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Just found some pics of them here:
http://web.mit.edu/kayla/Public/Backgrounds/
Not how I imagined them, but still nice!
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As I said, I made the mistake of watching the movies first, so my brain was tainted with the images of the actors already whilst reading...always
better to do it the other way round....
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Oh, finished Moons books by the way...You are right, nothing spectacular!
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Books? She wrote more than one?
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Sorry, my bad....I meant America The Beautiful......
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I wonder what Ahmet's books are like... considering he HATES books according to RFZB...
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I didnt even know he wrote any.....!
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He's recently sold a children's book to DISNEY!
It's about a brother and a sister who rescue their father from a monster. There's a thread about it on the Zappa-forum, on the TV/Film section I
think.
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oh yeah, I did read about that......I mustve cared sooo much about it I forgot it upon reading about it....Sounds like a load of tosh.....
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Wait! It was in What's Zappaning? In it, I dissed Disney for claiming quality whilst producing drool.
Either way, I did sense some analogy between this book (about a boy and a girl who discover they come out of a family of monster hunters, and set out
to fight a monster) and a certain book series about a boy who finds out he comes from a family of wizards, and sets out to be a wizard (=Harry
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Yeah, it was on zappa.com somewhere.....Am about to embark on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce and A Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger.....
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Finnegans Wake is nice.
I've purchased Tolkien's The Silmarillion, which I plan to read once I finally get through LOTR (I'm half-way through ROTK).
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Silmarillion is supposed to be good......Well, BB, I tried starting Finnegans last night, and to be honest with you I found it very difficult! I mean,
didnt you struggle? Ill have to give it another go, but jesus, its heavy!!! Nearly finished Catcher In The Rye though, which is wonderful......It
really is....
Re what I just posted, Catcher is good, but not great...Its supposed to be this literary classic, which is why I was interested to read it, but all of
a sudden it just ends......Nothing THAT good at all......Had its moments, just when you thought something was going to happen, it didnt...Wierd....
[Edited on 19-11-2005 by Gojira1975]
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Yeah... But I guess I'm used to something after all that Dostoevski I've been through. Though LOTR has taken me ages... but I'm nearly there. Funny
how the books that have taken me most trouble to read have all ended up in my favourites-list.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gojira1975
Silmarillion is supposed to be good......Well, BB, I tried starting Finnegans last night, and to be honest with you I found it very difficult! I mean,
didnt you struggle? Ill have to give it another go, but jesus, its heavy!!! Nearly finished Catcher In The Rye though, which is wonderful......It
really is....
Re what I just posted, Catcher is good, but not great...Its supposed to be this literary classic, which is why I was interested to read it, but all of
a sudden it just ends......Nothing THAT good at all......Had its moments, just when you thought something was going to happen, it didnt...Wierd....
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Sorry this shouldve been in two seperate posts,....
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That's OK Gojira... that sorta things happen to me all the time... just trying to get stuff done quickly.
Either way, I just finished LOTR!  Yay!
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You started The Silmarrilion yet BB?
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No, I've started on a book by Bordewijk that has been on my shelf for ages. It's a collection of stories, all take place in The Hague.
It's not a big book, hope to finish it soon.
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Im currently in between books at the moment.....Well, unless the Argos catalogue counts that is....
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Just finished on that Bordewijk story collection... whew! Not as nice as his pre-WW2 work, shame.
Got started on Silmarillion... pretty complicated...
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