Man, the 50 books is easy but I can't think of 50 movies to watch.
Yeah, I have the same trouble. I got through like ten books so far but I've only watched one movie.
Man, the 50 books is easy but I can't think of 50 movies to watch.
I have the same problem. Just not a movie guy.
And I feel like it'd be out of the spirit of things to just watch movies I've seen before.
I have the same problem. Just not a movie guy.
And I feel like it'd be out of the spirit of things to just watch movies I've seen before.
Yes, but coming up with titles to try out isn't really the problem. It's coming up with movies that I actually want to watch. :/
I've never been more engaged with a book before this one, the stories just blew me away and gave me chills.
I read this back in 10th grade - I remember thinking thatOK. I've finished Life of Pi. The second half of the book is certainly strange but I was thoroughly engaged with it. The ending, the uncertainty it presents, put the story in a new light for me. It affirmed the religious themes of the book and it seems to want to defy explanation; it asks the reader what story it wants to believe. Should credulity get in the way of the better story?
Read the prologue of Leviathan Wakes.
Yeah. Don't think I'll be reading any more of this one.
Finished the 2nd book of the Dresden Files Fool Moon. Enjoyed it a lot. Seemed more serious than the 1st book.
I just started Hyperion not to sure what to make of it so far. Its not really griping me like I thought it would, but that can change since I'm only a hundred pages in. After I finish up there I'm moving on to A Clash Of Kings.
Have you reached the part where they start telling their stories? They are definitely the highlight, so I recommend at least reading through one or two of those before moving on.
Something about the priests tale...I was disturbed for an entire day after I read it
I've been sitting on this for about three weeks now at almost three-quarters done and I don't know what it is, but I'm just never motivated to pick it up. So many people have recommended this and love this book to death so I really feel like I'm missing out on something. It's not bad or anything, I'm just kind of ambivalent towards it. Maybe it's something you've got to read first as a kid? I don't know. We'll see how I feel once I finish it.
Something about the priests tale...I was disturbed for an entire day after I read it
Yeah, you're into the meat of the book. The priest's tale is one of the best parts. I'm also in the camp that wasn't as swept away by the book as I thought I would be, but I probably should have tempered my expectations a little more. When you read "best sci-fi book ever" from a few critics and readers, you tend to get your hopes up.
Yeah that's probably my favorite of the tales. Super creepy and interesting.
That may have helped me - I didn't know it was supposed to be such a classic, so my expectations going in were pretty muted. Though it didn't help with the second book. I enjoyed the first so much that Fall was a pretty big letdown.
I am also reading Hyperion at the moment. I am about halfway through the book, Having just started the Scholars tale.
I have to say that it is rare for me to be disturbed or sickened by something I read. Books just don't tend to do that to me, Partly because I don't choose to read horror novels. However the priests tale really made me feel quite ill.The idea of the cruciform parasite was rather disgusting, As was the description of the tendrils spreading throughout the body of the Bikura that Dure sees through the medscanner. Yuck.
The second story, I felt was a huge let down in comparison.
I've never been more engaged with a book before, the stories just blew me away and gave me chills.
Yeah, you're into the meat of the book. The priest's tale is one of the best parts. I'm also in the camp that wasn't as swept away by the book as I thought I would be, but I probably should have tempered my expectations a little more. When you read "best sci-fi book ever" from a few critics and readers, you tend to get your hopes up.
I finished 1Q84 just a couple days ago and it's one of the most overwritten books ever. Do I really need to be informed a thousand times over and over that Tengo is a large man and teaches mathematics? I wonder if there was any editor working on this book.The only recreational reading at the moment is 1Q84 and Ryuunosuke Akutagawa's short story The Hell Screen.
Just over halfway through -
Pretty great so far. Like the parts with Enid and Alfred a lot less than the others, but still overall very good.
This is my favorite modern sci-fi that I've read since the Commonwealth Saga.
And I'm instantly interested.