What are you reading?
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Yeah, it's the Darren Shan vampire novel they turned into a movie.
I've read the whole Saga, and I felt it was stretched out into a dozen small books in order to make money.
I mean, for one of the book's "here's a sneak peak of the next one", it was the LAST CHAPTER of the next book.
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It's the same feeling I get from Animorphs and Goosebumps and other serialized stories.
I've read the whole Saga, and I felt it was stretched out into a dozen small books in order to make money.
I mean, for one of the book's "here's a sneak peak of the next one", it was the LAST CHAPTER of the next book.
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It's the same feeling I get from Animorphs and Goosebumps and other serialized stories.
michelanCello said:
Help! 
I would like to apply for a configuration, and therefore I have to write an essay about a book I recently read - I have to give arguments and sortlike...
And how much I wanted, I can't chose a TP book, 'cause my teacher says it's "pulp fiction"... I don't agree with this, but OK... So I have to chose a book with a literary message, and I'm thinking and thinkin, but nothing seems right...
So I thought, that I'll read a book which might be accoplished by the jury or whatever, but I don't know which one. I don't want any big classics, like War and Peace, or Crime and Punishement (or anithing with "and" in it)... I thought of Coelho, but everyone seems to read Coelho these days and I don't want to seem like everyone else...
So can you maybe suggest something?
I would like to apply for a configuration, and therefore I have to write an essay about a book I recently read - I have to give arguments and sortlike...
And how much I wanted, I can't chose a TP book, 'cause my teacher says it's "pulp fiction"... I don't agree with this, but OK... So I have to chose a book with a literary message, and I'm thinking and thinkin, but nothing seems right...
So I thought, that I'll read a book which might be accoplished by the jury or whatever, but I don't know which one. I don't want any big classics, like War and Peace, or Crime and Punishement (or anithing with "and" in it)... I thought of Coelho, but everyone seems to read Coelho these days and I don't want to seem like everyone else...
So can you maybe suggest something?
So I choose Small Gods, and I just got the email that I got in!
You know what they wrote?They said it was exellent, and that if they hadn't read Small Gods before (which suggests they have read it already), they'd certainly read it, and that my vocalbulary is worth to write about Pratchett (don't know if I translated that correctly, but I'm just soooo excited!!)
I'm sooo happy!
Thanks for all the help and support, guys!
edit: they also said Small Gods was an exellent choice!!!
Question: How do you guys get other people to like Discworld?
I tried to get my friend to read the series, and mentioned that it was addictive, and it was a total turnoff for her.
She said that she refuses to read addictive books from a series as large as Terry's until past the Final Exam, the Higher School Certificate. So I can't get her to read Discworld until after one and a half years.
Everyone who doesn't worry about the exam doesn't read, and the people who read worry about the exam. So they don't read.
I tried to get my friend to read the series, and mentioned that it was addictive, and it was a total turnoff for her.
She said that she refuses to read addictive books from a series as large as Terry's until past the Final Exam, the Higher School Certificate. So I can't get her to read Discworld until after one and a half years.
Everyone who doesn't worry about the exam doesn't read, and the people who read worry about the exam. So they don't read.
Jane said:
Question: How do you guys get other people to like Discworld?
I tried to get my friend to read the series, and mentioned that it was addictive, and it was a total turnoff for her.
She said that she refuses to read addictive books from a series as large as Terry's until past the Final Exam, the Higher School Certificate. So I can't get her to read Discworld until after one and a half years.
Everyone who doesn't worry about the exam doesn't read, and the people who read worry about the exam. So they don't read.
I tried to get my friend to read the series, and mentioned that it was addictive, and it was a total turnoff for her.
She said that she refuses to read addictive books from a series as large as Terry's until past the Final Exam, the Higher School Certificate. So I can't get her to read Discworld until after one and a half years.
Everyone who doesn't worry about the exam doesn't read, and the people who read worry about the exam. So they don't read.
Tonyblack said:
I don't even bother trying to persude them any more. I got fed up of people borrowing a book and then not even bothering to try and read it.
I tried reading the jokes out, like the part where Colon says that alchemists, if they can't turn lead into gold, can turn houses into holes in the ground.
And my friend goes: "How is that funny? What's an alchemist?"
What's worse is if you lend someone a book, and they bring it back badly tattered and it turns out they haven't even read it. :x
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