Cliterature

Leoj · Post by **Leoj** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:35 pm

Ame no Akai wrote:I know, I saw it years ago.

Man, heroin's a helluva drug.

And I felt no sympathy for any of them except the mother, that was a bad circumstance and she was taken advantage of.

Doormaster · Post by **Doormaster** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:41 pm

Just finished The Duel by Joseph Conrad, but I'm not sure how much I actually liked it. All I could think while I was reading was, "Wow, this is way better than Heart of Darkness"

WouldYouKindly · Post by **WouldYouKindly** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:51 pm

i have written a 2000 word long essay about Frankenstein and In Cold Blood
and one Creative writing task

i have yet to finish Frankenstein or start ICB

Post by **Superior Bacon** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:19 pm

Well done.

Post by **Spoony** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:16 am

WouldYouKindly wrote:i have written a 2000 word long essay about Frankenstein and In Cold Blood
and one Creative writing task

i have yet to finish Frankenstein or start ICB

CLITERATURE THREAD

NOT BORING HOMEWORK QQ

So people keep recommending Jules Verne to me, but I haven't braved any yet. Any thoughts on a starting point?

Deiphobus · Post by **Deiphobus** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 5:59 am

I have realized again I am quite ignorant literature and haven't read much beyond the authors and related stuff from my high school english teachers and various interests. Anyone want to give me a list of some good authors and books to get into?

Post by **Superior Bacon** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:08 am

The Road - Cormac McCarthy (very depressing, however)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Everything Chuck Palahniuk has ever written

eta: for Chuck Palahniuk, exclude: Choke, Snuff

also Lullaby is the best

Doormaster · Post by **Doormaster** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:11 am

Read Twilight

Troll your own brain

Sloth · Post by **Sloth** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:12 am

I wouldn't have the patience to sit and read Twilight, even if it was for shits and giggles

Post by **Vax** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:18 am

Bacon wrote:The Road - Cormac McCarthy (very depressing, however)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Everything Chuck Palahniuk has ever written

eta: for Chuck Palahniuk, exclude: Choke, Snuff

also Lullaby is the best

<3
Infinite <3

Post by **Superior Bacon** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:57 am

Deiphobus · Post by **Deiphobus** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:14 pm

i've already read brave new world, but thanks for the list Bacon

Falconer Lombard · Post by **Falconer Lombard** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:24 pm

I got The New Space Opera 2.

I FART SHORT STORIES.
Chameleons, Fearless Space Pirates of the Outer Rings, Shell Game, and Join the Navy and See the Worlds are my favourites I've read from it.

Join and Shell being particularly well done.

Neko · Post by **Neko** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:23 pm

I'm really into some books liked the Warrior cat series and the Artemis Fowl. I like fantasy and fiction stuff like that. Even if it's silly, but Eragon-Brisingr shed some light onto dragons and things like that. Almost planning to read Narnia and Lord of the Rings. Pretty exciting stuff.
Other than that, the Halo books were actually pretty nice. They made sense, and the story wasn't completely freaking ripped out of proportion, it had a nice story line and everything. Still, The Forest of Hands and Teeth looks better than I thought. Red Rider's Hood was just completely stupid, I didn't like it all but it was easy to write a report on since it was so shitty you could follow along easily but meh.
I used to read Goosebumps but now those are trivial to me. It took me a day to finish them, now it's an hour or so. Also hoping for the next Percy Jackson and The Kane Chronicles. I read Watershipdown or something along those lines too and I have to say, it was really weird. The Book of Deltora captured me sometimes since it was about dragons and other mythical creatures.
Dragonlance probably was my favorite because it had almost everything I like in a book. The season books were my base, but the Twin's epilogue was just wonderful. I like DND but I never really played it, so I can't say much about it, but this book was so good that I felt I was playing it anyways.
That's about most of the books I read, although the one Sage book I forgot the series's name because I didn't get past Physics was nicely built. *shrugs*

[Citation Needed] · Post by **[Citation Needed]** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:31 pm

Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia are good. The Prydain Chronicles are good and fit into the same, er, genre, so check those out too.

Not really that pleased with the Warrior cats. I remember when they were new. The first few books were okay (then again, that was seven years ago so my tastes for literature were a bit different), but now that there are twenty-four books (or something like that. Wikipedia.) it's getting rather silly.

I was completely impressed with Eragon and Eldest when I was younger, but when I bought Brisingr I wasn't too impressed. Not exactly something I'd read more than a few times at most.

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