[Quiet Man Cometh]

You'd have to name a few, Gallows. I don't know the name off hand.

I don`t usually pay attention to the narrative in books that aren`t first person but it`s something that I pay more attention to now, perhaps because it`s something I pay a lot of attention to in my own writing. I think it`s interesting to note though that my favourite books are mostly in first person writing, Doctor Glas and All Quiet on the Western Front for instance.

I so very much want to read more books by Erich Maria Remarque but damned if his stuff isn`t hard to find! I`ve been searching books stores, the net, and used places for some 5 years now, possibly more and all I`ve come up with is one copy of `Heaven has no Favourites` from my mom`s bookstore she bought some years ago that we finally sorted. (I`m not kidding. My mom bought a bookstore at a flea market! Alas, most of the fantasy sci-fi stuff was already picked over.)

aaannd my keyboard is stuck on French Canadian again, hence the funny apostrophes. Not sure how to fix it so my question marks may looke like É that for a while until I restart or figure out to set it back to US english.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Speaking of hard to find, one of my favorite books is ever is a short little 250-page affair called The Fortress of Eternity by Andrew Whitmore, which doesn't seem to exist anywhere online. I'm so glad I own a copy, it's easily one of the most original fantasies I've ever read.

[8bit]

J.K rowling idk why but harry potter books are reall interesting so props to her :D

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I`ve read up to the fifth book, which I`m considering on skipping actually since I wasn`t all that fond of the movie, or at least digging up an online synop because it seems to contain the kind of stuff that I`d rather not deal with, like too many mean people being mean! Still debating it with myself.

[Demonskid]

I've been into Lillian Jackson Braun these past few years. Her "The Cat Who" Series is definitely one of my favorite series.

[Azrael]

XD the House of Night books by P.C. have a lot, I just... I could barely get through the one before burned. Sucks cause I actually rather like the story but the writing style got intolerable.

Sookie Stackhouse has... 11? 10 or 11, I loose count to be honest. But I love them terribly. >3<'

I had been huge into the Blue Bloods but for some reason got real tired of them... again, sucks cause I loved the story but just... there's always something happening. I like drama but I hate the characters never quite seeming to have enough time to recover from the /last/ disaster.

Um, Oh I am rather fond of a couple of Neil Gaiman books...

[Gallowsraven]

PC Caste wrote another series, the Goddess Summopning series, which is better written than H.o.N. I've got Goddess of Spring and am after the rest. Who knew Hades was so hot?!

And Herbet, let's see what's on my shelf . . . Haunted, Ghosts of Sleath, Moon, '48, Others, The Fog, The Spear (can never get into that one :( ), Sepulchre . . . I'm pretty sure i've got others though . . .

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I became more interested in Oscar Wilde after reading his De Profundis. I could quote something from it but it's already been done to the nines. Pick any Oscar Wilde quote and chances are it's in that book somewhere. One of my favourite Simpon's quirk was to have Oscar Wilde's ghost show up green like the absinthe fairy after Homer inhales too much glue while building a popsicle stick Westminster Abbey. Wilde speaks only in his own quote the entire time, and at the and *tings* the screen with a quilll or want thing like Tinkerbell in the old Disney intros. :D.

One of my favourite movies when I was a child was an old cartoon my grandmother sent us called "The Happy Prince." I only learned last year I think that it was one of Oscar Wilde's short stories after finally deciding to look up online.

[Gallowsraven]

I was reading Dorian Gray, but i lost my place ^.^'

[Poggio]

I haven’t had much time to read but now I have all the time in the world :D

-Cough cough Marlowe is way better then Chaucer and Shakespeare-

Hmm of all the authors I like they tend to be very dark. Not Dark in the twilight sense where, silly people just can’t keep their hormones to themselves but Dark as in, dealing with social issues. Robert Cormier is among my favorite. Nothing ever ends happy in his novels and I enjoy that realistic aspect of that. And if you prefer realist fiction with a slight fantasy element to it I would also recommend Gogol. I also love Speak, and Winter girls by Laurie Halse Anderson. (( In case you can't tell I do love my fallen heros and my dastardly villains))

I’m currently reading some scott Westerfeld. I don’t like his previous novels but Leviathan is pretty good and I want to get my copy back of the child thief by Brom. It is also another dark novel that I seem to enjoy.

[Saiyouri]

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(｡◕‿◕｡) David Eddings, Mary Higgings Clark and anything mythology.



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[Quiet Man Cometh]

Never read Marlowe I'm afraid. He wasn't one of thsoe 17th century guys was he? Not all that fond of those, John Donne aside.

[Gallowsraven]

John Donne simply rules. One of my favourite poets :D

[AceValkyrie]

My favorite author is Patricia Briggs. I love her novels, really beautiful and well thought out work. It has plenty of twists and turns and keeps you switching the pages. I would recommend her to anyone who is interested in mythical creatures like Vampires, Werewolves, and witches.

[Gallowsraven]

I'll have to read her stuff then, i always love a good vampire/werewolf story, and i am a witch :D

It's actually a book, cuz i'm not sure who wrote it - writing's a bit faded - but i've got a big hardback called Folklore Myths & Legends of Britain, goes through everything from the old gods to nursery rhymes. Love it. Did you know that goosey goosey gander is about the roundheads?

That is . . . if anybody has heard of that nursery rhyme . . . i think most of you guys are from America (English here) and i'm not sure if you'd have the same ones . . .

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Gallowsraven

John Donne simply rules. One of my favourite poets :D

My dad's a fan. I haven't read much of his stuff outside of the obligatory lit overview of the time period but Holy Sonnet 10 (my textbook says 6 but online references say 10 so I'm not sure) is one of my favourite poems. I considered it for recital in one of my first year poetry courses but ultimately went with Shakespeare's "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" (I forget the number).

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou'art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy'or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die."

I should take the time to memorize it. That's not something current poetry teachers seem to care all that much about and first year teacher, who brought up that point, was the only one who ever asked us to recite anything from memory.I did have one english teacher in high school who asked us to memorize and write a passage from Macbeth, but we never had to read it aloud.