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[Son_of_Yoda]

One of my favorite pass-times has always been writing short stories. Most of the time they're pure SF, 'Amazing Stories'-like.

This thread is for everyone who shares my interest and is willing to put up a self-written, self-invented story.

Greetz

[Mariboulg]

This is really an interesting idea. , only I don’t think I can write stories but it would be interesting also to just talk about our favorite stories or books.

[clodhopper]

There are two here,,Is that good enough for a start? You cant find writers in Switzerland,..The Americans are fighting in Russia while the Russians just observe..Why not do something diffrent here?

[Son_of_Yoda]

I'll try and post one next time I write one.

[imported_soodna]

Like Mariboulg, I don't think that I could write stories, but I do sometimes try writting a little poetry. That sometimes is a little like story telling. Would that also be acceptable. I like Mari's suggestion about just talking about books, stories, etc. as well.

[Mariboulg]

So what book would you like to talk about.

Who read the English Patient, I must say the book was really different from the movie. Actually the movie I think was based on a part of the book, in some ways.

[imported_soodna]

Hello Mari,
I have not read the English Patient and I did not see the movie either. I heard that the movie was very good. So, I imagine that the book was even better. I have found though, if I read a book and a movie is then made, I am usually disappointed in the movie. The movie's rarely seem to follow the book's story line.

Usually I read for entertainment. My favorite subject matter for reading is science fiction followed by historical novels followed by intrigue and mystery.

[Mariboulg]

Hmmm I would probably not know many science fiction authors but historical books, I did not read a lot either.
My most favorite author is Leo Tolstoy, I just agree on every thing he says in his books, I don’t know... Actually my taste in reading changes as I guess I change. I was in Jean-Paul Sartre a year or two ago, 'others are the hell' he says in one of his books.

I also like reading theatrical books a lot. I know you and Justo and some others like Shakespeare, are you familiar with Moliere, my favorite French author.

Here is a part from Le Tartuffe it is in French but I think you will understand.

Elmire:

Est-ce qu'au simple aveu d'un amoureux transport
Il faut que notre honneur se gendarme si fort ?
Et ne peut-on répondre à tout ce qui le touch
Que le feu dans les yeux et l'injure à la bouche ?
Pour moi, de tels propos je me ris simplement,
Et l'éclat là-dessus ne me plaît nullement;
J'aime qu'avec douceur nous nous montrions sages,
Et ne suis point du tout pour ces prudes sauvages
Dont l'honneur est armé de griffes et de dents,
Et veut au moindre mot dévisager les gens:
Me préserve le Ciel d'une telle sagesse !
Je veux une vertu qui ne soit point diablesse,
Et cro;is que d'un refus la discrète frouideur
N'en est pas moins puissante à rebuter un coeur.


About books making into movies yes books are usually better than the movie.

[clodhopper]

i have read many history books,yet remember little..If you read a lot of history..You begin to wonder about the wisdom of man. But mr Shakespeare was one of my favorites.Mainly because of his great wisdom..If the Kings were not total idiots and understood what he was saying ,he would have lost his head in the quest for truth. But another set of books that taught me WHY the USA came to be was THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE By WINSTON CHURCHILL. This was began in England on the thoughts of wise men there in previous years..The power of Kings to lord it over the people.Along with the Catholic and English STATE churches..Yet our dumbies on the supreme court and congress seem to forget why we have the USA.

[imported_soodna]

Mari,
You are very well read. I am ashamed to say that I have not read any of the well known international authors you have listed. Tolstoy, considered to be the greatest Russian novelist, Sartre and philosophy, Moliere author and playwrite I think mostly satire.

"How dare you hinder or annoy
When I've the means to ruin and distroy
You should have thought before my toe you trod
Attacking me, you set yourself 'gainst God!--"

an English translation by Timothy Mooney.

Seems appropriate for the times.

I do think that I would like to read "Tartuffe" in it's entirety, but it would have to be in English as my French is not up to the task. The allegory in reference to what goes on around us us unmistakable.

[clodhopper]

yes,soodna.I remember my first attemp at reading novels..I was in school at a very young age.The teacher handed me one that like to have turned me off on reading.It did sit me back a long ways.It was SEE DICK AND JANE. I will refer to a few paragraphs so you may get the idea.----> This is Dick,,See dick run? Dick runs fast. This is Jane,,See Jane run? Jane is running from Dick. ( IT WAS JUST AWFUL)

[Lovie]

I am still laughing, Shug. I never realized how different children would interpret 'Dick and Jane'. It took a boy's review for me to pick up the subtleties of the message. Seems today the roles have been reversed. I think Jane is chasing Dick these days; I don't think he is running as fast either. No pun intended.

[imported_soodna]

LMAO...LL, I think yer right.

[Rikbe]

Moliere, Stendal, Rousseau etc. it is such long time I even forgot I red them.
It was in my teenager years. I red about everything I could find. From Jules Verne to Gone with the wind, the “Grapes of Wrath” and “Peyton Place” (I think I was 12 year). From “Le malade imaginaire” to the “Brothers Karamazov” (or was it Kamarazov?).
Others from that period Agatha Christie, The Saint, Woodhouse, just the few I remember.

At 17 I became more interested in girls than books, so my intellectual hunger disappeared somewhat.

Later I became more serious, I got hooked up by fiction and fantasy.

With Internet I don’t read much anymore, the last were “Dune” and “Amber”.
Now I am beginning “Dreamcatcher” from Stephen King. I started already 4 times but I can't get my cruise speed.
Once I have it and if the book is good, I don't stop anymore.

[Mariboulg]

Well about me, when I was 11, 12, I remember my mother would do everything she could so I would pick up a book to read, but I was not into it at all. I started to read I would say seriously from the age of 19. My first book that I read seriously from the beginning to the end was when I was 16 and it was Captain’s Daughter by Pushkin But now I love reading, it is difficult to start a book when it is a while that I did not read any but then after the 20th page I get into it .

I did try to read Proust but boy very difficult, did not finish the book, and also I tried to read Rabelais but it is written in old French and it is very unusual and so did not finish the book, but I will try to finish it when I can.

Steven King, I know I will never read, too scary for me.

But the classics of Moliere, Rousseau (Les Confession) Tolstoy, Pushkin also Ovide and there are more, can be read, and reread …

"At 17 I became more interested in girls than books, so my intellectual hunger disappeared somewhat. '"

I find it very nice when a guy likes to read...