And you never struck me as the romance novel type, but hey if it makes you happy I'm not one to judge.
And he seems to hate red headed men for some reason.
That book should also have an option for cutting the smaller book out.
Or just stabbing it into pieces.
Well I know a guy and if you serious and got about 300 clams, he can stick a coat hanger up there and scramble the little book all up and then scrap it out so the bigger book can get back to partying and having unprotected sex.
Finished Moonraker. Moving on to Diamonds are Forever.Isn't that the title of the book written by Pa ris Heiress-Whore?
His voice was as dark and smoky as Satan’s.
Wait, are you talking about Guillermo del Toro? Doing Lovecraft?Yesss
A poorly written one. I do like song of Solomon, though.Matthew 7:6 applies here.
I never got why Jehovah`s Witness's tried to convert people if they thought only 144000 were going to get into heaven. Wouldn't you want to keep that to yourself so you'd have better chance of making the cut?
Are they the one's who's heaven is ruling a planet?
I never got why Jehovah`s Witness's tried to convert people if they thought only 144000 were going to get into heaven. Wouldn't you want to keep that to yourself so you'd have better chance of making the cut?
They believe that the rest will live forever in a new earth fashioned after the Garden of Eden.
And where did they get that info from?
That's very What-dreams-may-come of them
That's Mormonism. Their ultimate aim is to have lived a life to ascend to godhood and get to create their own universe and be its god, which is what their version of god did.
You become a god, and a bunch of people live in your world.So? Didn't Robin Williams' asexual looking daughter had her own universe with hundreds of people floating around in it?
My SNES still works but I need a new box-thing... powet cord... ac adapter. Whatever.omgggggg i looove snessssssss! i wish i still had mine, I've been craving to play super mario world
I never play video games anymore, though. Last one I played was Resident Evil 5. Epic game.
Nearly wiped out by the Jedi Knights in a long-ago war, deadly Mandalorian warriors emerge from the shadows to exact cold revenge upon their peace-seeking rivals. Cloaked in mystery and hardened by memories of their bitter defeat, they are fueled by a collective desire to reclaim the glory of Mandalore – no matter the cost. Pitting skill and determination against the powet of the Force, “The Mandalore Plot,” launches an epic, three-part clash that could turn the tide of the war itself. It’s an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS airing at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT Friday, January 29 on Cartoon Network.
Sent to look into troubling rumors surrounding Duchess Satine of Mandalore, Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers the truth behind the whispers of a mysterious conspiracy. But his investigation uncovers more than he’d originally anticipated, pulling back the shadowy shroud from a long-rumored splinter group and bringing to light a deadly threat to the Republic.
Originally introduced as concept art that ultimately became the basis for bounty hunter Boba Fett, the Mandalorians have been favorites within the St*r WarzzZZ fan community for years, even though much remains to be discovered about their culture, their history, or their in-universe origins. With only glimpses into the true nature of these mysterious warriors, they have long been the subject of rampant fan speculation and discourse. And now they are making their Clone Wars debut.
“This is how George has always envisioned the Mandalorians,” says Supervising Director Dave Filoni. “Of course, people immediately think of the iconic Fett armor, because that’s all we’ve had to go on for so many years; it’s mysterious, and we’ve built up that mystique as fans. But Boba and Jango Fett aren’t necessarily what I would consider accurate representatives of the Mando culture. They’re bounty hunters and outlaws – totally rogue. If you go way back to the original concepts, the Mandalorians were a group of supercommando troops; it’s only now that George is really bringing that to the screen. They’re in the series because he wanted to define their culture, to explore the foundations of this warrior faction.”
According to Filoni, the introduction of Mandalorians was something that had been discussed as early as the first season of The Clone Wars – although Lucas held off on approving the story arc until the series’ second season, once the larger conflict had been more firmly established.
“This was a running joke among the crew early in the production,” says Filoni. “A lot of people on the crew wanted to see the Mandalorians – especially our head writer, Henry Gilroy – but they were off-limits to us at the time. George definitely has a sense of pace, and of a natural order for St*r WarzzZZ storytelling; plus, it’s his universe, so we had to set aside our Mando ideas for the time being. Ultimately, though, he came back around and gave us his blueprint for how he wanted to see the Mandalorian culture represented, which is great because they bring so much to the conflict. The first season was pretty straightforward; we had the Republic versus the Separatists. But now we have these splinter groups – like the Mandos, the bounty hunters, and the Geonosians – who each bring something totally different to the table."
Voicing the leader of the Mandalorian warriors is actor/director Jon Favreau – a long-time St*r WarzzZZ fan. His involvement in The Clone Wars came as an indirect result of post-production for the first Iron Man film; he was working with Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound when his path crossed with Filoni’s at Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Ranch.
“I had mentioned that I would love to do a voice, and that I’d done voices before – and the idea for me to play a Mandalorian came up. I wasn’t holding out for a cool character, but I think the Mandalorians are probably the ones that the die-hards are going to be the most curious about,” says Favreau. “I grew up a fan of St*r WarzzZZ. It was the first time I had ever experienced that really iconic, mythic archetypal storytelling. What’s fun about St*r WarzzZZ is that it still has as much relevance and impact now as it did then. It seems to be a set of characters and a world that is timeless, and every generation seems to embrace. So it’s fun to be able to share with my family and my kids the excitement that I had when I was young.”
And so she takes her ball and goes home. I mean you are writing in someone else's universe. Stuff like that is going to happen and you have to just make it work. If you want god like final say then stick to fiction you create yourself. Course I'm sure she doesn't sell half what she does when "Retard Wars" is printed on the front.
I always thought the Thrawn stuff was overrated. Course it's better then most of the EU stuff which is why I just threw it all out and act like it doesn't exist. Which is also what I did with the SE and the Prequels. There is now more SW that I ignore then accept.
Man, I have never picked up a SW book and never had the urge to. I just really felt the original trilogy told me everything I needed to know, especially after the prequels came out.I mainly listen to them as books on tape. The newest narrator is fucking awesome, he's a cartoon voice actor and does all the voices. The women kinda always sound alike, but it still works.
I didn't really know what you were talking about with the Karen Traviss thing, so I googled and stumbled upon this:
http://swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=112980
She protests too much: http://www.karentraviss.com/html/gaymandos.htm
So, tl;dr, did she make them gay peaceful hippies and George was all "no, they's warmongers"?
I didn't read it, but look for the post by YodaKenobi:
http://boards.theforce.net/literature/b10003/28128642/p5
I looked that up and was surprised to find it's actually about a seagull.For the longest time, I thought Catcher in the Rye was about baseball.
I looked that up and was surprised to find it's actually about a seagull.It's not about a seagull per se, it has a deeper meaning!
Man I knew that would come up...
After some thought, No. But the N64 game was still boss.
Entertainmart and Movie Tradig Company are the places to go for old games in the dee eff dub, but I think those are not yet national chains. Also, CGX, but they are horribly expensive.Never heard of those. Do they ship to your home?
They more than likely do.
No, but chell Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_kk_1?rh=i:aps,k:n64&keywords=n64&ie=UTF8&qid=1266379300400 bucks for a new one? fuuuuuuuuuck that. 33 bucks for a used one..thats good, that's like Ebay. But on Ebay they give it to you with controllers, vibration packs, memory packs, games, etc. I just can't make myself buy a used one, it gives me the creeps just to think what they could have done with it
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No, but chell Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_kk_1?rh=i:aps,k:n64&keywords=n64&ie=UTF8&qid=1266379300400 bucks for a new one? fuuuuuuuuuck that. 33 bucks for a used one..thats good, that's like Ebay. But on Ebay they give it to you with controllers, vibration packs, memory packs, games, etc. I just can't make myself buy a used one, it gives me the creeps just to think what they could have done with it
I just can't make myself buy a used one, it gives me the creeps just to think what they could have done with it
$350? Are you kidding? I saw that game at some gaming store a few years back for like 20 bucks. I didn't buy it cause 1. I didn't have a N64 anymore and 2. I though 20 bucks was too much for it.
Do you think that'd be enough??????????
Fuck Lysol, I use Clorox wipes with fresh lemon scentDo you think that'd be enough??????????
Or rub it all over with one of those Lysol wipes.
Oh yes Mario Kart. that's pure love right there.I was obsessed with playing Mario Kart. I also loved Mario 64, Goldeneye, Donkey Kong Country and ZELDA!! I actually got the new DSi just so I could play Mario 64. And then my heart broke when I found out they didnt have Ocarina of time :-(
Wii has Ocarina of Time, either through download or the two Gamecube disks (I have both). When I put it up on my HD with the wireless, it's so cash.NO SHIT. wait, i dont have a wii. fuck. Maybe I can just d/l into my comp?
Yeah they are cheap, but as I said before I get quezy just thinking about how they were used...there's many weirdos out there. And if a 007 game , mint condition, costs 350 bucks , I can just imagine how much a new n64 costs
yeah but you never know which one you'll get! blah, its too late for me anyways. soon i wont even have time to wipe my own ass
Not if I feed her Plan B after every instance of coitus.She'll bleed to death!
Yes, I know that would eventually kill her. I am being facetious.
Is that one of the ones where he does stuff that seems of character, like slave trading?
I'm not reading anything per se but trying to teach myself japanese. I have such a bad case of ADD, as soon as I open the book I start thinking about other stuff :-( Not only that but the only time I can study is at night and by then I'm so tired that I don't feel like doing anything else but sleep. Wtf am i going to do? btw im moving to japan so this needs to be done. Maybe some adderall? Does someone here has prescription for it?I might have a free copy of Rosetta Stone (open for anyone) of all their Japanese courses.
I'm not reading anything per se but trying to teach myself japanese. I have such a bad case of ADD, as soon as I open the book I start thinking about other stuff :-( Not only that but the only time I can study is at night and by then I'm so tired that I don't feel like doing anything else but sleep. Wtf am i going to do? btw im moving to japan so this needs to be done. Maybe some adderall? Does someone here has prescription for it?I might have a free copy of Rosetta Stone (open for anyone) of all their Japanese courses.
I might have a free copy of Rosetta Stone (open for anyone) of all their Japanese courses.
For real?
Whats your next book? Twilight?
I remember in the early eighties, Merla and I had those little books that came with a small record. Some of you fogier types should recall those. Those were fun.
No. I won't touch the twilight stuff.
I'm actually reading Han Solo At Star's End. It was one of those EU novels before those become the lifeblood of all SW nerds. (I never cared for them myself.) But since this one was published in 79, a mere two years after the movie I decided to give it a chance.
It was Tom's fault (said by Rumble himself) lol. He got a little too upset about what he said regarding that dutch murderer guy.
Ep VI
The one murdered by Islamic Extremists, Van Gough's great nephew or whatever. Rumble's a whiney brat if that offended him. I didn't cut the guys head off in the name of he who shall not be named or else a bus explodes.lol yeh. it took me sooo long to convine him to comr back and as soon as he does bang! tom says that and its bye bye rumble! the dutch really like their van gogh huh
I actually own an original copy of Splinter of the Mind's Eye which was the very first Retard Wars "EU" novel ever written (the first actual SW novel was the novelization of A New Hope). It was written before the first movie hit theaters and was planned as a possible low-budget sequel to the movie, but after Ep VI did so well they scrapped it and went with Empire instead, thankfully. The novel's all right but there are inconsistencies that clash with the later movies.
When you said, "that Van Gogh," I was bout to open up a shit can. Then I figured out what you meant. And then I agreed with you.Now that I think about it, Van Gogh looks like House. And no, I'm not obsessed.
I suck at roman numerals.Ep VI
Ep IV
I hate my life.
I actually own a first printing of the novelization of the first movie. The one that says "Soon to be a major motion picture." on the cover and using concept art from the movie on the cover. Says it was written by George Lucas, but it was actually ghost written by someone else.It was written by Alan Dean Foster, the same guy who wrote Splinter.
Splinter of the Mind's Eye was awful. I remember hearing about it when I was younger, fresh off of reading the heir to the empire movies (friggin' kids don't realize how lucky they are now with all the comics, vidya games, and tv shows, etc.) and I thought that SotME was going to be awesome. It was horrid.
Ep VI
Ep IV
I hate my life.
I read some comic books earlier.
Glad someone still likes the x-men books. Has Ellis's Astonishing X-men gotten any better?No. It's an awful book, I avoid everything astonishing since Colossus came back to life.
Books I plan on buying/reading soon:
Absolute All Star Superman
Super God
Secret Avengers
I have not read those.
And I have not read any of those. :happy:from wikipedia
I want to read ALL of these books http://listverse.com/2008/09/29/top-10-most-disturbing-novels/
I do not. I fucking hate fragrances. If it is only a little, it is not so bad. I honestly would rather smell a woman's musk than a bunch of chemicals.Hahaha you;'re such a hippie.
I do not. I fucking hate fragrances. If it is only a little, it is not so bad. I honestly would rather smell a woman's musk than a bunch of chemicals.Hahaha you;'re such a hippie.
I love perfumes. I don't want to sound racist or anything, but have you guys smell whatever it is that black women put in their dreads/ do's? goddamn I HATE that smell . It's like a sweet patchouli with something else, blah
I can't tell you how many people I've met who I could taste as soon as I entered the same room as them.
Indians speeking Greek. Lulz.
I'm reading "Heir to the Empire". But I don't want to be. I'm not to fond of these book, nor the vast fan love they entertain. I ended up with a few copies just cause people knew I like StarWars and gave them to me. Actually never read them. Hope to find something else tonight to read so I can throw this one back up on the shelf.
I would be reading Absolute All-Star Superman right now but I'm broke.
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I'm reading /studying kanjis, yay.Want Genki / the college standard textbook? I have it in PDF form and all the audio lessons as mp3s.
Oh thanks but I have that one on paperback with the cd. Did you study japanese?I'm reading /studying kanjis, yay.Want Genki / the college standard textbook? I have it in PDF form and all the audio lessons as mp3s.
Oh thanks but I have that one on paperback with the cd. Did you study japanese?
Blacksad 01- Somewhere In The Shadows and Blacksad 02 - Arctic North
He meant to say "Hai, I did desu."
Blacksad 01- Somewhere In The Shadows and Blacksad 02 - Arctic North
Dude, I bought both of those and the sketch files and it turns out Dork Horse is releasing them in a collection with the third one: Red Soul. Goddamn double dip! Screw that.
My mom is reading The Girl with Dragon Tattoo and she said she'd let me borrow it after she was done, but since I finish like 4 books for everyone 1 she reads I doubt it'll be my next book.
I've been contemplating the Millennium Trilogy, since the entertainment media has decided IT'S IMPORTANT AND WE MUST ALL CONSUME IT IN EVERY SHAPE AND FORM, but I'll probably just wait for the Hollywood version to hit basic cable.
So since my undiagnosed ADD kicks in everytime I want to open a book to study japanese, I decided I'm going to hire a teacher. I just need to fight the ADD that kicks in again everytime I want to call to set up the appt.
Why can't we get a machine like they had in Demolition man, that will give me all the knowledge while sleeping?
Have you tried Rosetta Stone?It wouldn't work for the same reason that me studying by myself doesn't work. Add to that that I'm generally very tired by the time I'm finally "free" (meaning Lilli is sleeping). My lessons would be through Skype
Get a teacher to do it in person and they can slap you everytime you don't pay attention. It'll be hot AND educational.Can't cause she'd have to come here and its a pain to concentrate with the baby and someone else here. Hence why the lessons would b at 10pm
Whose baby? I didn't know you babysat.lol you are such a douche, so because im latin it means im someone's babysitter? nigga i aint no babysitter, those biatches work for ME. (some day they will at least).
He's half jap and half german, all of the US' biggest enemies rolled into one.
That is why different that on multiple occasions, in a drunken stupor, insulting another race. He was not joking, he fucking meant it.Dude I've seen many many many guys making racist jokes when drunk. They just don't get into shit cause they're not famous.
That is why different that on multiple occasions, in a drunken stupor, insulting another race. He was not joking, he fucking meant it.
As if he's the only asshole celebrity in the world. It's enough for his ex-wife and ex-slut to take him to the cleaners.
I just finished "The Queen of the Damned"
You must've explained this to me before like twice before and yet I'm still lost. Drugs are a helluva drug.
I could just slap you guys for reminding me of this movie right now. I could just slap, slap, slap you.
I hate you guys. I'm getting addicted to this shit again.
Why did I come back? Why?
Just like old times, eh? Oh, oh, you know who I saw post at Powet. Rumble. Time to organize the Sphere Reunion Show.
That's why I've never even gone near Facebook. I mean, other than looking over someone's shoulder when they're using it.Paranoid much? What internet "shenanigans" are yout alking about????
My internet shenanigans and reality must never collide.
You're not the only who's starred in a load of skin flicks, Faye.
My crowning achievement was probably Dinocock vs. Tittysaurus.
You could be disappointed with the writing.
Or maybe I am thinking of Tolkein's Children of Hurin (which is actually an excellent book).
Well, Silmarillion is hard to get into unless you've read Silmarillion first.
Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies. The graphic novel.
The Complete Sherlock Homes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
I think I'll be on this one for awhile...it's over a thousand pages and the text is a very small font. A Study in Scarlet ends on page 68. That's how small the text is.
Remember with your own writing, at some point, you just have to say it's finished and never correct it again.
Remember with your own writing, at some point, you just have to say it's finished and never correct it again.
Yeah, I really fuck myself over at that stage which is probably why all of my stories are swiss cheese with not enough parts for anyone else to understand the entire plot.
They're gonna adapt All-Star Supes for animation, right? So I figure I may as well watch it first and then see if I'm interested enough to read it.
I was cheesed when it ended, but it's one of those things where if it had kept going, Morrison eventually would have become bored and the book would have suffered, or writing duties would have been passed along to someone unworthy.
So it's good that it ended.
And then there was also "All-Star" Batman...
They're gonna adapt All-Star Supes for animation, right? So I figure I may as well watch it first and then see if I'm interested enough to read it.
Speaking of Frank Miller, does anyone else ever feel like Dark Knight Returns was simply a matter of right place, right time? Don't get me wrong, Miller is responsible for completely reinvigorating the Batman character, but to me the rest of his stuff always seems kinda one trick pony.
Even Dark Knight Strikes Again was just more of the same been there done that.
I really don't see why he agreed to do All-Star Batman in the first place. He's gone on record as saying the idea of Robin is ridiculous, and he obviously has nothing new to say about Batman, so... what's the point? They could have had someone else write and we might have actually gotten a decent run out of it.
You say that like you didn't know that the whole book was made with the understanding that it would end at 12 issues. It wasn't ever supposed to continue.
Sequel to All-Star Superman? Yeah, it's called "DC 1,00,000".
And everyone should read All-Star Superman at least once.
They're gonna adapt All-Star Supes for animation, right? So I figure I may as well watch it first and then see if I'm interested enough to read it.
I was able to get most of the DC 1,000,000 books. I've only glanced through the books but Superman Man of Tomorrow seems like the only one that shows what happened after All=Star Superman.
I finished reading MW. http://www.vertical-inc.com/books/mw.html I wish more manga was made nice and big like this book was. Just all 26-something chapters in one tidy package.
Chinese martial arts (wuxia) novelso you just get to read but people doing kung fu?
Anyone else read George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series? A Dance With Dragons is finally coming out July 12th! Choo-woo!I want to read those books but I want to see the show first.
Just finished Martin the Warrior and am about half way into Salamandastron of the redwall series.Disney really should turn Redwall into a movie series.Actually,I kinda surprised the Dreamworks hasn't done this already. I know there was an animated aeries on PBS a few years ago but the animation was garbage.
QuoteChinese martial arts (wuxia) novelso you just get to read but people doing kung fu?
Already done with 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". That book was really short. And I got the feeling he was moving towards wrapping it up and then thought "Oh wait...I could write a bunch more of these and make even more money. Let's do that!" I mean they are building the new earth and all that jazz and then they just stop doing all that and our Heroes just leave. Oh and Arthur and Trillian are now the last humans, but he doesn't even bother to spark any kind of romance between them. Those two have to fuck so the human race can live on, but they ain't even going to get to first base at this rate. Now I'm on to "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe."
Reading on that bitty screen doesn't hurt j00 eyes?
I know what you mean. It's an adjustment for me, but I'm tired of going to a book store and not finding what I'm looking for. At least if I look on Kindle, I haven't put forth much effort before being disappointed.
I know what you mean. It's an adjustment for me, but I'm tired of going to a book store and not finding what I'm looking for. At least if I look on Kindle, I haven't put forth much effort before being disappointed.
Piracy? Arr?
I just finished "Mostly Harmless" the last of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" book. This whole series was a total waste of my time. The ending was total bullshit.
Now I'm on to "Mountain at the Bottom of the World" by Ian Cameron. This book is very British. I half except Dick Van Dyke to come out of this book and offer to sweep my chimney.
I half except Dick Van Dyke to come out of this book and offer to sweep my chimney.
"And Another Thing" by Eoin Colfer
The "Like Button" is an Owl Pellet.
I find inherit corruption in the owl pellet system.
So instead I will give Fiero a pat on the back for posting it...and a hurts doughnut for that "Welcome to 2008" bit.
Ehhhhhhh...that would have worked better in person.
So ... we're doing it German style where we shit on things we like?
.....then try to get political asylum in the city that my Aunt is Mayor of when everyone gets pissed and tries to hunt me down like you Texans are known to do.
I need some new comics to read. Recommend something. Anything other than the new DCU shit or new Ultimate Spider-man please.
Who are you asking?
And what do you mean by "new"?
How can we tell if a comic is any good if it's only been around for a few months?
I've been enjoying the DCU stuff, personally.
Haha. See, I read your post as, "Man, all the comics fucking suck these days! I want something good! Wah! Wah! Wah!"
But such was not the case.
So do you read Locke and Key or not?
Locke and Key!
Locke and Key!
Locke and Key!
Fucking A Animal is so awesome.
I'm cutting back on my comics sadly, so I'm down to mostly GL stuff. Hoping to pick up some of the big books in trades.
Hahaha! Cutting back? This is them's internets, where every day is FCBD.
am now reading Frankenstein.
am now reading Frankenstein.
I couldn't get through that. Bleh.
You what would've made that better? Dracula.
No, not really but I just wanted to bring shit full circle.
Let's start a book club.
Seriously.
Beck will pick a book, and give us weekly assignments (one chapter, two, three, etc. depending on average chapter length) and then we discuss on Sundays. Or something. Just an idea.
No Harlequin!
No Harlequin!
A Feast for Crows
I'm already sort of annoyed with all the new characters that I care nothing about at all.
It came out the other hole! :DA Feast for Crows
I'm already sort of annoyed with all the new characters that I care nothing about at all.
Yeah, I hate it when books do this crap.
A Feast for Crows is literally half a story. Half the cast is entirely omitted in that book.
That's why everyone was frothing for A Dance with Dragons for five years.
I would need a refresher course on Crows, because it's just been so damn long since I read it. I think some characters that featured in Crows are also touched upon in Dragons, which was confusing because the events are all supposed to be happening concurrently. Arya is definitely in Dragons, those others are not.
Personally, I think George R.R. Martin has created a real mess for himself, and it's only going to get worse. How big is the next book going to be in order to encompass all story threads? Surely we won't be getting another of these split-down-the-middle fiascos.
In the care home.
Vag keeps him young Blah, blah, blah. Aging doesn't apply to a demi-god blah, blah, blah. Might actually be gay and is overcompensating blah, blah, blah.
Vag keeps me young blah blah blah. Aging doesn't apply to a demigod blah blah blah. Might actually be ga...wait I never said that.
As if everyone here couldn't be replaced by chat bots.
Wahhh! There's no internet where I live. Wahhh! People keep bailing on my interweb comic projects! Wahhh! <Random Ghostbusters Reference>
I haven't read the book but I bet I know how they're using it.
Whenever they can!
masturbating in the bathroom to just my mind videos.What do you live with your mother in a bachelor appartment? Why would you do this?
masturbating in the bathroom to just my mind videos.What do you live with your mother in a bachelor appartment? Why would you do this?
Adam only ever whacks it on the back porch when the neighbors' teenage daughter is sunbathing.I wish my neighbour had a teenage daughter!
Adam only ever whacks it on the back porch when the neighbors' teenage daughter is sunbathing.I wish my neighbour had a teenage daughter!
Do tell. Is your neighbor a foxy older lady, and you imagine her offspring would simply be a younger, hotter clone of her?Not at all. Both my hot neighbours are blonde and fairly young. It wouldn't make mathematical sense for them to have teenage daughters. I suppose my dude neighbour or old French Canadian lady neighbour could. You better believe the French Canadian's theoretical teenage daughter wouldn't be above a little tanskies on the porch.
I'm about to start atlas shrugged.I hear that's painful to read and Ann Rand can't write fiction.
Fucking love neverwhere
Read it at least 4 times
Hey, maybe you can help me.
I've always wanted to get into the Discworld stuff, but I don't know where to begin. I started with the Colour of Magic, and it didn't really do it for me. But then I thought, hell, it's the first one, he wrote it God knows how many years ago, he's probably improved by leaps and bounds in the meantime. Are there any really good standalone stories that he's done more recently, or are they all pretty interrelated?
If I can add onto that, where do you begin if you want to *watch* the Discworld stuff? There some of it on streaming but when I tried to jump into one, I got the feeling that I was missing A LOT within the first ten minutes.
Is that the Jane Austen book about a woman who has to chose between the responsible decision of marying a man who would provide her a life or priveledge and the poor man she loves?
I've never read Pride and Prejudice.
However I did read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I probably win
Is that the Jane Austen book about a woman who has to chose between the responsible decision of marying a man who would provide her a life or priveledge and the poor man she loves?
Is that the plot of all Jane Austen novels?
Is that the Jane Austen book about a woman who has to chose between the responsible decision of marying a man who would provide her a life or priveledge and the poor man she loves?
Is that the plot of all Jane Austen novels?
Jane Austen wrote six novels before she croaked and none of them have that plot.
P&P is about a prideful woman prejudiced against a proud rich man who acts like a snobby jerk. It turns out that snobby jerk prevents his best friend and prideful woman's older sister from getting married because prideful woman's family is not as wealthy. Also the rest of her family, excluding prideful woman and prideful woman's sister, conduct themselves like trash so proud rich man is all "ewwww, NO." Prideful woman also hears some shit being smacked around about proud rich man and believes it. However, proud rich man later declares his love to prideful woman. And she's all "ewwww, NO." And he's "wut? But I'm a proud rich man. I was certain you'd be jumping up and down to marry me." And she's all "Hellllll no, son. I heard sum shit 'bout you! Plus, you're a snobby jerk!" So, through proud rich man's own admission and other circumstances, prideful woman comes to learn that smack she heard wasn't true and she was too prideful and quick to judgement. Meanwhile, proud rich man's all "maybe I do act like a snobby jerk after all but I still want that chick so Imma gonna act nice and shit". And some other stuff happens but eventually proud rich man and prideful woman end up together and all is well. The End.
Also, Tina Fey's book was a very fast read. I finished it back on Monday.
Just finished the 4th of the Song of Ice and Fire books I received for Christmas. Now I need to go find the th in paperback.
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Same guy that wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
I was thinking "Man anyone can do this...it'd be like if I wrote a book called 'Mozart From Venus' " and then I thought, that might not be a bad idea.
It would be a pain in the ass to start looking for another random credit union.
The one I'm with is for employees and you'd think that they would take care of you, but they don't. Why would some random credit union that let's anyone in be any better?
...becoming a Vampire after refusing the offer to have his first love, or either of his dead sons made one.
It's hard for mummies to be sexy.
But him's just a widdle bwoy! :(
It's taken a month of reading on the toilet, but I'm currently two chapters away from Return of the King.
Finished LOTR a while back. Reading Unfinished Tales, pissed that I didn't re-read Children of Hurin first.
I wish we could get a Silmarillion HBO series, but I deem it impossible.
The thing about Turin's story is that he's fucked coming and going. It's the swan song of depression that is the latter two-thirds of Silmarillion. The only real up-side of his story is what happens at the Dagor Dagorath when Morgoth returns and Turin shanks his ass with Gurthang.
I read The Hunt from Red October, DUNE, and am now reading The Hobbit.
I don't know. I just always do that. I guess cause on the front cover of my book it is all capitals and on the cover of both movies I own it is all capitals, but it really shouldn't be.
That's what I meant.
There was suppose to another movie in the works awhile back though.
The 2nd Mini-Series was Children of Dune...based on Dune's sequel Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.
Eh...I didn't really like that one. In fact I don't think Dune should have had any sequels. I've read most of them and none of them hold a candle to the first one in my opinion.
In fact I don't think Dune should have had any sequels. I've read most of them and none of them hold a candle to the first one in my opinion.
In fact I don't think Dune should have had any sequels. I've read most of them and none of them hold a candle to the first one in my opinion.
I kind of agree, the first one was far superior to anything that came after. Messiah and Children are ok sequels tho, and I like God Emperor because it's so different.
Heretics and Chapterhouse are a bit of a mess tho, and I never read any of the books his son did.
Merla's reading a Discworld book and she says that shit's all over the place.
Is that four books or the name of one book?
Please tell me that book's available somewhere in English.
Otto took over Peter's body, Peter died in Otto's body.
What the fuck, comic books, you are high.
Otto took over Peter's body, Peter died in Otto's body.
What the fuck, comic books, you are high.
In ten issues somehow Peter will be back.
I think he said in one episode that he had trouble with the human face for some reason. And I think the other founders looked like that to make him feel more at ease. And it is sad that I know that.
Alexandre Dumas was one of King's many pen names.
Uh...he isn't. He is clearly a Vampire. That's why he knows so much about them.
Oh and done with Salem's Lot and have moved on to The Count of Monte Cristo....this one might take awhile.One of my favorite books ever. Gotta love a guy who enacts revenge not with weapons, but with class, style, and brains.
Rama finally admitted hes reading Twilight
"Through the Wildwood,"Sounds like the name for a gay pr0n movie
"Through the Wildwood,"Sounds like the name for a gay pr0n movie
I just bought American Psycho.
No, she just places it on her coffee table to impress people.That was true for a couple of days.
That was true for a couple of days.
But just started reading it and I LOVE it. The saddest/funniest part is that I know people that act like them
Rama I think you said you didnt like it right? something about the writing style? I cant recall
The Wind Through the Keyhole | Stephen King
Nice try, Fiero. Groundhog Day was two and half months ago!
Predictably...The Hobbit.Are you going to use lube?
Although I was given a leather bound copy for Christmas and have yet to break it in. So I'm popping this copies cherry here.
I think he was pulling a Dickens and getting paid by the word or something.Pretty much.
I'm reading Shadows of the Empire.I still have the n64 version of that.
I think he was pulling a Dickens and getting paid by the word or something.Pretty much.
It's a great book but very verbose. Each chapter was published in a newspaper before the whole book came out, and I think that being a freelancer the paper paid him by word.
If you ever bother to watch movie versions of the series, I found the best one were the TV series with Gérard "Crooked Nose Tax Evading" Depardieu. It stuck pretty close to the novel except the part where the Count falls in love with a character not in the books.
Nothing like a guy getting terminal cancer to get you interested in his work.
Nothing like a guy getting terminal cancer to get you interested in his work.
Yeah, but I've barely read it ... so maybe I'm not that interested?
OH MY GOD SPOILERS YOU ASS
I'm nearly 30.
Interview With The Vampire....actually almost done with already.Damn that has been in my To read list for a while. I want to read all the books of that saga
Yeah you might not want to read them all...that series started to turn into a bad slash fiction of it's self pretty quickly after the first couple of books.
I remember reading Blackwood Farm...where the main character fucked everyone from his maid to his priest....and by chapter 20 there was only a hint of an actual vampire. You know when the Vampire showed up in Interview? Page 1...and the 2nd vampire shows up 20-30 pages in.
It really is diminishing returns. Interview is better then Vampire Lestat. Lestat is better then QOTD, QOTD is better then Body Thief...I've never read past Memnoch the Devil, except Blackwood Farm. So it really up to you when you go "Ok...enough of this bullshit."Wasnt Blackwood Farm about witches? dang it i want to know where the witches are at!
It really is diminishing returns. Interview is better then Vampire Lestat. Lestat is better then QOTD, QOTD is better then Body Thief...I've never read past Memnoch the Devil, except Blackwood Farm. So it really up to you when you go "Ok...enough of this bullshit."Wasnt Blackwood Farm about witches? dang it i want to know where the witches are at!
Oh, I had the first book listed there in the first tumblr. With the spirals. Liked it but was downsizing, so off to Half-Price Books it went. Thanks for the links.Youre welcome! Have you read the Fuan no Tane (Seeds of Anxiety) manga? There are 4 of them and are my favorite. Very short stories, sometimes only 2 or 3 pages. You will shit bricks if you read them at night.
Ohhh pls come back and tell me how that book was.
You are talking about the Mayfair witches...there was some of that in that book, but it was mainly about Vampires. There is a book called Merrick that is all about a witch.
And because of this thread I actually was at the library today and picked up Memnoch the Devil to try to read that since it was the next in line. So I'm skipping The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, and Tale of the Body Thief and going right to that one.
I can tell you something about it now. It is hard to believe that the same woman that wrote Interview wrote this...really is. It reads like Fanfic, not a published author.Ah so shes the old version of 50 shades of grey?
Guys.
I'm still reading that cancer guy's book.
What the fuck is wrong with me?
Guys.
I'm still reading that cancer guy's book.
What the fuck is wrong with me?
Well I have read like every single day, without fault, for like the last 10 years and I put down like 30-40 pages a sitting...so I can fly through books in a few days (actually read Casino Royale in one sitting in a couple of hours) So maybe it's not you...maybe it's me. Maybe you just have more of a life then I do, and thus have less time to read.
Yeah me too. I used to read so much when I was younger :( Now i still havent finished American Psycho, but I have read all of the Junji Ito I have found online tho
I used to read like that. It's like I've lost a part of myself.
Finished Memnoch. It wasn't very good. Wasn't really a Vampire novel either. This is kinda what I think Ann Rice's new stuff must read like. Which is fine, but this was advertised as part of the Vampire Chronicles and it has little to do with Vampires. I mean other then it stars Rice's own personal Mary Sue, Lestat. I liked Lestat better when he was the bastard Louis hated...
Anyway I was going to read Merrick next, mainly because The Vampire Armand was chell out at my local library, but instead I'm starting on a novel called Kenobi. Which is about Obi-Wan in his time between in the end of Revenge of the Sith and the start of A New Hope. Hopefully by the time I finish that The Vampire Armand will have been returned.
The Vampire Lestat, while being preoccupied with being charge by the ghost of a criminal he killed to take care of his Televangelist daughter, is courted by the Devil himself to become his right hand man in the war for human souls. The Devil takes Lestat to heaven, and Hell and tells him about Humans came to be in attempt to convince him to join him.
Might I add the ending of this book is kinda bullshit...but the whole thing was kinda bullshit too. I'm not surprised that after this book she got back to telling the history and life of Vampires.
I don't know...this one has got a little better, but not much. But if you ever wanted to know what it was like to be finger banged by a vampire, this book right here will tell you.
No No...Mairus, the vampire that made Armand, was doing the finger banging. And according to this book Armand is Bi...but then every male Vampire in the Anne Rice Universe is....I mean without fault they all are. The only one that could even make a stand of straightness was Louis, or Enkil...and Enkil was only ever a statue and Louis never made it very convincing.holy shit now I really want to get the book but just to read that one scene. I cant imagine an old WASP writing about gay finger-banging.
Just find and download pdfs? Unless you don't like reading off of a computer or tablet. Or does Vietnam chop off a finger or something if you pirate?They are not anal with stuff like that( pirate dvds for 1 buck in every other corner). The only thing they are very anal with is internet, like facebook ( I need to use HotSpot to be able to access it), BBC, etc.
For some reason I prefer to read books irl, like to have them on my hands.
For some reason I prefer to read books irl, like to have them on my hands.
Best way to do it.
For some reason I prefer to read books irl, like to have them on my hands. I like reading manga on the computer tho
I'd rather have it in my hands if I could.Thats what she said
She is still writing now...just not Vampire books anymore.lmao
Took a stint of writing Christian novels, and now I think she is writing Werewolf books. Published a book called The Wolves of Midwinter this year in fact.
She is a woman...and you can see it in her fiction.ftfy
Finished:
Communion by Whitley Striber
It wasn't boring. It also wasn't that scary...at least not to me. It was a quick read though.Have you seen Fire in The sky? if so, can you compare on the level of scariness? (cause the movie was damn scary)
I actually own that movie.
I'd say around the same, but it is hard to compare a book to a movie in terms of scary. The scariest book I ever read was the Amityville Horror, even though I know it isn't true...still scary. But there is a movie version of Communion staring Chris Walken which I saw back in the early 90s before I read this book and there is a scene in that movie that scared the crap out me. It is when a "grey" peeks around the corner of the door at Walken who is laying in bed. Far scarier then anytime Leatherface put a chainsaw in a guy.
You should read the Hobbit first...I didn't and I should have. There are lots of call backs to the Hobbit in the LOTRs.Well like I said in the other thread I couldnt get the damn book. Didnt Tolkien write the Hobbit after the LOTR trilogy???
Didnt Tolkien write the Hobbit after the LOTR trilogy???
For that matter, he wrote the Silmarillion before that...but I'd read it after Hobbit and LOTR, if at all. I loved it, but it's not for everyone. But that's Tolkien for you.
I read LOTR first due to having seen the movies (TTT pissed me off, and it was a year until I saw ROTK, so I read the whole thing in a week's time), and read Hobbit later. It was much more "kiddy", but not so much that I couldn't deal with it. I'd probably recommend reading Hobbit first, since LOTR explains a lot of it in the course of reading it, and then there are the appendices.
Didnt Tolkien write the Hobbit after the LOTR trilogy???
Nope, he wrote the Hobbit first
Why isnt Silmarillion for everyone? I was planning on reading it after the 4 books. Too many names? ala 100 Years of Solitude??It's a tale sweeping across thousands of years, several lost continents, and the overlapping generations of numerous characters. Mix that with the epitome of disjointed storytelling (since it was compiled after the death of Tolkien by his son based on notes, letters, and other miscellaneous unpublished material dating back to before World War 1 all the way up to the man's death in '73), and you have the Silmarillion. Read it only if you've read the Hobbit and LOTR and find yourself wanting more. It's not something I believe you can just pick up and read and get the most out of it...you have to be willing to put forth an effort to piece everything together.
Yeah I just read somewhere ( i think it was the lotr board in reddit) that Dain dies later with some other king dwarf during the war that was going on at the same time that other war was going on cause of the ring
I wonder whos going to play Dain...did they say it already??(http://tolkiengateway.net/w/images/2/24/Decipher_-_Dáin_Ironfoot.jpg)
Billy Connolly's Dain.never heard of that dude
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/06/18/57504-analysing-billy-connollys-dain-ironfoot/
Pop music is generally crap, whatever it's about.
Pop music is generally crap, whatever it's about.
If you're talking about anything past the 90s, and maybe even including some of the 80s and 70s, I'd tend to agree. And by pop you mean mainstream electronic-based music, not rock or metal.
Fascist, on the other hand, seems extreme. But considering that the main character in the book both calls music after Elvis "unconsciously fascist" and says that hippies were at the core cult-like and murderous, I feel like the author, being an older man and a catholic to boot, has that typical attitude that hippie music and anything that spawned from it is evil (you wouldn't believe how many times I've heard conservative Christians call any music past the 50s satanic). I certainly wouldn't call hippie-spawned music "fascist", either, as it seemed to be more anti-authority and "fuck da man" in any case.
It's bad that you typed it all out...it is worse that I rewrote it in my head, as I was reading it, to be more engaging.
Children of Hurin was a more fleshed out version of that portion of the Silmarillion. If you were into the tragedy of Turin Turambar, you'll like Children of Hurin...otherwise I'd skip it.
It's a pretty good story but I did have to google a picture of the Elder Things cause I couldn't form a mental image from the descriptions
Has anyone ever taken the LOTR books and edited them to one book?Actually the whole LOTR was supposed to be only one book with 12 parts.
And don't bother arguing over it, because I'm right:
is self-centered in natureMmm. The delicious irony. Say that music is narcissistic, egotistical, and self-centered, and then say "I know I'm right" with such certainty. No one is always right, ever. Even if you say "I'm sure I'm right about this," always a possibility to be wrong. And probably a bad way to start an argument. "I'm going to state something. But since I'm 100% sure I'm right, don't bother arguing over it." I don't think that's how debates work.
think of all the songs extolling drunkeness, getting high, screwing around, violence, and the feelings of the same. That's just because most music is self-centered in nature, and it just happens to find audiences who feel the same way as and identify with the artist. I'm not condemning anyone for it, but it is a fact. Isn't that why we listen to it? It's life. Otherwise, who'd care?That makes it much harder, after that statement, to say that I do agree with you, at least on this. Doesn't make me or you right, or wrong, just that I agree with you and think we are right. Music "in general" nowadays and even to some extent in the past is narcissistic and hedonistic. Rap music with bling, women treated like objects, expensive cars, guns. Pop music with skimpy outfits and simple themes. Sex sells, yes, but it does get annoying.
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz. I still don't like this main character and I don't know why I am reading the 2nd book other then I was hard up for a book.What is it you don't like about the main character? What did you think of the first book and its tragic ending?
On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.
A friend noted that this is how the Count of Monte Cristo began, and thus the novel started 200 years ago. Made me decide to pick it up again in the near future.Forever Odd by Dean Koontz. I still don't like this main character and I don't know why I am reading the 2nd book other then I was hard up for a book.What is it you don't like about the main character? What did you think of the first book and its tragic ending?
Odd Hours, 4th book
Apparently Dean Koontz is the Microsoft of novels: every other book he writes kinda sucks, like every other OS M$ comes out with is balls. Be warned Rama, the second novel wasn't that great to me and you'll probably dislike it some too.
One of the biggest issues I had with this, and I'm going to have to spoil this book, at first in general terms, and then explaining the motives of the main villain, but who cares.
*spoilers*
Okay, so the villains are terrorists who are trying to smuggle in nukes in a small fishing town on the California coast. Not islamists, but white terrorists. Okay, fair enough. But why? I would figure they are part of some Waco cult, or anti-government types like McVeigh. THAT would make sense.
But, as one of the idiot thugs the villain has working for him explains (and I just detest how generic/cartoonish some of these goons are depicted), the main baddie is a protestant priest who was in the middle east, trying to save Christians from murder and prosecution. And then he became disillusioned and gave up. Okay, but how the fuck does that equate to someone wanting to blow up major US cities because he was upset he couldn't save every Christian in the Mideast from being killed? How the hell does that save any of them?! "Well I can't save these Egyptian Coptics, let's blow up an America city and kill more Christians."
*end of spoilers*
Which brings me to the crux of why I didn't like this book... the ending was too rushed and forced, without explaining a lot. What did Odd hear in the sewer grate? Why did the coyotes attack him and who was controlling them? I have a feeling these issues will be explained in a later novel, but I'm not holding my breath.
Speaking of the coyotes, I think Koontz has a hate-on for coyotes, because in at least three books he has packs of coyotes try to attack Odd, and the fact is, Coyotes do not travel in packs NOR do they attack humans.
Also, near the end of the book, Odd, despite being afraid of guns, ends up being a hell of a shot as he wastes people left and right despite them being better trained than him.
You people make me sad I don't read more. Peer pressure almost.
Odd is too good. Too plain...too unassuming...too unflawed. And if he is flawed it is always someone else's fault or a loveable quirk instead of something that might actually give him anything like depth.
Evil Is Petty: A recurring theme in the series. In almost every book there's a scene of one or more extremely evil characters acting either like petulant children or the dullest bores you ever met.How about ALL of the evil villains acting this way.
Religion of Evil: Basically every book is Odd having to deal with one of these. The first book is Satanists, the second a psycho woman that has traveled all over the world studying occult stuff, the third is a guy that thinks he can create life, the fifth are a group of people who think they're gods, and the sixth are another (even worse) group of Satanists.And the fourth, that they don't mention, are domestic terrorists following a former Christian pastor, and the seventh are the same Satanists from the sixth. For some reason this guy has a thing for evil religious stereotypes, or hollywood depictions of religions (Hollywood Satanists, a Hollywood occultist/pagan, ect...).
I'm reading a book! I haven't cracked one open in quite a while. Am now reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. The philosophy behind it has really inspired me. I'm don't even feel like I own that much, but I still have too many items I don't use. I got rid of a bunch of old things. All of my Japanese manga that I hadn't cracked open in years. A bunch of old clothes, old shoes, purses, and other things. And when I get back home, I'll be getting rid of more it. I have too many damn papers. And probably a bunch of my CDs. My dad had mentioned buying himself copies of two CDs that I own and I was like "shit, have mine. Oh, and here's your copy of AC/DC's Back in Black that I borrowed, like, ten years ago. Sorry." I still like the music but haven't actually played the discs themselves in years. They don't need to sit in my room.
That sounds about when I dropped Fables. They were getting into some goofy superhero type stuff, and the new artist wasn't to my liking. Maybe? Did they change artists at some point? I want to say they did.They had some guest artists from time to time, but it was pretty consistently Mark Buckingham throughout the run. The side series has different artists, but I don't count that since they were separate to a degree.
That book is very popular. Got a lengthy waiting list on it. 2-3 time a week someone comes up and goes "Do you have The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up?" and my answer is " Yes....but...." because there are like 30 people on the list for it and we have one copy.
I think I finished reading Jackoffables. That one started strong, but by the end it had gone completely off the rails. Maybe it was just that I didn't understand what they were even riffing on anymore. Also, I really dislike when comics become too wordy for their own good, as in, huge text dumps in every word bubble with only a cursory sketch to convey the speaker's emotion. The Walking Dead suffers from this immensely.
I was really on board for Fables up until they vanquished The Adversary. Everything I read after that felt like treading water. I honestly wonder if they had originally intended for the series to continue on beyond that.
Did you say you mostly read it in trades? I think that would have helped me. I remember getting into 100 Bullets and reading most of it in a couple sittings until I caught up to the ongoing story arc. Then after a few issues spaced a month apart, I couldn't even remember who was who or what the hell was going on. 100 Bullets is kind of needlessly obtuse with its chronology to begin with, and I was completely lost.
Does Vertigo still have a fairly decent presence in the comic world? I can recall trying to read practically everything that came out under the label and most of it was good. Seems like DC is more about their superheroes these days. They canceled Hellblazer and folded Constantine into mainline DCU, didn't they? That's awful.
Also, sorry, Joe Hill. I totally stole your newest book. It was really easy. Digital age, etc.
I have The Road by Cormac McCarthy on my night stand....haven't cracked it yet because I'm still reading through all the comics I got at Planet Con, and my buddy gave me a bunch of his brothers comics so those went into the read pile as well...but I'll get there.
Manga counts.Its so boring I didnt even finish reading that article lol. But yes its ridiculous. I think Im going to stop reading it.
Omg, ha ha: http://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2011/10/insanity-of-fourteen.html
Oh, crap! I'd forgotten when it was coming out, since I thought I'd pre-ordered that on Amazon last year! I'm now debating whether I want to get it from Amazon or just pick it up tomorrow. Probably the former, as it's not material I haven't seen before (besides the illustrations included), but still...New Tolkien book.
Yes its all stuff that has been printed before in the Silmarillion and the Middle Earth books (which Im still stuck in volume 1 so Im waaayy behind). But yeah Im definitely getting it.I completely re-read the Silmarillion before starting Beren and Luthien today. However, what I've read of the latter reads more like textual criticism and an overview of textual transmission: highly academic and completely uninteresting to me. But I haven't gotten to the meat of it yet, having only basically taken on the foreword.
Also, I heard that its an easy and fast read, like Children of Hurin.
I completely re-read the Silmarillion before starting Beren and Luthien today. However, what I've read of the latter reads more like textual criticism and an overview of textual transmission: highly academic and completely uninteresting to me. But I haven't gotten to the meat of it yet, having only basically taken on the foreword.Ah crap I hope it gets better! Im going to Nihon this month so Im def getting it over there.
I know this is the book thread, but seeing as there's so much Tolkien talk, how do you guys feel about the upcoming Lord of the Rings TV series? Optimistic? Apprehensive?I want to stay neutral as long as I can. Just wondering who will they get to play Luthien? IMO you wont find anyone better looking than Liv Tyler. I wonder if Cate Blanchett will sign up to play Galadriel again
Fingolfin vs Mordoth
Whatever it is, apparently the Amazon LOTR series will cover the Second Age going by the maps they showed on Twitter. I'm not very thrilled about this, since it's a fairly spaced out time frame without a lot of focused narrative...that means a bunch of ad-lib without the constraint of a known and proven story. Would it suck if it just did it's own thing in the fantasy setting? Not necessarily, but how much of the setting would there be to appeal to fans of the Silmarillion who are likely jonesing for an actual adaptation of First Age stuff?
I don't think they are going to cover the entirety of the Second Age, for the reasons you mentioned. My guess at the most reasonable choice is a bit before the War of the Last Alliance. Gives room to establish characters before going into giant battle seasons.
Whatever they do I hope they recreate the Fingolfin vs Mordoth fight. That's my top one, book narration included. Ive had a painting of it as my computer background for years now and I even had a poster of another one :3
Tried re-reading Howls Moving Castle but got bored.I loved that book!
I finished re-reading all of Tolkien's major works over the past few months...now via digital e-book format!Major works as in? Im still stuck on tome 1 of the Middle Earth encyclopedia. That thing is more dense than the Bible.
Also, the [Percy Jackson] series that was proposed for Disney+ got greenlit and casting is going to start. The author will be involved this time so I'm happy for him. I still think the first book, The Lightning Thief, is pretty solid. But from the second book onward, it's diminishing returns. Hopefully for him and his fans, the entire five-book series gets a nice adaptation. I feel like I need to make a bet on who will be racebent.
Highest odds are that it's still Grover.
Mid-odds are that it's both Grover and Annabeth.
Dark horse is all three leads.
Dead zone by Stephen King...ok listening to the audiobook. I don’t have time to read anymore t seems
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.