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Originally Posted by Mastodon
There can never be too many questions about books. (Just like how one can never have too many books.)
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Hear, hear!
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Originally Posted by Mastodon
I read a fair amount of e-books. Maybe two thirds of what I read is on paper, the rest on my e-book reader (which I've only had for about five months, mind you.) Have you read any e-books? I was surprised at how much I liked it, actually. and how easy it is to read on the screen of a dedicated e-book reader.
I've seen the movie Stardust and I liked it a lot. I prefer the book, but that's almost always true for me, when it comes to books made into films. I have to admit that I don't like the TV series Game of Thrones at all - most of my friends seem to like it a lot, so it's clearly not a bad series, but I can't get past all the sex and the violence, and I stopped watching after two episodes. H plans to watch the rest of season one, at least.
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I haven't really read any e-books. Well, I read one book on my computer once (
The curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon) but I thought that was really annoying. It's probably better if you've got a Kindle or something but in my opinion nothing beats a real printed book. I like the smell of books, I like the feel of them and I like having them on my shelves etc (I've got quite a few books now). Do you know what I mean?
Yes,
Game of Thrones contains a lot of sex and a lot of violence but I like it anyway. One thing I really like about it (if people reading this post have read the books that are out so far,
please don't spoil anything) is that you never really know who's going to "win" in the end. You can't really get too attached to the characters because you have no clue who's actually going to survive. It's not really a story where there's this one "good guy" who you pretty much know is going conquer all evil. It's more "realistic" than that (though of course it's not realistic at all since it's fictional). Does that make sense?
Do you like classics? I might've asked you that before. I'm currently reading
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Have you read it?
EDIT: Also, do you mostly read in Swedish or in English?