[ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE

  • From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 17:31:21 +0100

I was persuaded to read a vampire book and a copy of the one suggested just
happened to come to hand. It was just like a Jack Reacher but the vampire
stopped to suck the blood from the people she killed occasionally. I won't
be bothering with anymore of that series.

 

Steve

 

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On Behalf Of Elaine Harris (Rivendell)
Sent: 30 June 2013 12:03
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE

 

Still laughing; vampires I cannot manage; won't even try.

 

My then assistant and I had mild hysteria once while poring over a
publishing list; we came across a title which I have avoided ever
afterwards: "Cowboys and Aliens". Now there's a concept with which to
conjure!

 

Elaine

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On Behalf Of Shell
Sent: Sunday, 30 June 2013 8:31 PM
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE

 

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-----
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>> 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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