Literature
 

Read any good books lately? Oh please, do tell !!!

Best books and trilogy= 'Black', 'Red' and 'White' by Ted Dekker.

Absolutly amazing. I read a hell of a lot of books, and nothing can compare to those books.

oh i also like 'Transfer of Power' by Vince Flynn

must say im not a huge book reader. the last book i read was probably alisteir crowleys journals.

That must have been pretty interesting ! I'm almost finished with Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. His books are the literary equivalent of a slap-happy LSD trip

Well i've just started reading Scar Tissue ~ Anthony Kiedis. Not bad soooo far ...

it was interesting if not a little on the sinister side. clever bloke.

Let's see, just finished The World According to Garp, good book, pretty twisted, but good overall. Almost finished reading Crossing California, which is an amazing book, I'd recomend it to anyone. And I'm drawing a blank about the authors of these ones, but I'll put them back in my post some other time.

Right now Im reading Bob Dylans Chronicles Vol. 1. Its really interesting and if your a dylan fanI would deffinetly recomend reading it. But I bet if you start reading it halfway through your going to want to listen to Dylan over and over. Before that I started reading A people History of The United States by howard zinn but got busy and got a new book so Ill finish that later. Before that I was reading the death of Ivan Lyvech. Before that Fahrenheit 451,In the heat of the night, The things they carried, Civil disobedience, Walden Pond, a lesson before dying. And thats about as far back as I can remember. I dont read much fiction but I really liked fahrenheit 451, 1984, You dont know meand of course The Chronicles of narnia.

And also I have theworld acording to Garp on video but I havnt seen it in a looong time. Ill have to watch that rather than read the book.

Better to read the book. Its Fantastic. John irving Is definitely in my top 5 list for authors. His stories don't Make the greatest movies though, only because the 2 hour timeframe of a movie isn't enough to do most of his novels much justice. Still, Hollywood is pretty persistent in trying to adapt them. The movie adaptation of A Widow for One Year came out recently (Haven't seen it). I saw World According to Garp when I was a little kid, I read the book for the first time last year so I don't know if the movie is on par with the book. Cider House Rules (His best Novel IMO) was a great disappointment on film.

It's always better to read the book than to watch the movie. I've found that I I see a movie based on a novel before I read the book, it kind of ruins it when I actually do get around to reading the book. And also, good call on Cider House Rules, that was an amazing book. There was another book that I read recently, I think it was called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious, or something to that effect, but it really was an amazing book.

I think sometimes it can be easier to watch the movie first, so you can picture the characters a little better and it's cool when you recognize certian parts. I hate it when you read a book then watch the movie and it either turns out to be completely different or they leave a lot of the good stuff out, or when it doesn't seem like they're letting people know what's going on good enough. I know with some movies/books there obviously isn't room for all that stuff, but still, everyone hates that.

See with me it's totally different. I like to make up my own images in the book and figure out for myself what the characters would look like. If I see a movie before I read the book, it just isnt as good.

You know why I like a movie over the book?

No reading.

lol do comic books count?

yea thats tru, id read a book first and then watch the movie, i enjoy it more.