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Post by naaaat on Feb 19, 2010 20:50:32 GMT
Marcus Zusak, I think? Disagree on the Wuthering Heights front; I did try and read it when I was 15/16 (about two and a half years ago) and just couldn't get into it at all, but read it over the summer and yes, they are all horrible people but I ended up enjoying it a lot more! 'Waterland' (Grahame Swift) and 'Brave New World' were books I had to read for A Level Literature and HATED; the first was just relentlessly, horribly depressing, and in the second the author set up a pretty good premise and then just seemed to do nothing with it so I just stopped caring  Also, never got past a couple of chapters of 'Northern Lights', just didn't like the style I think! |
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Post by lastgoodbye on Feb 19, 2010 20:54:33 GMT
Nat, I'll have to re-read it in a couple of years  Just out of interest (I don't want to anger Anna or anything), does anyone here not like Harry Potter? |
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Post by katrick on Feb 19, 2010 20:56:51 GMT
I LOVE THE BOOK THIEF SO MUCH I FEEL CAPITAL LETTERS ARE NECESSARY TO PURVEY MY LOVE FOR IT eta: In answer to your question, I love the HP books but dislike the films Don't hate me, filmfans! |
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Post by lastgoodbye on Feb 19, 2010 21:00:05 GMT
Yay!
And regarding Harry Potter: I watched the special features on the Half Blood Prince dvd yesterday and oh my god the actors who play Neville and Dean are the most annoying cretins I've ever come across on dvd. I had to fast-forward their narration. It was painful.
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Post by katrick on Feb 19, 2010 21:04:22 GMT
Wasn't "Neville" in the fit blokes thread a while back...? |
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Post by Aly on Feb 22, 2010 21:46:19 GMT
I really hate Beowulf. It had a few epic parts (despite being called an epic poem), but it was so dreadful. My least favorite part was remembering all that families and thier names. I can't even remember how many times I had to flip to the family tree..
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Feb 23, 2010 13:48:48 GMT
Nat, I'll have to re-read it in a couple of years Just out of interest (I don't want to anger Anna or anything), does anyone here not like Harry Potter? Hahaha oooh my obsession. The books are to the films as a fine wine is to a dirty pond. |
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Post by lastgoodbye on Feb 23, 2010 15:25:17 GMT
Do you really hate the films!? I didn't know that!
I love the books and merely like the films. They aren't cosy enough. Ideally it should have been a TV show, so they didn't have to cut out as much, but people always make films anyway.
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Feb 23, 2010 15:36:38 GMT
Oh no I like the films! Just compared they're very... blah.
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Post by lastgoodbye on Feb 23, 2010 15:45:30 GMT
Not as cosy?
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Feb 23, 2010 17:48:13 GMT
Yeah. the books are Molly and the films are Snape.
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Post by newslang on Feb 23, 2010 22:01:30 GMT
I reread the last few books last summer and I am still quite upset they left out Peeves in the films! They put in all the other minor characters  I do love the films, though. Like, as far as books turned movies, they are pretty great. |
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Post by choolin firth on Feb 24, 2010 0:07:52 GMT
I didn't like the books, goodbye wolfboard respect.
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Post by naaaat on Feb 24, 2010 12:16:16 GMT
One of my flatmates hasn't read any of them. I'm AMAZED at that! I remember book 2 TERRIFYING me when I was younger; my bedroom at home's right next to the loft so the boiler often makes funny noises at night, so every time it did I was like "ARGH THERE'S A BASILISK IN THE PIPES!!" I did enjoy the books though; thought the death toll in 7 was a bit unnecessary and they're not my absolute favourites, but I liked them! |
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Post by glumbumble on Feb 24, 2010 12:45:48 GMT
I loooove the books. I've read books 1-4 more than 7 times (I don't know why, it amused me to reread them 7 times (like oooh the magic number!) and then I stopped counting once I got to 7 XD) and books 5 and 6 three times each maybe. My least favorite is book 7 though. Too sad and there are moments when nothing happens and then everything happens at once and the ending made me think of some fanfic.
I always rant for hours when I get out of the movies though. I too hate the fact that they left out Peeves :/. The movies are good if you haven't read the books, but they're always a huge disappointment for me. Movies 1-3 I didn't rant when leaving the movie theatre but the last ones were just...I didn't like them. It's not just that they left stuff out, they made stuff up!
Anyway. Overrated books? The Marc Levy books probably. He has a lot of success in France, I don't know about his success in other countries.
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Post by tara on Feb 24, 2010 13:29:23 GMT
Anyway. Overrated books? The Marc Levy books probably. He has a lot of success in France, I don't know about his success in other countries. Yes, Marc Levy  ... the writer we don't have the right to quote nor talk about in french class (at least in my school ). Ahah, i just passed oral exams, it would have been funny to talk about him and then see the teacher's face (I'm sure it would have been shocked) ;D I read that he lives in New York. I don't know if he's famous there, though. |
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Post by glumbumble on Mar 1, 2010 23:14:23 GMT
Yessssssssss. No quoting Marc Levy or Musso! A teacher told us to read them just to make us read and I talked about it to another teacher and she was appalled haha XD.
I remember when I passed my oral exam last year it was complicated, I read a lot of classics, because we can't quote all these new books and thrillers and stuff...I ended up taking the commentary for the written exam and got 17 XD.
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Post by tara on Mar 4, 2010 18:59:18 GMT
Yes, i read all those classics  hehe. I think that it's a pity we can't quote new books, not Marc Levy's but there's a lot of good new authors, and we still have to talk only about classics ... And you got 17 at the written exam ? Bravo I don't have my results but i don't think i'll have 17 ;D |
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Mar 5, 2010 15:47:53 GMT
I think stephen king is overrated.
horror, blood, sex, creepy clowns. I was a fan of his book IT but I got over it.
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