lostdiadem

6 minutes ago, Stormbringer said:

Good. Not so good to have it below Harry Potter but nothing is perfect  

Sorry, man. Nothing beats HP for me

Well, yeah paranormal movies scares me af but when it comes to horror movies I'm just disgusted so I'd rather not watch them

17 minutes ago, lostdiadem said:

Sorry, man. Nothing beats HP for me

 

Well, yeah paranormal movies scares me af but when it comes to horror movies I'm just disgusted so I'd rather not watch them

Scream is not paranormal tho

But it's horror and so it disgusts me

Not to mention that face..

I honestly think Jaws is one of the scariest movies ever. The opening scene & the part where the shark swims into the lagoon and bites off the guys leg & eats him.

14 hours ago, lostdiadem said:

Harry Potter saga above everything else.

Then, Jane Austen's bibliography, The Fault in Our Stars, The Selection saga, The Hunger Games, The Da Vinci Code, Me Before You, The Book Thief and The Lord of the Rings.

There are more but I can't recall them now

There are 10! Harry potters.  I remember the movie Da Vinci Code :D.  Mr. Wrinkly was there!

What elements constitutes good literature in your view?  

I can't comment on literature, but the greatest historian alive to me is David M. Glantz and his masterpiece, "The Stalingrad Trilogy".  It's 4 giant volumes (literally 2,300 dense pages long and a map book tome) It's staggering that one man accomplished this.  At the age of 74 , this may go down as his "Magnum opus", but he has a new book coming out.   It took me a long time to read it.  I feel that it should be up there for a Pulitzer Prize but that award is social and political, and this work falls outside of it.

I've been interested in reading "The Witcher"  Many of the volumes have been translated from Polish to English.  This is my introduction to the genre of fantasy reading.

Where are my nachos? 

Never heard of him!

8 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

What elements constitutes good literature in your view? 

Originality on the plot or I'll get bored immediately after the first pages, a grammar that doesn't look too much teenager-like - which means not too simple or colloquiative - but be very well detailed and especially it must take me from the beginning and must have an interesting cliffhanger at a certain point, so that I can keep reading it with pleasure. It must come from a genious mind but this is mostly applied to the dystopian-fantasy genre. And.. I think that's it

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I'm on my way!

2 hours ago, lostdiadem said:

Never heard of him!

Originality on the plot or I'll get bored immediately after the first pages, a grammar that doesn't look too much teenager-like - which means not too simple or colloquiative - but be very well detailed and especially it must take me from the beginning and must have an interesting cliffhanger at a certain point, so that I can keep reading it with pleasure. It must come from a genious mind but this is mostly applied to the dystopian-fantasy genre. And.. I think that's it

 

Very nice insight, thank you... so the literature writer crafts a world with words..

In a way Glantz's research is like that of chronicling  "lord of rings" type clashes, except bigger and in exhaustive, day to day detail..!

I sometimes Iike looking at biographies, but I rarely read them in full.  It is interesting to see how the biographer (artist) analyze and re-creates the lives of others.

13 hours ago, Stromboli1 said:

I honestly think Jaws is one of the scariest movies ever. The opening scene & the part where the shark swims into the lagoon and bites off the guys leg & eats him.

 

 

The scariest concept from my childhood was Alien.  This simulates the disgusting nature of insects writ large.

7 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

I sometimes Iike looking at biographies, but I rarely read them in full.

I hate biographies because I had to study soooooo many of them at university that I can't stand them anymore.

39 minutes ago, lostdiadem said:

I hate biographies because I had to study soooooo many of them at university that I can't stand them anymore.

Mostly of other writers?  The art of researching and writing a biography is an odd one.  The scholar has to 'occupy the soul' of their subject.  It's almost disturbing, lol.

I find autobiographies more interesting than biographies.  But they are often written with the idea as to 'how they' want to be remembered.  But many autobiographies have a lot of honesty.

I'm more into fiction, honestly.

3 minutes ago, lostdiadem said:

I'm more into fiction, honestly.

understood

If you haven't, have you considered writing a fiction book?  

Nope.  I have a very fine imagination but I'm not good with words. Tho, my dream job is to translate novels from English into Italian, so it's kinda similar.

^ Translate my life plz!

2 hours ago, lostdiadem said:

Nope.  I have a very fine imagination but I'm not good with words. Tho, my dream job is to translate novels from English into Italian, so it's kinda similar.

good imagination?  In romance and the fantasy genre ?:D

You would like to work for a translations company?

I think you can do it, provided that you show evidence of your skill.

I AM HAVING AN EARGASM. 

OR A GAGASM. 

OMFG.