Sorry aerostarmonk, I’ve never heard of it.
I want to read ‘The Men Who Would Be Kings’ just to get the side from the other ‘camp’. I remember a Sydney newspaper ran an excerpt from the book and I kept the article for later perusal.
To Infinity and Beyond sounds interesting. Let me add my vouch that ‘The Pixar Touch’ is a must-read for all fans. I also want to read Pixarpedia, though I’m predicting most of the ‘trivia’ within will be known by most folks here. 
I’m having a blast burning through the ‘Guardians of Ga’Hoole’ series. I’m at ‘The Burning’ now. ‘The Siege’ is the best so far, ‘The Shattering’ the worst. Detailed reviews when I can find the time. 
I own Pixarpedia. And you’re right, a lot of the trivia is stuff known here. But it’s really good. It’s not as full of information like Pixar Touch, but it has lovely pictures and summaries of characters and movies. It also has interviews from all different sorts of people who work at Pixar. It’s more of a coffee table cook than an informational book.
I finally got a copy of Jurassic Park. I’ve been looking for one for over a year, and it’s not available on the Kindle.
^ I’ve own Jurassic Park. It’s really interesting, but it’s one of the strange cases where I prefer the movie adaptation.
^ I agree! I had to read it this summer for Biology, then watch the movie. The beginning bored me to death, but it got better. I loved the movie, way more than the book.
I’m going to have to read The Men Who Would Be Kings. This and the Illusion of Life are my next reads after The Art of Tangled 
Just looked, and the Dreamworks one is in my library system. Shipping it to my library now :smiley:I remember reading a second-hand copy of Jurassic Park when I was in a Singaporean army camp (Fun Fact: TDIT was in a military-based co-curricular activity in his high school). Yup, the ending was pretty slow, but it got really exciting as it went on. But I also preferred the movie since they managed to summarise a lot of things and make the pacing tighter.
I honestly can’t choose between the novel or the adaptation. I can proudly say I’ve read JP at least 6 times. They’re both so entertaining.
Contrast that with The Lost World and its adaptation, trying to decide which is the more mediocre of the two is a fool’s game.
I mean in the novel two kids who have very little reason for even being in the book in the first place stow away to the island with Ian Malcolm. But in the movie it’s just one kid who has very little reason for being in the movie in the first place stowing away to the island with Ian Malcolm. But the balance is restored when that kid uses gymnastics to defeat a raptor.
Not to mention how incredibly dark the adaptation is if you think about it. Essentially a man who somehow escapes charges for negligent homicide and being bankrupted by what could probably be called gross incompetence sends a group of eco-terrorists down to some island to stop the efforts of his even more negligent and incompetent and worse just plain greedy nephew.
But I’m going off on a tangent. I’m currently reading the newest volume of Flight. Just one of the most satisfying anthology comic series available on the market. I think they’re among my favorite books.
Look 'em up if you haven’t heard of them.
I haven’t, so I looked them up, and I like. Do you have a recommendation for one to start off of? I’m asking that if they’re not already in sequential order.
There are a few stories in each volume that tell a continuing narrative. However they can be read out of sequence. Though I think you should start at the beginning because you get a sense of thematic evolution that you just sorta miss otherwise.
There’s a story in one of the books that I don’t think I can even read again without bursting into tears. It’s called the Forever Box and it’s in Volume Four.
You’ll be trying to follow the careers of every artist involved with each volume. Trust me.
I love the Flight series! I’ve been following Michael Gagne’s The Saga of Rex, Kean Soo’s Jellaby, and Johanne Matte’s ‘Egyptian cat’ series (she’s a Dreamworks concept artist now). I’ve just read the sixth volume and my favourites are ‘The Excitingly Mundane Life of Kenneth Shuri’, ‘Magus the Misfit’, ‘Dead at Noon’, ‘Dead Bunny’, and ‘The Z’s’.
I’ve been reading Pride and Prejudice. My mom and I watched the movie series version of it and we love it!
I have that book, and the movie recorded on my DVR. I like Sense and Sensability more though!
I just finished reading A Dog’s Purpose. It’s a very touching book.
It took me forever to read it cuz I lost it, then I had a book report to do, then I got a new book…
And I got Small Steps, the sequel to Holes from my cousin for Christmas.
Holes is one of my favorite books, and Small Steps seems to be living up to the legacy so far. I’m only a few chapters in.
Currently reading Roseanna (1965) by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Way before there was so much Stieg Larsson hoo-hah, Sjowall and Wahloo pretty much laid the foundation of schwedenkrimi. The Martin Beck series is a superior blend of police procedure and social commentary.
I’m reading A Seperate Country. It takes place in post-Civil War New Orleans, and the lives of a married couple: a Creole woman and a Confederate General with a lot of guilt.
It’s my cup of tea!
I want to read that one when I’m done with Pride and Prejudice. (my mom wants me to hurry up and finish it so she can read it lol) It seemed like I read in the Bible study book that there was a film version of Sense and Sensability too, but I’m not sure.
Yep, there is! I love that movie. Emma thompson, Kate Winslet, and Alan Rickman are in it.
I just finished The Art of Tangled, and it was pretty good! It was the first Art of book I read, and some of the art was brilliant.
Really? Grah, I have to get my hands on that book!