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 Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:58 pm
All of my best quotes and ideas come from either books, or the few true original ideas the gods feel fit to bless me with, but mostly books. I love them, it's like a bunch of life lessons and pieces of advise put into a storytelling media that's pleasing to the eyes both outer and inner.
Anyways, anyone read anything good lately? I just reread A Fault in Our Stars, and I suggest the book for anyone. Period, anyone, it's a great book.
I guess this just came up because I actually quoted that book today, someone was asking for help on Trisphee, about a friend in a shocked state of grieving and they wanted to know how to help make it better and I had to tell them they couldn't. Everyone else was doing the whole "Just make them smile" or "Be there for them" thing, but the truth is there is NOTHING you can do. Grief is grief is grief, and it doesn't just stop suddenly because you have friends. It takes a long time and it hurts. In the book, a line is said that I though tfit: "That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt." Which is a slight paraphrase, btu still xD
JUST SHARING ='D
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:09 pm
The Cheshire Cat changed my world. There's no right or wrong direction when you're going nowhere in particular! Makes adventuring around town in my car quite interesting until I get lost. *shot*
More people need to read books, they teach you many valuable things about life. How to deal with sadness, loneliness, difficult moral situations, how to be a good human being and all that. And they make you so imaginative!
Like life can deal you a bad hand sometimes, and it's just a chapter of your life that will make you a stronger person in the end for getting through it. You will also be wiser and a guiding voice for others who have found themselves in a similar situation.
Some day people will realize my own advice is largely spun around what I know from various books and my own creativity. And they'll be like, "I feel played" because Toontastic is not as wise as people think her to be.
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Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:24 am
I love books but I can't remember the last one I read. A friend of mine sent me a bunch of his interests a while ago. I was trying to get into them but I didn't really have the time. Although, it would be nice to pull one out and start reading it if I was waiting somewhere. Unfortunately my life isn't that exciting... not to mention I only really read fantasy... I am not into too many informational books but I seek morals within fantasy. I think it's a creative way to convey feelings to the reader through the hardships the protagonist has to go through. If there's anything I love in anything I see or read, it's that single story element. Character development is my most favorite thing in the world, next to creativity and the like. I love the stuff.
It also kind of reminds me of Assassin's Creed for some reason. Oh yes, there was an evil Templar trying to burn all of the books because he thought that they were false and that it was just a way for people to put things into your mind... Books contain a lot of knowledge, and that's hardly the case. As a matter of fact the last book I read was for a study on how to make a bow for archery still in progress. It's an old one by Paul Comstock and his knowledge of crafting bow & arrow from the environment around you. I didn't even really realize It was a book. sweatdrop I am sure it was written sometime in 1980's. Come to think of it, It's probably the only book I have read in a long while.
TL;DR: emotion_brofist books are great!
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Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:28 am
If anyone is looking for a book to read, or to get into another author, I suggest (book) "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood (author). She is a fantastic novelist: easily my favorite. "Oryx and Crake" is a pseudo-utopian/dystopian novel, kind of like how you would describe 1984 or Brave New World (both, by the way, are also fantastic novels), but it has its own flair. There's no overseeing "government" in "Oryx and Crake" or its follow-up "The Year of the Flood". Just corporations that oversee the masses. It's truly my favorite book of all time. The third book in the "trilogy" (I use quotes because they can each be read on their own without any trouble, but they exist in the same universe and "The Year of the Flood" has some events that will spoil some of "Oryx and Crake"), "MaddAddam" is due out this fall. I am vastly excited!
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