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5. The Ruby Knight by David Eddings.
Okay. *laughs* so this is really stupid, which is why it's at #5: this is not a terribly good book. In fact, I'm not even sure this is the book I'm thinking of: it could be any of the Elenium trilogy. But David Eddings writes really classic epic fantasy- the kinds of thing A tought guide to Fantasyland and Dark Lord of Derkholm were written to parody. Heros, lots of walking, knights, evil Vice-Chancellors, Dark Priests- you name it, they've got it. But, okay, so I read this one when I was ten or something, and there is a not-very well-written scene with this random sorceress where, long story short, they kind of go back in time and see her torturing people- gross, but kind of copable with. I have a very high violence tolerance in lit, and while it wasn't so high back then, it wasn't nil, either. but then there's this bit where she eats someone, like alive, and it's all very... and then they brick her up in this tower... and, yeah, okay, it was disturbing and I had quite a few nightmares about it. Moving on. (NB: you could probably replace this with the first Goosebumps book. Don't laugh. It's about a boy on holiday and he makes these kind of strange friends, and then stuff happens, and then in the last scene they're in a cave and their hair falls out. Um. and they turn into skellingtons. Yeah. Yum?)
4. 1984 by George Orwell. This really fucked with me, okay, because I am socially liberal and economically conservative but in many ways 1984 portrays a world where certain of my views are taken to their logical extremity. And this, obviously, really, really bothers me. I haven't yet finished it, but it still has had an untold influence on what I think and how I think it and how I think law should be enforced, things like that.
3. The giver, by Lois Lowry; The handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
These are both really, really great books, and I heartily recommend them. But I'm putting them here because when I read them they seriously creeped me out: they all portray semi-futuristic worlds in a society that's, hmm, twisted or malformed in some way. In The Giver, bascially they've done away with emotion- pain, but pleasure as well; hate, but love also. Colour, sensation... it's really creepy. And I'm sure you've all read The Handmaid's Tale so.
2. The Monstrous Regiment by Storm Constantine. NOT pratchett.
This book is another futuristic one, portraying a world in which females have pretty much taken the role of the male in out culture about... mm, 200 years ago. Think The ruins of Ambrai with added violence. This is not what bothered me. What bothered me was two fairly graphic rape scenes and a castration. With blood. Um. yeah, I read this when I was seven or something and it's to that that I owe a reasonably cast-iron stomach for literature-- I read the Kushiel series recently, and it didn't bother me, for example. So perhaps it didn't fuck me up totally, you know, but... :P
1. The saddest thing is, I don't even know the title, but I thinkthe Wierdstone of Bringsamen, by Alan garner, there's a scene where the main characters go underground basically in a tunnel that pretty much fits them like a jacket. I am not claustrophobic but this scared the bejesus out of me. *shudders*
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Five ways in which I am a dork:
5. I go to violin camp every year. And I love it.
4. I have more conversations on MSN than I do in real life.
3. People ask me if I've read all the books in the library yet (And I get shitty and tell them no, retards, but still.)
2. I have read and enjoyed quotation dictionaries and texts on words and language. I was going to take English with an Accent on Literature, but they canned it. I'm at university for fun, not for a job.
1. I have walked down the street having really loud conversations on the likely relative fat-absorption of shoetring chips versus wedges, on account of relative surface area, time to cook, etc. it got really heated and I still think I'm right. ;)
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deutscheamiblademistress *facepalm*5. The Ruby Knight by David Eddings.
Okay. *laughs* so this is really stupid, which is why it's at #5: this is not a terribly good book. In fact, I'm not even sure this is the book I'm thinking of: it could be any of the Elenium trilogy. But David Eddings writes really classic epic fantasy- the kinds of thing A tought guide to Fantasyland and Dark Lord of Derkholm were written to parody. Heros, lots of walking, knights, evil Vice-Chancellors, Dark Priests- you name it, they've got it. But, okay, so I read this one when I was ten or something, and there is a not-very well-written scene with this random sorceress where, long story short, they kind of go back in time and see her torturing people- gross, but kind of copable with. I have a very high violence tolerance in lit, and while it wasn't so high back then, it wasn't nil, either. but then there's this bit where she eats someone, like alive, and it's all very... and then they brick her up in this tower... and, yeah, okay, it was disturbing and I had quite a few nightmares about it. Moving on. (NB: you could probably replace this with the first Goosebumps book. Don't laugh. It's about a boy on holiday and he makes these kind of strange friends, and then stuff happens, and then in the last scene they're in a cave and their hair falls out. Um. and they turn into skellingtons. Yeah. Yum?)
4. 1984 by George Orwell. This really fucked with me, okay, because I am socially liberal and economically conservative but in many ways 1984 portrays a world where certain of my views are taken to their logical extremity. And this, obviously, really, really bothers me. I haven't yet finished it, but it still has had an untold influence on what I think and how I think it and how I think law should be enforced, things like that.
3. The giver, by Lois Lowry; The handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
These are both really, really great books, and I heartily recommend them. But I'm putting them here because when I read them they seriously creeped me out: they all portray semi-futuristic worlds in a society that's, hmm, twisted or malformed in some way. In The Giver, bascially they've done away with emotion- pain, but pleasure as well; hate, but love also. Colour, sensation... it's really creepy. And I'm sure you've all read The Handmaid's Tale so.
2. The Monstrous Regiment by Storm Constantine. NOT pratchett.
This book is another futuristic one, portraying a world in which females have pretty much taken the role of the male in out culture about... mm, 200 years ago. Think The ruins of Ambrai with added violence. This is not what bothered me. What bothered me was two fairly graphic rape scenes and a castration. With blood. Um. yeah, I read this when I was seven or something and it's to that that I owe a reasonably cast-iron stomach for literature-- I read the Kushiel series recently, and it didn't bother me, for example. So perhaps it didn't fuck me up totally, you know, but... :P
1. The saddest thing is, I don't even know the title, but I thinkthe Wierdstone of Bringsamen, by Alan garner, there's a scene where the main characters go underground basically in a tunnel that pretty much fits them like a jacket. I am not claustrophobic but this scared the bejesus out of me. *shudders*
And:
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gabbysunFive ways in which I am a dork:
5. I go to violin camp every year. And I love it.
4. I have more conversations on MSN than I do in real life.
3. People ask me if I've read all the books in the library yet (And I get shitty and tell them no, retards, but still.)
2. I have read and enjoyed quotation dictionaries and texts on words and language. I was going to take English with an Accent on Literature, but they canned it. I'm at university for fun, not for a job.
1. I have walked down the street having really loud conversations on the likely relative fat-absorption of shoetring chips versus wedges, on account of relative surface area, time to cook, etc. it got really heated and I still think I'm right. ;)
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Date: 2005-06-29 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-29 05:37 am (UTC)Sorry. ;)
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Date: 2005-06-29 05:38 am (UTC)I don't believe in maths. :P
No, seriously, you have to cook them for longer so they get super-saturated or. uh. Something.
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Date: 2005-06-30 07:02 pm (UTC)I go to violin camp every year. And I love it.
W00T!
And I entirely love 1, 2, 3, and 5. Seriously. ;D
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Date: 2005-07-02 09:40 am (UTC)Yeah, 4's just... embarassing. ;) It's less that I have few coversations in real life, and more that I have lots of MSN conversations. :P I'm not a total reject, or anything.:P