The Book thread

[Mesa7719]

Ha ha ha rawr_xoxo I havent actually dropped any on myself but I have dropped some on people on the tube.... they was not very impressed I can tell ye! I tho, had to stiffle a few giggles and turn the other way!

[weliveandbreathewords]

Aha, Im betting they were very awkward moments! Since you were on the tube it's not like you could make a quick getaway!

[steve]

Just b*ght Conan's Brethren by R. E. Howard in hard back from Poundland. Might be of interest to all you comic fans out there. I've read most of Howards books years ago but at this price I couldn't resist.

[Mesa7719]

Aha, Im betting they were very awkward moments! Since you were on the tube it's not like you could make a quick getaway!

Hell yeah...... but not half as awkward as when I threw myself on someones lap when the tube decided it wanted to stop at a red light pretty damn sharpish, but that's another story for another thread

[ClareBarr]

I highly recommend Karen Rose books (crime thrillers)!

[aruif]

I'm really not sold on the kindle... i mean i love my ipod and my iphone for taking out of the house but i still have a full collection of over 2000 CDS and always will keep that going until they stop making them. I dread the day my macbook breaks or gets full and i can't download any more music. i've had 3 hard drives die on me in the past and i've lost everything that wasn't on my ipod. now i've also had external hard drives to back up... but they have also broken rendering everything usless!

as for books... the same reasoning applies, i don't want to lose anything and there's nothing better than holding something in your hand like a fave book or indeed cd/record. Some books are so beautiful they become like pieces of art. I'm quite fond of my collection of books and music and films. I want to be one of those people who needs an entire wall decked out for my book collection when i'm older!


also.. i'm a big fan of reading in the bath and will do so for a good few hours if i feel like it. i'm not sure taking a kindle or something will be the same!

i can see the appeal for journeys but i'd still want the book too!

[weirdfilms33]

Beowulf. Fantastic poem, so fluent and exciting even though it was written 1400+ years ago.

[tarantinoed]

Did you read the (relatively) new Seamus Heaney's version of Beowulf? I fell in love with this poem at primary school 45 years ago in an educational radio broadcast - no computers, DVDs or even Overhead Projectors then!

[Mesa7719]

I'm really not sold on the kindle... i

I know exactly what you mean..... I feel the same about books. I have loads upstairs in the loft which I wouldnt dream of getting rid of. But like you say you can understand the easiness on journeys and that's what kinda sold it for me.

[aruif]

I guess as I don't have to commute anywhere right now and i drive most other journeys so i don't really see the need for me personally. i'm quite happy lugging a book around on the occasional need to. i never get hardbacks though, too heavy to hold and read let alone carry about.

also i think i'd go for more of an overall tablet thing, knowing me, probably an ipad, so i can watch a film, surf the net and not just read. i'd end up doing the other things much more than read... i'd still b*y the books and carry both around LOL