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Maria wrote!

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There is a spanish director that is going to adapt the book to the cinema!
He is the one who did MAR ADENTRO!!!
I am very curious about the movie! I bet it;s going to be a hit!!!

Dear,
Do you happen to know who the stars starring in the movie are going to be??
Someone famous???

Maria,

I have bought the book and started reading it!! :study: :study: It's simply engrossing!!

Thank you for recommending it!!!!

Bea wrote about Shadow of the Wind!

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Dear,
Do you happen to know who the stars starring in the movie are going to be??
Someone famous???

Well, I have read that the director is thinking of Richard Gere for the part of Daniel I haven't read anything about posible actresses...but the reporter says that they are thinking about Nicole kidman!


Serena wrote!

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I have bought the book and started reading it!! :study: :study: It's simply engrossing!!

Thank you for recommending it!!!!

I am so gald you are enjoying your read, dear!

Maria wrote!

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Well, I have read that the director is thinking of Richard Gere for the part of Daniel I haven't read anything about posible actresses...but the reporter says that they are thinking about Nicole kidman

I always imagine Daniel as a young man ...but, perhaps the director is thinking of telling everything..how do you say?? flash back

I am very curious about the actress that is going to play Bea .I don't think Nicole will do She is blonde!!


BEIJOS!!!

Bea wrote!

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I am very curious about the actress that is going to play Bea .I don't think Nicole will do She is blonde!!

Yes!!There is a character called Bea in the book! In fact she is called BEATRIZ, buT everybody calls her BEA


Nicole could change the colour of her hair, but perhaps they will choose a spanish actress!

Serena wrote!

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lol!: Yes!!There is a character called Bea in the book! In fact she is called BEATRIZ, buT everybody calls her BEA


Nicole could change the colour of her hair, but perhaps they will choose a spanish actress!

YES, THERE IS A BEA!!!




DON'T LAUGH AT ME , PLEASE!

DEAR GIRLS!!

I have just finished reading THE SHADOW OF THE WIND :study:

AND I liked it very much!

I think it brings sth new to the commonplace novels and thrillers ..it's really different ! That's what makes it sooo interesting!

SERENA WROTE!!!

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I have just finished reading THE SHADOW OF THE WIND :study:

AND I liked it very much!

I think it brings sth new to the commonplace novels and thrillers ..it's really different ! That's what makes it sooo interesting

YESSS!!!! PRECISELY MY OPINION!!!!

Hello...

I have bought myself Victor Hugo's book:"The hunchback from Notre Dame".
First, I have to finish the book I'm reading now, but after, I want to read this one. In fact I was so curious, that I read the first pages already. But I'm not sure if it's ok to read them both in the same time...

Well...I did it a couple of times but still. Every book has its own time.

I wanted to ask you, if you read it...and what are your opinions on it!?
I think that many of you read it already...after all, we are all Notre Dame "fans" here

Kisses....
and Alex runs to :study: -> because I want to finish the book I'm currently reading faster!!

alexandra wrote:

I wanted to ask you, if you read it...and what are your opinions on it!?
I think that many of you read it already...after all, we are all Notre Dame "fans" here

Hi, draga Alex! :study: This book is one of my favourites I'm (almost) sure you'll like it too! I would like to discuss it with you, but not now - I'm in an Internet club and I don't have enough time, and you have to read it first

Kisses!

Vania wrote:

alexandra wrote:

I wanted to ask you, if you read it...and what are your opinions on it!?
I think that many of you read it already...after all, we are all Notre Dame "fans" here

Hi, draga Alex! :study: This book is one of my favourites I'm (almost) sure you'll like it too! I would like to discuss it with you, but not now - I'm in an Internet club and I don't have enough time, and you have to read it first

Kisses!

Good!!!
We will discuss it someday. I'm not sure when this day will come, but I hope I'll finish the book soon.

I'm sure I'll like it ..I know the story and... uh!!!

Thanks for answering, even if you had little time at your disposal :<33:
Go back, run to the beach!!

alexandra wrote:

I have bought myself Victor Hugo's book:"The hunchback from Notre Dame".
I wanted to ask you, if you read it...and what are your opinions on it!?
I think that many of you read it already...after all, we are all Notre Dame "fans" here

Ohhh.. ahhhh... Aleeeexx!!!!!!!! It's one of my favourite books ever!!!!! It's amazing!!!!!!!! yesh, I'm a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge Notre Dame fan but the book is awesome.. I adore it, I adore Victor Hugo.. I read this book for 5 times!!! 3 times in russian and 2 times in french And I always cry in the end when I read it, when I watch the movie or listen to a musical..
So, you muuuuuuuuuusssst read it!!!! First 54 pages or so (maybe) are not very exciting, but they are very interesting, because Victor tells us about monuments.. he describes streets and buildings.. everything! So, we are ready to discuss the book, you see
I wish you to start reading it as soon as possible!

Yes, as you say, Lerka, the first 50something pages are hard to read, but they are very important. I read it in few days, I just can't leave the book after I started to reading it :study: And two weeks later, I watched two movies (the one with Salma Hayek as Esmeralda and I don't remember who as Quasimodo, and the second one - with Anthony Hopkins as Quasimodo). But I was disappointed from the movies - the book is much much stronger. And the end.... I cried too. OK, I'm telling no more, let's wait for Alex to read it first

1. Philip Pullman's Dark Materials (Hehe...the main character's name in this book is Lyra. Ironic, eh? )
2. Uglies, Pretties, and Specials by Scott Westerfield
3. The Handmaid's Tale...can't remember the author at the moment...
4. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
5. Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
6. Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
7. Atlas Shrugged...can't remember this one either...
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. The Gulag Archipelago...these books are MASSIVE!!! somewhere around 700 HUNDRED pages with this size font!! But I think that they are really interesting and really like them...
10. I love all of Tamora Pierce's works...they are amazing, I must say!

I like a bunch of random, and large books... I have pretty much read a book a day over the break because I have nothing else to do... I like breaks and all, but they can get kinda dull at times...


Lyra

Wow, Lyra I have to admit I've never heard about the half of your favourite books

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1. Philip Pullman's Dark Materials (Hehe...the main character's name in this book is Lyra. Ironic, eh? )
2. Uglies, Pretties, and Specials by Scott Westerfield
3. The Handmaid's Tale...can't remember the author at the moment...
...
5. Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
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7. Atlas Shrugged...can't remember this one either...
...
10. I love all of Tamora Pierce's works...they are amazing, I must say!

I like Pride and Prejudice too
As for my favourite books:
1. The Children of Captain Grant - Jules Verne (I've read it many times)
2. The headless horseman - Mayne Reid (I hope the spelling is correct )
3. Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo one of the best novels I've ever read
4. Osadeni dushi (Doomed souls) - Dimitar Dimov - a wonderful novel, wondeful movie and wonderful music (our pair Spasova-Todorov use this music this season for their SP, I think somewhere in the forum you can find the link and the summary of the movie)
5. The biography of Albena and Max


and many others......

Vania wrote:

5. The biography of Albena and Max

Well...that would be a favorite too!! IF I COULD GET THE BOOK IN THE STUPID U.S.!!!! Sorry about that...


Lyra

Vania wrote:

As for my favourite books:
1. The Children of Captain Grant - Jules Verne (I've read it many times)
2. The headless horseman - Mayne Reid (I hope the spelling is correct )
3. Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo one of the best novels I've ever read
4. Osadeni dushi (Doomed souls) - Dimitar Dimov - a wonderful novel, wondeful movie and wonderful music (our pair Spasova-Todorov use this music this season for their SP, I think somewhere in the forum you can find the link and the summary of the movie)
5. The biography of Albena and Max
and many others......

Hmmmmm I'd like to read Osadeni dushi I think I could find it on the internet I'm going to try at least
My fav books are:
1. Notre Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo
2. The last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper (A book with a very unexpected end for me.. I was waiting for.. some love scenes maybe.. I was waiting for declarations between Uncas and Cora, but it didn't happen.. everything was much stronger and less common.. two different cultures were between them, but they died together.. and this moment is one of the strongest moments I've ever read.. deeply tragic.. and it impressed me very much.)
3. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo again
4. Romeo & Juliette, William Shakespeare
5. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (I like Dan Brown : ))))

+ lots of russian novels like "First love" & "Asia" by Turgenev, "Gadyuka" by Aleksei Tolstoy, "Povesti Belkina" (The Belkin's stories) by Pushkin and others..

P.S. Albie & Max's bio is off the competition

Oh, Lyra! I'm just shocked - you read Dostoevsky, I haven't managed to.... tooo complicated.


Vania! I LOVED Jules Verne when a child. All his books!!!
And Maine Reid's indian novels!!!!

Ler! I like Cooper as well. And Dan Brown. Have you read other books by him? Angels and Demons is a gorgeous.

Still can't make my mind with my top-5. It's likely to be top-100.

cute_n_gorgeous wrote:

And Maine Reid's indian novels!!!!

Yes, I love his novels, too!!!! + I forgot to say that I adore Isaak Babel..

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Ler! I like Cooper as well. And Dan Brown. Have you read other books by him? Angels and Demons is a gorgeous.

Yeah, I read "Angels & Demons", but the plot is sooooo silimar with the "Da Vinci Code"

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Still can't make my mind with my top-5. It's likely to be top-100.

cute_n_gorgeous wrote:

Oh, Lyra! I'm just shocked - you read Dostoevsky, I haven't managed to.... tooo complicated.

It's really not that bad...you just have to get into it...and if you have a lot of time on your hands, it's really easy to read!! Except for all of these diminutives...but that's inevitable in any slavic book...


Lyra

I like everything. Well... I read everything, anyway.

Right now, I'm reading Canadian literature. Michael Ondaatje , Michael Winter , Lisa Moore , Stephanie Bolster ... Ondaatje completely blows me away. He is an absolutely brilliant writer. I've read "The English Patient", "The Cinnamon Pealer", "Running in the Family" and "Anil's Ghost", they've all been just amazing. Annnnd he teaches at York University. I have to get in.

*MAGic diable* wrote:

And Dan Brown. Have you read other books by him? Angels and Demons is a gorgeous.

Yeah, I read "Angels & Demons", but the plot is sooooo silimar with the "Da Vinci Code"
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Yep, they're very similar! I've read first Angels and Demons, and I liked it a lot! Few weeks later I've read The Da Vinci Code and I was a bit disappointed, because it was sooooo similar! The love story, the end... Nevermind, both are very good books!

Vania wrote:

*MAGic diable* wrote:

And Dan Brown. Have you read other books by him? Angels and Demons is a gorgeous.

Yeah, I read "Angels & Demons", but the plot is sooooo silimar with the "Da Vinci Code"

Yep, they're very similar! I've read first Angels and Demons, and I liked it a lot! Few weeks later I've read The Da Vinci Code and I was a bit disappointed, because it was sooooo similar! The love story, the end... Nevermind, both are very good books![/quote]

And I still liked A&D much more than Da Vinci Code as well )) :face:

russianskaterdiva wrote:

cute_n_gorgeous wrote:

Oh, Lyra! I'm just shocked - you read Dostoevsky, I haven't managed to.... tooo complicated.

It's really not that bad...you just have to get into it...and if you have a lot of time on your hands, it's really easy to read!! Except for all of these diminutives...but that's inevitable in any slavic book...


Lyra

diminitives being Russian, I'm quite o'k with them
Just don't understand him...

Well, I can say which book is my UNfavourite one - that is JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte...
When a child I studied English a lot and I read this book in English and was made to render it.... :face: :face: :face:

Since then I feel dizzy every time I hear the title

cute_n_gorgeous wrote:

Well, I can say which book is my UNfavourite one - that is JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte...
When a child I studied English a lot and I read this book in English and was made to render it.... :face: :face: :face:

Since then I feel dizzy every time I hear the title

hehe, I remember in one episode of Friends, Phoebe and Rachel attended litterature classes and they had to render Jane Eyre, which Rachel haven't read. Then Phoebe told her (absolutely intentionally) that this book was ahead of his time (so far so good ) because it was about the robot and Jane actually was a cyborg.

Seriously, I like this book