It has been a while since I last read something by Elaine Cunningham. It must have been before I encountered BookCrossing. After that, I started reading more than just fantasy and sci-fi 😉 Elaine Cunningham is definitely one of my favorite fantasy authors, together with Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore. Her books in the Forgotten Realms…
I can not seem to find out if the movie Outbreak was or was not based on this book. There are too many similarities to say it’s coincidence, but there are too many differences to truely be the movie of the book. So maybe they just got inspired. I had little expectations before starting this…
Everyone of course knows the movie. Not everyone knows the book. This happens a lot of course. I was in the same situation. I’ve now read the book. It’s nice. It took me quite a while to get into the book. It seems to start very very slow. But once things start happening, the book…
This book has been on my stack of books to be read for way too long. I’m a huge fan of Salvatore‘s books about Drizzt Do’Urden, and The Two Swords has been out for quite a while, has actually been standing on one of my bookshelves for quite some time. I am glad I finally…
This weblog is turning more and more into a booklog it seems 😉 I’ll try to write a bit more about technology and such in the near future, ok? Anyway, for now, let’s take the list of 50 most registered books on BookCrossing and see what I’ve read of those: 1. Angels & Demons by Dan…
A small little booklet in between about dutch words that are only in use in a single company or even one or a few departments of companies. Full of funny stories on the origins of such words, I definitely enjoyed this one. There is little more to say about this I guess. It was a…
The book that was turned into Blade Runner, that sounds interesting. And I’ve read a lot of positive remarks about this book. I was curious to read it. Of course, as with most “legendary” books that are already quite old, it turned out not to be the book I expected. Don’t get me wrong, it’s…
No movie this time but this book was turned into a BBC TV Series. The Latter Days at Colditz is the sequel to The Colditz Story, which I read earlier after finding a BookCrosser willing to part with both that and this sequel. BookCrossers are a rare breed of friendly people, that’s evident 😉 In…
Something completely different from The Bourne Identity and American Psycho for me this time. Siddhartha is seen as a legendary book by many, and I can understand why. I literally finished it in a few days (where one day equals approx. an hour and a half during my travel from and to work). Of course,…