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LukeB
09-01-2017, 02:12 PM
I've got into reading last year and i've started with Harry Potter but i will need to read some more once I've finished all 8 books(well I have 5 left)

Horror/Thriller/fantasy/adventure are my interests with it being long

Niamh.
09-01-2017, 02:16 PM
Well obviously A Song of Ice and Fire series is great but you're watching the show right now so i don't know how you would feel about reading them too

LukeB
09-01-2017, 02:22 PM
Well obviously A Song of Ice and Fire series is great but you're watching the show right now so i don't know how you would feel about reading them too

:laugh: good point, it's one of the reasons why i didn't read harry potter because of the spoilers. I didn't know the deaths and I was shocked when watching it.

Tom4784
09-01-2017, 02:24 PM
Untouchable

/Rob.

Crimson Dynamo
09-01-2017, 02:29 PM
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-Guide-Cosmos-Brian-Cox/dp/1846144361/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1483972140&sr=8-6&keywords=cosmology

awesome book


https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51B0E%2BfxvRL._SX340_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

LukeB
09-01-2017, 03:32 PM
Untouchable

/Rob.

already got it :fan:

Fetch The Bolt Cutters
09-01-2017, 04:42 PM
the uglies/pretties/specials trilogy is cute and very similar to the hunger games

LukeB
09-01-2017, 04:46 PM
Hunger games is on my book list so i will look into that as well

Marsh.
09-01-2017, 04:46 PM
Hunger games is on my book list so i will look into that as well

Don't bother. If the first one is anything to go by, they're dreadfully written.

Tom4784
09-01-2017, 04:55 PM
already got it :fan:

http://i.imgur.com/mNQUZLL.gif

Fetch The Bolt Cutters
09-01-2017, 05:07 PM
Don't bother. If the first one is anything to go by, they're dreadfully written.

:sleep:

Marsh.
09-01-2017, 06:34 PM
:sleep:

Omg they are though. :omgno:

LukeB
09-01-2017, 06:35 PM
http://i.imgur.com/mNQUZLL.gif

That would mean giving Rob money and more of a ego :fan:

Crimson Dynamo
09-01-2017, 06:36 PM
Make sure you read factual books to so you are always learning

Lostie!
09-01-2017, 06:43 PM
I already suggested this for you but The Magicians. Harry Potter meets Narnia with a more adult tone. :spin:

Marsh.
09-01-2017, 06:44 PM
Make sure you read factual books to so you are always learning

Yeah, there's nothing to be learned from fiction. :think:

Natalie.
09-01-2017, 06:45 PM
A Song of Ice and Fire

Jack_
09-01-2017, 06:55 PM
https://www.waterstones.com/book/chavs/owen-jones/9781784783778

LukeB
11-01-2017, 05:44 PM
Any good Stephen King books?

Crimson Dynamo
11-01-2017, 05:46 PM
Yeah, there's nothing to be learned from fiction. :think:


like what

Marsh.
11-01-2017, 10:22 PM
like what

Like what, what? I don't understand the question?

Jamie89
11-01-2017, 10:34 PM
Any good Stephen King books?

The Shining. I don't read much but it's one of my favourite books.

LukeB
11-01-2017, 10:35 PM
The Shining. I don't read much but it's one of my favourite books.

Slay :love:

and I heard Carrie is good as a book too.

Jamie89
11-01-2017, 10:37 PM
Slay :love:

and I heard Carrie is good as a book too.

I've never read Carrie (love the film though), I'd be interested to read it though.

Jason.
11-01-2017, 10:54 PM
IA with The Shining, I love it and the book is better than the film.

I prefer De Palma's original Carrie to the book though, idk if that's an unpopular opinion.

Kizzy
11-01-2017, 10:58 PM
The ragged trousered philanthropist

Niamh.
12-01-2017, 09:56 AM
IA with The Shining, I love it and the book is better than the film.

I prefer De Palma's original Carrie to the book though, idk if that's an unpopular opinion.

I think I might read that soon actually. I read somewhere that Stephen King hated the movie

Jamie89
12-01-2017, 05:30 PM
I think I might read that soon actually. I read somewhere that Stephen King hated the movie

He did apparently, personally I love the film but I do think the books better.

I just found out as well that he released a sequel to The Shining a couple of years ago called Doctor Sleep (I had no idea) so I'm going to give that a read soon... has anyone read it? It sounds pretty good.

Jason.
12-01-2017, 07:26 PM
I think I might read that soon actually. I read somewhere that Stephen King hated the movie

Yeah he does lol, he said the film was disappointing and never understood why it's considered a classic. I read that he also tried to talk Kubrick out of casting Jack Nicholson as he wasn't how he pictured the character of Jack and he wanted someone more normal-looking so it would've made his gradual descent to madness much scarier (which I get but Nicholson's performance was amazing).

Like Jamie, I think the film is great but the novel is better. There's parts from the book that are missing in the film.

Jason.
12-01-2017, 07:28 PM
He did apparently, personally I love the film but I do think the books better.

I just found out as well that he released a sequel to The Shining a couple of years ago called Doctor Sleep (I had no idea) so I'm going to give that a read soon... has anyone read it? It sounds pretty good.

Ooh I didn't know this.

Lostie!
12-01-2017, 08:21 PM
Even I knew :idc:

Xtopher
12-01-2017, 08:32 PM
I'm really into Stephen King right now, so I highly recommend his novel, It.

Since reading it, I've ordered 4 more of his books (which comes in today, yay)