Favorite Books and Current Reads

[Kinokokao]

MAXINE LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE

I picked up the first Sookie Stackhouse book, Dead Until Dark. I'd been meaning to read this series forever anyway.

Must say the TV show is immensely preferable. Strange to say, but totally true.

[Sampson]

I'm reading Kaffir Boy (summer reading), and I'm liking it more than All Quiet on the Western Front (ironically, the parts where they were in combat were my least favorite parts). Perhaps it's because what life under apartheid was like seems so surreal despite its true existence. But it's always uplifting to read a success story like this.

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Maxine MagicFox]

MAJOR SPOILER FOR BOOK 4: TEMPLE OF WINDS, Chapter 54

[spoiler]o_o *stunned silence* ... you're... joking....

T-T OMG NOOOOOO!! *picks up a box of tissues* Holy shit.... <_< I can't believe it... *sniffle*

Raina... R.I.P. ..... >_< I can't stop crying now.

When Richard ever gets his hands on this Emperor Jagang, I pray he makes him suffer a fate similar to Nass's punishment given by Kahlan. And I hope that Berdine is there to watch.

Richard should carve the shape of Reggie into her tombstone. T-T[/spoiler]

[Kinokokao]

Oh man

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;___; *takes some of Maxine's tissues* Poor Raina... poor Berdine...

DAMMIT I LOVE MORD-SITH SO MUCH

I'm pretty sure you're past the point where they talk about how Mord-Sith are made?
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[Maxine MagicFox]

[spoiler]That was covered in the first book, so, naturally, unless there's more to it than the most innocent girls being taken, stuffed into cells where rats feast on them (hence why Cara fears them), and then suffer three breakings: 1) lose themselves (aka what happend to Richard) 2) watches her mother be killed 3) she kills her father

So, if it's anything further than that, no I have not read it, though, it doesn't feel like there's much more to it than that. T-T And God, isn't that ENOUGH?!

SOB for Raina to have died like THIS?! T-T[/spoiler]

[Maxine MagicFox]

Chapter 59
[spoiler]And now I'm so pissed off at Kahlan I could just spit!! >_< GODDAMMIT KAHLAN!! WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!

I know her reasoning in the passages. I've re-read them again and again and yet, I still can feel no differently about the whole matter than Richard.

A chill went up my spine, though:
In the flickering flashes, grey eyes were fixed on her.
"I think 'Richard' already knows."

Oh FUCK I didn't see that one coming. My heart stopped right along with Kahlan's scream.

*Sigh* I hope Richard learns the Wizard's Fourth Rule rather quickly. Though, when I think of what must have been going through his mind when Kahlan started... >_< her noticing his confusion and how much effort it took for her to get him going... T-T Fuck... the torture that must have been going in his mind....

@Drefan: SOB!! I KNEW IT!! I KNEW IT!! >_< The first murder, I just kept getting this vibe "God, this feels like Drefan's arrogance." But >_< there were times i just wanted to like the SOB.

..... *runs off the read more* i'll probably be done with this book by tonight ^_^;[/spoiler]

[Kinokokao]

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Oh, yeah. I read them out of order 2-4 before 1) so I can never remember where they detail the Mord-Sith process.

Kind of sad there won't be any new Mord-Sith ... >__> I mean... Such a shame.

I hated Drefan and Nadine. Fuck 'em.

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[Sampson]

Hm, it appears that the world's longest novel is Marienbad My Love, 17 million words long.

Actually, the title is 6931 words long. That's just the compressed version of it. It also contains the world's largest sentence, I'd imagine: 3 million words (I'm pretty sure it's the epilogue), and the world's largest word: 4.4 million letters. These are all claims made by the author, but I don't think that they can be challenged by anyone.

Looking at the wikipedia page, it says the author's described the novel as "experimental literature" and other such things ("non-linear literary collage").

In other words, it has a very good chance of sucking. And that's not even taking into account how you can have 17 million words worth of plot.

The generally accepted minimum length of a novel is 50,000 words, by the way, which doesn't seem overly hard to do, as long as you know what you're doing, based on my writing excursions (2000 words before the conflict gets established [sort of], and I wasn't even trying).

Please note that I was referring to writing and reaching that length, not the actual writing of the novel itself. Writing an actual novel requires skill, patience, perseverence, and a lot of good ideas, I'd imagine.

[Maxine MagicFox]

[scy]

I wrote a ~12,000 word term paper not long ago in half a week and that included finding things for documentation. So ... yeah.

[spoiler]Though, to be fair, I also didn't sleep that entire time and worked non-stop haha.[/spoiler]

Now that I think about it, that also took place in November. Go me.

[Rain]

If it counts, I recall my History homework (a regular one) being about ~2,000 words longer than an English essay I wrote last year.

>_>; I think I got more out of writing from History than my English class.


[spoiler]Also, Beloved by Toni Morrison sucks. Just saying. [/spoiler]

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Sampson]

[Rain]