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[fridgeflower]

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Notes: Heroes still have hobbies??

Okay. I've got something dumb and easy with only a little potential for dire conflict.

What's your favorite book? And, if you want to explain why, go ahead.
I'm going to ask anyway, most likely, because that's how conversation works.

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[robintohood]

Hard to choose for me. Maybe Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Darcy is a frustrating character at certain points in the story but you can't help but cheer for Elizabeth, or at least get invested in what happens with her

[fridgeflower]

It's widely beloved for a reason, right?

Probably my favorite Austen. Not uncommon. I kinda wonder what the percentage is on that.

[robintohood]

It's definitely the most well-known Austen work at least.

What's your favorite?

[fridgeflower]

Hard to pick. I should have thought about it before I asked.

Ooh! Little Women!

[robintohood]

Not a bad choice. It's certainly a classic. I think I like part one a little more than part two

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[welcome_summer]

Asking for favorites is mild. What is "the best book" is when folks get up in arms.

How strict are we going with "book"? Because I love folklore and it gets collected all over the place.

[fridgeflower]

I figured I'd keep it non-violent. There's enough disaster in the world already, right?

I was thinking of standard definitions, novels and such, but I'll take folklore. If there's details about adaptations, even better!

[welcome_summer]

In terms of my favorite "novel", I'd pick Tales of the Heike. That historical drama, the rise and fall of a great house. I also have a soft spot for Black Beauty.

For good collections in English, Hearn's Japanese Ghost Stories is a good read. There's also anthologies from the Konjaku Monogatari that cover the breadth of general folklore.

[fridgeflower]

I'll have to look them up! I know Black Beauty, but I have to admit that my World Lit scope is pretty lacking.

Are Japanese ghost stories as intense as Japanese horror movies?

[welcome_summer]

You can bet they're intense. Especially when the details get elaborated upon. Heartbreak and revenge are very powerful drives, after all.

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[kid_flash_found]

I've always been a fan of the more obscure works of Mark Twain. I once had an autographed copy of Crossing the Equator.

I'm working my way through as much of what's in print as I can. I used to say I wanted to read everything in the Library of Congress system, but some of those are really hard to get access to.

[fridgeflower]

Wow, a collector and... a super-reader?

[kid_flash_found]

Speed-reader. Like, superspeed, actually.

I mean, it still feels like it takes the normal amount of time, but that's mostly subjective. I've hit most of the classics and bestsellers. It's the rarer or less popular books that are harder to find. Still, there's something really nice about sitting down with a good physical book. E-readers just aren't the same.

UN: Venom

[frenchkissed]

I like a lot of different stuff.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a wild one. People only think of the movie these days, but the book is really what started the 'gonzo' journalism thing back in the 60s and 70s, which really isn't journalism at all. Unreliable narrators, drugs, people being really problematic... It's not GOOD in like a literary way, but it's like a cool book about messy humans being messy humans. Great for showing an alien the complexity of people, but also if said people were dumb, high, and reckless.

And V likes comics.