"kitap okumak" as you see it is common while "günbatımı görmek" is uncommon. So the verbal noun case sound more natural and less eye catching. But you can say:

Seni görmek istiyorum.
Bu filmi görmek istiyorum.

You could stick with the infinitive to make it easier.

1. Güzel bir günbatımı görmek istiyorum.
2. Güzel bir günbatımı görmeyi istiyorum.

The first sentence sounds strange as seeing a sunset is not the same kind of action as seeing a film, reading a book or eating a dinner. It feels like when you say "Güzel bir günbatımı görmek istiyorum" you are expecting somebody to appear and say "Yes, Sir. Just a second please. Would you like anything else with the sunset" It is like saying "Let's arrange things in such a way that I can see a nice sunset".
A movie director could say "güzel bir günbatımı görmek istiyorum" if somebody has control over the sunset with some technical light effects or such or if they are talking of the sunset in the film which is changeable in computer environment. "Show me a nice sunset here and remove these birds in the sky. Make the red a little darker. I want to see a nice sunset here."


"Günbatımını görmek istiyorum" would be a strong sentence. It has the accusative case so "I want to see THE sunset" where the sunset is the direct object I'm referring to. It is clear which sunset I want to see. But we can't use this in 1 or 2 since "güzel bir", "a nice" is implying that it is undefinitive and I'm not interested which sunset it is but just it has to be nice.

No removing the bir increases the problem. Now we have a noun phrase with "güzel günbatımı" and this is indicating that there is something existing such as "nice sunset" and "uggly sunset".

Güzel bir film izlemek istiyorum.
I would like to watch a nice movie.

Film izlemek istiyorum.
a. I want to watch movies.
b. I want to watch a movie.

Filmi izlemek istiyorum.
I want to watch the movie.

Bu filmi izlemek istiyorum.
I want to watch this movie.

These are correct but we cant say:

Güzel filmi izlemek istiyorum.
I want to watch THE nice movie.

as there is no such thing as "the nice movie" where the movie is a certain movie and is described as nice movie, it is incorrect because there is no matching object in the real world to "the nice movie". It sounds unnatural. But if somebody comes and asks you the following it can be OK.

-Hey buddy. I have two movies. One is a weird movie and the other is a nice movie. Which one would you like to watch?
-Güzel filmi izlemek istiyorum.
Here it is correct.

I'd actually be interested in one of your stories too, because I'd like to help with reading material next year. N it would be good to see how you do it.

As soon as my own turkish course starts, I'm planning to write little stories. Those texts should each handle a certain grammar-aspect. For example, a text based upon Present Continous Tense forms. Easy, with vocabulary lists so that you learn whilst reading.

I was rather disappointed myself that i couldnt find any good reading material. Therefore i'd like to write my own and put it on the website here somehwere, so that others wont get disappointed.

maybe bod can put it somewhere so others can benefit as well. By the way we are working on the subject this year (2006) and not next year.

Mine are very short and very simple. We are working on a project of much moe complicated books starting from 200 words and ending with 1500 words. But lets see this with time.

Well i always forget that i talk in academic years, which will still be 2006..

Plus i think any reading material would be welcome, don't you think? No matter what time. Because the learning goes on anyways

Does anyone know where to find Turkish folkstories? I'd like to simplify those in Turkish.