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Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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So.. finally saw Alien Romulus..

And jesucrist.. this movie almost killed me in terms of facepalms per minute by how goddarn idiotic they made the main characters to keep the plot moving.

To resume. I will most likely die in the future by watching horror movies.. not because they are scary.. but by brain bleeding out of having to accept such idiotic reactions/decisions all to advance the plot.

and thats it for today :p
 
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Songbird76

Songbird76

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StarWarsGirl said:
Have you never read Anne of Green Gables? I feel like I've read that one so many times.
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Nope. I watched the series when I was younger, but I was never a reader until college. Reading is difficult for me. It takes a long time and I often have to read passages 4 or 5 times before they make sense. Back in school, when we were forced to read books that we couldn't relate to or had older English that was hard to understand, that made it particularly torture-like. It took me my ENTIRE Christmas vacation to get through Moby Dic.k my junior year and I still could not tell you a THING about it. I read the whole thing. I spent that entire vacation in my room, from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. My mom was SOOOO mad. But I HAD to get through it. And I did, but I didn't absorb it at ALL, so I have no idea what I read. It was literally just words on a page to me and they made no sense whatsoever. So I just didn't develop that sense of excitement about books. I was certainly not going to read for enjoyment, because I hadn't found a book that I ENJOYED, so I equated reading with boredom. It wasn't until I didn't HAVE to read that I found books that aren't necessarily considered "important" books that I developed an appreciation for reading. Then it was fun. And as I got through the non-important books, I became more curious about other genres, and I picked up Harry Potter when I was living over here. And I've been a reader ever since. And I've read a lot of different genres, too. So I'm making up for lost time, I guess!
 
Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
No, but I was coerced into driving to Prince Edward Island to the green gabled house she allegedly lived in. They didn't tell me until we got there that Anne was a fictional character and the house was a reasonable facsimile of the house that the author Ms. Montgomery was raised in. (maybe even the actual house. I don't know because by the time they got to that part, I had slipped into a coma)

The funniest thing was you couldn't go in it. They charged you to see it up close and look through the window. It was there that the tour guide said... with a straight face.... "if you look to the left you will see Anne's room, if Anne had actually existed". It was surrounded by a golf course where I managed to slice a ball onto the roof of Anne's (Montgomery's) house. It wasn't a total waste though it was a fun ferry trip to the island and we had some really great haddock for dinner. My wife and daughters seemed to have a good time. It was a very long drive even from Vermont.
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I wouldn't have expected you to have read it. I guess in a way, it's kind of like Laura Ingalls Wilder....story of a little girl growing up in a different period of history. But Laura Ingalls Wilder was actually a real person and you can see some of the places she lived. But I wouldn't have expected you to have read that, either. That's one my mom read to us when we were kids....I remember when my mom and dad separated and we went to live with a friend of hers. She was a teacher and had a 2 bedroom house in town. My mom, brother, and I all shared the extra bedroom, and my mom read to us from the little house books before bed. I was 5. I read them again a few years ago and was really surprised by how the first couple are much more geared to little kids. I didn't remember that. But anyway, then when we got a bit older, I think I was around 13 when we went on vacation and visited some friends in North Dakota, and I know we went to see some Laura Ingalls Wilder place on that vacation, but I don't remember which one. It could have been in South Dakota, maybe? But they had an outdoor pageant in the evening based on events from the book. And there were a couple of buildings that were like...reconstructions, I guess? or Replicas? of places associated with her. I think her actual house didn't exist anymore, so they built a reconstruction of it. I take it you wouldn't have really been interested in that one, either? I guess it doesn't really sound like your thing.

ETA: Looks like it was De Smet, South Dakota.
 
Figgy1

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StarWarsGirl

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Songbird76 said:
Nope. I watched the series when I was younger, but I was never a reader until college. Reading is difficult for me. It takes a long time and I often have to read passages 4 or 5 times before they make sense. Back in school, when we were forced to read books that we couldn't relate to or had older English that was hard to understand, that made it particularly torture-like. It took me my ENTIRE Christmas vacation to get through Moby Dic.k my junior year and I still could not tell you a THING about it. I read the whole thing. I spent that entire vacation in my room, from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. My mom was SOOOO mad. But I HAD to get through it. And I did, but I didn't absorb it at ALL, so I have no idea what I read. It was literally just words on a page to me and they made no sense whatsoever. So I just didn't develop that sense of excitement about books. I was certainly not going to read for enjoyment, because I hadn't found a book that I ENJOYED, so I equated reading with boredom. It wasn't until I didn't HAVE to read that I found books that aren't necessarily considered "important" books that I developed an appreciation for reading. Then it was fun. And as I got through the non-important books, I became more curious about other genres, and I picked up Harry Potter when I was living over here. And I've been a reader ever since. And I've read a lot of different genres, too. So I'm making up for lost time, I guess!
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Anne of Green Gables was Mom and I read growing up together. We actually bought them at Epcot Canada; they had them in the shop at the time. I was always a reader.

Though Moby Dick... there's entire passages that are about absolutely nothing.
 

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