Bloo wrote:my bathroom reading right now is NEW MOON, I hear the writing gets better from TWILIGHT, not likig the Romeo and Juliet symbolism being shoved right in my face though
caruso_stalker217 wrote:New Moon. Bloo-man, you disappoint me.
Maui wrote:Bloo wrote:my bathroom reading right now is NEW MOON, I hear the writing gets better from TWILIGHT, not likig the Romeo and Juliet symbolism being shoved right in my face though
Well Meyers made some bold choices with New Moon that didn't quite work for me. However, you've just started, so I'll wait til you are done to rip it apart.
Bloo wrote:I think I'm losing more and more Oleg cred
Fievel wrote:The Todd wrote:100 pages into Duma Key and loving it-FIVE!!!!!
That book was a LOT better than I would have guessed it to be.
Maui wrote:Bloo wrote:I think I'm losing more and more Oleg cred
It's all about impressing those guys, eh?
Ribbons wrote:Says the guy reading Twilight!
MadCapsule wrote:I'm almost finished with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (after my third attempt at reading it) and I honestly kinda hate it.
Ribbons wrote:MadCapsule wrote:I'm almost finished with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (after my third attempt at reading it) and I honestly kinda hate it.
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Care to elaborate, paisan? You've got me a little spooked because that's in my pile of books to read
Bloo wrote:well I'm still plowing through Myer's 2nd Twilight book NEW MOON
Maui wrote:Bloo wrote:well I'm still plowing through Myer's 2nd Twilight book NEW MOON
Yeah, I didn't like New Moon that much, in fact I lost a bit of interest in it and started reading something else, then came back to it. While the whole shape-shifting wolf thing is cool, it just seemed to be too much Bella and Jacob and I found myself getting pissed off with Meyers for not having Edward in the storyline sooner. When they adapt this for the big screen, they are definitely going to have to play up the whole Italy/Volterra vampire scene and play down all the boring Jacob/Bella storyline AND they better get the wolves right or it could be a real mess. Let's hope that Summit gives them the budget to do the proper VFX for this.
Bloo wrote:
well I've finished New Moon and jumped right into ECLIPSE, which I enjoyed a lot more. You've pretty much summed up my feelings on New Moon
one thought, if the vamps and the werewolves are such natural mortal enemies, why aren't the wolves in more places (the specifically mention in...Eclipse I belive that the Volturi weren't going to recognize the wolves scent) or why didn't the Native American's send out their wolf warriors out further to totally eliminate the threat
my biggest complaint about NEW MOON was the lack of any real WW action, we hear Jacob talk about but not really describe or go into detail about their fight with Laruant, they had BETTER include that in the movie version.
I will also say that if that Spanish The Orphanage guy gets to direct ECLIPSE I think it'll be a good marriage of directior and material
overall New moon felt like filler, Eclipse not too bad
haven't had a chance to start Breaking Dawn yet
Maui wrote:Bloo wrote:
well I've finished New Moon and jumped right into ECLIPSE, which I enjoyed a lot more. You've pretty much summed up my feelings on New Moon
one thought, if the vamps and the werewolves are such natural mortal enemies, why aren't the wolves in more places (the specifically mention in...Eclipse I belive that the Volturi weren't going to recognize the wolves scent) or why didn't the Native American's send out their wolf warriors out further to totally eliminate the threat
my biggest complaint about NEW MOON was the lack of any real WW action, we hear Jacob talk about but not really describe or go into detail about their fight with Laruant, they had BETTER include that in the movie version.
I will also say that if that Spanish The Orphanage guy gets to direct ECLIPSE I think it'll be a good marriage of directior and material
overall New moon felt like filler, Eclipse not too bad
haven't had a chance to start Breaking Dawn yet
Bayona...hell yeah! Orphanage was his directorial debut and he did a wonderful job.
No, WWs only exist in Forks.New Moon was basically a Bella/Jacob story with a bit of excitement thrown in at the very end with Italy/Volterra crew. I found it boring in parts, tempted to skip through some stuff but that's a reading sin for me, no matter how boring material can be.
Let me know your thoughts on Eclipse and Breaking Dawn.
caruso_stalker217 wrote:Fuck's sake, man. Fuckin' TWILIGHT. It's not enough I gotta hear about it at work all the fuckin' time. Damn.
Anyway, I haven't been reading shit so I guess I got no reason to be here anyway.
Bloo wrote:
Bella to me still isn't that great of a char. she just is there, while everyone around her is much more intresting
Tyrone_Shoelaces wrote:I've got about a hundred pages to go in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and I am enjoying the hell out of it. This Roth guy is pretty good, I should look into more of his stuff.
Maui wrote:Bloo wrote:
Bella to me still isn't that great of a char. she just is there, while everyone around her is much more intresting
An extremely bland character to read about and Kristin Stewart portrays this brilliantly, or is that just her lame acting?
I think you will find that these books are forgettable, I did. They don't stick with you with any kind of WOW factor.
Bloo wrote:
I haven't seen anything from Kristin Stewart that blows me away she even looks bored when on the red carpet
Bloo wrote:yeah that's what I'm finding out, but I told my friends I would read them but they had to read the Sookie Stackhouse books (of which I had the first 2) for me
Maui wrote:Are those books any good, re. Sookie Stackhouse? I've watched True Blood on HBO and was curious about the books.
Bloo wrote:they aren't bad, I have only seen a couple of episodes of True Blood so I can't compare but they're well written, have a very good mytholgy behind them, char. are likeable, campires are acutlally vampires and don't SPARKLE![]()
Maui wrote:Bloo wrote:they aren't bad, I have only seen a couple of episodes of True Blood so I can't compare but they're well written, have a very good mytholgy behind them, char. are likeable, campires are acutlally vampires and don't SPARKLE![]()
Well Meyer's had to do something different with the vampires, separate herself from other vampire authors like Anne Rice for example. No one else has done the sparkly skin vampire bit before, but yeah, it was lame.
From the bestselling author of The Egyptologist and Prague comes an even more accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear. The novel opens in London, in the 1880s, with the Barton household on the brink of collapse. Mother, father, and daughter provoke one another, consciously and unconsciously, and a horrifying crisis is triggered. As the family’s tragedy is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast and sympathies shift. In the dark of night, a chilling sexual spectre is making its way through the house, hovering over the sleeping girl and terrorizing her fragile mother. Are these visions real, or is there something more sinister, and more human, to fear? A spiritualist is summoned to cleanse the place of its terrors, but with her arrival the complexities of motive and desire only multiply. The mother’s failing health and the father’s many secrets fuel the growing conflicts, while the daughter flirts dangerously with truth and fantasy. While Angelica is reminiscent of such classic horror tales as The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting of Hill House, it is also a thoroughly modern exploration of identity, reality, and love. Set at the dawn of psychoanalysis and the peak of spiritualism’s acceptance, Angelica is also an evocative historical novel that explores the timeless human hunger for certainty. “Angelica, Arthur Phillip's spellbinding third book, cements this young novelist's reputation as one of the best writers in America, a storyteller who combines Nabokovian wit and subtlety with a narrative urgency that rivals Stephen King" –Washington Post From the Hardcover edition.
TonyWilson wrote:Currently reading the second book of the Red Riding Quartet
Think Ellroy but done Yorkshire. The first book is a descent in to hell and madness for a young reporter investigating the disappearance of a young girl that maybe linked with other missing girls around the county, as the book progresses the true face of the corrupt police, politicians and businessman who control the area becomes clear. It's a savage read, fast moving, graphic, complex but it's not all grit and realism there's also an undercurrent of the occult and the supernatural (especially in the second book - Nineteen Seventy Seven), visions and hauntings and perhaps prophecy. The second book fills in a few mysteries from the first and recaps events from other perspectives while telling a new part of the whole story that also segues into the real life Yorkshire Ripper investigation, other real events like the Steven Kizsko false imprisonment are weaved into the narrative either by direct reference or with the names of the parties involved changed. The Quartet has been adapted into a trilogy of films for channel 4 and they look pretty good but quite a lot has been changed or cut and characters amalgamated into others so even if you've seen them the book are more than worth tracking down.
Nachokoolaid wrote:Well, I finished One Hundred Years of Solitude, and that was great again. I went back and read WATCHMEN again, and that was also good. A friend gave me a copy of THE GUNSLINGER, and I'm about half through it and I''m trying to contemplate whether I'm enjoying it enough to read that entire Dark Tower series. It's okay in parts and not so much in others. I'll probably finish them just because I'm usually a completist. Anyone got any opinions on this Dark Tower series?(no spoilers!).
Bloo wrote:Nachokoolaid wrote:Well, I finished One Hundred Years of Solitude, and that was great again. I went back and read WATCHMEN again, and that was also good. A friend gave me a copy of THE GUNSLINGER, and I'm about half through it and I''m trying to contemplate whether I'm enjoying it enough to read that entire Dark Tower series. It's okay in parts and not so much in others. I'll probably finish them just because I'm usually a completist. Anyone got any opinions on this Dark Tower series?(no spoilers!).
keep reading them! agreed with caruso the first 4 are probably Kings best stuff, the other 3 are...ok
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