[ SECRET POST #1902 ]

[technophile]

⌈ Secret Post #1902 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[fscom]

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[mjnuts]

I absolutely love Yann Martel, because I find his writing and stories extremely stimulating. I just feel a rush both in an intellectual and emotional level when I'm reading his work. But indeed, it's not for everyone.

The Book Thief has a very particular writing style. I had a bit of a hard time getting used to it, but I ended up getting teary-eyed in a few scenes and Lord knows I'm not one for tears.

The History of Love is about a book that's pretty much a love declaration to love and the way it influences the life of the central characters. It's simple, but very human and heartwarming. Also, some passages are just... I don't even know how to describe them, they just speak directly to the feeling part of you with the brain not getting to have a say in it. lol

Until I Find You is one of my favourite books. It's about a boy who spent his childhood around Europe with his mom, who was looking for his father (the mom is a tattoo artist, the dad is tattoo-obsessed - I'm not even into tattoos, but the way the author parallels them to

[xcarex]

I've read plenty! I've got a BA in English. And consequently, I now read almost exclusively YA lit because they're the only sort of books that aren't either soul-crushingly dull or of the shop-and-fuck chick lit variety.

[stella_down]

every single work of literature you ever read is soul-crushingly dull. I can only assume that applies to you, too.

[fscom]

Y'know, I'd like to respond with an eloquent comment about why that isn't the case - and given the amount of literature everyone gets forced on them throughout four years of high school, I don't think anyone's that ~*unfamiliar*~ with it.

But a lot of commenters have done that already, so I'm just going to call you an elitist jackass.

[fscom]

Or possibly everyone has worked out that 90% of good literature is shelved in both YA and Adult, regardless of which it was originally written as.

[intrigueing]

LET ME LOVE YOU ANON. I cannot put into words how fucking hard I agree with this secret!

THIS

[dark_puck]

Forever this.

I have read classics.

I was made to read some of them, and hated them. Death of a Salesman is one of the most boring novels plays I have ever read watched, to be topped only by The Old Man and the Sea.

Others I read as abridged versions as a kid, and adored.

(Shout out to Children's Classics! Woo hoo!)

But for the most part? Give me my sci-fi/fantasy, my YA lit, my romance novels, my dragons and magic and spaceships and happy endings. I love those books and will never stop reading them.

Keep your boring-ass "adult" literature.

[intrigueing]

I hate Hemingway. Hate him. I would say I hate him with a passion, but he's too dull and empty to hate with a passion. So instead, I hate him with a dull, Hemingway-ish oppressive fog of bleak pointlessness.

Seriously, I adore most classics, even dense stuff like Dickens, but I. Really. Fucking. Hate. Hemingway.

/my two cents

[writerserenyty]

Dickens is fun, though; he's the type of author where once you get past the dense writing there's a lot of fun there. Like a person spontaneously combusting. Or arguably the first detective in literature.

Or maybe I just love Bleak House WAY too much.

[lovelycudy]

Thank you for saying this! I never got why people don't like Dickens.

[writerserenyty]

I think it's just the writing style is SO dense sometimes that it's tough. That, and many people only have high school lit classes as their exposure to Dickens, and in my experience they don't give enough time for the books. I remember reading Great Expectations for class, which I personally loved, but we had such a quick pace to finish the book that it ended up being a lot of reading per assignment, especially given the dense writing style. I mean, I took a Brit Lit class a couple of years ago in college that surveyed British literature from 1800 to the modern day, and my professor flat out told us that while he wishes that we had enough time to read a Dickens novel, he felt that going through it quickly just didn't do it any justice.

But really, Dickens is fun and I love his writing. There's a reason he was a popular novelist when he was alive, with people waiting for the next installments of his books :)

[lovelycudy]

Yes, he's a bit dense but I grew up with the man (my mum was a fan) so I never felt it. You are right, it's a book to enjoy, not to go trough to finish an assignment. But all good lit is like that, right? There's this writer who lived in my country, Borges, who used to say in his English Lit class that reading is a pleasure and no one should be forced to do it.

[natural_blue_26]

Personally I love a lot of 'old' books, but I have to be in the mood for Dickens and a very specific mood for Great Expectations lol. They're very well written, but personally they join Wuthering Heights, etc, as 'rainy day vs 'sunny day' reading for me. *shrugs*

[intrigueing]

Yeah, Dickens has a tough barrier to get through initially, but once you actually manage to get a solid grip on the story amid all the endless paragraphs, there is so much there to enjoy.

[mutantjules]

I love a whole bunch of classics, but my god I am wildly un-fond of Hemingway. The thing I like most about him is his goddamn life story.