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Speaking about strictly fiction, do you prefer books that make have tons of universal themes that make you sit by yourself and think about the world around you or does the simplicity of fun beach books seem more appealing?
I like the books in the middle.
A little bit of everything.
A little bit of everything.
Huh?
I like almost everything, yet I consider myself picky. Weird. >_>
I enjoy anything from Gossip Girl to Wuthering Heights.
And Anne Rice (OF COURSE)
I like almost everything, yet I consider myself picky. Weird. >_>
I enjoy anything from Gossip Girl to Wuthering Heights.
And Anne Rice (OF COURSE)
*Bump*
I like books that make me think. They're so much more enjoyable.
I like books that make me think. They're so much more enjoyable.
depends on my mood, really
I prefer intellectually stimulating books. The same goes for films and video games, because I am that much of a dork.
Comes in waves for me. Sometimes I love racking my brain over an intelligent novel, but sometimes I just wanna read some Meg Cabot. Oh, and, before I go to bed, I always read Harry Potter.
I like books that make me think enough that I can enjoy them. If I have to flip back pages just to keep understanding what's happening, I'll probably get bored and stop reading. But I'd probably get bored if it was all laid out. This. This. This. End.
Everything. It`s good to switch it up, imo.
i dont like to read books that are so difficult they make my have to remember who is who. 
but books like harry potter are perfect.
but books like harry potter are perfect.
QUOTE(Kafka)
Altogether I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also writer ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Any book I can escape into.
QUOTE(S-Majere @ Feb 1 2008, 05:14 PM) 
Any book I can escape into.
Same.
Part of me is shamed for making topic. No, actually, part of me is shamed for making the title of the topic, not the topic itself.
AAAAAANYWAYYYY, it's been a long long while since I read "a fun beach book" (unless, you count Harry Potter, which I consider is on the more enlightening side
), and as pretentious as it sounds, I'm happy my B&N Classics collection is growing (to the point where I'm in the middle of like, three, but still).
AAAAAANYWAYYYY, it's been a long long while since I read "a fun beach book" (unless, you count Harry Potter, which I consider is on the more enlightening side
), and as pretentious as it sounds, I'm happy my B&N Classics collection is growing (to the point where I'm in the middle of like, three, but still).
I like books where people have bloody beautiful sex in flaming convoluted car wreaks.
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