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petitelolita
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Aug 15, 2011 5:38:28 GMT 11
Post by petitelolita on Aug 15, 2011 5:38:28 GMT 11
Perhaps this is a little redundant, but I could not find another topic covering literature - so !
What does everyone like reading ? :)
Do you prefer poetry to prose, fiction to nonfiction, or graphic novels to newspapers ? Do you like to read online/on electronic devices or being able to actually turn the pages yourself ? Favourite authors, genres, etc ?
Let's go!; reading, we all do it - we're on an rp forum.
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00Penguin
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Aug 15, 2011 7:15:15 GMT 11
Post by 00Penguin on Aug 15, 2011 7:15:15 GMT 11
I will admit that my taste in literature is a little... Scatter-brained. One book or genre that I may like may not go so well with another.
I guess I can that I loved the Harry Potter Series, I can't really bring myself to read it again but I loved it all the same. Another series that I like is the Divine Comedy, an interesting image of Hell, Purgatory, Heaven all from the mind of one man. To be honest I'd love to see this turned into a movie but I would rather keep it close to the orginal and not have anyone taint the beauty of it. I'm lookin' at you M. Knight Shamalama-sama. Of course another book I loved and would even squeal like a fangirl if it was turned into a movie is 'A Brave New World' a very satiric book that really made me think for once. XD I actually Thunk somethin'!!!
Anyways other than those I have a tendency to read mangas, and again some genres I like in one series may not go well in another but thats beside the point. I'll just right ahead and say that I love Ken Akamatsu's work, heck right now I have the 30 volumes of Negima that was released here in the US and I just get giddy when I buy the next volume. I have a lot of other series that I read and I get giddy over but the list would take awhile to get through so I'll hold off on that for now.
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artmage
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Aug 15, 2011 8:50:28 GMT 11
Post by artmage on Aug 15, 2011 8:50:28 GMT 11
First of all, there is nothing that will ever replace the feeling of having a new book or graphic novel in your hands nor can anything come close to replacing the smell of brand new pages the moment hat plastic wrap comes off. I love turning the pages myself. Definitely not into the whole online reading thing unless I really don't have a choice.
I was about as nerdy as a kid could be at six----it was two whole sets of encyclopedias with atlases and science books as far as the eye could see. Also, I was reading Natgeo and TIME magazines by that age since I was taught how to quite early on in childhood. I was an intense High Fantasy genre fanatic when I was younger, from about the time Gargoyles was introduced (Somewhere in 1994) right up to the the time Peter Jackson decided to release the LOTR trilogy. I bought the books to acquaint myself with the myth behind the movie and that soon spiraled out to studying Sindarin and writing my name in Dwarvish runes. At this stage as expected, I was also a massive Harry Potter fangirl. A friend of my mother from England gave me 'The Prisoner of Azkaban' to read...which I innitially put off until I got bored, and I didn't put the book down for days after XDXD PoA was definitely my favorite book out of the series and cemented Sirius and Lupin as my favorite characters early on. I stopped reading after Half-Blood Prince though. Call it sentimental, but I guess I just didn't like seeing my favorite characters and all the good guys getting mowed down so fast QAQ
Then after that, I got into Stephen King. He's definitely one of my favorite writers at the moment though I'm much fonder of his earlier works. There's just something wholly visceral about his style of writing and I love how he isn't really pushing on the purple prose.
One of my treasured childhood books is 'A Little Princess' which is all yellowed and dog-eared by the many, many times I've read it.
I also have a large collection of Graphic novels of the X-men variety and a growing stack of comic books X3 I'm actually running out of shelf space for most part. Not enuff shelves. Never enuff shelves.
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petitelolita
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Aug 15, 2011 12:47:44 GMT 11
Post by petitelolita on Aug 15, 2011 12:47:44 GMT 11
I suppose that I should respond to my own questions too, first !
I don't think I prefer any particular genre (unless « existentialism » counts), but I have little time for fantasy or sci-fi, or anything that occurs in a alternative world. It's a ridiculous habit to have, avoiding these, because what is the point of books if not to take you away from your world ?? I think they are just too complicated for me, I get bored. Saying that, when I was younger I was a MASSIVE fan of dragon books :D! Paolini, Funke, D'Lacey.. - and also contrary to the above statement is that DNA's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of my very favourite books/series, ha !
My favourite sort of novels are those that kind of babble on without a huge deal going on in the plot.. I don't mean books that drag and lag and take nine chapters to get to the point, but more, books that initially present « the point », and then spend the rest of the book discussing or expanding on it.. Perhaps I am talking nonsense.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray, wow. Another absolute favourite. I like Franz Kafka, Albert Camus (L'étranger, fantastic, I have probably read it ten times, in English and French!), and the classics.. Dr Seuss, Dr Jeykll and Mister Hyde, euhh.. I am away from my bookcase and struggling to remember, heh.
This will of course be a great surprise to everyone, but I adore « Lolita » by Vladimir Nabakov. Bar one rather annoyingly drab chunk in the middle, this book is quite perfect. In the same vein, I'm a big fan of Lewis Carroll and his Alice novels, and, again, loooveee Edgar Allan Poe - his short stories and his poetry (The Tell-Tale Heart and Annabel Leigh, respectively, being particular favourites..). Of course, Jean-Paul Sartre & the poetry of Baudelaire etc. I recently began reading « À Rebours (or, 'Against Nature') » by Huysmans, but I'm not really far enough into it to judge yet. And I am slightly obsessed with the songs/poetry of Serge Gainsbourg :) :) :)... !
ARGH I FORGOT GEORGE ORWELL. Sorry, have to kill myself now for such a blasphemy. Whoops. Yes, Orwell forever. Any and all of his books and essays. Also - bought a nice copy of Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson, but haven't started it yet, anyone have an opinion ?
On the topic of Harry Potter, I can remember, as a child young enough to be read to by their parents before bed, that exactly this happened, with the first few Harry Potter books, then (I was very young), I began reading them myself, and read the first four, I think, and gave up because I found them so poorly written :C not a popular opinion ! JK Rowling has an extremely wonderful imagination, but I just never liked the books.. they transferred well to the cinema, though.
« A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick » by Jonathan Swift will always earn a laugh. There's probably a hundred more things that I could mention, but I'll spare you.
In terms of comics, my favourite is « Johnny the Homocidal Maniac » by Jhonen Vasquez (the creator of Invader Zim !). I also love Batman, yay, and loved The Killing Joke. and, let's see, the graphic novel version of I am Legend, fantastic !
I am entirely with Artmage here - many friends have those Kindle thingettes, but I could not bear to restrict my reading to those. I understand that they are a lot more practical and economical, but.. no. Most of my books are secondhand; I love the feel of books, the sight of a big pile stacked or scattered around, the thought of reducing all that to one little grey slab is so depressing !
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