http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2828044/1/
feel free to mock this author
>>1
that can't possibly be real. it's a very well crafted joke
Best. Shit. Ever.
Fucking amazing in that it is utter shit. And I've only read chapter 1. How do people think this stuff is any good? Write all you want, but don't go posting every little shit-thought that comes into your head on the internet. facepalm
"I was even upset went to rehearsals with my gothic metal band Bloody Gothic Rose 666. I am the lead singer of it and I play guitar. People say that we sound like a cross between GC, Slipknot and MCR. The other people in the band are B’loody Mary, Vampire, Draco, Ron (although we call him Diabolo now. He has black hair now with blue streaks in it.) and Hargrid. Only today Draco and Vampire were depressed so they weren’t coming and we wrote songs instead. I knew Draco was probably slitting his wrists (he wouldn’t die because he was a vampire too and the only way you can kill a vampire is with a c-r-o-s-s (there’s no way I’m writing that)"
>>People say that we sound like a cross between GC, Slipknot and MCR.
We're up against a master here.
Here's a little treat for you all:
http://kingjing.deviantart.com/art/Chapter-one-BADFIC-75783600
http://kingjing.deviantart.com/art/Badfic-Deux-76300973
http://kingjing.deviantart.com/art/Badfic-The-third-Chapter-76940520
http://kingjing.deviantart.com/art/BADFIC-THE-KONKLUSON-77578169
An intentionally bad fanfic combining Willy Wonka, Transformers and Megaman/Rockman.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4366801/1/the_darkness_within
can't tell if it's a troll of legit. only one chapter so far afterall.
who hear reads steven king? i know hes popular, but thats not a bad thing rite?
There's a huge gap in the quality of his work, ranging from the coke-fueled abortions of a novel published only due to the author's success, to the well-planned and executed fictions that are responsible for allowing his bad works to be dumped on the unsuspecting public like so much excrement.
Let's go back (or stay there), and talk about books you had to read in school.
Fahrenheit 451 was one of them, I actually liked it a lot.
>>30
yes.
I didn't go to a Catholic high school, but i guess any northeast US private school is pretty much the same as that.
Did anyone else have that one weird teacher who made you read cool stuff? One of mine made us read "the wind-up bird chronicle" by murakami, and "tropic of cancer" by henry miller. Still not sure why, but i'm happy he did.
I'm in grade 10 now. I've had to read
I liked all of those except Romeo And Juliet
I then chose:
I've had to read a lot of the books posted up there. In 11th and 12th grade alone I had to read the top 20 books on the English AP (lit and lang.) so we were always busy.
One of my favorites was definitely Catch 22. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison's, not H.G. Wells') and Ender's Game were really good, too, but Catch 22 was it for me.
Looking through this, I note: I hated all of these books except the ones I'd read of my own accord. These being:
1984
Catcher in the Rye
Brave New World
Animal Farm
The Crucible
Kite Runner
Catch 22
and I think I found Of Mice and Men and Siddartha vaguely enjoyable, though not really my taste.
Jane eyre.....
Currently going into grade nine.
Over the years we have read:
Animal Farm(seventh grade*)
The Giver(seventh grade*)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(seventh grade*)
*Was in a Catholic School at that point in time.
The Outsiders(eighth grade)
Flowers for Algernon(eighth grade)
The Pearl(eighth grade)
I had to read Machbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Other than that, nothing. My school kinda sucked.
William Shakespeare's Julius Ceaser.
Theres no better way to destroy any potential appreciation of literature than to force high school students to read it.
Some of my favorite writing ever is about people dealing with the inevitable - exemplified on "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute.
I'm interested in finding more like this. Does anyone have any recommendations?
I also rather liked Earth Abides.
Well, one thing I can recommend is "We Lovers" by T. Yutaka
I have a small attention span so when I try reading something I think I'll like I discover, much to my chagrin, that it's 400+ pages. So does anyone know any well written short stories/novels, around 200 pages max? I do not particularly favor any genre over another, but I simply loath fantasy or anything dealing with dragons and magic.
Phillip K. Dick has a whole mess of short story collections out. Some of his stuff is pretty campy, though, even for sci-fi.
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is pretty good. Some camp, some fluff, but lots of genuinely good stories, too. It helps to keep in mind that PKD wrote most of his work on amphetamines when reading him.
Hemingway is pretty much my go-to writer for short stories. I haven't found a bad Hemingway short story yet. His novels? Different story.
Jorge Luis Borges is probably totally up your alley if you like Poe, Lovecraft, PKD, Kafka and that ilk.
Lastly,
>>6
So prescient. So good.
Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory is pretty good. Funny, quirky little novel about a child serial killer chock full of weirdness and black (well, grey and black) humor. It's something like 180 pages, so just under the maximum.
i never seen better than david copperfielf or perfume a story of a murder
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Isaac Asimov has some good short stories. His essays are rather worthwhile too.
Ray Bradbury.
Saul Bellow's 'Looking for Mr. Green' might resonate with you, particularly if you are American. His short novel Seize the Day is an absolute masterpiece.
http://4-ch.net/games/kareha.pl/1206548566/
This is a nice thread. Let's have a book edition.
I just read my first book by Haruki Murakami, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Murakami gets a lot of praise in these parts, and after reading this book, I can confirm that it isn't unfounded. The book to me felt a bit weaker towards the end, but I really liked hearing the stories of Nomonhan, Siberia, and such.
I just finished that today too! I totally agree btw.
Just finished Man in Revolt by Albert Camus. I'm not so sure how I feel about it, but mostly I'm just upset that May 68 didn't take off and that Camus didn't live to see that last rebellion.
i just finished Eldest by Christopher Paolini. It was pretty good and I enjoyed it a lot more than the first book in the series Eragon
Finished "The Quitter", MASTERPIECE!
i kno, isnt it liek teh gr8est? i so totly cant wayt for the next book, Inheritence: return of the Jedi!!!! wat aboot u?
On a serious note, I just finished the kalevala. Woot for excellence and epic poetry at its finest.
Just finished The Scar by China Mieville and i have to say it was excellent really everyone should read at least one book from the bas-lag universe.
TR: The Last Romantic by H. W. Brands
Fascinating picture of one of my favorite presidents. I thought it was very informative and I always love hearing about how badass TR was.
Just finished Kakfa on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. After reading Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norweigian Wood, The Elephant Vanishes, and Hard-Boiled Wonderland it's all sort of blending together. This seemed like the weakest book of his I've read, but it might just be that they're all the same and I'm tired of them.
Who has read any of these epic works?
Would you reccomend them?
I need them.
I dunno, I would love a book that will make me cry like crazy, but not if it's one horrible instance after another.
Help?
>>11,12
>>7,9 didn't explain themselves too well.
What they're calling kinetic novels are more commonly called visual novels (there might be some arbitrary difference with regard to how much it is a game, idk). A strange product of Japan. They consist of short story to novella length texts, either linear or with branching paths (think Choose Your Own Adventure). The text is composed onto static animation (background and character sprites, in a sort of anime style) with occasional music. The medium is then all wrapped into a computer program. Romance (of the erotic and platonic sort) is a major genre of the medium.
Planetarian, which >>7 recommended, can be explored here: http://planetarian.insani.org/. It costs money if you are not unsavory.
Narcissu, which >>9 recommended, can be explored here: http://narcissu.insani.org/. It is free.
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
The last 25 pages have me bawling like a little girl.
Like water for chocolate (or if you read spanish, read it in the original language " como agua para chocolate.)
"On the Beach" by Neville Shute
I agree that Kitchen, Planetarian and Narcissu are baww-material. As the retarded emotional person I am, I cried with all of them (just remembering Kitchen's Moonlight Shadow is... ugh goddamnit).
Let me add The Lovely Bones to combat the eastern literature. Unlike with the previous three books/novels, where I cried like a bitch at the end, with The Lovely Bones I was crying every other chapter, although nothing drastic was really happening. It's just very emotional.
Harry Potter
I'm curious as to whether any one have read anything of Kierkegaard's? I'm really interested in existentialism and would like to read something of his. If you have an suggestions please post.
pedo
The Sichness Unto Death is a great work.
In this work Kierkegaard picks up problems concerning faith and despair.
However his standpoint is a variation of Protestantism, he tries to make his argument refuting Hegelian reconciliation, this makes his argument philosophical.
The work affected posterior Heidegger's Being and Time and other works.
Even though Kierkegaard's assertion and conclusion are not fully persuasive, there are many interesting views and insights in his thoughts.
I personally prefer Nietzsche to Kierkegaard and he is also a lot easier to read with his aphorisms.
:p But all the morals and values that you brought into this world are, so how can you not be?
Or something to that extent.
please, people. tell me about catcher in the rye. i've been told that i must read it, and now, i need enough information about it to safely fake having read it. i got about twenty pages in before throwing it across the room in a rage at main characters bawww-ness. so, what do i need to know about catcher in the rye?
Spend $5.00...get the Cliff Notes.
Catcher in the Rye is a pretty awesome book. Basically it's about this 17 year old kid, who gets expelled from high school. He goes home to New York City and bums around for a few days, and he always says darn it or something around those lines. It's basically about all these girls he meets and stuff, and about what he does with them.
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes q;-)
The book sucks. Its lame. If you want a good read, try 1984 or a clock work orange. Battlefield Earth was a book i thought would suck due to seeing the ove turned out to be great. Its an exquisite read but the movie blows donkey dick. You would figure that seeing as how John Travolta is a Scientology-fag, he woulda done a better job in that movie, seeing as how the book was written by L Ron Hubbard, the founder of his fail religion. The book is good and surprisingly, does not promote scientology. Try it.