morningbreez replied to your post: morningbreez replied to your post: morningbreez…
Same. I read lots of random books. I dont really have a certain type that I like.Rant? I am intrigued. Ill have to look this up!&but ya. I totally understand. I have so many books as well. We had to make 3 new book shelves this year for them.
My bookshelf is in my attic (because the door to one of the attics is in my room) and my books have spilled over to another storage shelf in the attic and random piles in my room.
Rant is REALLY good. It’s very bizarre. Basically, it’s about this man named Rant, and the entire story is told after his death by people who knew him or had heard of him, so they constantly contradict or back each other up without knowing it. It takes place in the future or some weird universe where cities are divided into Nighttimers and Daytimers. The Daytimers are like the reach people and Nighttimers aren’t, and neither group is allowed out at the opposite time. And it’s about how Rant travelled from somewhere in the midwest to the city and became part of the culture of the Nighttimers. There’s other stuff too but that’s part of the surprise of the book so I won’t spoiler it. It’s absolutely fascinating.
morningbreez replied to your post: morningbreez replied to your post: morningbreez…
Omg! Yes! Yeeeees! I love the Sherlock Holmes stories and Edgar Allen Poe and dhdhbduxen all the books, poems, epics, etc., etc.! Gosh! I really want to hear your thoughts on all the books you read too! Im kind of jumping up and down here. Haha!
I have a really eclectic taste, too. I read a ton of different things depending on my interests at the time. Also if people I like who have similar tastes as me tell me to read something and/or make me borrow a book, I’ll read it.
That’s how I read Rant by Chuck Palahnuik (or however the fuck you spell it) and absolutely loved it. It’s a really bizarre book but it’s absolutely fascinating.
And yeah my house is covered in books. I really want to make a summer project and catalogue all the books in my house library-style because we just have so many.
morningbreez replied to your post: morningbreez replied to your post: Reading List…
Omg! Half of these are on my list to read as well and the other half Ive read! Hdhehjdk! You have a great choice in books!! Have you read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes???
Tbh I actually haven’t. My dad has a really ancient huge leatherbound (or something-bound) copy of all of them, though. I should probably read them though.
Also my friend moved away to college last year and was cleaning out her room at home while she packed and gave me these two huge volumes of every single story and poem by Edgar Allan Poe so I need to read that too.
avagueambitioninyourdirection replied to your post: azraelles replied to your post: morningbreez…
whispers watership down is great
The only order I currently know that I’m going to read is Les Mis/Iliad (aka I’m reading them at the same time), Oresteia, Song Of Achilles, and then whatever else I pull off the pile.
When I bought all those, I tried to find Herodotus’ Histories at the bookstore but then didn’t have it, which was disappointing. I’m kind of trying to get a jump on the stuff I’ll have to read for classics classes because I like reading stuff on my own time and then rereading them for classes so I already know what I’m talking about when I’m discussing or listening or whatever.
azraelles replied to your post: morningbreez replied to your post: Reading List…
WATERSHIP DOOOOWNNNN AAAHHH
I started reading it when I was a freshman in high school (which is why my cat’s name is Fiver) but for some bizarre reason I never finished it. It’s possible that I lost it because my room was a fucking health and safety hazard back then. But it’s sitting in the pile by my bed so yeah.
morningbreez replied to your post: Reading List 2013
Ive read a lot of those and youll have a LOT of fun reading them. This is a very good list! :D If you ever want someone to talk to about any of these books, poems, etc. when you are done, Im always willing to have a fun chat about anything really!
I have a ridiculous amount of books to read. That’s only the list of stuff I’m currently actively interested in reading. I also have a pile by my bed and another pile on my bookshelf of stuff that I want to get to eventually that consists of:
- Sometimes A Great Notion
- The Prince And The Pauper
- The Secret Garden (as I haven’t read it since I was really really young)
- The Hobbit (also a reread)
- The Medium Is The Massage (This weird surrealistic book from the late 60s about how electricity is reshaping people’s lives)
- East Of Eden
- Great Expectations
- Mother Night
- Watership Down (a reread-ish)
- The Jungle
- Don Quixote
- The Fountainhead (Maybe? I’m about 350ish pages in and I’ve been that far in for about 3 or 4 years.)
So yeah, I have a lot of books to read.
orangejuicepony replied to your post: Reading List 2013
ciughcoughasongoficeandfirecoughahem
Dammit Jacquie! Actually I know my mother has the first book somewhere, and I think the second.
azraelles replied to your post: azraelles replied to your post: Reading List…
Marat/Sade, Midnights Children, Vlad, Cats Cradle, Two Lives, and Gargantua & Pantagruel, although I have read a BIT of that last one.
I started Midnight’s Children back in December but then I got distracted by the Les Mis movie and stuff. It’s good. It’s about this guy who’s born at the moment of India’s independence and so everything he does is linked to the history of India. Vlad is like a historical narrative about the real Vlad Dracul. And I just randomly found a book in my mother’s room that just says “Rabelais” on the cover and it turned out to be the entirety of Gargantua and Pantagruel.
I’ve never read Frankenstein because I didn’t have to read it in high school and the copy we have at home literally has the first 25 pages missing. So I bought a new copy.
And oh shit I just realized I forgot to put House of Leaves on that list.
azraelles replied to your post: Reading List 2013
there are six things on that list i havent read xD
What haven’t you read?
I’m mid-way through The Iliad and Les Mis, obviously. I think I may start Oresteia as well. I’m (obviously) going to wait till I finish the Iliad before reading Song Of Achilles. Marat/Sade is a Brechtian-style play so I might read that because those are pretty fast-paced. But I need to do a bit more research on Marat because I honestly know next to nothing about him except he was a revolutionary who was killed in the bath and all the paintings of his death are like musical theatre-worthy dramatic.
nothing-rhymes-with-ianto:
Title: Point Of Ignition
Verse: Ryssa’s Mutant Registration AU (Non-Canonical)
Characters: Grantaire, Enjolras, Les Amis
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It was never his fight. It shouldn’t have to be his fight.
Author’s Note: This is using these two non-canonical works Ryssa wrote for her Mutant Registration ‘verse. My original idea was something completely different from this, but then this wrote itself.
(On AO3)
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