Writer's Block: Book worms unite!

[jackwabbit]

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Best:

This is hard to answer, as there are many, so I will do the ones I specifically remember reading for the first time:

1-Huckleberry Finn. I was nine when I read this book, and I had never encountered anyone so cool in all my life. I wanted to be Huck more than anything ever. I mean, he was cool enough to fake his own death. That takes balls, man.

2-White Fang. I was nine when I read this one, too. I was truly drawn into this animal's struggle and how he was only what he'd been made. (Social Darwinism FTW!)

3-Um...having a hard time here...Ender's Game. Dude! Who didn't want to be Ender? EDIT: My Side of the Mountain. Yeah, I wanted to be Sam, too. The whole running away and living on my own thing did it for me as a kid (I think I read this book at about thirteen years old), and as an adult nothing has grabbed me as well as these did when I was younger. Nothing has made me just yearn to be the character so much. But Ender's Game stays, too, and for the record, I read that at twenty-seven.

Worst:

1-The Great Gatsby. Just kill me. Kill me now rather than make me read this book. I thought maybe I just didn't get it as a kid, but no. I've tried to read it as an adult, and just...no. Never. Kill me now.

2-Wuthering Heights. If I'd rather death than read The Great Gatsby, I'd rather the most painful torture imaginable than read this. Worst. Book. Ever.

3-and as if one Bronte wasn't enough, I've got to go with the one book in school I couldn't finish. The one book I cheated on. The one book I Cliff Noted. Jane Eyre. I thought surely it couldn't be as bad as Wuthering Heights, and maybe it isn't, but after Emily nearly killed me, I wasn't going to give her sister the same chance. She had to prove to me she was worth it. She didn't. I gave her a sporting chance, but after a few chapters, I just couldn't finish it. Gone with the Wind falls into the rare "didn't finish" category, too. Read about half. It never got good.

Comments

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

Never read Ender's Game (I know, losing geek points), but YES!!! to all the others, especially My Side of the Mountain. (And "oys" of agreement on the "dislikes", too.)

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

I can actually still remember direct lines from My Side, and see them in my head. I've only read it once. It was just that good.

Now, about Ender's Game...you are not yet the age I was when I read it, no? There is time, young Padawan, should your path take you there.

Also? My sister has become a Twilight fan, and she told me my sister-in-law wants the books for Christmas. O.M.G. Kill me now. Now, I'm usually desperate for gifts for my sister-in-law, but I'm not that desperate. I couldn't be seen buying that!

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

One of my sisters is also obsessed with Twilight and has her nine year-old daughter convinced it's the Best Thing Evar. She even roped the seven year-old boy into taking part in her "Cullen baseball team" group Halloween costume, which looked to me like one baseball fan and two ratty blond mops in ill-fitting clothing.

I get a kick out of wearing my "And then Buffy staked Edward. The End." shirt around my sister. Heh.

Methinks I really need to pull out that list of books my flist gave me earlier this year and get my niece some GOOD books for Christmas.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

The Twilight craze truly terrifies me, and I sure hope it burns out quickly. And I, too, will be doing good books, I think for the nieces and nephews. As for the sister-in-law, she also likes House and wants it on DVD. Yeah...that I can do.