The Book Lair - all book talk ITT

[SeiKeo]

.... Can I give you a big bear hug?

Be careful, I am a fragile man.

[Hermitfold]

Right now I am reading Alison Croggon's Pellinor series. I read the first couple of books a library a couple years back.

[Ruu-tan]

Be careful, I am a fragile man.

Okay, I'll be gentle~! :3

[legoguydude]

Reading What They Carried for English class, and I hate it. Ever heard that stereotype about Vietnam vets? "You wouldn't know, maaaan, you weren't there!" That's what this book is. Self pity and "You wouldn't understand," cover to cover.

[Five_X]

Except the entire selection is spent showing you how these guys are understandable. That's kind of the point. :P

[Black Sword]

You really can't expect people to be very smart when they're forced to read things. I found my copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude in the basement. At a guess, mom got it in a garage sale, since every ten pages has the idiotic scrawls of some kid bitching about the book. My eraser has been my friend.

Also, mod ship? Five x Leo?

[Five_X]

Five x Leo is OTP.

[Lycodrake]

Five x Leo is OTP.

Your avvies also bring interesting scenarios to mind. :3

[SeiKeo]

Five, change your avvy so I don't have to deal with one of the few failbends in existence.

[Five_X]

Five, change your avvy so I don't have to deal with one of the few failbends in existence.

Nope. Watch Strike Witches, mofo.

[SeiKeo]

I refuse to watch anymore anime than I already have.

[Five_X]

I refuse to watch anymore anime than I already have.

Then you won't be able to accept the deliciousness of Miss Shirley, Liberian Witch~

[legoguydude]

Then you won't be able to accept the deliciousness of Miss Shirley, Liberian Witch~

Librarian? Witch?

[Lycodrake]

Librarian? Witch?
*snip*

She fights Xenos, though.

[legoguydude]

She fights Xenos, though.

For whom, though? The Emperor? Chaos?

[Lycodrake]

For whom, though? The Emperor? Chaos?

A joint front from all nations of her Earth.

[Black Sword]

You can never watch enough animu

[Seika]

Except the entire selection is spent showing you how these guys are understandable. That's kind of the point. :P

Is it his fault for failing to get the point? Or is it the author's for failing to get it across?

???

[legoguydude]

Is it his fault for failing to get the point? Or is it the author's for failing to get it across?

???

It's like...he set out to write his story to illustrate his viewpoint, only to realize that he was wrong, so he changed the story to make himself right. Read the bit about what a "true war story" is, and then, as you go through the rest of the book, remember that he had to publish the book as fiction, because that's what it really is.

[Five_X]

I'd say it relates to Erich Maria Remarque's introductory line in All Quiet on the Western Front:

"This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war."