PB talk, Da Vinci Code and books

[starsthatshine]

Prison Break was good. Other than the regular heartattacks that you always get on this show I thought it was a good episode. Not that it can't be bad. I hated though that you can always expect that nothing goes as you expect (except Sara who is pretty predictable... or should I say was?). I feel terrible for Pope, I love him so bad and I hate to see him so... disappointed. I totally called the death of what's his name... I forget it all the time. Surprising though that Mr Scofield is working for Abruzzi. Very strange.
Just to clarify - Sara did die right? She's not going to pull a miracle and come back to life? She looked pretty far gone and pretty dead. And the fact that there were no ressurection attempts makes me pretty confident that it is the case. I can imagine the weight of Michael's guilt when he gets free and finds out about Sara's death. Although, it was her choice, so well... although, I'd feel responsiable still. Not that much focus on Lincoln in this episode which I find strange since the whole escape is about him and not T-Bag and Abruzzi. The very reason for the escape is Lincoln and yet he got probably less lines than Charles and he died like ten minutes in the episode.

So, probably not the best idea to have the PB talk in the first of the entry but I hope that's alright. I can't answer any comments and it's by chance that I can reply since I'm in IE on my mothers computer and that pretty much says it all. Also, I can't edit my entries :(

I'm at the end of the Da Vinci code and to be frank - the plot itself is sorta silly and it feels as if Dan Brown declares his readers to be stupid since he's always explaining things and repeating them a useless number of times. Grr. Although Sophie/Silas and Sophie/Robert are OTP. Deal. :)

If you feel like it, could you give me book suggestions for my next book to read? Preferably a somewhat classic and pretty easy to optain. And a little bit of a challenge like Pride and Prejudice style...

Comments

[denrito.livejournal.com]

I'd tell you to read Paradise Lost but it's NOTHING like Pride and Prejudice, lol.

Just promise me you'll never read anything by Burney, Richardson and Haywood. And they're from around Jane Austen's time :P

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

What's Paradise Lost about?

Are Haywood and those bad? I'm just wondering, but I promise. I won't read 'em :)

[denrito.livejournal.com]

Paradise Lost is about the creation of mankind (Adam and Eve), temptation, the war between Heaven and Hell and the wonderful personnification of Satan. Go figure! It's an epic and it's absolutely fantastic! Though hard to read ;)

Yeah, they're loooong and bad. Basically, they're conduct books for women. And as someone living in the 21st century, it mostly pisses you off.

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

Sounds very cool ^^ Maybe not my style, but I'll check it out.

*le sigh* Men can't write romance :P lolers. Or at least, books with women in them. Why do you think they avoid having them in plots? :P

[sassy-mouth.livejournal.com]

i'm not sure if Sarah is dead although she looked really dead

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she really did, didn't she? I think she looked too pale to have survived.

[sassy-mouth.livejournal.com]

and the foaming at the mouth isn't a good sign either

[lauren-sark.livejournal.com]

Kanske jag ska ta och läsa någon lång bok också? LOL Ska läsa de Fearless böckerna men jag kan sätta upp bok mål och du och jag kan börja ha läsklubb :P

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

Låter bra :)

[bashipforever.livejournal.com]

Jane Eyre. It's a little darker than Pride and Prejudice but still a good classical love story.

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

I just borrowed it at the library (my mother let me download Firefox now, so I can finally read comments). Jane Eyre seems utterly amazing so far :) I'm at the beginning of the second chapter.

[jenniepennie.livejournal.com]

Sarah definetely looked dead even though I kinda hope she is not. Overall it was a good episode and cannot wait till September for the next season. :o)

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

I actually hope so. I think it would be realistic and it might have something to do with the fact I've never been a huge Sara fan. Although, I wouldn't like, die if she came back. I just wouldn't like it. I can't wait either :D It seems to be awesome.

[morbidmuse.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading The Da Vinci Codes last night. In my personal opinion, Dan Brown is not that amazing a writer. His ideas and twists are what make the book. But the actual style of writing is nothing to rave about. The characters are pretty basic but get the job done. It is really all about the twists. *cough Sophie/Robert is better than Sophie/Silas cough cough* *wide grin*

Have you ever read anything by Edith Wharton? Now that women could write. She has the lovely way of writing each scene so descriptive, so beautiful, you sometimes just have to stop and admire the way she phrased it. I would highly recommend Age of Innocence. The novel is really wonderful. You become really involved in the characters and their relationships. And it is Edith Wharton so the very wording of it can be breathtaking.

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

I actually think that most of the plots were quite... predicatable but I have read about the stuff that they are talking about when I was younger. The style seems like something you find in X-Files fan fics *hides* And those authors actually make it better ;) And I'm sort of annoyed that all the main characters are experts of some sort. *coughunrealisticcough* LMAO. Maybe. I'm not sure yet since I have the last 80 pages left.

I haven't. I totally will though, this summer :)

[lostopenwindows.livejournal.com]

I'm seconding the recommendation for Jane Eyre. It's been a very long time since I read it (8 years now?) but I remember it being very good and worthy of being a classic.

Of course, there's Sense and Sensibility or Emma if you want more Jane Austen.

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

I borrowed it at the library today (in english of course, there's no other way to read it) and I'm totally loving it even though I'm just at the beginnig of chapter two. John is evil but sort of interesting.

I think about checking those out too, but do you know if they are any good?

[lostopenwindows.livejournal.com]

Glad to know you're reading Jane Eyre. Makes me feel a little guilty for buying the book in English two years ago and still have not reread it. =P

I've read them both and although Jane Austen has a certain style, the feeling of those two books are quite different. Sense and Sensibility is more serious and sad, Emma is a little more comedic. The Sense and Sensibility movie with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet is great (exactly as a movie adaption of a Jane Austen book should be) even though they seem a little older than their characters.

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

Reread, reread *cheers you on*

Sounds good. The writing style is similar to P&P right? And there's still romance? And the movie must be awesome. A movie with those two can't be bad. They are both awesome.

I should buy the P&P miniseries. :) They only cost 99 kr.

[lostopenwindows.livejournal.com]

The writing style is pretty much the same and the setting is almost the same as well (different parts of England, that's all). I actually like how Jane Austen's novel all take place in the same era, it makes you think that it's perfectly plausible that Mr Darcy could easily be friends with Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility.

Oh, please get the miniseries! I got it about two years ago, I bought a kebab on my way home (junk food = <3), put in the first disc and didn't leave the couch until I had seen the whole thing. Well, aside from getting up to change discs. I love the way the dialogue is said, sometimes I can put on the DVD and having it on in the background while doing something else.

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

Totally :D Makes it friendly for crossover fics if you wanna do that :)

*hates you* here you can like... not buy Kebab :D But since the movie I was gonna get for my school success haven't come and I doubt it will, I'll ask for P&P. I'll will totally have a guilty pleasure day that day and like... buy pizza or something while I watch (or a burger).

Gosh, I wish I had an own apartment. Seriously. I can't wait to be on my own.

[lostopenwindows.livejournal.com]

There's a place in Sweden where you CAN'T buy kebabs? O_o *truly shocked* At least there's pizzas though, and kebab pizzas I hope. =P

There's a bunch of stuff that comes with living on your own, doing all the housework by yourself, fuses going haywire, only having ketchup and mayo in the fridge when money runs a bit short and annoying neighbours... but I'm not gonna lie, it feels great. =) No one is going to nag at you for watching movies at 2 a.m. and most importantly you have the bathroom to yourself (reading while taking a bath, yay!). It's a new sense of freedom, I tell you. I live in a dorm room now so I have all the advantages of living on my own but share the load of the housework with 9 other people. =)