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Just some thoughts about books

Whisper

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This Friday I was talking with some old lady, who had been brave enough to comment politely my black/pink dreadlocks :p She was amazed when I told her I was a librarian and then of course we started to talk about books. It made me wonder...

People assume that as a librarian I only read certain type of literature, like literary classics for example and I want to bang my head on desk or something. Sorry, but for my opinion, when some book is supposed to be classic, for me it equals boring (of course there are some very good exceptions too). No, this doesn't mean I dismiss their meaning for example pointing out what is wrong in this world etc). There are (and will be) books & authors that has given (and will give) so much to this world, even changed the world, our world, our way of thinking...

My point in this, well, rant is - I do hope I have some point in this :p - that in my opinion a book has no less value if it is written for pure entertainment and that books can be read simply for fun :)

And then a question: what have you read lately, simple just for fun?

My latest books are these "straight women writing gay erotic books":
- many, many books of Stormy Glenn
- many, many books of Carol Lynne
- reading at this moment: K.A. Mitchell: Life, Over Easy
G.A. Hauser: Of Wolves and Men

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I agree... a novel written as pure escapist entertainment is no lesser a book as the "perceived classics", which I also agree can be pretty unreadable in some cases. In the same way that there is nothing wrong with watching populist hollywood movies instead of Citizen Kane or It's a Wonderful Life, it's a personal choice as to how you want to spend your time and money.

What am I reading "just for fun"... I'm currently re-reading Pyramids, one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, and laughing all the way through it! :rofl: :)

CottonCandyKiss started a thread for recommendations/reviews of books, here's the link:

http://www.gayheaven.org/t46437-quotcall-me-by-your-namequot-amp-other-good-books.html
 
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I hardly read much these days but I used to a great deal. I went through every genre, some classics, Science fiction, Horror, Westerns (some of these were throwaway stories, but not all. I found some of my favourite books in this genre, take for example the beautiful writing of Larry McMutry who wrote the Lonesome Dove novels, later turned into a TV mini series).

Books should be entertainment, depends what you're in the mood for. Read something too deep all the time it'll end up making you terribly sombre!

Don't forget most of (if not all) Charles Dickens' novels were first published in serial form, that days version of our soap operas - now they're raised up as classics!
 

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I rarely read fiction other than science fiction - and by science fiction I don't mean "space westerns", I mean stories that actually imagine pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

I recently made a valiant attempt to read "Crime and Punishment", by Dostoyevsky. I found it heavy going. I had to renew the library loan the maximum number of times, then hand it back. Since then I have not seen it in the library for me to borrow again. I guess some time when I see it I'll take it out again, because I don't like to start a book without finishing it, but I am in no great hurry.

I have read a number of the "classic" Charles Dickens novels. Some of them are better than others. However I can recommend A Tale of Two Cities. It's a cracking good read from start to finish, full of plots and sub-plots that all tie together in the end, in the manner of the best detective novels.
 

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I agree... a novel written as pure escapist entertainment is no lesser a book as the "perceived classics", which I also agree can be pretty unreadable in some cases. In the same way that there is nothing wrong with watching populist hollywood movies instead of Citizen Kane or It's a Wonderful Life, it's a personal choice as to how you want to spend your time and money.

What am I reading "just for fun"... I'm currently re-reading Pyramids, one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, and laughing all the way through it! :rofl: :)

CottonCandyKiss started a thread for recommendations/reviews of books, here's the link:

http://www.gayheaven.org/t46437-quotcall-me-by-your-namequot-amp-other-good-books.html

One of my friends, who reads much and has so many books that he could almost compare it to a small library, once said to me that he spent so much time to realize that he doesn't need to read to please others or to sound intelligent and sophisticated. Today he buys/reads the books he truly wants :D

Thanks for the link too :)


I hardly read much these days but I used to a great deal. I went through every genre, some classics, Science fiction, Horror, Westerns (some of these were throwaway stories, but not all. I found some of my favourite books in this genre, take for example the beautiful writing of Larry McMutry who wrote the Lonesome Dove novels, later turned into a TV mini series).

Books should be entertainment, depends what you're in the mood for. Read something too deep all the time it'll end up making you terribly sombre!

Don't forget most of (if not all) Charles Dickens' novels were first published in serial form, that days version of our soap operas - now they're raised up as classics!

True, what you want to read depends on your mood.

And that book transforming into classics, so true. Makes me think if some day the kids at school are cursing and whining when they are getting to know some literary classics by reading them, like Harry Potter :p I don't know how it is done in other countries, but here in Finland we had to read some classics at school and I can think only one I really liked (Mika Waltari's Sinuhe The Egyptian).

Different times, different books and so on ;)


I rarely read fiction other than science fiction - and by science fiction I don't mean "space westerns", I mean stories that actually imagine pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

I recently made a valiant attempt to read "Crime and Punishment", by Dostoyevsky. I found it heavy going. I had to renew the library loan the maximum number of times, then hand it back. Since then I have not seen it in the library for me to borrow again. I guess some time when I see it I'll take it out again, because I don't like to start a book without finishing it, but I am in no great hurry.

I have read a number of the "classic" Charles Dickens novels. Some of them are better than others. However I can recommend A Tale of Two Cities. It's a cracking good read from start to finish, full of plots and sub-plots that all tie together in the end, in the manner of the best detective novels.

My favorite genre is fantasy (and gay erotica :p ), and like in sci-fi there can be found so amazing books that take you to another level :D

I haven't even dared to try "Crime and Punishment" :eek:

And thanks for the recommend, maybe after I manage to put my manlove books down for awhile I could read that for a chance :D
 
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