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Maturin said:
It's like they hade adapted The Lord of the Rings with Denzel Washington as Frodo.
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Well... considering the book is as "monochromatic" as it is, I am somewhat surprised the studio didn't force Peter Jackson to include more non-white characters, the descriptions in the book nonwithstanding.

I would however accept Samuel L. Jackson as Gandalf in a heartbeat. That would be actually kind of cool. Kind of like Nicol Williamson as the ever-trolling Merlin in Excalibur. :D
 
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OK, I'll stop spamming at once, I promise.

After I finished the Eco, I've realised I want to continue in the high-brow path, so I opened the Moby Dick. And I blitzed through the first sixty pages at ease.
Man, classic literature is fun! I wanna be a 19th century sailor! :D
 
John Barnes - The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, Volume 1: 1894-1896

I'm not really a big film fan. Unless the film in question was produced before 1910. I find the early British cinema pioneers fascinating.
 
Stephen King - Salem's Lot

The beginning was dragged on for a bit too long but once the vampires began to appear... amazing. Surely one of the bests.
 
I finally read The Da Vinci Code, after being bored as hell on the bus.

Wow, what a trainwreck of a book. I found myself spending the last 35 chapters screaming "It's fucking APPLE, the fucking password is APPLE!" at the main character.
 
LooseCannon said:
I finally read The Da Vinci Code, after being bored as hell on the bus.

Wow, what a trainwreck of a book.
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It was one of the fastest books I've ever read. I remember I wanted to finish it very soon. In other words: I was constantly curious about what would happen next.

That's a quality.
 
Well, it's a load of b*llshit and I didn't like one bit the style in which it was written and I find Brown quite obnoxious overall, but it also satisfies many people's need of that "Catholic church is evil" stuff. :D

Seriously, mostly forgettable. Nowadays I mostly remember the Albino sharpshooter.
 
Tim Townsend - Mission at Nuremberg. An account of Henry Gerecke, a Lutheran pastor who was appointed chaplain to some of the highest-ranking Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials, including Goering, Keitel, Ribbentrop etc. A fascinating, thought-provoking story, excellently written.
 
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