Books & Movies of the Month - Jan 2008

[qhsdoitall]

Many of us are avid readers and movie lovers. What are you currently reading or about to read? Also, What movies did you see recently or are planning to see? Reviews are encouraged

[jbcohen]

I saw Rush Hour 3 last week and I am looking foward to seeing Resident Evil 3 in the coming week. Here are some of my additions to library in the past few weeks:

[IsaacRN]

DAMN!!!!!

Your a reading fanatic

[jbcohen]

Yes, I admit it I am a reading fanatic but only when it comes to certain types of litterature. Give me a few days I will peer into my to be read stack and see what other goodies I have there. Here is another that I intend to add shortly:

[qhsdoitall]

The Waterhorse
National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Rented Fantastic 4: Silver Surfer through Amazon and Tivo last night and will watch tonight.


I have a couple of books I need to post here that I got after Christmas. Been very busy.

[IsaacRN]

How long does it take you to read an average length book JB

[qhsdoitall]

If he's like me, I was reading about 3 a week at one time. That was when I had no life though. Nothing to do except sit in front of the tube with a pipe and a book after work and horses. Now, I'm lucky if I get in 30 pages a day just before sleeping.

[IsaacRN]

I was on a plane from Texas to NY. This person next to me was reading three books. I find I like to finish one before starting the next.

[jbcohen]

Can typically go through 80 pages a day. Although I have only gone through 35 today. I typically read as much as possible on my comute to and from the office I love reading and do it as much as possible. I am rather fantatical about reading, I have a library at home which would make your eyes drop out. Here is another one I am going to add shortly. I had a copy, took it with me to the grocery store and lost it, have to get another copy. :mad:

[mastermute]

I was on a plane from Texas to NY. This person next to me was reading three books. I find I like to finish one before starting the next.

Oh, I usually finish books, but if they are crappy, I can put them on hold while I read a good one... I think I have only totally quit a handfull of really crappy books, and some has taken years to complete :rolleyes: So I can have a few going at any given time.

[jbcohen]

My wife and I can typically go through three movies a week from Blockbuster on-line. I saw Fantastic Four 2, some time ago. Its not what I would call an edge of your seat thriller, there are some more exciting ones out there then this one, but I recommend it.

[jbcohen]

To give you some idea of how fast I can get through a novel, I was working on The Killing Rule today and I have managed to read 110 pages in a 24 hour period. My wife and I are looking foward to seeing, one of her picks called the Brothers Solomon.

[jbcohen]

In keeping with my image as a movie/book maniac my wife and I saw a movie last night, one of her picks called the Brothers Solomon. A bit silly for my tastes its about two brothers whose father has slipped into a coma and set out to give him a grand son before he dies. They contact a woman via craig's list who agrees to have the child of one of them for $12,000. I am looking foward to seeing Resident Evil 3 this weekend, this one is a bit mroe my speed.

I reading Innocent Man by John Grisham and plan to pick up this Room 59: The Powers that Be today.

[jbcohen]

Here is the cover of the movie that I just saw last night and the movie that I am looking foward to seeing:

[Queen of Blades]

I certainly have no plans of seeing The Brothers Solomon, but do you consider it nice to ruin the ending for those who might want to see it, JB? Perhaps an edit of your post is in order, please.

[jbcohen]

My appologies I will make a note of that for the future use. I have edited my own post.

[Queen of Blades]

My appologies I will make a note of that for the future use. I have edited my own post.

Thank you kindly.

[jbcohen]

Another new addition to the library as of yesturday:

[jbcohen]

I need to admit to something here. In my inital post on this thread I showed five books that I was working on. In truth two of the five had been completed prior to that post, two I was working on at the time and one was yet to come up. So my post was misleading. I have a not so long comute to and from work which has me sitting all of the time so I have a tendency to like to sit and read while I am commuting, so as a consequence I have a lot of time to read. My son is three and goes to sleep long before my wife and I go to bed and I typically use that time to read as well. So I have quite a bit of time to go through books. Still I can get through a lot of novels.

Is anyone interested in any of the series that I tend to read? I am offering a intro to any of them. This intro will spoil none of the books but will show the environment that the characters are dealing with and will help you get started on any of them.

Some of the series are Mack Bolan which is a high action/thriller series. The Killing Rule on my inital post is one of the Mack Bolan series. Dragonlance is another of the series and is a bit complicated to get started in. One should have an intro before getting in on the series. The book that I pictured above is not a good starting place by any means for a new reader, it won't make any sense unless you read the books before them.

[qhsdoitall]

Not a problem JB. You contribute to this thread in a positive way by posting your reading projects whether past, present or future.

[mastermute]

Saw Aliens vs Predator 2 (Requiem) (http://www.avpr.com/) yesterday.

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The Bourne Ultimatum and
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[jbcohen]

Thinking of picking up this one this next week.

[seamus402]

The Coen Brothers do it again. Go see this movie.

[jbcohen]

Now that was a great movie. Resident Evil 3 was excellent. The next pick is goes to my wife who picked Volver, my next pick is Fracture. Any comments on either movie? Attached are covers for both:

[IsaacRN]

No Country for Old Men is superb.

I plan on seeing I Am Legend tomorrow

[Queen of Blades]

I Am Legend sucked!

The best character was the dog.

[IsaacRN]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The book was killer

[jbcohen]

What catagory of movie does I am Legend fall under, Action, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Horror?

[IsaacRN]

I would think Drama/Romance

[Queen of Blades]

No romance at all.

Drama/ action, I guess.

[IsaacRN]

What do you mean there is no Romance..

there was a love triangle between the 3 brothers and the girl. And between Tristain and his wife

[Queen of Blades]

What do you mean there is no Romance..

there was a love triangle between the 3 brothers and the girl. And between Tristain and his wife

Who?? In I Am Legend?

Well, I never read the book, but the movie has no romance. Unless you count Will Smith's character's love for the dog. :rolleyes:

[IsaacRN]

OMG......

I saw I am Legend fall under.....and all i really saw was

LEGENDS OF THE FALL :rofl

[IsaacRN]

I Am Legend would have to be

SciFi/Action/Horror

[Queen of Blades]

OMG......

I saw I am Legend fall under.....and all i really saw was

LEGENDS OF THE FALL :rofl

OMG!!!! :rofl :rofl

[IsaacRN]

Dont I feel like a fool :P

[jbcohen]

Gee, I had no idea I would set off a debate with that question.

[qhsdoitall]

I had rented and downloaded from Amazon.com, "Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer" to my Tivo Box. No the best movie in the world but entertaining. Once you start to view the movie, you have 24 hours to complete it. You can store it on your Tivo for 30 days before viewing. You can also buy movies and download them to Tivo and move them to your PC.

I also caught parts of a movie called Godzilla, Tokyo S.O.S. OK, this was weird. This is a Japanese movie. It was on the Spanish channel. I don't have a clue what they were saying. My daughter did though. I didn't care. It was Godzilla. :D

[mastermute]

I didn't care. It was Godzilla. :D

You can never go wrong with watching Godzilla! I've watched un- subbed/dubbed Godzilla movies and they are still great!

[qhsdoitall]

Phillip Krumholtz "The Complete Gillette Collector's Handbook"

[mastermute]

Phillip Krumholtz "The Complete Gillette Collector's Handbook"

Been look at that one for a while, please let us know if it's any good.

[qhsdoitall]

You can never go wrong with watching Godzilla! I've watched un- subbed/dubbed Godzilla movies and they are still great!

This is what I have. I happened to be in Fry's Electronics for LightScribe blank DVDs and saw the Tokyo S.O.S DVD.

Godzilla vs. Gigan
Godzilla (Matthew Broderick Version)
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Godzilla 2000
Godzilla Final Wars
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla/Godzilla vs. Destroyah
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Rodan (OK, not a Godzilla, I just threw it in there for fun)
Gojira/Gozilla Deluxe Collector's Edition
King Kong vs. Godzilla

I'm missing some of the older DVDs. There was a span of years where they got too corny and Godzilla became a Earth Saving Kid's Hero. Kind of ruined it a bit. Don't get me started on King Kong. The big monkey should have been taken out in the first round. :D

[IsaacRN]

SOoooooooooooooo

I just watched There Will Be Blood starring Daniel Day Lewis. It was a good movie...a bit long at almost 3 hrs and had a strange ending...but it was worth seeing.

[jbcohen]

Started this one late last night:

[jbcohen]

My wife saw volver last night, did not work, this sort of thing happens on occasion. Here is the next two that I have to look froward to:

[jbcohen]

The movie/book maniac keeps rolling along at top speed. Hopefully this one will slow me down a bit:

[jbcohen]

I know this is not relevant to the discussion at hand but did you know qhsdoitall that you can purcahse an additional drive from Western Digital for your Tivo which will expand the storage capacity? There is an article about it in this months issue of PC Magazine.

[qhsdoitall]

I know this is not relevant to the discussion at hand but did you know qhsdoitall that you can purcahse an additional drive from Western Digital for your Tivo which will expand the storage capacity? There is an article about it in this months issue of PC Magazine.

I did. Thank You. I'm working on some solutions I want to implement. Right now, I move Tivo recordings that my daughter makes to a PC hard Drive and then onto DVDs for her. Eventually, I will build a media server with large capacity hard drives. We're talking Terabytes. I don't like leaving a lot of recordings on the Tivo Box and Tivo now lets me play videos off a PC but the connection is slow. Now I just have to work with the HD Motorola Cable box with DRV. I need to get those recordings off the box or expand it. Tivo is so much slicker handling recordings though.

[jbcohen]

Pretty big project you have there. I have seen adds for a a one terabyte drive at Circuit City for $219. The book worm keeps on moving right along with this addition to his library, the series is about a post apocalypse America:

[jbcohen]

Here is my movie tonight, hope this one can keep me on the edge of my seat:

[mastermute]

I bought this at the train station today, I just have to know how it unfolds!

[jbcohen]

The movie/book maniac keeps moving along with the below book addition to library. I am also looking forward to seeing Disturbia. Holloween was a bit to gorry for me, I think that I am going to lay off the slasher movies for some time now. Pictures to follow:

[TraderJoe]

Clive Cussler - Raise the Titanic!

[jbcohen]

That's a great one. Read it so long ago that my memory is sort of spotty on this one but I do recall that this one will keep you awake at nights. I would also recommend the Executioner series, its quite similar to Cussler's books.

My wife's movie for this week end is Ashley Judd and Diane Ladd in Come Early Morning.

[jbcohen]

I saw Disturbia last night, that was excellent. I am looking foward to Flyboys coming up later this week or perhaps next week.

[moviemaniac]

I'm currently in the process of watching all seasons of CSI LV. Take those DVDs away from me, I've got to learn for the tests next week...

[mastermute]

In the old times you shaved when you wanted to hear Beethoven. Nowadays you hear Beethoven while shaving...

Nice new sig, but shouldn't it be:

Nowadays you hear like Beethoven while shaving... :rofl

[moviemaniac]

well, that would depend on your preference of music. My ears are fine because I stay away from clubs and discos :D

[jbcohen]

The wife's next pick:

[jbcohen]

Another new addition to the library. This one is about a post apoloypse America where a new messiah for the Druid religion is looking for an ancient relic which will bring back the ancient druid warriors from the dead. Still going through Palace for the Plague Lord by CL Werner, which is proving to be an excellent read:

[qhsdoitall]

I'm going through my Godzilla movies.

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Godzilla vs. Destroyah

Godzilla vs. Gigan will be next

[TOB9595]

Just saw SHOOT EM UP..Entertaining for the shootemups but nothing more.
I do recommend WAR

Tom

[jbcohen]

Subsitution, below will be my next movie pick from Blockbuster on-line. I read several action packed series anyone interested in any of them, Dragon Lance, Executioner, Stony Man, Super Bolan, Room 59, Warhammer?

[moviemaniac]

Got the second season of "Regenesis" in on DVD today ::

[TOB9595]

I'll be seeing SAW IV tonight. The first one was quite good. This is not my usual enjoyment area but we'll see then off to GOOD LUCK CHUCK...Slim pickins at the movies lately.
I am in awe of the volume of movies to be released each year

[TOB9595]

JB, thanks for the offer of the books. I'll pass just now. I did like the Matt m(??) Bolan series tho I haven't read one of them in years. Are new ones still being published?

[TOB9595]

OOPS!! Yes I see it's Mack Bolan
:)
The mind is a terrible thing to lose
:)

[jbcohen]

I saw good luck chuck and I would not say that it is slim pickins. Its a real good movie. Without spoiling the film all I can say is that things do not turn out the way you think they are going to.

I am returning to read an author that I have read in the past but gave up, I gave up Michael Connelly when he stoped writting Boch novels and started to move around to different characters. I am glad to see Bosch is back in full force. I am going to have to go back and read all of the Bosch novels that I missed. Anyhow my new addition is the lastest of the Bosch books called the Overlook:

[qhsdoitall]

Just picked these up.

#24 Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
#25 Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
#26 Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla