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What 📔book are you reading right now?

If it makes you feel any better...despite disliking Godzilla films and the like...rank 33 pulled me in too .

Thanks,

AR
 
Erestor Arcamen said:
I'm working through the Lovecraft collection from Barnes & Noble slowly and agree he can be difficult to read. The last story I read was Herbert West-Reanimator and I really liked it.
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Arrived Sunday evening.
Much better than the Cthulhu collection IMO, shows a far wider range of styles with lots more short stories. Far from a one-trick pony!
I have now ordered a Dunsany collection . . .
 
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Re-reading LoTR. Decided to go with the German translation, the books I bought for my wife well over 20 or 25 years ago, in the original translation by Margaret Carroux from 1969/70.
 
I am reading "Dürre" from Uwe Laub, a book about a horrible future, in which every citizen in germany have a climate account, which shows, how much CO2 a person produce, and these, who produce to much, has to pay very hard for it....and a very cruel climate dictatore developet, the book is about two siblings, which are charged to betray the gouvernement, because they had hide the death of their ill father and use his climate account to have a better life.
A very creepy book about a dictature, which forces people to produce not much CO2, but the gouvernement himself is rich und lives in luxury.
 
None at the moment, but other than the obvious future readings of Tolkien's books, I also have very serious plans on reading "The Shining" and "Jurassic Park", which I have actually never read.
I have however watched both of the movie adaptations (great movies, both of them), and I know that those movies were very different from the books in a lot of ways;
for example,
Jack Nicholson in the book is apparently trying to fight against the powers of the Overlook Hotel (whereas in the movie adaptation he pretty much seems to enjoy being evil), and I also know that John Hammond in the book is much more cold and arrogant, kind of like Gennaro
.

I have also always wanted to read the James Bond novels;
I guess I will start with "Casino Royale", and work my way up.
 
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You'll find them very different from the movies, to put it mildly.

I was reading the books as the first films came out -- they were getting paperback reprints, as you'd expect. I enjoyed the movies -- at least the early ones -- but grew somewhat disappointed, as they got further from the stories. Learning that another studio had the rights to "Cassino Royale", I held hopes that it, at least, would adhere more closely to the original.

That didn't exactly pan out. 😅
 
Just finished John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids. Not unusually there is more to the book than the film as I remember it. Yes the Triffids are an important factor in the book as a clear threat to human beings but the book is more about how we would cope with a sudden catastrophe that affects nearly everyone. Very much a 1950s Cold War paranoia book written when people had been recently confronted with the possibility of mankind wiping itself out (still true of course). There is a creepy Dr Strangelove meets the Handmaid's Tale theme but as usual Wyndham's strength is setting his SF in the contemporary familiar world and posing big questions about humanity. The story flows naturally without any unnecessary padding, and has great first and last sentences.
 
I read that as a 12-year-old. And several times after that. One of my favorites in those distant days. I gave it to my little brother to read, and for a long time he wouldn't watch meteor showers. 😄

I believe it was that novel that caused Brian Aldis to coin the term "cozy catastrophe".
 
I’m reading Akhenaten Egypt’s False Prophet, and rereading Revolt Against the Modern World.
 
Ummm...that was you who was afraid of watching meteor showers. 🤣
 
Rivendell_librarian said:
Just finished John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids. Not unusually there is more to the book than the film as I remember it.
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Which film are you referring to?
The horrendous 1963 version with Howard Keel?
The 1981 TV series with John Duttine - really good interpretation. They even used triffid guns instead of salt water like the '63 verison, or machine guns like in
The 2009 mini series which I haven't seen but which sounds horrible based on reviews.

I think I have the '81 version on DVD.
 
The 1963 film - I have a very dim memory of it: I remembered Kieron Moore being in it.
 
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