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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:43 pm 
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^Oh, I've read that some years ago and promised myself never to read Dan Brown's books again. I liked his writing style and the first half of the book, it was pretty addictive, but the second half was OMG so stupid IMO. It's like with the Lost tv series - the beginning was cool, but seems like the authors lack the idea for an ending :roll:

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Hee hee, well I haven't seen the last season or so of Lost, the rest I love.
But I was always bitching, or sorta, about Dan Brown's books being such a hype, so I decided to read one for myself to see what all the fuss was about. Don't think it will take me very long to finish though, IF I can finish it hee hee, I got one problem. I keep seeing Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. And I've only seen the DaVinci Code once, but still. :roll:


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^ah yeah, that must suck :lol: I don't know who chose Hanks for this role, but I imagined Langdon so differently. Good I've read the book first.

It's not my first problem with casting though, I remember when I was reading LOTR and I knew they will make a movie, and then Sean Bean will act, he fitten for Aragorn for me so good and I kept seeing him while reading the books. Mortensen was then for me such a disappointment. I'm not even mentioning Legolas.

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Jus borrowed a book from a friend "Handling the Undead" from the author who wrote "Let the right one in". I hope it can match up or surpass it :D

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I bought Skin Trade by Laurell Hamilton a few days ago, saw the paperback in the stores already while the online shop I always order at said it wouldn't be for sale until the 26th.. anyway I haven't started it yet, love the Anita Blake vampire Hunter books but right now I can't seem to get in the mood for reading, takes too much effort, even on fluff books like this. I mean it's not high quality literature. :lol:
I got another book for free too then, because it was the week of the english books there or sth.. Blood Test it's called, dont remember the authors name, the book's a thriller so maybe not entirely my thing, but free's free. ;)


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Well it's been ages since anyone posted here. I was just browsing book sites again and came across a site that had a description on it of Anne Rice's new book. Angel Time.
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Anne Rice returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a tale of unceasing suspense set in time past—a metaphysical thriller about angels and assassins.

The novel opens in the present. At its center: Toby O’Dare—a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. A soulless soul, a dead man walking, he lives under a series of aliases—just now: Lucky the Fox—and takes his orders from “The Right Man.”

Into O’Dare’s nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions comes a mysterious stranger, a seraph, who offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. O’Dare, who long ago dreamt of being a priest but instead came to embody danger and violence, seizes his chance. Now he is carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear . . . In this primitive setting, O’Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation, a journey of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and love.


You know, this sounds better than the Jesus books she's been writing.. but could be bad too. If I get the chance I'll read it, though I won't buy it unless it's cheap. ;)

Oh, and has anyone read the books she's written under A. N. Roquelaure? The Sleeping Beauty books? Think I'll buy the first one someday, but am curious as to if anyone thinkgs they're any good.
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Just finished yesterday Morcock's "The Vanishing Tower", 5th part of Elric saga. I still find the style of the author a little weird, and for me it lacks continuity at times, and I prefer some other authors style much more. But I finally start to understand Elric. In first few books he just used to piss me off with his behaviour and dilemmas, but now I finally begin to understand his tragedy, tragedy of the Eternal Champion, and I feel; sorry for him.



Also yesterday, I started to read a book by Georg Thum "Die fremde Stadt. Breslau 1945" (in polish translation of course). It's a story about my city just after the WWII. You see, my city was built by Slavs, and belonged to Poland in Middle Ages, but since XVIII century it was on german territory. And so it was before and during WWII. After the end of war, borders were moved and the city became polish again - meaning all the Germans were banished, and Poles from all over Poland (also the territories taken by USSR after the war) came to live here. That means so many personal tragedies.

I'm a little afraid that the book will contain to many raw facts, and I don't like it, I prefer stories of the people and what they've been through. But for now prologue about Festung Breslau (how the city was defended from soviet soldiers) is awesome.

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I'm reading "The Gargoyle" by Andrew Davidson. It's great so far !

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A. Strindberg "The dream game".
I liked the feelings wrapped inside the dialoges...

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I really enjoyed "The Darkness Within" by Jason Nahrung. The title sounds silly but it was a great book - I felt like I was playing a video game the whole time!


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Just finished "Män som hatar kvinnor" (Men who hate women). I'm not a big fan of criminal stories, however there are some I really really like. This one was well written, at the beginning it was just ok, but then it got me quite addicted. Though it's really awful and disgusting in a few parts, especially when one realises crimes like that are actually happening.

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^ I absolutely love that book and the whole trilogy. The film of that book is quite good as well. Dunno if you've seen it.

@t: Read a bunch of Val McDermid books, Tony Hill novels. I find I quite like the twisted and morbidness of them. My kind of books^^

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^Am planning to see it today :wink: And the book - I read it very quickly, it was good, but I'm not sure if I'll read the other parts too. I don't know what they're about, but I liked this book partly because of the mistery from the past :wink:

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^I really like that first book but I actually liked the second and third better. But thats because I liked one of the characters better in those;)

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I've read the Stieg Larsson trilogy to, and I loved all three books ! The first one is so exciting and you just can't stop reading. The second and third, I think, are different but still very exciting. A bit more complicated and "heavier", if you know what I mean. But amazing books all three !!


@topic: I just started reading a book by a danish writer called Helle Stangerup, called "The Gallery of Destiny".

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