The Bookworm's Thread 2016

thenanny2die4

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I'd forgotten "The Blind Assassin" - I must read it again sometime to remind myself. My favourite Atwood is "The Robber Bride" which I've read several times and would recommend highly if you haven't already read it.

Thanks for that; no I haven't read that one. I'll add it to the list.

Alikay

Pleased you enjoyed Room, VfM and nanny2die4 - I saw a trailer for the movie the other night when I went to see Lady In The Van and thought it looked like my kind of thing. If I do read any book which has been made into a movie, I like to read first rather than the other way round, so I need to crack on and download it onto my Kindle

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Alikay, I have mixed feelings about seeing films of books I've read. If I really loved a book then I never watch the film subsequently now as the characters are never quite as I imagined them to be from reading about them. I don't mind a bit of poetic licence with the story but it's usually the characters that make the most impression on me. I'm a big Patricia Highsmith fan and have had Carole unread on my bookshelf for about 5 years. The recent film has been nominated for various awards and I keep seeing a few clips on TV which looked good. Not sure whether to break my own rule and see the film first:think:

I occasionally do things the other way round though and read the book after seeing the film. One of my all-time favourite films is Day of The Jackal (the original Edward Fox version), I watch it every time it's repeated on TV which seems about every other month:rotfl:. Someone passed on the Frederick Forsyth book to me and I really must make the effort to read it.

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camelot1001 wrote: »

I've just read The Marble Collector by Cecelia Aherne and enjoyed it.

I've come across several authors who are new to me during last year when I discovered the joys of the mobile library:j, Cecelia Aherne being one of them. I chose her book because of the beautiful and original cover (shallow, moi?) and was hooked from the start. The one I read was One Hundred Names and I'm on the look-out now for anything else by her.

I also discovered Elizabeth Taylor (not the actress:rotfl:) through reading Angel which I enjoyed as much as anything I read all year. Then there was Mitch Albom's Five People You Meet in Heaven, a wonderful book in a style I love and hopefully the first of several that I'll get to read by him this year.

I was a big fan of Anne Tyler many moons ago but got out of the habit of reading her later ones. I was very pleasantly surprised to find A patchwork Planet on the library van and it reminded me how much I like her writing style. Many say her stories just meander along and never really go anywhere but I love her characters and the way they cope with life events and the sometimes bizarre situations they find themselves in.

thenanny2die4

carbootcrazy wrote: »

I was a big fan of Anne Tyler many moons ago but got out of the habit of reading her later ones. I was very pleasantly surprised to find A patchwork Planet on the library van and it reminded me how much I like her writing style. Many say her stories just meander along and never really go anywhere but I love her characters and the way they cope with life events and the sometimes bizarre situations they find themselves in.

Ooh yes, me too! I'd forgotten about her. I must see if I missed any first time around. Thanks for the reminder.

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thenanny2die4 wrote: »

Ooh yes, me too! I'd forgotten about her. I must see if I missed any first time around. Thanks for the reminder.

She was shortlisted last year for the Man Booker Prize (sadly didn't win) for her latest book, A Spool Of Blue Thread. I haven't read that one yet. Another to add the Must Read list for 2016;)

Alikay

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Alikay, I have mixed feelings about seeing films of books I've read. If I really loved a book then I never watch the film subsequently now as the characters are never quite as I imagined them to be from reading about them.

If the character is very well developed in the book, they are rarely portrayed well on screen. I love Ian McEwan books but the Enduring Love film left me cold, and Atonement was such a disappointment: The cold, brittle Cecilia portrayed by Kiera Knightley was absolutely nothing like the complex human the book had built in my imagination.

With Room, the film trailer has sparked my interest as I've not noticed the book before, despite it being a best seller - probably because I wasn't drawn to the cover .

pollypenny

I'm not keen on films of book I've read first. I don't think I could see Room, anyway, as the book was traumatic enough.

I could watch The Hunger Games at all, but I thought the Gone Girl adaptation was pretty good.

missbiggles1

pollypenny wrote: »

I'm not keen on films of book I've read first. I don't think I could see Room, anyway, as the book was traumatic enough.

I could watch The Hunger Games at all, but I thought the Gone Girl adaptation was pretty good.

My late husband and I, both lovers of "Lord of the Rings", could never agree on the film version - he absolutely detested it but I thought it was about a good a film version as you were likely to get (with the odd exception).

lollyfin

I'm the same missbiggles love the books and now whenever I read them I see the actors faces rather than the ones my imagination made up. I really enjoyed The Hunger Games books but have only seen one film and I've read twilight, seen all the films and absolutely hated the way Bella was played.
I finished The Name of the Wind last night and got the second book on my kindle but am holding back from starting it as I need to get to sleep earlier. I always think it's a sign of a brilliant book if you would rather loose a couple of hours or a whole nights sleep to keep on reading.