The LTROI feeling, and thoughts about the infection

[jefdam]

thanks for the welcome jonjon_z and to all the others that have welcomed me

my thoughts for the book
one of the main reasons i can relate to this book is the i grew up on a shit whole housing estate
called lewisham

in london
in the 80s

[intrige]

Just the 80s woud have done it

I first related to the lonelyness and bullying. And what that caught my eye was the bittersweet lovestory. And the very very strong and touching story, as a whole.. Story.. XD

Hey, mabye you're about the same age as JAL!

[Angelmaker]

thanks for the welcome jonjon_z and to all the others that have welcomed me

my thoughts for the book
one of the main reasons i can relate to this book is the i grew up on a shit whole housing estate
called lewisham

in london
in the 80s

I know Lewisham jefdam! I am in Dartford

[jefdam]

no he is older im 35 more or less


you know i dont even know why iread the book even now im going to reed it for the 3rd time

[jefdam]

thanks for the welcome jonjon_z and to all the others that have welcomed me

my thoughts for the book
one of the main reasons i can relate to this book is the i grew up on a shit whole housing estate
called lewisham

in london
in the 80s

I know Lewisham jefdam! I am in Dartford

cool yeah i know dartford
if you know lewisham then you know wot i mean by shit hole
and im still in the lewisham area but closer to eltham now

[Angelmaker]

thanks for the welcome jonjon_z and to all the others that have welcomed me

my thoughts for the book
one of the main reasons i can relate to this book is the i grew up on a shit whole housing estate
called lewisham

in london
in the 80s

I know Lewisham jefdam! I am in Dartford

cool yeah i know dartford
if you know lewisham then you know wot i mean by shit hole
and im still in the lewisham area but closer to eltham now

Haha yeah I know what you mean mate. I wouldn't want to go out after dark around Lewisham too much. Vampires would be the least of the worries haha

[Legion1983]

Well im very new to this story, but not vampires in general. I was instantly hooked by the book, since it was using what vampires used to be and more, not a sparkly. My favorite thing is that being a vampire is more of an infection or cancer, so in a way they are but not vampires. That was the first thing i liked. Second i love how John took the new approach on the rule of vampires needing to be invited in. I have always been a fan of that rule and when she walked in without the invite i started going crazy about wat would happen. i never expected her to bleed like that, it was very intense and loved the scene very much. Also with Eli being able to fly or glide with those membrane like wings was weird but very interesting.Overall i love the book and thinking of making some fan fiction.

[thestich]

Welcome aboard Legion1983.

You will find lots of great stuff here. Check out "the tale told by hands" by the site owner if you have not already done so.

Also the FF section if awesome, and has great stuff. You are welcome to join in anytime, and I cannot wait to read your take on LTROI.

Have fun.

[Gracek]

We are from all over the world, and how many menbers are there? And how meny of us are REALY infected? If we compare that with the number of humans that can see the movie. And can read the book, there is not many of us.

You are right, but let me ask you something. What did you extacly expect? You should remember, than small percentage of people is really affected by movies, books, computer games etc.

For ordinary people, film etc. is only a sort of entertainment, which, even if brings some kind of reflections etc. it is only for a while (hour, day max). We are diffrent I think.

or me it's been a half year, and I am just as hooked as the day I first saw the movie.

The same was with me.

Cause teenagers are too lazy to read that much.

Hey...when I was tennager I lovet to read very much;p.

As I have said in a post before. I think that: If 10 people saw LTROI, only 1 would get infected. And you, and I are one of them. One of those 10. I find my self kind of lucky, for loving this movie so much, and the book. But I can't help to think of all those, who just pass by it. Watch it, and just continue walking. Or those who don't give the movie a chanse cause of the languige. They realy don't know what they are missing!

Maybe but many people can tell you the same thing with other movies etc.

For example, the most important thing (movies, book etc), which have strong affection on my life, for many years is a game called Final Fantasy 7. I passed this game for about 20-30 times. First time when I was 9 years old, last time, year ago. I was growing up with this game. When I was eight I couldn,t understand the story, and when I get older, then my point of view on this story was changing. This game stayed in my mind, and it is forever, at least once per week I think about Final Fantasy 7, characters from this game, story etc.

And you know what? I am still crying when I hear Aerith theme and see her death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qnyxd7Vq0Q - Watch out, it is huge spoiler of the game, but if you want then watch it.

This is one of the sadest scene in entertaiment history. Belive me that thousand of players were crying (and still cry) when the saw that scene. Belive me that I watched this scene more than hundred times, and still my eyes are wet, my heart is burning, my muscles tremble, and so long and so forth. And it is analogical situation with our emotions connected with LTROI. We can,t belive that someone can,t fell any emotions after reading LTROI, and what is more I can't belive that someone will fell nothing, while playing Final Fantasy 7.

f someone asked me about why I loved this movie so much, I realy wouldn't know what to say. It's like saying "I love you" to someone for the first time and realy mean it. I have never said that to anyone, realy. Strong words are one of my soft spots. Love , hate, death and what more? But, I could imagine how hard it must be to tell that person what you realy feel, for the first time. That is somehow how I feel if someone asked me why I love LTROI so much. It's to much to say, it's hard to aksplaine. You can't realy make someone understand, they have to understand it before you tell them why. Cause when you don't have the words, and tells them in the simplest way possible. They'l understand. Cause they know the feeling.
The Let the right one in feeling!

Yeah i agree with it.

Have you a infected close by?

My mom but no in 100%. She watched it with me when I was watching this movie for the first time. SHe rather don,t remember movies, but LTROI stand in her mind. Can I count it as an infection?

What would you answer of somone asked you why you loves LTROI so much?

Well I don,t now what to say. Maybe that I love it for everything. I love Eli, cause she is a sort of angel for me, I love Oskar because I compare with him (I were bullied in my school either, two times, because of that I end in the hospital), I love the story, the climat of Sweden. In other words I love every aspect of the LTROI. But the most important thing is that story is very similiar with my childhood but i didn,t find a protector I didn,t meet with girl like Eli. In other words, I threat it as a better version, of my life. Weird?

My sister though is not a fan of the book and ironicly refuses to see the movie as it is in swedish. This is a major difference in the preferance of american movie audiences and swedish ones. While americans often tend to be too lazy to watch a movie with subtitles, swedes prefere english before their own language .

Well in Poland, people prefer to watch the movies with lector, than subtitles. For me it is kinda stupid, because lector many times destroy the sequence etc. Just imagine famous
"Here's Johnny" by Jack Nicholson in "The Shining", destroyed by lector.

Even the Internet can hurt, after all.

Yeah. I know something about it.

I'm generally very trusting, perhaps a bit naive. But the people I trust usually don't let me down.

In my case is diffrent situation. I am naive, and people allready used it many times against me, but still I can,t keep the guard. I just don,t know how to be wary. That's why my dad always says that "You will not handle with adult life"

LTROI [movie] uses silence brilliantly, doesn't it? Much of the crucial interaction between E&O is silent.

Yeah. Long time ago someone says that "Silence can tell you more than 1000 words"

If I ever saw a kid with a Rubik's cube, I would give that kid a big smile just for holding the toy.. really..

And what is your reaction on the young black hair girls, who are walking down in the evening, by the street only with golf *blouse) on themselfs, when temperature is -10 degres?

The rubik cube will never by the same for us.

I heared at the radio today that a woman got killed in her apartment. And the death was under investigation and was considered mysterius.. Realy, the first thing that popped up in my head was: Mabye Eli and Oskar did it? or at least Eli..

Well...if someone will kill young boy, or woman in my town, then I will probably packed up and run . And when my mom would ask me
"What the hell are you doing"
Then I would say
"ELI IS HERE"
But before leavening the town I would probably want to at least take a one look on ELI xd.


Well I can say that I am really glad that I found you and your site. Now I know that I am not alone with the infection. Now I can share my felling with people from the whole world. Thank you very much.

[intrige]

Hoah, a loong comment, or should I say post? XD
Too bad your dad says that you won't handle the adult life. I am too very open, if anyone haven't noticed? And yeah, I have been bullied, and people have used my open and naive mind agains me. But I take that as an: I made it, I can do it again. And a: Meet new poeple, yeey