Jigme's comments (member since Jan 03, 2009)

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Currently reading _The Botany of Desire_ by Michael Pollan. Just getting into it, so can't say a whole lot about it. It's about how plants have manipulated us to do their bidding.

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Contemplating Reality by Andy Karr. I think that's the right author... Also have In The Realm of the Hungry Ghost by Gabor Mate on the queue, but haven't started it yet.

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I tried to read Metamagical Themas one plane trip, and another I was reading Godel, Escher, and Bach, both by Douglas Hofstadter. They would either take you through a 15 hour trip I think.

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I've been reading _Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times_ I'm sort of working through the poems from beginning to end. But there are some really good poems that I've read multiple times now...

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Worst book I read that I remember was "The Celestine Prophesy" which I'll say started out crap, then by the end it seemed to come together better. I just think it needed a better editor. Well an editor period...

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I have started reading (just in the last week) Inside Lightwave 3D v9, and Quick Start Guide to Flash CS3. Or something like that. So far I can't say they are particularly gripping, but that's OK, what do you expect from school books?

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I personally thought that the Lord of The Rings trilogy was done really well, I would say that it did way better than most movies in terms of making the movie in line with the books. I know that some people would definitely would disagree with me, but I think that it's something that I am pretty "correct" in thinking it did a better job than most...

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I really mostly read in a fairly "narrow" range. Some stuff just doesn't interest me. Though if I see something that someone really liked, that I trust there judgment on whether the book is really good or not I will often pick that book up even if it's outside (usually only slightly)of what I normally read.

For instance I started reading Neal Stephenson because someone said they really liked his stuff. I demolished his copy of <cite>Snow Crash</cite>. He didn't seem too upset about that.

Another author, and another genre I have read that was because someone else was reading was Rita Mae Brown who writes really easy to read mysteries. Can't think of what of her's I have read, but I started reading her, and I think that's what got me to start looking in the mystery section.

So there are a couple of examples I've come up with.

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Notameangirl wrote: "It probably wasn't. Movies tend to rewrite the books... which is what I HATE.
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You're probably right there. I know they have in cases I've checked things about. Almost (if not all) every time I've checked my memory was correct. I much prefer books for the most part. But it doesn't take as long to watch a movie.

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Notameangirl wrote: "Topsurf wrote: "Notameangirl I have NEVER seen a movie that does a book justice....NEVER. To me a book is like a movie theatre for your mind."

OMG EXACTLY! I swear to you, when I read a book I d..."

I know that if I've read a book relatively recently, I have images in my mind a clear picture of what is going on. There is a lot of visualization. The thing is, I don't really notice it until I see someone else's wrong images. If it's well enough written you should really pretty much have more or less the same picture in your mind. That drove me crazy about some of the stuff in the movie. I can't really believe that my picture was *that* far off of what was written.

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Topsurf wrote: "Thanks Jigme for your feedback. She has always been an advanced reader, so I know she could handle the writing. I'm pretty sure she will read them all this summer. I will probably shadow her and..."

That makes a lot of sense to me. It's not really that challenging in some respects, but the movie really over sexes thing. Wasn't impressed with Twilight the movie...

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Topsurf wrote: "My daughter just turned 12 ands so badly to read the twilight books. I am not letting her yet. I feel she is not quiet ready for them. Am I misinformed?"

I wouldn't say that you are misinformed in any way. I guess maybe because I don't have enough information about why you don't think that she would not be quite ready for them. The writing I'm pretty sure she could read. And I'm not really sure about the third/fourth books, but the first two I can't say there is anything in there that I wouldn't let my 12 year old read. Mind you, I don't have any children.

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I read a wide variety of things, everything from computer manuals to children's books. I find I rarely get enough time to read what's on my "too read" pile beside my bed, and that more and more books get piled there. For example I started re-reading "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" but other books caught my interest, and I'm not sure I'll be reading it any more before I decide that I need a really "good" reading break. Though I'm not sure about that. Somehow I just couldn't get into it, and sometimes I read my own stream of conciousness writing, but that's not that common, I just inflict it on other people.

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I have been reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson since Christmass Day roughly, and I'm really enjoying it. I did put a review in. So you can read that here...

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