and Peace! Has anyone else read it?

Dolly Dimple

not many people have answered ya question, I wonder why

Blondie

i started it but lost patience...but have you read the Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky? I highly highly recommend it...one of the main characters has Epilepsy! Its a proper classic published in 1868! But the author also suffered from Epilepsy so i think he based the characters epilepsy on his own!

Dolly Dimple

I've finished 'Plain Truth' if anyone would like it....

Twas a great book but I worked out the ending half way through

hakkie

I've just finished Witch Child - Celia Rees, twas good, but a bit short.
Now reading Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett. So so funny!

Blondie

Just finished reading Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and i highly recommend it.

Looking back as an adult, Matilda recalls her adolescence, living with her mother in Bougainvillea, in a time when conflict has engulfed the region. Life is uncertain and they live in constant fear as enemy soldiers make frequent visits to their village. But Matilda finds escape at school, and from her eccentric teacher, Mr Watts, who is the only white man left behind. For there she learns of a fictional boy named Pip, as Mr Watts reads aloud to the class from his battered copy of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Soon, Pip becomes just as real to Matilda as anyone else.

But Pips presence, and that of Mr Watts, has a dramatic effect. And when the soldiers return, Matilda finds herself swept up by a chain of events that changes her life forever.

As the title suggests, Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip borrows heavily from Great Expectations. It is written in the same autobiographical style, and in the same pacing that unfolds like a riveting yarn. Lloyd Jones openly acknowledges characters and themes and even highlights parallels from Dickens' timeless novel. But it's not a critique or an imitation, nor does it employ the gimmick of reworking a character into a new narrative. Instead, it's an engrossing tale that reminds us just how powerful a story - any story - can be.

Midgie

That sounds very interesting. I think I will try to find it next.

I am on page 543 of War and Peace. I still have 899 more pages to go. I love what is unfolding in the story at this point. I couldn't sleep last night so I read and read....then when I actually became tired, I had a difficult time putting down the book :D

F.K.R.

If you think at all that your books are valuable or may be valuable some day, dog eared pages and any other such damage severely drops the value of your book, no collector would probably even concider buying a dog eared book.

Blondie

i dont have to worry about that lol, none of my books are worth anything...and even if they were, there is no way i would consider selling them

Blondie

Dolly Dimple

It'd take me years to read it

KindAndCourteous

I do not particularly enjoy the activity of bragging, but I finished the book 'War and Peace' at the age of eleven and still remember the plethora of characters.

I am currently reading Alexandre Dumas' finest work, 'Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ou Dix Ans Plus Tard'. This book uses words to create something that is truly and utterly amazing for its readers. I will soon proceed to begin reading 'A Dance to the Music of Time', which is by the genius writer who is known as Anthony Powell.

Kindly and courteously yours,
KindAndCourteous.

hakkie

Curious you state Alexandre Dumas' finest work as 'Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ou Dix Ans Plus Tard' most people would state it was his first
and most popular novel `The three musketeers' or surely `The count of Monte Cristo`.

Has 'Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ou Dix Ans Plus Tard'. been translated into English, if not why not, if as you say, it is Alexandre Dumas' finest work?

Kind regards,
Hakkie

KindAndCourteous

Ah, but it has, young objurgator. However, it is perceptible, perspicuous and noticably pellucid that the novel 'Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ou Dix Ans Plus Tard' is a vernacular work and though I am an enthusiastic aficionado, an adherent as you may prefer, of the English language, the work is simply dovetail with its semantic origin. In French, you could view it as 626,000 words of pure vivid, effective imagery, yet in English it can be described as inferior to Alexandre Dumas' more popular English works.

It is all a matter of opinion though.

Dolly Dimple

I ain't got a clue what you 2 are on about

must be good though coz ur posts are full of long words..... I keep havin to get me dictionary out!

Louise (Admin)

Snap!

Saftlad

There both way over my head, I've just started Janet and John go to the pub, I've found it to be very sobering in parts

Louise (Admin)

Lady Rachel

hakkie

Kind And Courteous,

Surely a literary site would suit you better, however as you posted, I will reply to you as I AM kind and courteous.

Yes I agree most novels are better read in the language they were written in, as when they are translated the meaning is lost and they do not scan as well, however since you are so interested in Dumas' best works, I assumed it would be a better known one.

I know you are persnicketty on the written word, ie, grammar and spelling, if you want to pm me I will be very happy to point out the good few errors you yourself have made.

Kind regards,

Hakkie

hakkie

Saftlad, can I borrow Janet and John after you PRETTY PLEASE!

Saftlad

Anytime

PixieSnowBunny

Janet and John!! LMAO

It was Peter and Jane when I was learning to read. Epic novels that I remember fondly and feel the need to share a snippet of it with you all. They went like this:

Here is Peter
Here is Jane
Here is Peter and Jane
Here is the dog

Gripping stuff :D

Dolly Dimple

I'm reading a book at the moment (yes I'm reading)

Well, as I turn the pages they fall out - well made book ehhhhh

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