Where you come to not be a total dumbass.
Anyways here's where you come to act like someone literary or actually be literary.
Here's some good authors:
i know it's a bit late to be reading this since it's all childrens novels, but i am really having a fun time reading
Roald Dahl's biography, Boy and Going Solo. It's really interesting because he's right now in the RAF about to crash, and I am really intrigued by that part for some odd reason.
Anyways, I am also a writer's student. I don't write that badly, but I don't write that well to my standards. When I get back from Cali I'll post my (12 page) story, Urban, in sections. It's about some settlers.
Oh well. What have you guys been reading/writing/listening to lately?
Here's a (LONG) quote.
I'm currently at an awkward moment where I've fallen out of love with reading.
This happens sometimes, for varying lengths of time. Currently at about 3~ months without being in the mood to read.
I do however have to read the Aeneid, by Virgil, for my Classical Civilisation's class.
It's a terrible read, IMO, as far as classical epic poems go.
If you knew the backstory of it, and have read Homer's The Odyssey, you'll see how the style of Homer was just completely copied by Virgil, but in a way which just isn't as good.
It's supposed to be related to the story of the Sacking of Troy, started in the Illiad and followed on in the Odyssey, by Homer, but instead follows the story of the defeated Trojans and how they make their way to Italy to lead on to found Rome.
It's all very political and religious and full of hidden meanings which reference life in the late 1st century BC and AD.
If you like Roman/Greek mythology and like those sorts of stories, then I recommend Homer's Illiad and Odyssey, but wouldn't recommend Virgil's Aeneid.
Other than that, however, I've got a great big backlog of books to eventually read (which is probably what is putting me off reading).
I have to start and finish George R. R. Martin's Dance with Dragons.
I've got James Herbert's The Secret of Crickley Hall, which is apparently a brilliant read. My mother and Aunt recommended the book to me, and there was recently a 3 part Drama based on it on the BBC, which I watched, which I thought was brilliant.
I would like to finish the J. R. R. Tolkien's The Two Towers and then The Return of the King. I was originally reading another book, but lost it half way through, and picked up my Dad's copy of The Lord of the Rings.
I started to read it and completed the Fellowship and got halfway through The Two Towers.
I've seen the films and I know the story and all, but I'd like to finish it off.
I only stopped because I found the book I had lost, and ended up at a complete muddle of which to complete, which ended up with my ditching reading for some time. I didn't truly get back into it until a couple years ago when I picked up Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and finished that, and then got into George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
The set of books I got into, and did enjoy, but then lost and picked up LoTR instead, was Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt, which were difficult for me to get into, but I soon found myself loving them.
However, I got all the way into book 3, Blood of the Mantis, when I lost it.
I started Lotr, got half way through, found Mantis, gave up on both out of confusion.
When I wanted to get back into Shadows of the Apt, I was deterred, because Tchaikovsky had released about 5 more books since.
I only started the books since I won the first two in a competition, which was to celebrate the release of the second book. Tchaikovsky just pumped out books exceedingly rapidly.
I'm just really weird with books. I like to read them, so long as I don't feel like I have to. It's like a chore that I can enjoy, so long as it's not piled on top of me.
The final set of books I want to finish, are the latest two of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series.
I've been reading them for years and have thoroughly enjoyed them, since being a child.
I have a good friend who was also greatly into reading them too.
And then I got his second latest one (I think) for a Christmas present, and my friend had told me he had it too.
But he had given up on it, because he found it too childish. I wasn't sure if this was just because he had grown up from them, or if they had taken a more childish route.
Eitherway, I've yet to get into them, mostly out of fear that the latest ones will disappoint me.
My parent's still buy me them when they come out however, as they bought the first 3 for me originally.
If anyone is into childish, although quality stories, then I really recommend Artemis Fowl, as well as many of Eoin Colfer's other books. I've read a lot and enjoyed them. My favourite non-Fowl book is likely The Supernaturalists.
