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Oh goodness girls... I love the Vamps Ann Rice

looking creatures... They really should all move to Transylvania and not bother Judi and me

Of course Barb loves the vamps; she is one.

No.... can't be.... I've seen her after sunset... She is normal....

fredbrenny wrote:

No.... can't be.... I've seen her after sunset... She is normal....

Perhaps she's a vegetarian vamp like the good ones of the Twilight Saga! (I wonder what Barb will think when she reads all this)

ROFLMAO too funny girls...but isn't after sunset the best time for vamps....

Nothing wrong with being a VAMP... hahahaha

lol Barb goes hunting every night...

But back to the topic... I have read a great variety of books during my life.. I learnt to read when I was four-something years old and since then I have read hundreds, maybe over thousand of books.. Needless to say, I love reading... I love to read classics but almost anything goes.. Except horror.. I have seen enough scary things in my life around me that I don't need books(or films for that matter) to get scared The only "horror" book I have enjoyed was Stoker's Dracula, but then, that book can hardly be called a horror book... Dark, yes, but scary? Nope And Dracula has been the only vampire story I enjoyed reading and I have purposefully kept myself away from the Twilight books and films. My school friends think I'm crazy...

I try to read as many books from different genres as possible because I want to be able to have a real conversation about books, even though I didn't really enjoy them. That's why I have read Voltaire, Marx, Orwell... You name it.. But sometimes one can fall into love with writers or books they never thought they would. Shakespeare started as purely educational reading but now I love the guy. Seriously, both the English and the Finnish versions of his plays. Next I'm going to start with his sonets.. As soon as I find time...

*giggle* ... Senja, try reading Dracula with an over-active imagination on a stormy day when the storm outside is so loud you can't hear people climbing the stairs and then jump out of your skin when they knock on the door.

Trust me, in the right conditions it can be scary!

The site said I write like James Joyce, too. Can't believe it. Many years ago I admired his "Ulysses" because of its originality with words, but never finished reading it - my English wasn't up to the task. Probably the analyzing site thought I was very creative where I put my words, too - but unlike Joyce I don't do it on purpose

Back to the topic about great books and authors! Speaking of classics I can recommend "The count of Monte Cristo" from Alexandre Dumas. As a child I had read a shortened version (with 300 pages instead of the 1200 pages of the original version). Years later I stumbled upon the full-length book - and was blown away. No movie adaption, not even the TV series with Gérard Dépardieu (which changed quite a lot of the original story), comes close to the thickness and richness of Dumas' story. If you haven't read it, you do not even know half of it. Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" is another must-read treasure most people think they know although never having read it.

Oh, and did I already mention Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner" ?

When I put in excerpts from my legacies (past and present), the site said that I wrote like James Joyce.

When I put in an excerpt from "The Stones," the site said that I wrote like Isaac Asimov.

Wow.