A break from the long gap of my postless-ness

[endoftheworld98]

To relieve you of the tedium I am sure you were suffering in anticipation of my next thrilling post, I proudly present to you my results of the 50-book challenge for 2008.

Comments

[kodamasama]

Ahaha, Dream Boy! I think that's the only book on here that I've even HEARD of. But a lot of the others sound interesting...I'll have to see if I can find them. Did you happen to get any in Colorado? Cuz if you did you should def. tell me where you found them.
Also, regarding the picture: WTF is that creature thing at the bottom of it?
And also, sorry for the semi-pointlessness of this comment, but I needed an excuse to show off my shiny new Billy Elliot icon! =D

[endoftheworld98]

Yup, you win!
It doesn't match the literary-ness of the others at all XDDD
Actually, almost all of those books came from Colorado (thank you, Prospector!), except for the ones from Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette (which was from like 1840 or so. It smelled really good~ tee hee hee :)) through The Child Manuela: The Novel of Maedchan in Uniform
Embarrassingly, I only managed to read 12 books during 5 months at college. Very sad, Very sad. (Considering that I read almost 9 books just over winter break u_u) I blame that on that video blog!
Speaking of videos, hurray for your Billy Elliot icon! I was going to write you a letter this week about how much I liked that movie :3
I probably still will. Cuz that's how I roll, man. XDDD

That's a picture of Saint Michael slaying a "dragon." I collect pictures of that. Sorta. Mostly because the saint dude is so effeminate and because the dragon-thing looks so weird in all of them until like 1630.
Yup.

Also, that new movie Milk? Did you see it

[kodamasama]

Argh, no I haven't seen Milk *is grumpy*
But I really want to see it!!! So...tell me how it is. Maybe now that I finally got VLC I'll be able to watch it! *happy dance*

P.S. That's a DRAGON? Wow, was I off...lol

[endoftheworld98]

Now it is my turn to be grumpy because I was totally gonna watch Milk today, but the file didn't work. I tried in vain to fix it, thus wasting 70% of my lunch time. arrrgh
...
Upon further research, it is revealed that the "dragon" is actually a prototype version of Tony the Tiger, but it was determined that the depiction of cereal advertisements should be more kid-friendly so as to better conform with capitalistic regulations. Hence this image of the patron saint of American Corporations destroying what is obviously a Bolshevik plot hatched by someone who infiltrated Kellogg in order to get people to stop buying their children sugar-plastered cardboard bits as a balanced part of a healthy breakfast.

...oooooh. I bet that's what you were thinking it was.

[madcowsexiness]

Conrad Veidt: From Caligari to Casablanca J.C. Allen

That has been on my reading list for ages. I can't find it anywhere at a buy-able price, so I'm probably just going to have the local library ship it through Interlibrary Loan.

BERLIN The Twenties Rainer Metzer and Chrisitan Brandstatter

I have that one! I haven't read it yet; I mostly just gaze and the gorgeous, gorgeous pictures.

I could never hope to read that many books in a year. I read slowly.

[endoftheworld98]

Conrad Veidt: From Caligari to Casablanca J.C. Allen isn't actually a very good book. It is pretty much some person going "and then Veidt was in film A where he was really good and then he was in film B where here was really good" and continues on like that, making the book seem much longer than it is.

You should get around to reading BERLIN The Twenties some time. It is absolutely amazing.
I'll admit, I originally checked it out for the pictures too, but I am so glad I read it. It was really profound.

53 books really isn't that many. :) I read slowly too, because I start daydreaming about what I'm reading. Oh dear.

[madcowsexiness]

That's disappointing! I'll probably end up checking it out anyway, since it's the only Veidt biography I can find. :(

[cezannescrayons]

haha the only one I've read is The Oracle Glass. Which I loaned you.

But some of the ones from early in the year I do remember from when you were reading them! XD Especially the one about Gouverneur Morris.

My list is dead LOL. I would have to try to reconstruct it before I posted. As of 8/30 there were only 30 books and I had only managed to add four more by...uh...well I know it was after T'giving break, but I don't have exact dates on any of the remaining books. So probably not a completion this year, unless you count fanfic LOLOL

I was vaguely amused by the way you starred titles without telling us what the stars meant until the end of the list. I figured it out...eventually... XD

Also, I agree with the expressed sentiments of the extreme strangeness of the "dragon." And if dragons were that teeny why did it take saints to slay them? XD

Okay, I'm off for a fun-filled first day back! ttyl!

[endoftheworld98]

no wai r u srz? XD

Also you probably remember me showing you silly pictures in chemistry before class started, no? ha ha. good times.
If I made a list of fics it would be so embarrassingly long I would die trying to remember them all.

And what? You mean you don't read all the stuff outside the cut before what is written inside it?

Plus that saint is like 4x the size of the average man. That dragon didn't have a chance! Poor thing.

[cezannescrayons]

Yes mine too, LOL, but it would at least bring me to more than 50! (for the year? pah! more like for the weekend!)

I mostly figure the stuff inside the cut comes first, since you *put* it first, LOL XDD

Also, what if I had friends-page cuts disabled? (a problem I have had before with my own entries page, causing me to freak out about coding errors before realizing that my settings were just whacked out and the cut itself was working perfectly XD)

EVEN SO, dragons are totally bigger than that. Look at the non-saint guy next to him. The dragon would come up to, like, maybe his waist. Whereas real dragons are supposed to be large and scary and capable of burning entire villages to the ground. XD

[endoftheworld98]

He is a horizontal dragon. Stretched out I believe he is a few feet longer (thanks mostly to the tail) than that priest-man.
Even so, he is rather a loser of a dragon isn't he? Unless those shiney red boob thingies are weponz uv mass destruction.
Though if they were not, I can still say that I would rather not meet that dragon. He looks like he wants to steal my foodz. Mawr ;_;

[helldarkangel]

I don't know any of those books. XD
Here is my (small) list of books from 2008/2009 that I swear I will finish by the end of this year.

[endoftheworld98]

Good luck with your books, you've really got some interesting ones on there! I might have to investigate that Malaysian one some time :)
And I am ashamed to admit that I have never read anything by Nabokov. Some day I will remedy that!

[shumiaki]

haha that is so many books, I definitely failed on the 50 book challenge. OH WELL :D I am just much more picky with them I guess, lol...as soon as they stop being interesting, I stop reading. So I might actually make the 50 list in half-read books XD!!

that picture. is something else. I tell you what

haha <3

[endoftheworld98]

Ah ha ha ha, maybe it isn't that you are more picky, but that you either a.)have a short attention span -or- b.)find boring books!
XD

[shumiaki]

I think it is a combination of both XDD