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Originally Posted by neutrino
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?
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Oh yes. We gave our books their own room and it smells great in there :-) (We had to move from a flat to a house about ten years ago, because we had no more bookshelf space.) I will not stop buying and reading paper books, but the ebook reader is great when travelling.
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Originally Posted by neutrino
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?
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Sure, I prefer greyscale to black-and-white, and I don't particularly enjoy novels where you're sure that particular characters are going to survive, but there are so many fantasy authors who do it better and more interestingly than Martin (in my not at all humble opinion
) Glen Cook, Steven Brust, Joe Abercrombie, Cherie Priest, Scott Lynch, Liz Williams... so many books, so little time.
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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?
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Fahrenheit 451 a long time ago... I cannot really remember much of the plot, though I do know the basic story arc. I do enjoy many of the classics - and in Swedish I almost only read classics, not a lot of contemporary authors (I am one of the three people in this country who hasn't read Stieg Larsson!) But probably 90% of what I read is in English. And maybe 75% of that is genre literature - science fiction or fantasy.
It's nice to hear that you are on a fiction trip. Reading fiction makes life better.
And now I'd better shut up. When I start talking about books, there is no stopping me. Early start tomorrow so I'd better go to bed.