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What half of BSG men lie about books read? Page 6
Haha! Ace.
Quote: Curt @ December 12 2008, 12:03 AM GMT
Hot damn.
I want a shamwow - now!
I find it very hard to keep focus when reading. No I don't need glasses, but it takes me ages to read a paragraph and make sense of it and then remember what I've read and learned so I can continue with the next one.
I think I hat dyslexia.
Talking of great products, how about for Christmas getting your ladyfriend a titty...ahem, sorry...TIDDYbear? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw1g2yKxb0I
I told everyone I had read a leaked copy of the new Harry Potter book on the internet and knew who had died.
Quote: Leevil @ December 12 2008, 12:57 AM GMTI find it very hard to keep focus when reading. No I don't need glasses, but it takes me ages to read a paragraph and make sense of it and then remember what I've read and learned so I can continue with the next one.
Paragraph? Try a sentence.
I meant sentence, f**k me, it's getting worse.
Quote: Leevil @ December 12 2008, 12:57 AM GMTI find it very hard to keep focus when reading. No I don't need glasses, but it takes me ages to read a paragraph and make sense of it and then remember what I've read and learned so I can continue with the next one.
I think I hat dyslexia.
I'm a slow reader too - not as bad as you, but slow!
I don't like reading quickly though, I like to dwell on every word and take everything in. This was a bit of a shit at uni when I had loads to read in a short space of time. A lot of the time I just looked at the plot on Amazon and read some of the comments so's I could make some interesting I-have-deffo-read-the-book comments 
Quote: bighead65 @ December 11 2008, 8:16 PM GMT'The ragged trousered philantropist' I'm only half way through, keep telling everyone I've fnished, it's sooo long.
Now that is a fantastic book. Not that bleedin' long, surely. Only 500 odd pages, surely?
Quote: Moonstone @ December 12 2008, 1:13 AM GMTA lot of the time I just looked at the plot on Amazon and read some of the comments so's I could make some interesting I-have-deffo-read-the-book comments
Haha, good trick. If only the books I need to read are the kinds with comments like that!
Quote: Lee Henman @ December 12 2008, 1:01 AM GMTTalking of great products, how about for Christmas getting your ladyfriend a titty...ahem, sorry...TIDDYbear? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw1g2yKxb0I
titty I mean tiddy bear.
Quote: Leevil @ December 12 2008, 12:57 AM GMTI find it very hard to keep focus when reading. No I don't need glasses, but it takes me ages to read a paragraph and make sense of it and then remember what I've read and learned so I can continue with the next one.
I think I hat dyslexia.
I told this once to Aaron because he was getting pretty annoying with my spelling but I'm dyslexic but still love to read.
Takes me a bit longer to read then the average person but I've never gotten lower than a A in University level English classes....well...except that one time...but that class doesn't count. Stupid British bitch of a teacher....but so sexy with her voice...I AM CONFLICTED NOW I must leave!
Oh yea! I also have ADD.
Disagree with some of the the dissing of LOTR, I re-read it a few years ago and thought it was fab. I enjoyed the gentle humour of the early chapters, though perhaps it helps if you know what follows. Where I did struggle is with the ponderous final part of the third book, which stylistically is very similar to William Morris' The Well at the World's End, a huge influence on Tolkien, but heavy going.
I do do not care much for the films, but perhaps that is because I know the books so well. What makes Tolkien fascinating is the depth and complexity of the world be created, and the way in which it is rooted in the myth and culture of Northern Europe, and of course that does not translate to the screen, so you just get a rather self-important sword and sorcery flic.
My favourite Tolkien book is Farmer Giles of Ham. The Children of Hurin is on my to read list.
I disagree with Dolly about children's books having good stories, but being badly written. I find almost all adult fantasy literature unreadable, but there are numerous well-written and imaginative fantasy novels for the children's market:
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials, Sally Lockhart Quartet
Philip Reeve Mortal Engines Quartet
Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain, Westmark Trilogy
Jenny Nimmo Snow Sprider Trilogy
Lian Hearn Tales of the Otori
Alan Garner Elidor, The Owl Service, Red Shift
Ursula Le Guin Earthsea Quintet
Most of the fiction I read consists of historical novels. I like the way they enable you to experience the past. I have just finished Girl With A Pearl Earring which was rather good. I find a lot of contemporary novels are about characters who do not really interest me; a lot also tend to be too self-consciously literary.
I also read a lot of non-fiction, mainly history and popular science.
Good choices Timbo, do you find women scifi writers to be diferent and more engaging to male scifi writers?
I loved Anne Kress and Ursula Le Guinn.