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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2019 20:06:37 GMT
I am loving it so far. It seems to me that the director of the film followed the graphic novel closely. It's been a while since I watched the film but I can't tell much of a difference as of yet.
After I'm done with this, I'm gonna have to sit down and watch the film again.
I'm really appreciating this format, I think much more than I ever did when I was a kid.
I plan to read Frank Miller's 300 next, even though I haven't yet seen the film.
I've wanted to read Watchmen for a while. I have a slight phobia of clutter so I only read e-books. I might make an exception for this, because I can't imagine reading a graphic novel on my phone. I am the opposite. I always get the book. I have tried ebooks, and they have their advantages, but I much prefer a physical book.
I did try an except from a graphic novel on my Kindle and I didn't like it much, either. Even when I magnified it was hard to make out some of the words.
The advantage of the physical graphic novels is I have no problems with the words and images. Plus, they are generally nicely put together.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2019 3:19:35 GMT
Just finished Brian Aldiss' Hothouse, SF novel million in the years in the future when the Earth is tidally locked with the Sun and vegetable-like creatures dominate, humans devolved. Aldiss' imagination is incredible. 8/10
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Post by poelzig on Jun 9, 2019 7:34:49 GMT
I've wanted to read Watchmen for a while. I have a slight phobia of clutter so I only read e-books. I might make an exception for this, because I can't imagine reading a graphic novel on my phone. I am the opposite. I always get the book. I have tried ebooks, and they have their advantages, but I much prefer a physical book.
I did try an except from a graphic novel on my Kindle and I didn't like it much, either. Even when I magnified it was hard to make out some of the words.
The advantage of the physical graphic novels is I have no problems with the words and images. Plus, they are generally nicely put together.
I prefer physical copies as well. I read in the bathroom a lot and not about to start toting a tablet in there with me. I don't even like using my cell phone while on the toilet. A few years back I had a 30 minute argument with a jerk friend of mine who was trying to sell me on the advantages of tablets over books. I finally slammed him when I told him I read many dozens of books a year and I doubted he even reads one. He admitted he didn't and I promptly told him to shut the f up then.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2019 21:02:02 GMT
Halfway through John Christopher's The Death of Grass, a British disaster novel where a mutating virus is slowly killing all the grass in the world. Fascinating read so far, Christopher a very talented writer.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jun 12, 2019 3:10:25 GMT
The Door to December by Dean Koontz. Still pretty early in the book, hoping no intelligent dogs who are really either angels or aliens pop up.
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 13, 2019 17:59:22 GMT
I watched an early '80s movie called the "Sphinx" awhile back and decided to read the book it was based on to see how it was. So far it's pretty good. I've always enjoyed Egyptology and Ancient Egypt in general and this folds it in with the black market antiquities market. I found the movie tie in too, so that's cool. I've never read any Robin Cook before (most of his stuff seems related to the medical field which I'm not very interested in) but he's a good author, seems to have done quite a bit of research before writing this one.
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Post by Archelaus on Jun 13, 2019 18:21:47 GMT
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
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Post by darknessfish on Jun 17, 2019 12:26:36 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jun 17, 2019 12:52:21 GMT
Hideaway, by Dean Koontz. The one I just finished (i.e. The Door to December) was mediocre, but hopefully this one is better.
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Post by rudeboy on Jun 18, 2019 1:48:00 GMT
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann. A year or so back I read a biography of the great scientist Alexander von Humboldt and this is a novel about Humboldt and his contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, and their groundbreaking methods of taking the world's measurements.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2019 21:22:49 GMT
The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jun 18, 2019 23:21:12 GMT
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Post by poelzig on Jun 19, 2019 5:28:12 GMT
Hideaway, by Dean Koontz. The one I just finished (i.e. The Door to December) was mediocre, but hopefully this one is better. I hope the same thing every time I start a Koontz book.
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Post by jackspicer on Jun 20, 2019 22:32:10 GMT
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. The book is rated higher than the movie, which I didn't see. I'm on the last chapter. It's a ghost/horror story.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Jun 21, 2019 0:19:08 GMT
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Post by jackspicer on Jun 22, 2019 1:59:01 GMT
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander I started reading this as well. I had the physical book(s) when I was young.
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Post by Archelaus on Jun 22, 2019 5:38:36 GMT
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander I started reading this as well. I had the physical book(s) when I was young. That's nice. It's a fairly short book and I should be finished with it in a few days.
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Post by theravenking on Jun 22, 2019 11:15:49 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jun 22, 2019 19:24:00 GMT
Kubrick, by Michael Herr.
Herr worked with Kubrick on Full Metal Jacket, and I thought it'd be good to read something by someone who actually knew him. Read the first chapter last night. Not really feeling it, but it's a short book (under a hundred pages), so I'll finish it anyway.
UPDATE: This was a very poorly written book. Would recommend it.
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Post by jackspicer on Jun 23, 2019 23:16:24 GMT
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami. Reading this was shaping up to be a nightmare, since apparently I can't keep track of what Japanese names are male and which are female. For the first chapter I was constantly flipping back to the Student List to check. Thankfully since I know how to edit ebooks, I color-coded their names according to sex so I can keep it straight. If there is an easily-identifiable pattern as to which names are male and female, I'm not seeing it.
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