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Not heard or read any of his stuff Im afraid.....
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His most famous novel is Karakter (Character). Mike Van Diem made a movie of it in 1997, which won an Oscar for best foreign-language film. That's my
favourite film btw, seen it so many times...
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Cool....you do certainly learn something new everyday...
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Any other must-reads? I travel by train a lot (to and from college, over a 51 min. distance), so I get a lot of time to read...
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Well, for usual suspense stuff, anything by Dan Brown is pretty good easy reading, The Dan Vinci Code, Angels And demons and Deception Point in
particular......Also anything by Harlan Coben is good too.......
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Harlan Coban? Never heard of that one...
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Hes actually a very good author, for the usual, slightly unchallenging, train read type books, he excellent.....Good twists to his plots...
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Reading in trains is not too bad... especially when it's not rush hour... If you really want to get nauseous you could try reading in a bus.
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Ha!yeah, gotta admit, I dont really read that much whilst travelling....maybe a newspaper, but thats it....
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Up to the recent discovery of tabloids, Dutch newspapers could only be read on large tables... not much for the train.
...I'd like to write an article about the overextensive use of ellipsises in forums...
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Ellipsises? Inform me, I dont know what you mean!
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Ellipsis: ...
...You do learn something new every day 
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You command of the English language is greater than mine....!!!
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Nah, just have a good dictionary!
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Hope I'm not breaking your heart now... John Fowles has passed away, aged 79.
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Shit, didnt know that. Youre not breaking my heart though, thanks! I didnt know the guy, but RIP anyways, cos he wrote some good stuff...
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Back to LOTR: I've finally finished Two Towers, which did not exactly cure my arachnophobia. Poor Frodo! 
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I watched the two Towers movie again last night as it was on TV.....very good, but sadly the effects look dated already!.....IMO...
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How did they do the Ents I wonder?
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Quite well actually! Quite charmingly done, almost as youd imagine them to be I guess....The movies are very loyal to the books all in all...
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