Love the stories

[redsilverchains]

This is the most beautiful post in the world.

Fuck appreciating literature, people. Love stories. Love wordplay. Love a deliciously delivered anecdote, a razor-sharp joke, a ripping yarn, a swashbuckling hero who fights for justice or a lost intellectual who takes bloody vengeance into his own hands; love tales of kings and queens and wizards and

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[natural_blue_26]

Totally reminds me of (sections) of this monster-sizes thread from Sunday: http://fandomsecrets.livejournal.com/858356.html?thread=531788020&

Personal conclusion?

Reading is like a food pyramid- you should get something from each category because one type is not nessecarily better all on it's own. Better to love C. S. Lewis, M. L'Engle, L. M. Montegomery, J. K. Rowling, S. King, J. Austen, J. Picoult AND Chaucer as opposed to limiting oneself to a single category, yes? :)

[redsilverchains]

Sorry for the belated reply!

You should know, I’ve been going back to that thread ever since you linked it. It kind of makes me relieved I was never “required” to read any American or English classics for school! I do not want to imagine myself rebelling over something as wonderful as To Kill a Mockingbird.:p

Ah, how I love your philosophy. :D It’s true. I keep reminding myself to read more of everything. Even if it means chickening out halfway through a Stephen King (that just happened, haha) because it was just too much for me, at least I can say I ventured that far! Sometimes I’m in a mood to read nothing but kids’ books. Or sometimes I want to soldier through George R. R. Martin’s work and I have to seize on those moods so that I can actually FINISH the book FAST. And someday I’ll get to those classics I have my eye on. I will.

[natural_blue_26]

No worries- I always assume real life hits, and boy do I understand that! So glad you love the thread. ♥

I must defend myself that most of my dislike on that one paticular topic was over the fact that my teacher made me deface To Kill a Mockingbird with multi-colored highlighter instead of with the book itself lol. -_^ (I HATE WRITING IN BOOKS. JUST SEEMS LIKE A CARDINAL SIN.)

I hear you on the Stephan King- my fiance *loves* his books and I haven't really ever made it through one myself... But you know what? That's okay lol. But where would we be in life without our ever growing 'To Read' lists?

[redsilverchains]

Oh, I wasn't thinking about your particular comment in the thread! Just brought up To Kill a Mockingbird because it's possibly the piece of ~true literary work that's closest to my heart.

and ughughugh on highlighting books D: I suppose some people do it for themselves, but-but--don't they hear the pages crying?

HE TRULY KNOWS HOW TO TERRIFY. Terrific writer but guhhh.

[natural_blue_26]

and ughughugh on highlighting books D: I suppose some people do it for themselves, but-but--don't they hear the pages crying?

I KNOW RIGHT??

Literally you have phrased that possibly the best way ever to descibe the horror being inflicted. -_^