Quoted Text Books I've read in chronilogical order. J.K Rowling _ __________ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ___________ __________ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ___________ __________ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ___________ ____________ Thoughts: I'm a bit ashamed on having started my ___________ ____________________ love for reading with Harry Potter like ___________ ____________________ so many other kids. But it's just how it ___________ ____________________ worked out. I got the book for christmas ___________ ____________________ by my aunt and i read it in a couple of ___________ ____________________ days. I liked it and I discovered a certain ___________ ____________________ plesuare in reading a story. I started on ___________ ____________________ the fourth one but after a while of reading ___________ ____________________ it I decided that for now I'm above the Harry ___________ ____________________ Potter reading level. now I'm not saying that ___________ ____________________ I'll never read the rest. Because I might ___________ ____________________ some day. But for now I'm not going to. J.R.R. Tolkien __________ The Hobbit ___________ __________ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ___________ __________ The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ___________ __________ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ___________ ____________ Thoughts: I started with The Hobbit because going from ___________ ____________________ easy read Harry Potter books to the second ___________ ____________________ most read book in the world after the bible ___________ ____________________ was a bit much. I found the writing to be ___________ ____________________ very easy read and exiting. And the way it ___________ ____________________ was written with the maps in the front and ___________ ____________________ the back of the book where you could follow ___________ ____________________ the journey was quite brilliant! Some very ___________ ____________________ unforgettable characters in these books and ___________ ____________________ I've read The Hobbit twice already. I might ___________ ____________________ read Lord of The Rings again. I've already ___________ ____________________ tried twice. But I never get through the ___________ ____________________ first book before I stop for some reason. Robert Lewis Stevenson _ _ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ___________ ____________ Thoughts: I suppose this was the first book I read ___________ ____________________ which I hadn't seen a movie version of. Quite ___________ ____________________ a big step I thought. Quite difficult to but ___________ ____________________ the story was facinating in its own way and ___________ ____________________ scary at times to actually. I will most ___________ ____________________ definately read it again some day to fully get ___________ ____________________ the story. Jules Verne ____________ The Mysterious Island ___________ __________ Journey to The Center of The Earth ___________ ____________ Thoughts: OK! So I do admit that it kinda sucked to ___________ ____________________ read about the death of Nemo in my FIRST book ___________ ____________________ written by Jules Verne. But I had seen the ___________ ____________________ film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen so ___________ ____________________ I knew who the character was sort of speak. ___________ ____________________ The Mysterious Island is without a doubt one ___________ ____________________ of the best books I have ever read. The way ___________ ____________________ it was written and the constant mystery of ___________ ____________________ what was going on on that island was very ___________ ____________________ exiting to read. And the amount of science ___________ ____________________ and the things I learned from the book...WOW! ___________ ____________________ I was completely amazed. And I don't regret ___________ ____________________ reading it first. Journey to The Center of ___________ ____________________ The Earth was a facinating little story and ___________ ____________________ quite claustrofobic in parts. I really ___________ ____________________ enjoyed it. James Woods __________ King Pulp: The Wild World of Quentin Tarantino ___________ ____________ Thoughts: Not much to say about this one. Me being an ___________ ____________________ extremely big Tarantino fan (but I like other ___________ ____________________ movies to of course) enjoyed this one to the ___________ ____________________ limit. Peter O'Donnel _________ Sabre-Tooth ___________ ____________ Thoughts: Ah Modesty Blaise. I was already a fan of the ___________ ____________________ comic a while before I read this. I was made ___________ ____________________ a fan by the Scott Spiegel film. This book ___________ ____________________ was quite the adventure with some very tough ___________ ____________________ bad guys which I enjoyed reading about. And ___________ ____________________ the ending was perfect I think. A novel by Max Allan Collins based on a screenplay by Robert Rodat ________ Saving Private Ryan (novelization) ___________ ____________ Thoughts: I love reading about wars. Unfortunately I ___________ ____________________ haven't found many books which are novels and ___________ ____________________ about war. But I did find this one. And I ___________ ____________________ liked it very much. Quite different from the ___________ ____________________ movie and the way the battles was described ___________ ____________________ was nothing short but perfect. H.G. Wells __ __________ The Invisible Man ___________ __________ The Time Machine ___________ ____________ Thoughts: I don't like Wells. I don't like his way of ___________ ____________________ writing. It's hard and WAY to boring! I spent ___________ ____________________ a whole month on every one of his books I ___________ ____________________ read. And after I was done I didn't feel ___________ ____________________ anything special. Like Jules Verne he puts ___________ ____________________ science in his books to but not as well put ___________ ____________________ as Verne. And the main difference between ___________ ____________________ Wells and Verne is that Verne knows how to ___________ ____________________ keep the reader interested. Wells seems like ___________ ____________________ he skipped that chapter when he studied ___________ ____________________ writing. The only reason I fought my way ___________ ____________________ through three of his books was because I ___________ ____________________ felt obligated to. These books are considered ___________ ____________________ classics and I am also able to see why people ___________ ____________________ say that. But this doesn't change the fact ___________ ____________________ that I don't like his writings. |
Quoted Text Stephen King__________ The Shining ___________ ____________ Thoughts: I don't wanna talk about this one to much ___________ ____________________ because it will turn into a rant against the ___________ ____________________ book. All I can tell you is that I was deeply ___________ ____________________ dissapointed and that I probably wont be ___________ ____________________ reading a lot of Stephen King in the future... ___________ ____________________ ..I mean come on! It's supposed to be horror ___________ ____________________ but it's not! It's a god damn drama! And boring ___________ ____________________ to! I mean....I'll stop there. Ingvar Ambjørnsen ____ Fugledansen ___________ ____________ Thoughts: This is a Norwegian book. I don't think it's ___________ ____________________ been translated to english yet. It's about the ___________ ____________________ weird character of Elling (the movie: ___________ ____________________ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279064/) ___________ ____________________ and his experience in Spain and in a "crazy ___________ ____________________ house" in Norway outside of Oslo. Man oh man ___________ ____________________ how I enjoyed this book. Like A Clockwork ___________ ____________________ Orange it's a fake biograpy and is told ___________ ____________________ enteierly in his point of view. And with ___________ ____________________ Elling's slanted view on life this only makes ___________ ____________________ it more interesting to read about. Him being ___________ ____________________ a sick man he makes up thoughts about people ___________ ____________________ and what they might think about him but what ___________ ____________________ we never hear is what other people actually ___________ ____________________ think of him. Which creates a claustrofobic ___________ ____________________ atmosphere and only makes us wanna keep ___________ ____________________ reading. There are four books about Elling so ___________ ____________________ far and I know after reading this one I'm ___________ ____________________ gonna have to read the rest. There has been ___________ ____________________ made three movies about Elling and I have ___________ ____________________ only seen the two first and I've decided not ___________ ____________________ to see the third one untill I've read the ___________ ____________________ book. Because I think that when I like a ___________ ____________________ book and a character as much as this it's ___________ ____________________ better to read the actual story first and ___________ ____________________ get the real story before you see the movie ___________ ____________________ adaption. |