Favorite Books and Current Reads

[Maxine MagicFox]

...... *looks for history-buff Kino* Umm... I've picked up a new book series which seems to be going ok so far, but, anyways, you know, it's hard enough that fantasy authors want to come up with complex-sounding names for their fantasy characters, but it's even harder when it's based off another languaged, like french in this case (I think)

HOW do you PRONOUNCE: Temeraire?!

Is it Tem-er-A or Tem-er-AIR ... I dunno... fucking french language... I still don't even know how the hell Despereaux is pronounced Des-per-O ... WE ARE MISSING SOME VOWEL AND CONSONANT SOUNDS IN THERE!! AND WHERE THE HELL DID THE X DISAPPEAR TO?!!

[scy]

Desperaux is pretty obviously "des-per-o" in my mind. The x is silent and "-au" is that sound for many words of that origin.

As for Temeraire, if it's the French word it's probably "tay may rehr" or something like that.

[Maxine MagicFox]

I don't think that's quite right 'cause it picks on a mentally challenged dragon that has trouble saying the name and, according to the book, it says "Temrer"

[Kimiko]

Tay-meh-rair, Deh-speh-roh. I don't think any syllable is particularly more emphasised than the others.

[scy]

[Yoonah]

my favorite book as a kid was the tale of Despereaux <3

[Maxine MagicFox]

Penna's new book store drinking game!!
- Take a drink every time you see Game of Thrones on a shelf
- Take two drinks if it's at or near the entrance
- Drink the whole bottle if you see two different cover volumes on a shelf that is NOT the normal Fantasy/Sci-fi shelf it sits on.


.....by the time I was out of barnes and nobles today I had drunk at least two bottles and taken seven different drinks - and I never went near the fantasy/sci-fi section.

..... It's like Twilight... only worse... 'cause it's not Twilight... it's a nine year old book....

[scy]

[Maxine MagicFox]

^_^ Awww, I love you too, Scy.

Actually I didn't mean anything particularly "bad" in that sentence except that 'it's as popular as Twilight but it's not a book on sexy vampires and it's a book that's been out for 9 years - why the sudden fucking hype?! BECAUSE THEY ARE MAKING A MOVIE ON IT?!" .... And really if I may be allowed to continue on with my little tirade, at least when Twilight was being hyped, there was merchandise and more than just one book being hyped out, and Twilight's cover never changed until the movie came out.

It's just really annoying to walk around every corner and see



or



or



(well actually it wasn't really those exact covers I saw 'cept for the last one, but you get my point)

every time I see it I feel like it's a ghost... that's following me... changing shape... reading my every thought.... ..... making me paranoid... when will be the next encounter o_O;

[Sampson]

I was actually going to buy that the other day when I was in a book store. But I'm incredibly shallow when it comes to book covers, and I hated the only one there was in the store. But my school library has it, at least.

I walked out with some sexy Lovecraft stuff, so at least I managed to be somewhat classy.

[scy]

Not a movie but a TV series (which is shaping up decently and I'm quite happy that they went from "We're doing the first season and hoping for the best" to "Well fuck thanks for the moneyhats guys, whole series adaptation!"). There's I want to say there's like 6 regular covers (before the TV series hype) that varied based on year (i.e., after every other book released) and whether or not it was part of a boxset.

I imagine they would've done a similar thing without the movie with the release of A Dance with Dragons since it's been like 300 years since the last book or something.

Though, as far as Game of Thrones covers go, I like the one I have:



[spoiler]Incidentally, I think I own Lord of the Rings with like 5 different covers, three of which are different covers from after the movie released.[/spoiler]

Edit: Actually, I kind of want that one with Sean Bean on it. Maybe one with Emilia Clarke (Danerys) if they got it and it looks like the teaser pic:

[Yoonah]

...i like how they made a new section named Paranormal Romance because of Twilight

[Weeaboolits]

I always prefer the original cover over post-movie cover with the actors/movie logo.

[Curry-Kohai]

[Kinokokao]

You forgot the current non-movie edition cover:



We just got the series in with this design.

Today I was at work and Sofia was talking with Aja, one of our regulars, and I was doing something else, when suddenly I hear Aja say "Havemercy"

this is an approximation of what happened next:

RTETRET^$E RMYDCESTERYHUHFT HG GAY WIZARDS GAY WIZARDS GAY WIZARD SWORDSPOINT GAY WIZARD LUCK IN THE SHADOWS GAY WIZARDSOMG SLASH FANTASY YES SARAH MONETTE WHAT GAY WIZARDS LOLOLOL

For, like.... twenty minutes.

My extremely specialized book knowledge finally came in useful!