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My father introduce me to the world of science fiction and fantasy movies. My mother westerns and drama. In our family movies were just another form of story telling and they did a way much better job than mom or dad could. To me sci-fi and fantasy are just disguises for the same old story about the human condition. No matter the world or circumstance people are people no matter what their beliefs are. Sometimes you needed to turn those beliefs upside down or something differnt from the norm just to show how some things that seem right can in fact be wrong. differnt people, perspectives, ideas and the like always contrasting against each other for a good romp that gets you thinking. The more believeable the characters and their actions the more believeable a story.
A few of my favorite movies are
Lord of the Rings (all 3 movies)
Hamlet (the Kenneth Braughn version)
The Haunting
The last samurai
Pirates of The Carribian
The Fith element
Final Fantasy
Rose Red (tv series)
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I used to be a really bookish kid. I used to browse through the old encylopedia britanica for hours. Libraries seemed enormous and the most easy to find books were the ones I were never intrested in. I could never find the right kind of fantasy or sci-fi book to keep me intrested. But there was always one section that had tall tales that never went out of style; the mythology section. So Il'd delve into roman and greek mythology at first and then it became extremely boring verry fast. "classical" mythology as it is called was everywhere but mythology from china, india, or ancient egypt, THAT was intresting to me. For the longest while I was on an Egyptian kick and it was slowly dying away untill the Stargate tv series came out. that sort of ended that intrest I had for egyptian things.
My alltime favorite childhood writer was Ray Bradbury. I loved all of his books and the movie adaption of "Something Wickid this Way Comes." Later I discovered the storyline of "The ghatti's tale" series. I loved each book I read of Gale Greenos. But to the most part I don't read books that much anymore. I don't know why. Perhaps I was too gullible when I was a kid and auctually fell for the "school is boring and dull" thing. Anyways to the most part a book has to really grip me to get me to reading it.
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When I moved up to Pensylvania I discovered that my mother had slowly aquired a massive collection of Audio Books. She's always been one to gravitate toward movies and tall tales so it only seemed natural. Before this time I loved audio books but had always run up against the price of buying them. A single book would be anywhere from 12$ to 30 or 40 if unabridged. I couldnt find any place to rent audio books from locally either. And the local library didnt have any at all. having this wealth of audio books to borrow from I dove in and enjoyed just about every one. Some of the books I've loved were...
Harry Potter (the series)
The ghoast (By daniel steel)
The petaby Trilogy
A Knight in Shining armor (jude devraux)
Khaless
Sorcers first rule
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