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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Jan 14, 2005 16:04:04 GMT -5
Aww, poor sweet baby...
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Post by reasonably_crazy on Jan 16, 2005 1:41:25 GMT -5
*Sniff*
Hey, random question here...
Have any of you ever read a book and had to break away before whatever was happening was resolved? Well, sure, but what I'm really asking is, have you ever become the/a character from it? I dunno...
I was reading a book in the car where one guy had betrayed his friends, and he felt terribly guilty about it. I had to put it down because we'd gotten to the store, and I felt awful and couldn't look my family in the face for less than a minute before I remembered I didn't have anything to feel guilty about.
And just today, I was reading a Fanfic called The East Gate where Pippin, Boromir, and Gimli don't escape the Mine of Moria, and they're fleeing the orcs. When I got up, I felt, or thought I felt, the aches and pains they were feeling, physically and emotionally before remembering that I had only fallen on the ice and the only pain I actually should feel was in my hip.
I always feel things to a far less degree of course, but it's always REALLY weird and a bit freaky. Does anyone else go through that?
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Jan 16, 2005 14:01:33 GMT -5
I do sometimes. But the problem I normally face is I get WAAAAY too attached to the characters, and end up screaming things at the book, and reading while going down stairs or in lessons, both very dangerous activities.
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Post by reasonably_crazy on Jan 16, 2005 23:36:12 GMT -5
In Return of the King, when I thought Pippin had died, I burst into tears and threw the book across the room.
(Then I apologized to it. My sister still thinks I'm mental.)
Hehehe- don't die while reading, Katie. Thought, that might be a good way to go... *ponders*
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Jan 17, 2005 7:50:56 GMT -5
I apologize to books! I almost yelled at a couple of kids who I was reading to when they said "Books are stupid!" and stamped on it... in fact, I did yell...
"YOU DON'T DO THAT TO BOOKS!!! YOU RESPECT BOOKS!!!"
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Post by Oni on Jan 18, 2005 9:01:28 GMT -5
Animal Farm. We say Douglas Adams is a genius, and it's true, but George Orwell is a different type of genius.
Also the Alex Rider series, Northern Lights (yet to read the Subtle Knife or the Amber Spyglass) and, of course, HHG2G
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Jan 18, 2005 15:12:49 GMT -5
I've read all those!! They're so good!!
I've only read Stormbreaker of the Alex Rider series though... are the others good too?
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Post by Oni on Jan 18, 2005 15:39:44 GMT -5
About as good, yeah. They include nuclear bombs, proposed human dissection, gratitous violence, the works
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Post by ImaBrandybuck on Jan 18, 2005 23:26:54 GMT -5
Aaaaaaah. Animal Farm. I had to read that last year for English. And then we watched the movie. Straaaaaaaange.
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Jan 23, 2005 7:59:37 GMT -5
Hey, can all of you tell me your favourite literary heroes? I'm writing a book, you see, and I need a lot of names of heroes from literature...
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Post by reasonably_crazy on Jan 25, 2005 17:13:22 GMT -5
Pippin!
I mean... Uh...
Wow. Actually, I'll have to think about that one... What about Villians? I have lots of good villians... But heros... *ponders*
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Jan 28, 2005 13:35:26 GMT -5
Hmmm... I already have one from LOTR. I've got my main characters: Arthur, Medea, Frodo and Lizzy. But i may need more.
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Post by Becky on Jun 30, 2005 16:06:06 GMT -5
Poor thread, also forsaken by all. *shakes head sadly*
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Post by Paranoid Android on Jul 10, 2005 7:14:44 GMT -5
I heart Northern Lights and Subtle Knife!! I have yet to read Amber Spyglass though. And I'm assisting in the revival of this thread.
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Post by Tiki on Jul 10, 2005 12:33:14 GMT -5
Good literary heroes...I can only think of LotR...or Ann Rinaldi heroines...hm...
Qui-Gon Jinn! *sorry, reading the Jedi Apprentice series and he's just so darn coolies*
Farmer Giles of Ham...great guy, really.
I had to read Lord of the Flies last year in English...gosh, I hated that book, the kids were so annoying...I actually never finished it. But I did skip ahead to see how some people died. That was fun. For some reason, I love reading violence. No wonder I love Timeline so much...gore, gore, and...more gore!
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