Ready Player One

 

Hey guys!
So here’s a review on a book/movie after a long time. I finally got the time to read again, and decided to read a book I got for christmas: Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline.
The book really caught my interest, and when I found out that Netflix just got the movie, I had to watch it. I decided to finish the book first, since books are known to be “better” than the movies. And if I know myself right, I wouldn’t have the motivation to read it after watching the movie.

The Book

  • The beginning was a little bit hard to get through, since they had to set the whole scenario of the society and get the background knowlegde
  • The story quickly got interesting and then it was difficult to actually put down the book
  • All the detailed description made it possible for you to imagine the whole scenario in your head
  • Probably one of the best books I’ve read
  • Loved all the 80’s references – the author has done the most outstanding research for this novel.
  • Without spoiling too much, the ending was so EPIC my heart started to race while reading it!

 

 

The Movie

  • I was all in all quite dissapointed in the movie, because there were MAJOR changes in the storyline compared to the book.
  • The fact that they changed the roles and names in the story, and the people who were supposed to die, didn’t die, really annoyed me.
  • The heroine Art3mis wasn’t as badass in the movie as she was in the book.
  • Aech’s avatar wasn’t portraied as described in the book, and wasn’t a Halliday geek  🙁
  • They didn’t explain some essentials in the movie like, what a gunter was, or that the whole contest was based on the timeline 1980’s.
  • I was impressed by the actor they casted for the main role as Wade – it matched (in my opinion) perfectly to the book-description, and met my expectations. Also played the role VERY well!
  • Same goes for the actor who played Aech in real person – also met my expectation.
  • It really annoyed me that they changed the whole game of finding the keys to the easter egg, because in the movie they made it seem very easy. When in reality (the book) it was lot more complicated and exciting.

All in all

All in all, I would definitely recommend you all to read the book BEFORE you watch the movie. I mean, yeah the movie was great, especially all the art and scenarios, but if you only watch the movie, you will miss out all the great details. I swear, the book makes the whole hunting way more exciting and the storyline is MINDBLOWING! 🙂

 

 

~Neevadha~

 

Call Me By Your Name

Hey guys!

I somehow managed to finish another book! So far I’ve only finished 3 books, which in my opinion is really disappointing, since I wanted to finish at least 5 books by the end of summer. That is of course my own fault, since I’m too lazy and find it easier to just watch Netflix.

Anyway, I already introduced you guys to this book (here). I bought it along with some books for uni. I only heard about the movie AFTER I placed my order, so I told myself that I wanted to read the book before I watched the movie.
Books tend to have more detailed descriptions, character’s thoughts and let the reader visualize the scenaries by themselves. It’s always something else and I love it.

Call me by your name is a book by André Achiman, and the story takes place in Italy in the 70’s. The main character is the 17 year old boy Elio, who is a son of a lector. His family rents room for guests during summer, and this is how he meets the american lector Oliver.

I think it was an interesting book for the most part, but some parts of the book lost me, and it took me days to get through some pages since there wasn’t happening anything interesting in the story line. Other times it was just hard to put the book down. It was a 50/50 thing.
I’m not gonna lie but it was definitely my first erotic book, so it was a little hard (and awkward) for me to get through it. I’m literally wondering how people do it so casually, haha.

It was definitely a challenging and different book, but I loved the story-line and how intellectual the young main character is and how he simply wonder about things normal 17 year olds usually don’t. If you’re not used to these kinds of books and want to challenge yourself or need a warm up or for books like, I don’t know, fifthy shades? Then try this one 😉

~Neevadha~

The Perks of Being a Wall Flower

Hey guys! I’ve previously mentioned that I’ve got a lot of books to read before I buy more. Some are gifted to me and others I have bought myself. I think this book was gifted to me, but at this point I don’t really remember.
There are many cover-versions of this book; the orange, which I have, blue and with the movie-cover. Yes, this book has been made into a movie. I actually watched the movie twice before I got this book. I liked the movie, but I got to love and understand the story far more by reading it!

This book is written as letters from our main character, Charlie. He writes like anyone would do in a diary, and reports about his first year in high school. The more you read, the more you start to understand Charlie’s situation, without giving too much away.
Without spoiling the book, I can tell you that this book has some amazing book/music references, memorable quotes and the ending got me almost in tears.

This book has to be one of my favorites, and as it says it’s a modern classic. I’m glad that I own this book instead of just borrowing it from the library.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone! It is super easy to read, and I finished the book within 2 days – I had a hard time putting the book down 🙂

~Neevadha~

Feed your Mind

Hey guys!
I’ve mentioned somewhere in here, that I want to read more books, and someday make my own little library at home. One thing is to buy tons of books, and another thing is to actually find the time to sit down and read them all. So far I’ve ordered/bought/got some books, that I haven’t read yet. Which is a shame, because that was the actual goal I sat. I’ve decided to read all the books I haven’t started on yet/finished before I buy more books.

Here’s a list of some of the books I have in queue:

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A brief history of humankind, Sapiens: I’m actually in the process of reading this. I read it whenever I feel like I need a break from all the study-related books, and read a few pages. So far, it is very interesting, and super easy to understand. You get to know some more complicated facts about the evolution, some still on-going debates and unanswered questions about events that leads to today’s Homo sapiens. I’ll give a review and my full opinion as soon as I’m done reading it 😉

 

the-sunThe sun and her flowers: I already have Rupi Kauer’s first book “Milk and Honey” (here), which I loved! So I ordered this one as soon as I could afford it. I haven’t looked in it yet. My consciousness keeps me away until I’ve at least finished Sapiens. Until then I’m waiting to excitedly!

 

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Call me by your name: I ordered this book with “The sun and her flowers”, because I wanted something more for the delivery money, hehe. Honestly, when I ordered this book I had no idea, that it just came out as a motion film in the cinemas. I swear! So now I’m trying to stay away from the movie, until I’ve read the book. Of course I’ve watched the trailer (how could I resist?), and it looked very Italian 70’s aesthetic. 

 

lavLavender garden: My brother gave me this book for my birthday. I have a huge list of books I want – so I gave it to him and said he could just give me any of these books, and got me this one. It’s a danish version tho, but I could use some danish reading once in a while so I don’t forget the language 😀 The title sounds so idyllic but I guess it’s some kind of a crime/drama genre.

 

perksThe perks of being a wallflower: Let me say right away, that I’m guilty. I’ve already watched this movie years ago – but I don’t quite remember it, so it’s fair to say that I can read the book and then rewatch the movie, right? Anyways I read the first 4 pages in this book, and it’s a letter-kind of writing style. So basically it’s a bunch of letters to a person, collected into this book that creates the story-line. I’m not sure if I’ve ever read a book written like that, but that should be interesting I guess. 

 

I have few more books to add to the list, but I’ll get to them sooner or later hehe. Let me just finish these first and get back to y’all. 😉 ♥

~Neevadha~

 

My Escape.

img_4501 img_4502 img_4503Hey guys! 

I have previously mentioned in my holiday-sum-up post (here) that I got some books for christmas. Not all of these are from christmas-17, and I haven’t got time to read them all either. In between the exam-revision, I needed a short break from all the stress. Besides from hitting the gym, and buy groceries, I took the time to read one of my books.

I finished “Transfervindue” in one evening, even though I’m a slow reader. There’s only 90 pages, so I thought why not just finish it immediately. It’s a danish book written by Maria Gerhardt. It’s about a cancer patient who moves into this fancy Hospice facility on Zealand where the sick people are treated by nuns and doctors. It’s like an isolated sanitized city just for terminally ill patients. It’s a dark comedy and about everything all the healthy people are doing wrong according to the main character. 

Personally I think it’s a good book, and gives an inside on what it’s like to be a patient of such cruel decease, and almost heartbreaking details within those few pages. It’s worth the read. 

I cannot wait till I get time to read my other books – I’m already few pages into “Niceville” (aka. The Help), and already want to order more books. I used to read so much when I was younger, and hate that I stopped. So I definitely want to read more and reduce watching movies for a while. I’ve made a wish list of books, and have a dream of mine to make my own home-library. That would be so cool! 🙂 ♥

~Neevadha~

P.s – have you noticed the updated header on my blog? I thought it was finally time to change it up a little, it’s been almost a year since I updated it last 😉