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This is like the random thoughts thread, but for books specifically! If you want to post random musings about your favorite book, long rants about the cliffhanging ending of the next book in your favorite series, amazement at the awesomeness of the last book you read, and so on, this is the thread for it! :)
(Iffy says <caffy>!! No Iffy you can't have any coffee the last time you had it you went wild with caffeine and did things which we do not mention)
submitted by Poinsettia, age ageless, a sea of crystal waters
(July 8, 2023 - 9:33 am)
(July 8, 2023 - 9:33 am)
YAY!!! Great idea!! I love how you can jump into your favorite books that you have reread and reread (I've read the HoO series at LEAST 5 times each!) and even if it's the most random part you still know exactly what's happening and what's gonna happen (though not enough that you spoil it for yourself) and you still enjoy reading it bc the dialogue and small parts of those books are SO GOOD!! And I love when chapters have creative names like the chapters in Magnus Chase (that are so funny and have references to other books RR wrote) instead of just 1, 2, 3. And I also love when the book's kinda meta? Is that the word? Like I just reread the Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine and it's like the authors are actually telling a story, skipping parts, talking to us, and stuff. I think that also happens in The Tale of Desperaux! I think meta is more like James Riley, The Story Theives though. But anyways, what are your feelings, if you guys have any, on verse vs prose books. I love both but I feel like In Verse books are more powerful in some way. And do you guys know that experience where EVERY SINGLE THING YOU DO, HEAR OF, THINK, EXPERIENCE, has been done, thought, experienced, heard by some character in a book?? And every place you've been. That's the experience for me! My parents will be talking about something and I'll be like yeah, book's name. And they'll be like what?!? You know about this?? Or like yesterday I was watching a movie and they mentioned other movies and I only know them cuz of books. Or when I spotted a continuity error in Indiana Jones the other day, Lost in the Sun! When my school did hockey and then square dancing for PE, Just Like That, Are you there... It's me, Margaret (ik the title's wrong), and another book. When... well, I could go on and on, but it feels like everything I do, I know of, bc someone in a book has done it. It's amazing. This happens at least one a day. And also then I feel very smart :) Anyone do book battles? Not battle of the books, book battles, bc my school did it but I'm transferring and want to do it at my new school but Battle of the Books... well, I think you have to pay, and I don't rly want to do it anyway. I'd rather host my own book battles.
(July 8, 2023 - 10:43 am)
(July 8, 2023 - 1:00 pm)
Why do the best characters have to almost always die? I sob so hard when ever it happens - TT
(July 8, 2023 - 2:01 pm)
Me too!
(July 8, 2023 - 4:02 pm)
Well in general it's because in order for a death to be impactful, you have to care about the character who dies. I mean, in many books you cheer when the hero kills the villain because at that point, you hate the villain. At that point it's also probably resolving an arc, so hopefully that's a nice resolution. When a death is necessary for the book, authors will ideally want to make you care about that character so that the death actually means something.
That being said, sometimes characters don't need to die but do anyway, and I think that in most cases that's something to avoid. Obviously there are different degrees of this. An example of a slightly less necessary death that's still important is when a book needs characters to die frequently so there's a sense of urgent threat. But a death, like anything in a book, should serve a purpose. And with something as upsetting as a character dying, it's extra bad when they die for no reason.
I don't read that many books with deaths that happen during the book, though, so I could be off somewhere.
(July 13, 2023 - 4:07 pm)
Huh, the characters hardly ever die in the books that I read, unless it's a Great Tragedy like Romeo and Juliet.
(July 15, 2023 - 9:41 am)
SPOILERS
*coughcoughJasoncoughcough*
(September 12, 2023 - 9:30 am)
Aah I just finished reading Nevermoor and I really liked it. The world is so complex and immersive, but it's also comic and whimsical at times, like Harry Potter. It's nice to read something so light after The Golden Enclaves. (Which, incidentally, also draws comparisons to Harry Potter, but is far, far more Deathly Hallows than Sorcerer's Stone.)
(July 8, 2023 - 7:10 pm)
I just read this very cool graphic novel from my local library called Lost In Taiwan- I love it so much! I honestly think it kind of ended on a lower point than I wanted, and now I need a sequel >:)
go read it, everyone, even admins! it's so cool, and the illustrations are amazing.
(July 8, 2023 - 7:19 pm)
I recently finished the Chronicles of Narnia and the ending...it's kind of sad, even though I feel like it's meant to be happy.
...yeah
(July 8, 2023 - 10:55 pm)
When the perfect happy beloved character gets traumatized and is crying and you can't even hug them because they're fictional D:
(July 8, 2023 - 11:04 pm)
This isn't technically book-related but whenever I watch a movie I'm always filled with the desire to hug the characters when they're sad and it's tragic when I can't T_T
(July 9, 2023 - 4:24 pm)
I think I am irritating those around me when I say "the book says..."
(July 11, 2023 - 2:08 pm)
That's me too! I'm always like Oh yeah! That happened exactly in (book name) too! Or quoting random books! And everyone always has no idea what I'm talking about. Take, the other day for example! We were driving by all these dead trees, and my bro pointed them out I was like: "Two Degrees!", bc the trees burn and die in that, and he was like "It's two degrees right now??". And after THAT, we passed by a car wash, and my family was talking about washing cars and my brother asked if someone had ever walked/biked/something through the car wash, so I was like "Restart!", because someone bikes through a car wash with a go-pro. And they were like: whaa??? It's kinda funny
(July 12, 2023 - 10:24 am)
Oh my gosh! I love Two Degrees. Totally off topic but I think everyone should read it. Alan Gratz is my favorite author!
(October 12, 2024 - 3:30 pm)