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Patrick:
Holy crap, I am actually posting in the books, TV and movies forum! Too bad for movies and TV though.
--- Quote from: Misconception on 23 Feb 2008, 16:41 ---I have not read Anne of Green Gables.
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I've seen the movie version. You're not exactly missing much, if the film is accurate.
Currently reading Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card. You may know him as the author of Ender's Game. I'm barely even halfway through the book and it's already way up on my top 10 list.
Damn thing's falling apart, though. Stupid poorly-bound book, I own paperbacks that have lasted longer than this.
Barmymoo:
Anne of Green Gables in film is not really very great. My copy has an appallingly screwy beginning which doesn't help, but even so it's hardly memorable. But the book is quite sweet.
If you like Everything is Illuminated, then you'd probably like If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor. It's not really the same style of writing but something about it makes me connect the two (and Amazon agrees with me, they suggest the one if you like the other).
I recently bought A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. It's not an easy read but it's thought-provoking.
Ooh, and also We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Sadly most of these books now live at my dad's rather than here, so I need to remember to pick them up when I go back.
Emily:
Anne of Green Gables is rather light reading in itself, but if you finish the entire series (8 books,) it gets more and more satisfying. The storytelling gets better, as does the drama. Anne grows up, gets married, has the marriage problems everyone has, has kids, has the kid problems everyone has, and then World War One happens and her daughter goes through some seriously heavy shit and grows up despite herself. The three Emily of New Moon books are, IMO, on par with the entire Anne series because they cover the same kind of emotional complexity in a shorter time period, and with better writing.
Kevin Sullivan should be dragged out and shot for making The Continuing Story. The only reason he waited so damn long to make it with noticibly aged actors was so the copyright could expire and he could mess with LMM's characters for any purpose he wanted. Like collapsing 20 years or so into some kind of black hole and having Anne as a young woman going through World War One even though it ought to be her teenaged youngest daughter going through all that.
waterloosunset:
an interesting non-fiction book is Ishmael Beah's ,,A Long Way Gone'', about a child soldier in Sierra Leone.
Uber Ritter:
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. Holy fuck this is an awesome book, but then again it's about what I'd expect from Dostoevsky. More conventional and less fevered in narrative voice than Crime and Punishment, let alone Notes from Underground, which I recall feeling like what I always imagined a bad trip would be like. Get the Pevear and what's her-name translation. And if you can't take on the Brothers K read Notes instead, since it is also awesome and quite short by Russian Novel (or any novel) standards.
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