Favorite Books Topic

[Lilly Saku]

Hrm, aladdin/sinbad isn't in the version I read, I think that's cuz this version tried to be as faithful to the original as possible

Lol, I can just imagine my ideas of Aladdin being dashed if I did read the actual Aladdin story. >__>;; What!? He didn't vie for the caliph's daughter's love by flying on magic carpets!??

[13-dreamcatcher]

And the jinni of the lamp doesn't have a three-wish limit.  But something tells me that being faithful to whatever passes for the "original" version of these tales isn't necessarily the reason that those stories were omitted.  Maybe if we are saying that those particular tales were later additions to a central core of tales that started off this whole work, then maybe, but I would be wary of such statements.  Do you happen to know the publisher of that book?  Or even the ISBN number?  I might want to look it up.

[Lilly Saku]

yeah xD there wasn't even a "genie" in my book, there were just a ton of different scary demons, one of them happening to have been found in a lamp...

yeah, probably original wasn't the best word choice. Aladdin and such were definitely important stories, but I think translators added several pre-existing circulating stories into the nights to make it longer. Trans Haddawy, publisher, Norton. 978039333166 , possibly, if I don't have dyslexia ><;

[13-dreamcatcher]

Well, one of my favorite words that describes the jinn is Ifrit.  I think it was meant as a specific kind of jinni but it was still part of that class.  Oh, wait, it was Iblis that was the specific name of a given individual.  Ifrit was just a synonym for jinni.

Thanks for the info.  I'll see what I can find with it later.

[Lilly Saku]

Haha, there were so many whacko demons in that book!

Reading classic French and Russian literature, i can never remember any of the darn names! And there are so many characters with really really similar names, or honorifics or something. I remember having to reread Monte Christo so many times b/c I would lose track of where I was/who the chars were! still loved it...

[Need n Know]

Hello?  The Hunger Games, anybody?  Man, that story makes me cry.  XD  It's so tragically awesome, I don't know how to describe it.

I'll try to get my hands on Battle Royale.  People say it's gorier in there.  Maybe I'll like it, too, if I like the main chars.

[Ryuuko]

I just finished reading the first book yesterday.  It has restored my faith in first person novels...

And I really look forward to reading to next two.  I just hope the quality stays up

[Need n Know]

I'm glad you like it!  lOl, on a totally other note, I read all the summaries of all three books, 'cause I was never ever gonna read it.  Then got bored one day at the university bookstore, and picked it up.  Either I'm just easily pleased, or this book just pleased me so well, that, though I knew everything that would happen, I still fell in love with ittt still.

I can't say anything to spoil you, but.................................................................... I really like it, it's just my type of book.

Hm, I thought it was well-written from beginning to end.  But like all novels, the ending is so rushed.  -.-

Do you like Peeta?  DO YOUU?   When I read the summaries, I was like... this guy is a wimp, blaah.  But after reading the books, omgee, I looove Peeta!  And I'm a little overexcited for the movies, which will probably suck (or is this reverse psychology, making me expect so little of it, yet it surprises me in the end???).  I hope the movie won't suck, but so far,.......... only, like, the final HP movie satisfied me (not 100%, but close nuff).

[Ryuuko]

I honestly think Peeta has too much of a one track mind.  It's all about baking and Katniss.  But he's a teenage boy, so he's forgiven.  I haven't gotten around to reading the second book yet, so I don't know if his character has been expanded on, or developed yet.  I do hope so though.

The trailers for the movie do sound very exciting, but that's the whole point of a trailer, so we must wait and see

[Need n Know]

For some reason, being so one-tracked made me like Peeta even more.  Oddly romantic, scary, but, hey, because it's a book, I know he's genuine and it's fine (irl, NO).  But I think it also has to do with their situation.  I think he saw Katniss as his source of hope, so he became twisted in his own way.

I was thinking that, with Peeta's great speaking skills, in any other lifetime, he'd be one of those politicians.  O.o  It's probably just me.  Or a general, lOl, but he doesn't like war, as you can tell in the first book.

[Ryuuko]

I think that his charisma is what makes him so interesting.  Unlike pretty much all of the other tributes, he has no skills or training that would have specifically  help him survive - besides the cake frosting thing.  It's probably what helped save him, beyond all the fanservice he and Katniss had to provide the spectators.

[Need n Know]

You've seen/heard of Battle Royale.  I think we all have.  XD  But anyway, I'd like to read it (the movies are never as great as the original).  And we can't help but compare these two books, they're so similar with the arenas and kids and stuff.

THG is so fast-paced.  Collins doesn't give anyone (or me) room to breathe.  And every time Katniss and Peeta are together, it totally is fanservice.  O_O  Wait until the last book, haha, even when they argue.

Ah yes, charisma, totally.



This is just my beef, but I hate people who keep saying it's a ripoff of Battle Royale.  I've asked a couple of my friends, and many of them have never heard of Battle Royale (or the other, same difference), so Collins could be in that boat, too.  I mean, it's great to really like a book and support it and all, but these days, everything's a ripoff of something else.  (Let's just say Battle Royale is a ripoff of other survival/strategy stories that don't involve kids, but I don't have an example......) 

Anywhoo, would really like to read BR (except I also heard the translated version isn't as good, as always).  The movie was so..... I really liked the plot, but there were just so many characters and the mains weren't likable enough for me.  I wonder if I've said this anywhere on DF before, huh....  eeks.

[Ryuuko]

My bro even called it a BR rip, and he hasn't even been exposed to either THG or BR.  Dumbass.

I like that THG is so fast.  It's meant to, considering what's going on.  Would you want something like a life or death contest to be slow and drawn out?  Its meant to get your heart pumping, plus it makes you go through it faster because you want to get to the end and see what happens

[Need n Know]

Don't judge a book by its covers, right.  -.-  People who go around giving opinions without reading both things are pretty ignorant and pretentious to me.

And every scene built character.  But don't you get the notion that they'll hype up the romance and make all that stupid Twilight "team" again?  Blaah.  It's a SHIP.

There are books that seems to be fast-paced, but it was all a lie!  Dx

[Myna]

Just finished Treasure Island and loved it.