I was the same. And it's not like harry potterwhere veryone knew it was a book. No one knew it was originally a book. I also dislike people who not read the books of movies. Harry potter is a decent example. This books are not difficult reads at all. But people only watch the films which miss over half the content.
All I read lately were comics or mangas... If you considered them as 'books' ;_; Oh, and some Roald Dahl.
I recently read the inheritance trilogy I was always curious about people calling the movie Eragon a travesty when I quite liked it. They were right the books are far superior and basicly completely different. I read quite a lot actually and my preferred reader is actually my PSP because of a Homebrew called Bookr you can basicly turn the CPU down to a single Mhz and reading a txt file the battery will last forever of course it can be a pain to convert to txt files but it's worth it. I have read a few on my ipod as well now though I have Ibooks and i2reader installed as Apps I actually prefer i2reader as I can copy an epub across wirelessly and gives me no troubles it hasn't been updated once since I've bought it but it does the job.
Haha, no offense taken, I do realize they are children's books. C: I'm 18 by the way. All English language books I've read are either from library or borrowed since my country first language isn't English. My university's library doesn't have many English novels and since I've never read Roald Dahl's books before, I thought I might as well give it a go. After all, other then the ones I've mentioned, the books I'm reading right now are mostly textbooks for my classes.
Yep the movie is terrible. It basically skips the whole middle of the books. It starts with finding the dragon and then zooms to the final battle with the dwarves. The rest is all quickly summarised. It was terrible. Also any James Patterson fans here. He is my favourite author I would say.
I like him, except for that he doesn't write a lot of his books anymore. He gets some ghost writers, I remember comparing different styles of his books, its obvious it wasn't one person writing them
Not to mention the parts they did show were way lamer than in the books. I mean, they turned the dwarven city into this little village. That movie was embarassing.
I am frankly quite a fan of the Kindle because of its portability and how it can store many books on it while weighing the same weight. Also i like it better than books based on the fact that you can enlarge the font for the books that have really tiny text.
One of the benefits of reading a book first then watching a movie made from it is having the insight to what the character is thinking or feeling at the time. Wheres as a person that hadn't read the book can only go by facial expressions for the most part and thereby misses out on a good portion of the movie.
I recently got into T. H. White. I just read The Once and Future King and now I'm reading The Book of Merlyn. I recommend both of them, and anyone who is going to read them should get to know and love this site: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/thwhite.htm There are a lot of Latin and French phrases as well as many other terms that most people do not know. White's books have a great sense of humor; my signature, for example, is a quote from Merlyn when he got mad at Arthur.
I enjoy an old fashioned paper book the most, but these days I get a lot more time for audiobooks than traditional ones. Listening to the three First Law books by Joe Abercrombie right now. They're excellent if you like dark, bloody, harsh fantasy. The setting and plot are very interesting, the writing is good, there's a nice amount of action. He does a good job with his characters. It's not just straightforward good guys and bad guys; I'm never really sure if I like or dislike many of them. Another fairly recent favorite is the Song of Ice and Fire series (still unfinished, unfortunately), by George R. R. Martin. The plot and characters are very complex. It's a bit overwhelming at first, but once you get into it's really great. I love how he can get you be totally convinced that a character is a bad guy or a total asshole, then eventually have you really liking them (or at least rooting for them). If you haven't read this one, I recommend it... especially before the HBO series starts. ('Game of Thrones', starting very soon.)
quite agreed. it's comforting to see most of us choose traditianal books. IMO, no matter how devices develop, they can't replace traditional books which we can make a collection of and take notes on. It's so nice to have a big book closet full of your favorite books in your old age.
I'll always stick by traditional paperbacks. I did consider getting a Kindle or a Nook before but unfortunately in Singapore there is no way you can purchase e-books.
That's interesting, excluding books(which I'm not surprised about), I thought the Kindle would be second. I think if you look at it for just books, the Kindle comes far ahead of the iDevices. I like the 3G of the Kindle, and its storage. Plus, the lower prices for the device and books change it for me as well
