[ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:31:17 +0100
I really don't like fantasy, I've tried Rowling, Pratchet and Mervin Peak, as
well as a few other famous author's in that genre and it just does nothing for
me. I think I like the hobbit and Lord of the Rings because I first read them
as a child, I didn't enjoy them so much when I tried to re-read them a few
years ago.
I do like hard sci-fi, or books based on science, which base a story around
more factual based ideas.
Books which try to describe a possible future or even life on other planets
which are plausible. I'm afraid that if I see the words elves, goblins,
fairies, werewolves or vampires, then it's not even going to make it onto my
pile at all. Though, I did read a good vampire book once by Elizabeth Costova
and I love books about ghosts, which I don't actually believe in either, so it
all makes no sense to me anyway.
Shell.
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From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 11:25 AM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
> Hi Steve, the tolkien adaptation you heard in 69 was in fact The Hobbit with
> Paul Daneman in the role of blbo Baggins. The dramatisation of LOTR was
> first broadcast in, I think, 1981. That had Ian Holme as Frodo, Michael
> Horden as Gandalf Bill Nighy as Sam and John le Mesurier as Bilbo. I've
> never been able to get away with Terry Pratchett either in books or as
> dramas. Which brings me to another question. What's the view on Mervin Peak?
> On 30 Jun 2013, at 09:55, Steven Bingham wrote:
>
>> Hurray someone else who doesn't like Lord of the Rings. I tried listening to
>> the radio series back in 1969 and hated it. Under considerable pressure I
>> tried to read it a few years ago and gave us. I don't know if it is the
>> fantasy or whether it is that I feel the whole thing is just a pointless
>> exercise.
>>
>> I am not keen on Terry Pratchett either but there I think it is something to
>> do with there being no rules. If there are no rules anything can happen and
>> there doesn't have to be a reason for it. I gave up all attempts at reading
>> him after the story I was reading suddenly materialised in the middle of a
>> present day aircraft. Pointless!
>>
>> Harry Potter I can deal with because although there is magic it does conform
>> to its own rules. I like the way that the magic is played down and the
>> normal is slightly exaggerated.
>>
>> I am also trying to come up with the books of my life but it is not easy.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Pele West
>> Sent: 30 June 2013 09:15
>> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
>>
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> I cannot get on with "Lord of the Rings" at all. Peter reread it recently
>> and I heard bits and still did not like it. There is too much fantassy for
>> me.
>>
>> One of the things I like about Harry Potter is that there is enough normal
>> things, such as having to do homework and difficulties with being teenagers,
>> to keep me interested.
>>
>> Pele
>>
>>
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