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Originally Posted by Mastodon
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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That's pretty much my dream. To have my own little library at home. Yesterday (before I read your post) it hit me that there's no space in my room for another bookshelf. I bought one the other day so now I've got two but I'm not sure what I'll do when they're both completely filled with books. There's still quite a bit of space left in the shelves but I reckon that'll change pretty soon.
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Originally Posted by Mastodon
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. |
I haven't read that much fantasy apart from Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings (+ The Hobbit) and A Song of Ice and Fire. If you could choose three fantasy books to recommend to me, which ones would you choose?
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Originally Posted by Mastodon
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.
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Well, I guess I'm one of the other three people then. I haven't read Stieg Larsson either. I've been thinking about buying the Millennium Trilogy for a while but I always manage to buy other books instead. Most of the books I read are in English as well. Probably about 90 %, if not more. I pretty much only read Swedish books in Swedish (which I don't do very often). If the book is originally written in English then I really want to read it in English. If it's in Russian or some other language I can't speak then I might read it in English or in Swedish, though mostly in English.
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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.
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I think it's pretty great to talk about books. Especially with people who seem to love them as much as I do.
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Originally Posted by CantExplain
A film critic wrote of Troy that there was "no one to root for". Achilles is a psychopath, Paris is a wimp and Hector is killed.
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Well, when it comes to
Game of Thrones I think it's more like you can "root for" a lot of different characters. I think that makes it rather interesting.